The New Car

Here she is the car I went with in the end.
320d Msport with red leather seats.

She drives life a dream,  so smooth and comfortable. So much nicer than the Audi.

The Next Company Car

I started this blog several years ago now, mainly to deal with the issues I had with my then current Ford Mondeo company car. I've moved on several cars since then, and of late the blog has been severely ignored.

Anyway, the time has come to choose my next company car (to be replaced by September 2013).

So I've had the paperwork to order the car a week or two, but haven't as arranging a test drive takes some time. These are the cars I had on my list prior to culling

• Mercedes A220 AMG Sport Plus
• Mazda 6 2.2d sport auto
• BMW 520d Msport Auto
• BMW 330d Msport Auto
• Toyota RAV4
• Toyota GT86
• C class Mercedes AMG Sport

There is the list to start..

 

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Nearly in the lagoon!

 

At Future4x4 recently, myself and Zunaid got into a bit of pickle when trying to reverse backwards when it became obvious there was no way forward!

Anyway checkout the video which contains very strong language.

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The SG3 has gone..... Hell freezes over!

So yesterday I finally relinquished my hold on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I'd been running with an iPhone 4s for 2 weeks and thought that it was time to finally let go of my beloved phone.

I just loved the enormous crystal clear screen, and compared to the iPhone, which has a minuscule screen!

So it was collected yesterday and is off to a loving new home.. Bye Sg3

 

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Pasta & Meatballs a la Bazza

Because the restaurant is so bad at work Bazza decided that on a Wednesday we would go out, or bring in.

So we have had curry where we all brought some part of the meal in, today was meatballs!!

The 2 packets of meatballs were heated in the microwave, although the staff microwaves are far from brilliant and don't rotate. The pasta was cooked in a way I'd never seen before, boiling water from the tea urn and then in microwave! It was fresh pasta, and after what seemed like no time at all it was cooked.

The one thing that didn't cook so well was the garlic bread Neil brought in, never less it was hot and garlicky and got eaten!

We took it all down to the canteen and ate it like kings, I provided the hard Italian cheese.... A feast for kings.

 

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A trip to Zooparc Beauval

Yesterday saw some cloud cover at last! It was still in the late 20's though.

So we decided to goto Beauval Zooparc near St.Aignan in France. The sun was out but it was quite breezy, which was nice given the last week of relentless heat. So it was 2 against 1 on the roof going down, as I owned the car I decided to veto the other votes and put it down. In hindsight an error of judgement.

Catherine did nothing but moan the entire way, so in the end I relented and put the roof up. Of course to counter this I whacked the air con to its lowest and on full blast.

A toll free 90 minutes later we were heading into the zoo car park, I had to cruise in with roof down as it was sunny and bloody hot, so it went down to park.

In went to pay, 66€ to get in. Now I'm all for charging a fair price, but 66€ is a bit strong. Never less I paid and went in, oh my lord we had the chosen the one day when 6000 oiks were there on some sort of mass organised day out. It was chocca with people, and everyone had the same destination in mind, the giant pandas enclosure.

Well we headed that way as Catherine wouldn't shut up about going there, well what can I say.... Boring! One of them was asleep, the other just sat there chomping bamboo.. Am I missing something, what's so exciting about this?

Anyway, the zoo is fantastic if you have never visited before. I highly recommend it.

 

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Its a Dogs Life!

This is Carly, she is fed up of the heat in France, there is a fan out of sight on the left hand side, she obviously liked trying to keep cool.

 

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