At Last!

Managed to swap my Blog account from Hotmail to Gmail. Now I can use the android app to update it.

New Landmann Gas BBQ (First Use)

New gas BBQ first trial

Worse Things Happen At Sea! The Video Footage

A short montage of video shot on the evening. Some audio has been removed deliberately (office politics was the topic removed)

The fun begins…

Worse Things Happen At Sea!

We headed off fishing to our secret location today, with one thing in mind, will the water come over the top!

There were a few people already fishing in the location, two of which had us in stitches. The most ridiculous homemade rod stand (pictured below), and using 3oz river weights in the Severn Estuary! Dear oh dear, ill prepared or what!

Dave T caught fish tonight, although for the life of me I can’t remember how many (at least one!). I even caught a cod to increase the lead on Neil who got… no fish again

Above: The sun sets… The ridiculous rod stand…. Dave and Neil in deep discussion (not about fishing though)

Above: Dave tests out his refuge if the water came over the top!…….  My codling that I didn’t know was on my line!

Above: Dave’s catch of the evening

Above: The location starts to disappear under water….

Above: Water is everywhere now and rushing into the pier at a rate of knots…. time to bloody leg it!

Above: Neil smiling as we reach the safety at the start of the pier! We had just walked about 200m in pitch black up to the knees in water with me at the front feeling the way along the path with my rod and rod rest! It was an adrenalin pumping experience! One not to be repeated!

They Say A Picture Paints a 1000 Words

I will let the pictures do the talking, rather amusing incident yesterday in the staff restaurant (well canteen!).

The corner gods did not favour me today, i got a massive corner piece. Well when I say massive, I mean the corner bit of pastry!

Check out the next photo showing the scale of the actual pie I had! If I had not gone back for my Welsh comrade I would have had a middle piece… leave no man behind… hmmmmm

But little did I know that my greed would have saved me from having to chew through some of the gristliest meat yet seen chez Atlas House!

Jeff had a nice little pile he’d gracefully removed from mastication attempts, now where’s that Dolly when you need her eh Jeff!!

So the moral is…

Being a greedy bugger and gloating about getting a middle piece when its “steak” on the pie name does not always mean you’ll be better off! For I was quite full after eating my tiny bits of beef and massive lump of pastry!

Audi A3–What to do!

My current Mondeo (which was the inspiration for this blog site to commence) is overdue for replacement. It was supposed to be replaced at 70,000 miles or 3 years, well it is way past on both counts there!

My speedo, thanks to the wondrous reliability of the Convers+ system is currently on 34,000 miles. Ok, it’s not 70,000 miles you say! But then it doesn’t take into consideration the 60,000 or so I had on the clock before the Ford dealer changed the bloody central console. So the total, which to be fair is possibly 1000 out either way, is about 96,000 now.

Anyway the car I am interested in replacing it with is the Audi A3 S-Line Cabriolet.

I had a test drive for a week in the Sport model of the Cabriolet, it was awesome!

You can check out some footage on YouTube if you feel so inclined…

In Membury Services…

My main man John M on the video cam… nice 360 action

So the issue I have is that the car is quite expensive and a bit of a tax burden.

It’s £28,000 base price, which on my car allowance will cost me £27 a month out of my salary. This is fine as my Mondeo is much worse for Co2 emissions and therefore costs more on the old tax. So the A3 is well offset by the money saved by the Co2 being so low on the Audi (119 for the record).

But I want to add some options (as you do), which pushes the price up somewhat!

That said, it’s not the end of the world…. but… thanks to income tax changes, NI increases and my company final salary pension changing to a new scheme I am now £100 a month worse off in my take home pay!

So I need to choose wisely…. as I am stuck with it for 2 years minimum.

So these are the options that I wanted originally, the ones in BLUE are the ones I am proposing to get.

• Sound Pack (Symphony CD/Radio, iPod dock, BOSE Premium Sound System)
• Storage Pack
• Comfort Pack (Lights/Dimming Mirror/Cruise Control/Rear Parking Sensor/Auto Wipers)
• Tyre Pressure
• Folding Door Mirrors
• Hi-Beam Assist
• Xenon Headlight
• Bluetooth
• Reversible Boot Mat
• Front Parking Sensor

Well there you have it… I need to study costs and think ahead. This is the car I want, I haven’t got a second choice car (well apart from the Audi A3 Sportback Black Edition).

Interesting Thought

Ok so at breakfast recently we got about to talking about the ridiculous world we live in, where only white hetrosexual men are allowed to be made fun of.

This led on to me bringing up France’s stance on the bhurka, not allowed in public (well from what I heard on the news).

So the question was raised, if caught by a speed camera in this country, in that get up, how could you tell who was driving by photographic evidence?

Well, our outspoken, grey haired, welsh diplomat had a cracking idea….

Put a number above the slit that can be seen on camera!

Hilarious I thought at first, but then soon thought, he had a good point. How would you know!

So then I am thinking, you will fail an M.O.T in the UK if you have an air freshener hanging off your rear view mirror. But for religious reasons its fine to hang beads and sword replicas off of it (not sure what religion that is).

What gives with this bullshit, it’s fucking ridiculous. We should stop bending over backwards to stop offending! One rule for all, leave the magic trees alone!!