Lunch today was at Monkey Forest, Trentham. Queue up cafeteria job. If this was Tripadvisor or similar they wouldn’t get a very good review. Food was ok but the queue to get it was ridiculous. Even a blind man could see that there was a serious bottleneck at the till and since there was a second till available why didn’t they open it? Rhetorical question.
Dinner is in two parts.
Main course at Wetherspoons – 2 meals plus 2 drinks for £15. Good value but my sausages were no better than Richmonds that you’d buy at the Supermarket. Atmosphere, cramped and drunk woman at next table was rather loud!
Dessert at Old Hall, Sandbach. Expensive but chalk and cheese compared to Wetherspoons. More than £25 but proves you do get what you pay for. Food was excellent, can’t be faulted. Nice grown up atmosphere and no drunks in sight (or earshot).
Newly painted fuel rail
The Cup’s fuel rail was painted today in an original(ish) Gold. Looks quite good.
Alfie at HRG did the painting as well as cleaning off the underside of the car and painting that black. No pictures yet though as it is raining now.
Scrubbed and ready to roll
Clean cars
Today I had a hangover. January has been dry (almost) so last night as it was 1st Feb I had some wine. Too much wine. I find a good way of getting rid of a hangover is to clean the cars. So I did.
I did Jane’s Ford Kuga first. It was dirtiest. It’s in really good condition except for the wheels which have started to discolour. She hasn’t kerbed them or anything they have just discoloured. I will get them sorted sometime this year along with the drivers door window which doesn’t go up properly. I did find that she had scraped the door edge against a wall but it just needed some touch up.
Next I cleaned the Giulietta. The bodywork on her is superb with only a stone chip or two on the bonnet to show that she is actually now over 3 years old. I had new tyres last year (as did the Kuga) so it should just be an annual service this term.
Finally I cleaned the Cup. The other GTV remains tucked up in the garage for the winter. I am not sure what work I am going to have done this year. Ideally she needs the following:
Paintwork – Bonnet, Front Bumper & Spoiler, Sideskirts & Mirrors
Wheels refurbished
Calipers refurbished and new discs
Preventative welding
The paintwork is the big one but I really need it out of the way as next year the belts are due and they are expensive.
Airforce 2
Spent the weekend in London and managed to visit a couple of record shops in Berwick Street. In Sister Ray I managed to pick up Ginger Baker’s Airforce 2 which I have been looking for for about 30 years!