Wednesday October 6th and it is Tim’s birthday. Thursday October 7th is my birthday. I always say that Tim was an early birthday present and he said “Why couldn’t mum hang on to me for a bit longer.” I told him that it was he who couldn’t wait. Irene was due to be induced but when she got to hospital her waters broke getting out of the car soaking her slippers. She went into labour almost…
Just a quick one, dear reader, to let you know that Cotgrave Welfare raised £3164.65 on the H4H night and had an absolutely wonderful time doing it. Roll on Roland's wake in March next year when we will be raising for MacMillans.
The Help for Heroes night. After weeks, nay months of planning, me and George, my partner in crime, finally got to the H4H night. We had five acts performing – all free of charge and a charity auction with some football memorabilia including a number of Sir Bobby Robson items who as we all know fought the filth so hard and set up his own charity.
Our guest auctioneer was my old sparring partner Dr. Lowe, my GP…
Now then, dear reader. Let me continue with my ramblings. I took the day off work and Tim and I stripped out the old suspension arm, me lying down under the car and Tim sitting on a chair doing the Tim bits. It went fairly well and soon I was able to hold the suspension arm with the – dare I say it- perished rubbers. The man in the car spares shop phoned at 10.30am to say the new one had arrived so I got in Pickos car…
I have now had to borrow Picko’s car. Why you might ask – well ask away. Saturday I went to Eurocarspares in Nottingham. These are the clowns that I ordered my suspension arms and got two the same, wrong side, one without a compliance rubber and two different springs, one bearing the legend “wrong part in box.” When I asked the little man if he would order my suspension arm I asked him if it would come complete with a…
