Finally took the plunge and bought an ev. 2nd hand Citroen E-C4.
My old Kona was starting to develop engine faults and I’m sick of all the things that can and do go wrong with all those cogs, belts and pistons.
Just my luck the Citroen arrived with a bloody fault. Weird buzzing noise coming from the head unit which was diagnosed as a faulty vacuum pump. Company said they’ll fix it. If they don’t they’ll take it back.
Apart from that I really love it. Never had an ev or even an automatic before so it’s weird having nothing to do with your left hand and foot.
It’s on charge atm via a 3 pin plug until I can afford a proper charger.

Hope you’re having a good one so far.

I’ve been putting pride flags on lampposts in my town, alongside the Union Jacks. Most got taken down quickly, but there was one that survived for a couple of weeks until some twat finally tore it down a few days ago. Was a shame. Had to go out last night and put another one back up.

Yeah alright cheers man, how was yours?

I spent most of my free days digging a big fuckoff hole in the garden, putting a swing in, and filling it back in.

The day i did most of the digging, I gave it a rest at half two in the afternoon and ran a three mile detour to pick the kids up from school, and I was absolutely bollocksed. My back didn’t appreciate a day of digging and half hour of running vigorously putting one foot in front of the other and the other parents must have wondered who Quasimodo here was supposed to be visiting.

Successful week in all.

Got to see Blood Incantation on Friday which was fantastic but also sprained my ankle on a run which wasn’t fantastic. So in all a mixed week.

My grandparents came over from the states as they were taking a cruise from Southampton so had a few days down there.

Had a volleyball match in Loughborough yesterday which went well, super excited about the season having started now!!

Next weekend is Saturday: another match (in freaking Stockport…) then some live commentary on Sunday. It’s always a bit nerve-wracking for the first few minutes in a new season but I’m mega excited about getting back to it.

The front wall had been wobbling for a while, and things got really dangerous when one of the road maintenance guys leaned on it and a whole column almost came down.

Took it apart with hammer and chisel brick by brick, trying to reduce it to just the bricks that didn’t wobble.
Fun fact: if you remove a strong brick’s wobbly top and wobbly side neighbour, that brick will also begin to wobble…!

Had a go at mixing my own mortar, and unfortunately added just a little bit too much water with no way to rescue it, and did a very sloppy job rebricking the front wall. Those smug bastards and their youtube tutorials making it look easy.

Nice way to chat with the neighbours, who I’m not normally that social with, and everyone has their two cents (“do you know what you’re doing?” “don’t you want to use a line?” “I know a good builder who…” etc.)

It looks terrible, but I’m proud of it, and now that I’ve done it once and learned what not to do, I could happily do it again. Which I will need to, since I only had 1 bag for 25 bricks, and my deconstruction took down 50.