Central Park

recently at the garage i have started to notice that approximatley half of the old dudes that use us for repairs, all seem to wreek of t.c.p! what exactly are they doing with it? maybe it’s some trick they learnt as a kid,when aftershave wasn’t available? or does it disguise the fact that they have been down the pub all day? i dunno but i am starting to get really bugged by it.

Considering what Australia had to face in Group F, i’m chuffed to bits that they made it through to the next round - phew - nice one lads.

Vanessa Phelps + Time machine = Nikki off big brother

…eradicate all congestion issues, excessive carbon emissions n global warming, rising fuel costs, road rage idiots, casualy racist flags proudly erect, Sierra’s Cavaliers & Rovers with shit bodykits, road-captains, overloaded car parks, red faces, polyester sportswear in public, burning blue, cake tin ‘zorsts, bangin’ techo out of 6×9’s, motorsport mudflaps on crap MPV’s, Council estate touring cars… infact, imagine driving from A to B in the nicest way possible.

It came to me today at about 2pm… tell football fans they NEED a plasma TV, and provide at least 1 televised match per day, preferably with a couple of hours worth of waffle by some really sweaty boring ex-players looking uncomfortable in suits who can’t string a sentence together without the use of overly used clichés and lack of punctuation and plenty of errrrrrr’s n’ backtracking repeating and stating the bleeding obvious - phew! Take a breath. Great! Destroy the fatcats, free football for everyone.

It really was peaceful out there today. I Loved it. However, be warned, do NOT enter town after the match has finished, sheeeeesh.

Other than that, Kebab stained concrete forever.

last week i managed to find a 5 speed gearbox with all the trimmings for my little project car.so on monday nite i gave it a good going over with some ali cleaner, a kind of mild acid which really eats into the dirt an grime,and when washed off with a high pressure steamer, and it came out looking a whole lot better. This gave me the enthusiasm to paint it up to a real nice clean factory fresh finish. So tonite i stayed on at work, to see what i could do to brighten things up. Firstly i needed to scrub the gear box with some scotchbrite material to rid it of any left over bits of dirt, and also to key up the surface for some etch primer to be sprayed on. Then i removed anything i could that wasnt supposed to be painted, and masked the rest of the stuff off i didnt want to be silver. Seeing as the evening was really warm in the garage this all dryed off quite quickly. Next came the silver rattle can, and couple of coats later i decided to grab a coffee while it dryed off. The next stage was to put a couple of fine coats of clear lacquer on and leave it for a little while to build up a base coat, before putting some more thicker layers on. This should make it really resistant to chips, and easy to keep clean in the future. i was really pleased with the finished gearbox, it should definatly brighten up the engine bay when its all fitted. Trouble is, now i feel i might have to do the rest of the engine to match!!

Last weekend Lee & Rachel came to stay at mine for a few days. Luckily for us the sun most definatley had his very best hat on too, and we spent a good deal of time just walking about relaxing an catching up on each others latest news.

so on saturday afternoon after a little bit of breakfast at the council cafe on the beach, we headed off for a game of crazy golf at the very testing and updated sandbanks course. Up till hole no.6 it was all very close until Lee had a slip up on crazy craters, the game was now up for the taking. Then after some bad advice from Lee - something about aiming with your elbows?? - Rachel’s game also took a knockback and it seemed the home team was going to be taking all the trophies. However, then somehow Lee, along with his elbow technique, began a full on charge for the lead.

Along came my own worst hole Versuvus, which took me 5 shots to conquer, Rach 10 shots, with Lee calmly sinking his ball in 2, strolling onto the next wondering what the fuss was all about. Like all good games it aint over until the 90th minute or the last over, or in this case the 18th hole. Rachel plonked her ball straight into the club house in 1, myself in 6, and lee decided he wanted to try an put his ball into orbit first, bouncing it all over the course narrowly avoiding all the compettitive Dads an puzzeled kids.

The game finished Lee 1st with 55, Me 2nd on 56 and Rach on 65 in 3rd, who i believe is filing a law suit against Lee because of poor advice halfway through.

There is something quite nerve wrecking about writing your first post on a blog you have enjoyed reading,but tonite lee and rachel gave me a golden ticket to the central blog!! so i am goona use my first post to say hi to everyone an hopefully i will be able to post some interesting tales about my future project or maybe a weekend where thanx to a slash from guns n roses guitar solo on a nearby tv, i managed to score a strike in a tenth frame to win a bottle of liverpools finest bubbly! i aint kiddin either! anyway i wanna say a big thanx to lee n rach again and i cant wait to start bloggin! see ya!

Person A Hey, we need a name for out gang, we’ve got a few ropey Mk2’s an old Santana and that really nice Mk4 that the quiet guy who nobody speaks to owns.

Person B OK… erm…

Person A Well, just off the top of my head…

Dubheads
Dub Ratz
Dubaholics
Dubernuts
Dubliminal
Dubgeorge
Pantysport
Dubskin
Dubin’n'drivin
Coming up Dubs
DarnDangDubs
Dubz
OverDubed
VirtualDub
Dubwood
Dub side of the moon
Dub dub dub
Dubchops
Dub Zero
Dub it in
Clocked Dubs
Dubalicious
Dubdorks
Dubelvision
Dubs 4 U
Dubmarines
Dubber Dubs
McDubs™
Daffydubs
Daisydub
Dubhawgz
Dubs pour Homme
The Dub Bandits
Dubchaps
Dub Down & Dirty
Dubdogz
Dubwarriors
Dubious
Dubmeister
Dub dudes
Dubdukes
Dub junkies

Person C Crackin’ mate, good effort… I’ll get some stickers made up.

Person D :D