Barbecue Summer.... not.....

Well the Met office shot itself in the foot this April when they announced that this summer would be a scorcher.... so far today we have had one months worth of rain fall on our house.... Hardly barbecue weather, apparently they have now back tracked on their first forecast and now it's umbrella weather through most of August !!! Well it's been torrential today. Unsurprisingly our broadband has dropped down to an all time low, I guess the string between here and the exchange is wetter than is necessary.... I complained bitterly to BT and they have agreed that I shouldn't really be paying for broadband when I'm not actually getting anything that can remotely be called broadband, even by stretching the definition somewhat... so they have agreed to refund any charges until it's sorted out, an engineer is hot footing his way here to tell me that "nothing is wrong with your phone line" ..... Oh to be Hannibal Lecter


Andrea (the mad one) has gone on her training run, she has a training schedule to follow for the London Marathon, she's just been waiting for a break in the weather, hopefully the window of moistness will last until the next torrential downpour, so she will only get soaked to the bone this time and not the soul.

I have the unenviable task of changing the front wheel bearings on the Pug (again)..... they are starting to sound like a Heinkel bomber over England, I have never known a car go through wheel bearings like this particular car, at the moment we are getting about 6000 miles out of each set if you average them out.... I'm tempted to put in genuine Peugeot ones, but the cost is prohibitive and it's simply not worth spending that much on Duran Duran... plus I'm not convinced the genuine article would last any longer... I am after all keeping this old lady on the road as more of a hobby than anything... I have to admit you do get a sense of satisfaction having done a repair that would have cost you at least £300 in a garage, or possibly more for a fraction of that.... Ahh well roll on Friday/Saturday groundhog bearings day.... the only up side I can think of is that the car knows the score and that I can do this job with my eyes closed.... although I think I'll keep them open to ward off spanner rash....