Inspired by a post by Jeff at View from the Cloud on hybrid cars I simply must recount my own experience on an earlier form of what is now called “hybrid” but back in 1981 was simply “dangerous”.
I refer of course to duel fuel automobiles, especially home-made ones.
Homage to Martin Offiah, arguably the worlds greatest Rugby League winger captured in pastel in the twilight of his career in London Broncos colours.
You see, in the days before the annual MOT test you could drive an old car until it literally fell to pieces around you one day, and indeed thats exactly what happened to many of us and our old cars.
It happened to my old friend Charlie Smith one day, for instance.
I wish I could be this cool.
Wearing a white suit makes anyone bar Bryan Ferry very uncool indeed, just ask our Ned, he had one in the 1980’s, cuffs turned up like Don Johnson and everything, he and our dad went to Harehills Working Mens Club one night with Ned int he Don Johnson white suit and everyone thought Ned was the turn – our dad ended up flogging the suit to a club turn one night, Ned only found out a few weeks later when he went to put it on for a fancy dress party.
Two recycling stories…
One about how wonderfully daft and at the same time joyfully labour intensive is the Leeds City Council bottle recycling scheme, and the other about how wonderfully daft and not-at-all joined-up thinking is the Leeds City Council garden waste recycling scheme.
Another Easter day off for me and another quest to find somewhere to entertain us for little money.
My first choice was Salford Quays as everything except the parking fees seems to be free, The Lowry Gallery and The Imperial War Museum would have satisfied my curiosity for the day, but as usual I was outvoted by females who spat the words “Imperial War Museum ?” back at me as if they had just been forced to eat something very vile that the night soil man had maybe missed during our visit to the Thackray Museum.
Rather than go for another walking and talking afternoon out it was unanimously decided that we would pay our second visit in ten years to The Thackray Medical Museum, one of our fine city’s bestest ever museums and deserving of more fame.
Unfortunately its not a national museum so it costs you to get in, £16 for two adults and one U16, (£18 for a family of five) but the good news is that if you gift aid the fee you get a buy-one-get-one-free ticket for each person, so we get to back for nowt anytime in the next twelve months – that sort of thing warms the cockles of a Yorkshireman’s heart and add the fact that Alistair Darlings Exchequer will not benefit from the tax I paid when I earned that £15 then its double-bubble.
Just a tad of walking yesterday, Jodie likes walking places and so she nagged me to take her somewhere yesterday, I needed to test drive my new summer-issue walking shoes and what better time to do so than in March with snow on the ground ?
We didn’t go far to walk, just to The Hollies, and we didn’t walk far when we got there, just a couple of miles or so down Meanwood Valley on a route that I’ve strolled various dogs down many, many times, but it was nice…
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A bit more snowfall this morning and what better time of year to test the new walking shoes on Ilkley Moor ?
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