Well I, Robot was alright. Not brilliant, but a good action film for the summer. The only thing they seems to have used from Asimov was a slightly briefer version of the basic laws. Nice car though :)

Friday night saw one of Shell's work colleagues turn up asking if they could stay for a few days - so we have done our good Samaritan thing and let him. Things have been pretty bad for him the last couple of weeks and it feels good to help someone out in their time of need.

Shell was working this weekend, but came home early on Sunday due to knackering her knee up. Seems she might have pulled a tendon or something - she could hardly weight bear on Sunday evening, let alone walk. She has gone to work this afternoon, as the last thing she wants is for it to seize up and become more painful.

Saturday morning saw me up at Dave's fitting a new wheel bearing on the n/s rear of the car. The old bearing was well knackered with several of the bearing actually missing from it and they had presumably been ground down into nothing. So it was replaced by Dave (with a little assistance from me) and away I went. Now I have seen it done, I feel quite happy that I could do the other side (if and when it needs doing). As an encore, I went and bought a new tyre, as the one we removed to get to the bearing was pretty worn on the inside. So now my car is more stable and doesn't grind/rumble as I drive.

Sunday morning saw me getting my 22cc petrol strimmer out of the garage to attack the back lawn. A little WD40, some petrol and some oil in the tank, plus a few sprays of WD40 into the enginer and on the spark plug and it fair burst into life and made mincemeat of the long grass. Unfortunately, I was trying to make hay! (Hehe). It hadn't been used for over a year (possibly 2) but it was great. Unfortunately, I didn't have any engine oil to add to the petrol so used a little vegetable oil instead. This gave the garden a nice "chip cooking" smell while I was doing the strimming :)

[ 1 comments : Add | Read ]

[link]   Posted @ 16:36