So there has been lots of advancements over the past weekend, which have not only been exciting, but also meant that on Sunday night I took Lucy out for a spin for the very first time! After Scout Camp at the weekend, I was extremely excited to be greeted with a covered Lucy there on my drive, and when I found out off my parents that it was ready to go I was extremely excited.
It has been fixed and MOTd, as well as the underside being scrubbed down and wax-oiled so that it is protected against the rain and wet that will be thrown at it over the coming months. However, the work has only just begun. There is still the sealing of the wood to do, as well as polishing, cleaning and touching up the tiny patches of rust, not to mention trying to get l the chrome to a reasonable shine!
There is still a mountain of stuff to do, but already it appears to have brought together the entire family, working together to perfect the car. My dad was really chuffed about being able to drive it home from the garage and proud to tell me about the amount of times he crunched the gears on the way!
Anyway I will keep you posted with further progress, after I have enjoyed driving it round a lot of course, and will try and get some pictures up for you to see the work so far.
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Monday, 24 September 2012
Friday, 7 September 2012
I almost forgot to Update You On My Moggy
Oh yes, I have been so busy recently with the Alrewas Radio and other things going in the Arts Festival that I almost forgot about the Moggy! So I was just popping home to see how progress was going on the chicken run on the last day of the radio when I was presented by the postman with 2 brown envolopes printed with a return address of "Morris Minor Owner's Club." I can't explain the excitment, it was so intense.
So I opened them up to find the July/ August issue with my membership certificate and membership card which now takes pride of place over my driving liscense (yes that's right) in my wallet! So the last installment of the moggy tale was that I had been granted the access to it. However it was in Yorkshire with 4 flat tyres, no MOT and a dead battery.
So now, it is still in Yorkshire. Still 4 flat tyres, still a dead battery and still not roadworthy. However, now that is the only issue stopping me driving it. Over the past few days I have been able to get hold of a tow-car (I couldn't use my gran's Land Rover because she ruined it driving to Devon) and also a trailer, with a winch and a massive amount of straps and ropes to get it back. I have also spoken to the garage down to road and they said that I would be able to drop it off and then get it all fixed and sparkling, just like when it came out of the factory 44 years ago.
Proudly displaying my Moggy Owner's Club sticker on the back window and wih my Minor Matters Magazines (yes that is really what they call the official owner's magazine) in hand I am feeling ever more confident about actually having a car to drive which I can afford to run, repair and insure! Not only that but it is a classic. There is npo denying that it is the ford mondeo estate of it's day, but it is still elagant and incredibly fun to drive. Call me old-fashioned, but the classic cars are the best, adn this is certainly one of the best all-round classic motors you can get, at a reasonable price and availability.
However I do find it slightly sadistic of the insurance companies to give me a qoute of £4,000 for a 2003 ford fiesta with an actual safety-rated with seatbelts already fitted, whereas I can get a 44 year old death-trap on wheels that will not do the speed limit even if the road is 300 miles long, straight and downhill no matter how hard you will it to insured for £985.64! The fact of the matter is, I am pleased that it has turned out that way as I get to drive the best car in the world. Well the best that I can afford, which admitably is limited, but nonetheless.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peachy146 @peachy146
So I opened them up to find the July/ August issue with my membership certificate and membership card which now takes pride of place over my driving liscense (yes that's right) in my wallet! So the last installment of the moggy tale was that I had been granted the access to it. However it was in Yorkshire with 4 flat tyres, no MOT and a dead battery.
So now, it is still in Yorkshire. Still 4 flat tyres, still a dead battery and still not roadworthy. However, now that is the only issue stopping me driving it. Over the past few days I have been able to get hold of a tow-car (I couldn't use my gran's Land Rover because she ruined it driving to Devon) and also a trailer, with a winch and a massive amount of straps and ropes to get it back. I have also spoken to the garage down to road and they said that I would be able to drop it off and then get it all fixed and sparkling, just like when it came out of the factory 44 years ago.
Proudly displaying my Moggy Owner's Club sticker on the back window and wih my Minor Matters Magazines (yes that is really what they call the official owner's magazine) in hand I am feeling ever more confident about actually having a car to drive which I can afford to run, repair and insure! Not only that but it is a classic. There is npo denying that it is the ford mondeo estate of it's day, but it is still elagant and incredibly fun to drive. Call me old-fashioned, but the classic cars are the best, adn this is certainly one of the best all-round classic motors you can get, at a reasonable price and availability.
