I’d heard that more money is being spent on compensating drivers for damage to their cars due to potholes than is spent repairing them which is ludicrous! Here is an extract taken from the Mail Online news section “Potholes are costing taxpayers more in compensation claims than in repair fees.  Ambulance-chasing lawyers squeezed £53million out [...]

The Ashby Folville Car Show has already begun for 2009.  People have been raving about this car show to me for ages, so I got myself down to the field opposite the Carrington Arms Pub in Ashby Folville, Leicestershire.  Essentially there are two fields, one is for showing your car the other is simply for [...]

I first heard of Spotify on this weeks gadget show, very kindly reviewed by Gale Porter who incidentally still looks good without hair!  I quickly looked it up at www.spotify.com signed up for a free account and off I went. What is Spotify I hear you cry, here’s the blurb from their website: “Spotify is a new [...]

Just in time for Easter!  I’ve dug this out of the archive.  Bonus points if you can spot the Easter Bunny cunningly hidden in this photo. I especially like the look of innocence on the dog’s face, with that “who, me?” expression, priceless! I knew that Pedigree Chum now had meaty bits, but that takes [...]

Shortly after purchasing my 2002 Subaru Impreza sti type UK one of the first mods I wanted to do was to fit a dump valve or BOV (blow off valve) as its sometimes known.  Having heard other Impreza’s with them fitted I thought this was a must. Having done some research I settled on the Turbosmart supersonic, fitting [...]

Here is the first phase of my latest tattoo, a traditional Japanese dragon design of which Rat at Real Art Tattoo in Syston is some what of a specialist.  Its not my first tattoo by Rat, Ialready have a half sleeve on my left arm with a Koi and Peony design.  You may now have guessed I’m [...]