Brand new car....lush...

Yep the title is correct at the grand old age of 41 I have bought a brand new car, no one else has driven at all, only me ....just little me, all miles are mine....ahhhh...

Why? - well I have been a fan of old bangers all my life and still regard them as good value for money, but ya know I was making the work car park look really bad of late and my cul-de-sac where I live, well they werent to happy with my car lowering the neighbourhood and the value of there houses to boot.....I looked like the local scum in the local getaway car etc etc....

But oh how I loved my Brava, shes was a good old girl took me all over she did...dirty bitch...mind you of late she had a bald tyre - tracking was well out by about a metre a slow puncture as well as dents all over it and a smashed front light it wasnt pretty near the end really......but she was still awesome and never let me down ever...I owe her....

Bye Bye Brava.......

Anyway she has now been crushed into a cube bless ........ oh well.... and on my drive now stands a new all black and very shiney car.

Now we are not rich and had a limited budget oh and the car has not been paid for yet....anyway this is the story.....

The scrappage scheme valued my old brava at £3000...? fair enough I thought considering it worth less than zero....(i.e I would need to pay to have it removed) and the car we bought was £9000 (retail £12,000 then minus my £3,000). I bought it with my OH so we both own it and have shared the cost (£4,500 each) We paid out right for the car using cheaper credit than could be offered allowing us to pay back the amount when and how we want.

The car was the best deal I could find for our money and we bought what we liked the look of the drive of and the feel of when inside the cockpit. We tried the new Ibiza, the Focus and others and some we simply could not afford and some were crap and felt very over valued.

We bought da da da -

A Hyundai i30 1.4 ES edition in black .... it has alot of stuff for the money honest...

1.4 whys that? well its cheaper and we want to save money in the long run, we plan albeit things can always change to keep the car for a long time, we also plan to pay off the vehicle within 6 months costing us about £300 in credit costs much cheaper than the £3000 in interest that would have earned by the credit company offering us a loan...

heres some pictures of her new before we get hit by some foreign twat somewhere.

It feels weird if honest, ive only had it 16hours and it just feels like I have hired a new car, but this one it will soon dawn on me I DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE BACK....but then the bank balance will remind me of something else every month as well eh.

So no more bangers, id worked out that my old banger had actually cost me more than this car will in reapairs and costs if averaged out, we have used my scarppage discount to buy the car and i will use Stephanies years of no claims to get good insurance and well thats job done....



were happy... and thats my new car story...

Cheers G.

Paris Marathon 2010

I am now 41 years old...and to be honest I feel it, you do feel it ya know, I used to hear older people say that to me when I was younger, faster, stronger...and id say not me ill be fine...

But....Sorry when your old your body has a way of letting you know, mine did just the other day by tapping me on the shoulder and saying your screwed bud relax let the fat bulid up and relax into Middle age...have apint or two... I sat there drinking my 2nd pint...

NO I said - No way....and booked myself into the Paris Marathon in 2010, when I run it I will be 41 and a half.

This will be my 4th marathon but to be really honest I have only ever ran 1 with gusto, the first in Edinburgh the second was done 27 minutes slower as a jog for the fun of it in Loch Ness and the third with Stephanie and so I cruised at a her pace...crawling home.

Edinburugh was - 3:50:00

Now I want to beat this time which will not be easy but it is possible.....in the knowledge that the Boston Marathon requires me to beat a time of 3:20 to get a place in the Marathon at my age.

Training has started in the drizzle and piss poor weather of this years UK winter, it was freezing the other night let me assure you...freezing sleet is not fun to run in, training is going well albeit slow and i have a slighht metatarsol injury....getting old ay see.

More laterz.

Facebook Vs Blogging...?

Hi there,

I have been a blogger for about 4 years I like blogging as it reminds me of the best bits of my own life etc etc, but last year I went along and tried facebook its been an interesting year and in facebooks defense I have found alot of old freinds or in some cases some of them have found me, even so all in all its been a fun and interesting experience - but im not so sure if the attraction is starting to wane on me a bit...I may decide to return to my blog and then posting 'if ever' my ramblings as a link from my blog on facebook.

Some of the people on facebook who have found me, are without a doubt a tad boring and some of the people I hoped I would delight in catching back up with, never write a thing to me and have ignored me ever-since finding me - a friend - I doubt it...really eh. I have even e mailed them to no avail, its weird this can mean that they only really gave a shit breifly had a nose through your pics laughed at your now sad older hairstyle and then moved on forgetting you very quickly, but hey you increase there number of friends so they leave you on there to add to the numbers as if your a pawn on there popularity list....

Some or most of the people on there are lets say aquintances and nice ones too, people I have come across in my life and shared a cool mutual experience with which is all good, but do I actually have to keep tabs on thered daily lives ????? If i am honest I am getting to the point where I dont care about any of the crap on there anymore....call it age if you will, but im getting a feeling that facebook is making me a bit sick and un-human...I mean do I actually prefer my facebook freinds to real human interaction and the answer is no a big NO!!!

I was staring into the screen just the other day and I realised I had nothing of real interest to type (Point is i still felt obligated to visit the site...why!!!) thats not to say I dont have anything of interest to say but that it would not have suited the audience of facebook, and it seems there are many others who also dont have much to say either - but guess what... they still bore the shit out of us with there constant drivvle 'because they also feel the almost adictive need to post something - anything.....' ......yawn.....

Now dont get me wrong some of the links and stuff are hilarious and some of my freinds I truly value but it's the human schrapnel gets that getting me down, they post about how they feel today and just utter, utter crap, and how there little one looks cute in this and that....mums they must be the bloody worst....

In the olden days id get e mails, whats wrong with those now? you can send pictures etc and you can send one e mail to hundreds of your freinds if you so wish....is this not a better way to say hello to someone you actually care about??

Have you looked through your e mail inbox of late all of mine is buisness related, trying to make me spend more money on more shit, or internet purchase receipts etc...or porn.......hardly any if any freinds e mail me....what does this say?

Maybe just maybe - I dont have many or any, and the most important person in my life is being ignored as I sit here staring at this fucking screen - expecting that my life will come to me from the screen...

I mean I can be in my lounge on one settee and my girlfreind Stephanie on the other on the other side of the room both of us on facebook, both looking at each other thinking what the FUCK!!! - why are we not going out doing something for christs sake.....nurturing our own existence instead of being sucked into this empty void of internet crap.....

The truth is I used to be much more er .... interesting.....no thats wrong I am still interesting but in a older way (slowing down a tad) I think, anyway the point is I think some people on facebook need to get out more, much more, in fact all of us do me included and popping back in to facebook every month or so to catch up with loads of new stuff to tell hopefully of interest...to the rest of world...

Anyway - any which way I try to write about this I lose as I have enjoyed seeing other peoples lives but I have also been rejected by those I thought would care, its my life thats been affected as i sit there wondering some days why no one has said something to me or commented on a picture or two I may have posted, sad I know but it's got me by the balls and im out of here, back to my blog and I will be posting links and nothing more from now on.

And oh let the friend culling begin.....get out you lot and do stuff, stop staring at the screen life has just flown past the window........didnt you see it oh and by the way its yours....

G

By the way some of you on facebook I value highly some I really dont give a toss about...sorry.