However I do find it slightly sadistic of the insurance companies to give me a qoute of £4,000 for a 2003 ford fiesta with an actual safety-rated with seatbelts already fitted, whereas I can get a 44 year old death-trap on wheels that will not do the speed limit even if the road is 300 miles long, straight and downhill no matter how hard you will it to insured for £985.64! The fact of the matter is, I am pleased that it has turned out that way as I get to drive the best car in the world. Well the best that I can afford, which admitably is limited, but nonetheless.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peachy146 @peachy146
Friday, 17 August 2012
Calling All Minecrafters: Unless you have 1.75 stacks of Diamond, then You have Got to Read This!
Now I think I have mentioned that I am big Minecrafter. I have recently been truly enamoured by the little mod pack called Tekkit. If you don't know about this, where have you been, if you don't have it, then you are a fool, and if you don't know where to get it, then open your eyes. (Only joking, you can get it on the Technic pack website).
So the great thing about this is that it adds so much more to Minecraft it is incredible. I don't even know how to use all of the things it gives you, and I have been playing it for a good 3 months now! It essentially adds everything which has been invented in the real world by scientists in funny outfits and funny hairdos in the past 200 years in 1 mod pack. You can create power, electricity, engines, machines, quarries and pretty much anything you want to. It will automate absolutely everything there is to do in Minecraft, and so much more!
Once you have gone Tekkit, you can't go back!
Now here is the thing, there is also a mod included called equivalent exchange, or EquivX to all those in the trade. This is one of the best mods ever made. It basically brings alchemy into Minecraft Now I am not a fan of magic games and things like that. I have never even been near a potion in the game and I don't really understand what the XP points are, but this mod assigns every item with a value, known as EMC, which can also be created into something else. So for example, all core items such as cobble and dirt have an EMC value of 1. on the other hand, diamonds have a value of 8000 and something. Basically whatever 64 x 64 is. Now this means you can turn cobble into diamonds.
You will have to watch this video to help you understand how it all works. The best I think is Duncan's explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Hsua7bdOo&feature=plcp
Another mod called Red Power 2 adds something very neat to the game called a Block Breaker. Now what this does it break the block below it and move it via redstone pipes, another feature of Red Power 2, to a chest or whatever you choose to store it in. Bare with me.
If you so wish, as I do, you pump it straight into the Condenser which will turn it directly into diamonds using the EquivX EMC. Awesome right! Ok, so it you have a row of like 8 block breakers and you an create 64 every 8 seconds, which is a diamond every... hang on... 8 and a half minutes. Ok that is pretty cool right, when it is for free! You could have a massive cobblestone production facility, like I do, which in total has 64 block breakers and makes a diamond a minute! BOOM!
So yeah, free diamonds anyone?
So the great thing about this is that it adds so much more to Minecraft it is incredible. I don't even know how to use all of the things it gives you, and I have been playing it for a good 3 months now! It essentially adds everything which has been invented in the real world by scientists in funny outfits and funny hairdos in the past 200 years in 1 mod pack. You can create power, electricity, engines, machines, quarries and pretty much anything you want to. It will automate absolutely everything there is to do in Minecraft, and so much more!
Once you have gone Tekkit, you can't go back!
Now here is the thing, there is also a mod included called equivalent exchange, or EquivX to all those in the trade. This is one of the best mods ever made. It basically brings alchemy into Minecraft Now I am not a fan of magic games and things like that. I have never even been near a potion in the game and I don't really understand what the XP points are, but this mod assigns every item with a value, known as EMC, which can also be created into something else. So for example, all core items such as cobble and dirt have an EMC value of 1. on the other hand, diamonds have a value of 8000 and something. Basically whatever 64 x 64 is. Now this means you can turn cobble into diamonds.
You will have to watch this video to help you understand how it all works. The best I think is Duncan's explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Hsua7bdOo&feature=plcp
Another mod called Red Power 2 adds something very neat to the game called a Block Breaker. Now what this does it break the block below it and move it via redstone pipes, another feature of Red Power 2, to a chest or whatever you choose to store it in. Bare with me.
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| My precious! |
If you so wish, as I do, you pump it straight into the Condenser which will turn it directly into diamonds using the EquivX EMC. Awesome right! Ok, so it you have a row of like 8 block breakers and you an create 64 every 8 seconds, which is a diamond every... hang on... 8 and a half minutes. Ok that is pretty cool right, when it is for free! You could have a massive cobblestone production facility, like I do, which in total has 64 block breakers and makes a diamond a minute! BOOM!
So yeah, free diamonds anyone?
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