Author: Buck
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Socialising my arse!
Hi, We have just returned from Wendy’s sister’s (Gail). That was eventful. Wendy’s brother and his wife (Peter and Emma) came with us in the mighty Micra to the outskirts of Brum. Some people claim that Daventry, being a further fifty miles down the country, is not actually in Birmingham. To these geographical pedants we…
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Driving test
Guess what? I failed. Again. 🙁 Damn and blast! It was even the same route I took last test, I came up to that same painted island, though ‘HA!! I’ll have you this time.’ Then as I went into it, started to steer around it! How stupid am I? I knew what was coming, was…
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Jolly hols/ honeymoon
Hi, we made it! All the way to Inverness, within spitting distance of the famous Loch Ness. Yeah verily, it rocked! The journey wasn’t too much fun, the poor little Micra being thrashed mercilessly for seven or so hours each way. Two hundred and forty miles of toe-down motorway, then another one hundred and thirty…
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Damn the DSA and all who sail on her!
Balls! Failed again. Happily I thrive on despair and disappointment. The worst thing is; both of the incidents that lead to the fail were avoidable. One of them was trying to steer around one of those painted white traffic islands (in a truck they are usually impossible, you make a token effort to show you’ve…
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I knew it!
Hi. It’s official, finally. We are being kicked out of our department. They finally came clean today. Perhaps it’s due to the tactics of industrial action/ sabotage we have been unofficially employing. We let the whole department go to shit. You could barely move for the pallets and rubbish. We slowed down to a walking…