Vroom! Vrooom!
Oct. 16th, 2003 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyNew car!
I say new. It's actually the oldest yet. F-reg Honda Accord from 1988. But for the last seven years it's been owned by a nice man in Bradford who drove it from his house to his office five minutes away; according to the MOTs it's only gained about 8000 miles in the last three years. He said he's never had any problems with it whatsoever. 10 months MOT, 5 months tax. Slightly cheaper insurance. 500 quids. Probably overcharged, but if it keeps going for the full 10 months then I'll be more than happy. The advert said "beige" but it's a sort of metallic beige, almost gold really. It looks very dated, which is good, because it is less likely to be stolen and I don't care about what my car looks like as long as it gets me from A to B.
The radio doesn't really work, none of the buttons respond and it's tuned to local Bradford asian radio. But it plays tapes, which I have plenty of. I think I might call it Raj, on account of that's the last three letters of the number plate.
Never named the Ford. Maybe that's why it broke.
Oh, yes - I bought The Darkness and Busted earlier this week. Busted has gone on the reverse side of the Good Charlotte tape, heh. Where System Of A Down used to be (ps anyone want to buy a SoaD CD?). The Darkness is going to go on the flipside of Tenacious D (surplanting the Digimon movie soundtrack), then I shall create a new tape containing Digimon and Junior Senior (the latter of which currently has no home, and both of which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bacony hates). See, I am shuffling my music around so that similar things are on the reverse of each other. Previously I have gone for contrasts, but I have found this does not work because when I say to myself "Hm, today I would like to listen to HARD ROCK KICK-ASS GUITARS" and pick up the Tenacious D tape it is inevitably at the start of the Digimon side.
One day I will buy an MP3 CD player and all this will be for naught. I long for this day.
I say new. It's actually the oldest yet. F-reg Honda Accord from 1988. But for the last seven years it's been owned by a nice man in Bradford who drove it from his house to his office five minutes away; according to the MOTs it's only gained about 8000 miles in the last three years. He said he's never had any problems with it whatsoever. 10 months MOT, 5 months tax. Slightly cheaper insurance. 500 quids. Probably overcharged, but if it keeps going for the full 10 months then I'll be more than happy. The advert said "beige" but it's a sort of metallic beige, almost gold really. It looks very dated, which is good, because it is less likely to be stolen and I don't care about what my car looks like as long as it gets me from A to B.
The radio doesn't really work, none of the buttons respond and it's tuned to local Bradford asian radio. But it plays tapes, which I have plenty of. I think I might call it Raj, on account of that's the last three letters of the number plate.
Never named the Ford. Maybe that's why it broke.
Oh, yes - I bought The Darkness and Busted earlier this week. Busted has gone on the reverse side of the Good Charlotte tape, heh. Where System Of A Down used to be (ps anyone want to buy a SoaD CD?). The Darkness is going to go on the flipside of Tenacious D (surplanting the Digimon movie soundtrack), then I shall create a new tape containing Digimon and Junior Senior (the latter of which currently has no home, and both of which
bacony hates). See, I am shuffling my music around so that similar things are on the reverse of each other. Previously I have gone for contrasts, but I have found this does not work because when I say to myself "Hm, today I would like to listen to HARD ROCK KICK-ASS GUITARS" and pick up the Tenacious D tape it is inevitably at the start of the Digimon side.One day I will buy an MP3 CD player and all this will be for naught. I long for this day.
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Date: 2003-10-16 07:06 am (UTC)Anglo-American(?) relations
Date: 2003-10-16 07:10 am (UTC)Re: Anglo-American(?) relations
Date: 2003-10-16 07:21 am (UTC)Re: Anglo-American(?) relations
Date: 2003-10-16 12:55 pm (UTC)Re: Anglo-American(?) relations
Date: 2003-10-16 01:30 pm (UTC)Typical welshman.
A quid is 3 pounds and 3 pence with is three Guineas and slightly more than 3 pounds (by 3 pence).
Currently we have a five pound note (which is a pony)
A ten pound note (which is a donkey)
A ten quid note (which is worth 30 pounds and 30 pence)
And a five quid note which is rarely used.
Re: Anglo-American(?) relations
Date: 2003-10-17 05:40 am (UTC)Re: Anglo-American(?) relations
Date: 2003-10-17 10:09 am (UTC)The Blessed
Date: 2003-10-17 11:32 am (UTC)