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[ladymuck]

The beauticians working on my car just contacted me to say that sorting the alloy wheels out will be more effort than initially estimated, to the tune of an extra £50 +VAT per wheel.

I so hope this all ends up worth it

[ladymuck]

At least in more positive news, the tardy client has paid so I didn't need to do more chasing.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the rest of the sausage and bacon baguette

After some bright spells, it's turned very gloomy out. Still no rain forecast though

[NickFitz]

The beauticians working on my car just contacted me to say that sorting the alloy wheels out will be more effort than initially estimated, to the tune of an extra £50 +VAT per wheel.

I so hope this all ends up worth it

I need to get the Toyota's alloys sorted out. There's a few places round and about that do it, but I'll probably end up choosing the one that's on a bus route that passes the end of my road, so I can get back easily

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon

HiHOOOOOO!
got invited back, must being doing something wrong.

oh, well...........................

[sadkingbilly]

I need to get the Toyota's alloys sorted out. There's a few places round and about that do it, but I'll probably end up choosing the one that's on a bus route that passes the end of my road, so I can get back easily

can't get your bike into the car??
roof/boot rack?
wait........... you're a contractor. get your driver to take it!
honestly, i don't know What the world's coming to.
<shakes head>

[NickFitz]

afternoon

HiHOOOOOO!
got invited back, must being doing something wrong.

oh, well...........................

Boomed!

[NickFitz]

can't get your bike into the car??
roof/boot rack?
wait........... you're a contractor. get your driver to take it!
honestly, i don't know What the world's coming to.

I did realise after I'd posted that I could use the bike! I'd scoped out the bus stuff when I was first thinking about the wheel problem, back before the bike arrived

And a further check suggests that I can miss the worst of the uphill bits coming back by taking an obscure but still fairly direct route along some little-known suburban roads that I remember because a friend lived on one of them when I was a student

[NickFitz]

Tea has been leftover Turkish bits, which needed to be finished off before they went off

To go with this, part two of the new 24 Hours in Police Custody which is about a thoroughly wretched affair

[NickFitz]

Finished Fifth Planet. It did indeed get better, though the ludicrous attitudes towards women persisted; an underlying tone of astonishment when the female cosmonaut proves capable of using a spanner and so on

Still some Diwali fireworks going off from time to time. Go to bed!

An email from Zoopla earlier informed me that one of the flats has sold (STC), and it proved to be the one on the top floor opposite where they always seem to be watching sport of some kind on the telly. A close examination of the photos also revealed that this must be the flat where the dogs live with their two servants! I like seeing the dogs coming and going; it's a shame they're moving

Goodnight all