car wash yesterday

 

It was as usual a great car wash experience although there was a big recent bird shit on the bonnet which didn't really come off or indeed at all, but at least I got all the tree seeds off. I hope they are carried away through the drains and plant themselves somewhere, I don't wish them ill, just want them off my car. Which by the way is driving like a dream now but I am still a bit nervous since the brakes failed. 

monday morning

We have to take the car to the mechanics as it is pumping burnt oil fumes into itself after one drives it for about five minutes. I am trying to write something for the Australian (not about that) wish me luck.

goodbye old scourge, hello new

So we went out for a walk this afternoon and got quite a bit of good research done. One thing we found particularly interesting (I mean, the power of a good sturdy blog or what!?) was that the car I bitched about last week, is now gone.

However unfortunately we have instead encountered a rash of trolleys. I think the local kids, in their artless creativity, weave these from chicken wire and race each other down the reserve, but knowing no love of material possessions and distracted - by ipods and reality tv probably - they then leave them there to rot.
Memo to self call Hume Council Monday AM and get them to move these things.

that abandoned car in full

It's still there - the police have known about it for weeks and presumably passed on information to the owner - and by golly it has provided tons of fun for the local kids in the meantime. I would say it's like the 21st century version of the old 'puffing billy' in the playground.

in your car by the dugites

Well of course I would love this.

I note - this is *important* - that this is a hit record, like Ted Mulry's Jump in my car, where it is emphasised that the primary enjoyment about being in a car with a desirable person of the opposite sex is, in fact, that you are able to drive somewhere.
The drumming is incredible. The drummer doesn't try to mime it, how could he in that situation, but he is fucken engaging in the clip.