My blog - March 2008
This and That
March 19th 2008, 10:11am
So I haven't blogged very often recently. Sorry. Being married and having a full time job (especially one which keeps requiring overtime) kind of takes away from blogging time. And when I've been sitting in front of a computer for eight hours already, it's nice to do something else when I get home. Like read a book, play my guitar or watch a DVD. At the moment, watching DVDs is winning out, mostly because we have another free three month trial with LOVEFiLM.
We do a fair bit of driving too. We went over to Kidderminster to pick up a cool antique the other Sunday evening, and last week we made a five and a half hour round trip to Pontefract to pick up some other antique stuff without knowing if we were going to the right place or if anyone would be at home when we got there - but it was, and they were, so we picked it up and came home and can now enjoy both our cool antiques together, and I'd say what it actually was, but I haven't decided whether I want the in-laws to know what it is before we go to Cambridge in the summer.
The driving is fun, but it's killing our car. It's done a hundred and forty thousand miles so far, and it's starting to die. The head gasket needs changing, the piston rings probably need doing, second gear is starting to get crunchy... Perhaps I should just replace the car rather than fixing it. But spending money on the car doesn't help with paying off my debts, so at the moment we're in run it into the ground mode, and hoping it keeps going despite all the warning signs. Then when all our debts are gone, we can build a house.
Speaking of houses, our landlord, despite being a very nice person, has defaulted on his mortgage and so our house is currently being managed by the receivers. The receivers say not to worry, and that we can still carry on living there as we have a tenancy agreement, but it's only a six month one, I'd like to live there a bit longer than that, and I haven't found out if we'll be allowed yet. Although perhaps there'll be the opportunity to buy the place instead? Still, I'd rather build if I get the chance.
There, I think that'll do for a while.
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What Is This Car?
March 7th 2008, 8:53am
A week or so ago when I was driving to work I saw this car as I was waiting at the traffic lights. All the details were covered in tape, and I had no idea what kind of car it was. And then I saw it again, but this time I had my phone at the ready and took a photo of it - and then saw it again a bit later on the way to work and took a (not so good) photo of the back of it (but at least it shows the scale of it next to the Škoda).
The question is, what car is it? I'm assuming it is a new car which is being tested, since we get a lot of them around Coventry, and I haven't been able to find a picture of it on the internet yet. The badge was a large oval - not quite wide enough to be a Ford badge (and I can't see why they would be testing round here), but it could just be an oval covering up something else. The front end looks very Jaguarish - it has that hungry cat kind of look to it. The back end looks like a BMW, and the sides look a bit Lexusy. Any ideas (or links to very obvious websites which I somehow managed to miss)?
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Comment posted by James Ots at 8:53am on March 7th 2008
Well, it appears to be an Infiniti FX50 - see http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/231643/
Comment posted by michelle harris at 8:53am on March 7th 2008
you sure it's not the new Ford Kuga? http://www.ford.co.uk/kuga# looks very similar to me!
Comment posted by James Ots at 8:53am on March 7th 2008
Yes, quite sure. It was definitely this ugly thing: http://jalopnik.com/382891/2009-infiniti-fx50-gets-reviewed-shaken-but-not-stirred-by-popular-mechanics
Comment posted by michelle harris at 8:53am on March 7th 2008
There's obviously a legion of new ugly cars coming out from all different companies then!!! :)
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