Archive for July, 2008
IoW day2, Breakfast
Woken up this morning not by the sound of the seagulls or even the alarm clock – it was the sound of four bikes on a ore-breakfast run around the island. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining only envious! I have done the same myself, admittedly not quite as early but never the less I can assure you it’s a great feeling.
So what about today? I have no idea..
IoW day1, Clear night
Clear night over the bay (23:45)
First day and I already look a little burnt up top…
IoW day1, Arrived
Like an old friend room 309 was waiting for me; on route I bought a parking permit for the week which will save all the scratching around for change for the pay and display parking.
The trip via the ferry went well although a little breezy at times.
The speedy sea-cat type ship went there and back in the same time it took us to get there!!!
IoW day1, Oops
Well I missed the last services before the end of the motorway, so now I’m in TGI Fridays about half a mile from the ferry port – the ferry leaves at 2pm.
IoW day1, Lets start
Well just started out need to get some juice before I get to the island as I expect it will be quite expensive. Just to add to the list of things to hey fixed on the car when I return; the most valuable commodity in my car is currently unprotected – yes the locking fuel cap isn’t working. Watch this space for more updates.
Ready set?
Well about to pick up the beetle, the body shop screwed up as well – there is a stone chip guard called a foil which they forgot to fit. I’m going on holiday tomorrow so they can’t fit it for at least a week, god knows what it’s gonna look like after being on the IoW for a week.
The garage is just sorting out their bill, it’s taking a while…
Thursday post
It’s been a fun week ?!
Car went in for engine work on Monday, they misplaced the keys and I had to run down the spares about 2pm, hence not all the requested work could be compled.
Tuesday, the car went next door to the body shop to have the rear wing resprayed as the laquare was pealing…
Wednesday got a call from the garage saying the original quote from the part supplier was wrong; not £587 but £875 (ish). I told them it was failing and it needed replacing so asked the to continue. An update from the body shop suggested they would be releasing the car Thursday evening to go back to the garage.
Later on Wednesday I get a call from the garage saying that their supplier won’t have the part for 2 weeks! But they had searched around and found one for £497 and they could get the car back to me by Friday afternoon..
I explained I was getting nervous as I was catching the ferry at 2pm on the Saturday and the last thing I wanted was to…
1. Miss the ferry. 2. Get half way down the motorway and the car to fail. 3. Them not being able to finish the car in time and me going on holiday in their rental for £20/day.
So not what I had planned really; should have been – garage Mon/finished, bodyshop Tue-Thu, road test car on Friday…
Just to add a bit of spice for Friday, my mobile number is moving from Orange to O2 so lets hope there is no loss or service!
Yay! i’m gonna need a holiday after this week!
First post
Well here it is the first post from the iPhone. 