The Opel and the MINIs

06/03/2010 A Superfix by SuperPea.

We have had the most annoying squeak from our Opel for some time now and the Forum wasn't that helpful but gave me the idea that it might be the bushings. So in desperation I took him to my little man down the road who said "No, I think it's from somewhere inside the dash but if it's all got to come apart I'd take it to Vauxhalls as it's still under warranty."

A depressing thought in my current state of mind towards dealers but hey ho if it's got to be done. But before I rand them up I thought one last look at the Saturn forum just to see if anyone had been helpful and WOW...

Someone had posted the exact same noise from "behind the air bag/dash area" explaining that he' had found it to be the bonnet latch twittering in its catch, and the fix for him being to lower the rubber stop. When I looked I could see the latch was plastic covered when new but now worn to bare metal, so I covered ours with insulation tape and now it is silent.

Peace, wonderful peace.

Groovy word of the day: perseverance.

05/03/2010. ClubBeast was off for a check up at Cotswolds today, just a brake fluid change and the regular "please fix the Club door" request which always involves one trip there for them to see it doesn't work and then another to fix the part they need to order. So this little fella was outside today instead.

Groovy word of the day: primordial.

04/03/2010. The sun was shining and there was plenty of bright light so Peanut decided to give our Sigma 70-300 a run out.

Groovy word of the day: horology.

03/03/2010. This was a freebie that Peanut got when she attended a lunch time tutorial on the use of immunoglobulin. "Well done" said The Beastmaster, comforted by the knowledge that one of us has a proper job! Still it is a very cute highlighter even if it isn't hip pocket friendly!

Groovy word of the day: technicolor.

02/03/2010. Peanut remembered to stop on her way to work this morning to capture the view from the Malverns looking over Peachfield Common to The Severns Valley. Views such as this make it great to be alive! Look hard into the photograph... no harder. Can You hear it? Look harder... Listen... there you can hear it now can't you?

Groovy word of the day: enigma.

01/03/2010. I was just talking to me old mate Ray on iChat and made a quip about Peanut having to sort out a photograph for 365 tonight.

"Not me" said the P, "I have got my feet up and that is where they are staying!"

Well indeed they were - and so came the idea for tonight's photograph - we love it!

On a different note - our groovy word is always inspired in some way by our picture albeit a tenuous connection at times. So today we have a photograph of french poodles on Peanut's slippers. They make us think of The Avenue des Champs-Élysées which of course in English is Elysian Fields...

Groovy word of the day: elysian

28/02/2010. Dealmaker lent me this magazine from his archive collection. It tells the tale of the greatest drive in motoring history when Stirling Moss won the Mille Miglia in 1955. 1000 miles in just over 10 hours at an average speed of 98 mph. Jenks the journalist was his navigator on that trip and here is his tale reproduced once more - an awesome read!

Groovy word of the day: challenge.

27/02/2010.

"Oh... my... God."

"Seriously?"

"Blimey."

Groovy word of the day: engagement.

26/02/2010. First Friday night after Pay Day is always a night for wine. We have a history of Friday nights stretching back nearly 10 years now. Sadly P doesn't join me now as wine gives her migraines, but it means what we do have lasts a bit longer. This one is especially for Carl and Amelia - they will understand why! Pay Day treat number 2.

Groovy word of the day: imbibing.

25/02/2010. We have both been very good and restricted our goody intake, so a bar of something naughty on Pay Day was a real treat. Pay Day treat number 1. We like Pay Day for all sorts of reasons!!!

Groovy word of the day: solvent.