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Thule if you think it’s over
So I bought one of these, and of course it arrived in bits, with lots and lots of little plastic bags full of connectors and bolts, and a cryptic set of assembly instructions featuring almost no written explanation and a lot of obscure 2D renderings of 3D objects. This was especially helpful for the 130 [...]
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Melancholy Els
I’ve reached the Ls in my alphabetical plod through the thousand songs on my iPlod. It’s taking a long time. Starting in January, it has taken two months of journeys to work to get halfway-ish through the alphabet. I only listen on the way to work, you see, not on the way home. The golden [...]
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Tags: ipod, melancholia, playlist
Blast from the Past: Avignon
Download link: Avignon
I wanted to write a road song, but without it becoming “2 4 6 8 Motorway” or some kind of truckers’ lament. This was inspired by a drive to the South of France a few years ago, which did indeed involve a stop at a hotel near Dijon for an overnight rest.
I’ve recorded [...]
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Smug
I hate to seem bitter, but one thing that’s been bugging me over the past few snowy/icy days has been the smug little faces of the 4WD owners as they thunder along through the snow and ice, as if immune to the laws of physics. You could see it in their eyes: they thought they’d [...]
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Don’t
Yesterday’s trip to work was lengthened by a lorry making a delivery in the entrance to the school.
Don’t Ask Why Alan Jackson
Don’t Change On Me Alan Jackson
Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim! Kelly Willis
Don’t Know Why Kelly Willis
Don’t Pretend With Me Vince Gill
Don’t Rock The Jukebox Alan Jackson
Don’t Stop Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It Darius Rucker
Don’t Think Twice [...]
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Don’t point that thing at me
Tell Cupid not to point that thing at me
One more hole in my poor heart is just what I don’t need
I’ve been teased by fate, burned by love, and left by destiny
So for my hearts sake tell Cupid wait don’t point that thing at me
Here in my early days of iPodding, I have discovered that [...]
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The story about Linda Lusardi dialling 999 because she was stuck in traffic on her way to a panto makes me laugh on so many levels. Of course, it’s the usual fare we’ve come to expect at this time of year from the emergency services, as they seek to instruct us on the wrongness of [...]
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It’s old news by now that the iPod’s shuffle algorithm doesn’t seem to be random so much as all-knowing and quite sly. On my recent seasonal trip to France, I experienced this for the first time as I tested out my Golf’s “iPod preparation” properly.
First of all, big disappointment: the Golf features the same standard [...]
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Tags: random, shuffle
My other tractor is a Porsche
Thought I’d post my verdict on the DSG auto gearbox in my Golf. There’s not an awful lot of information in the official literature, and most car reviews simply mention it in passing as A Good Thing, so this is for anyone searching for more detail.
(This lack of info is even more true in the [...]
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Tags: automatic, DSG, gearbox, twin-clutch, volkswagen, vw
Artist’s Impression
I’ll be getting my new car tomorrow, my year-old Golf. Artist’s impression above, done by my daughter on a flea market French etch-a-sketch thingy. Quite clever really – she was inspired by the Mini Clubman ads, which I suspect weren’t really done on an etch-a-sketch or indeed a Telecran.
Today I had to mow the lawn, [...]
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Tags: alcohol-free, Alsace, beer, France, lager, low-alcohol, Meteor, non-alcoholic
