Author: Buck

  • It never rains but it pours.

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    You remember those glorious, debt free moments we enjoyed?  *sighs wistfully* Totally over that now. It’s been an eventful week. Cast your minds back. Remember me waxing lyrical about the KA when I got it a year ago, how it had no ‘advisories’ on the MOT, a new exhaust system, etc, etc? I took it…

  • Snow!

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    Last night was bloody focusing. All that bollocks about “the weight of the truck melts the snow”.  Which is why every episode of Ice Road Truckers is 30 seconds long. They start the truck then plunge straight through the melted ice and snow to a watery grave. Clearly I didn’t think that through. Around Stoke…

  • Snowmageddon!

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    To paraphrase the DM Reporter, WHITE BLANKET OF DEATH as ten snowflakes fall! We have been reduced to cannibalism and wearing the skins of the fallen. Society has fallen. But at least Twitter is still going.   It’s been a hectic week at work and I’ve got some non-specific malaise. I went for a run…

  • Pain. Not in a good way.

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    Bloody sinuses are playing up again. Totally ruined my weekend. Not that it wasn’t off to a bad start anyway. I had no work until Thursday. Then they rang me up and said they wanted me in at 2100 to do a run to Chester. I thought that was probably bullshit. Why would they call…

  • Me. Getting shit done!

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    You know how I’d been putting things off for months, I am on fire with the getting things done! I was as good as my plan and sorted my allotment the very next day. I posted the key and notice of termination the same morning. As well as my Canadian Visa application. This last weekend…