Finally got round to taking some pictures of the new pride and joy… Also been playing around with iPhoto which is really cool…
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Month: March 2012
Jaguar XFS My first ever Jaguar was the chosen replacement and a shiny new 3.0XFS in metallic black was duly purchased. This was an oil burner (diesel) buy boy could it shift and it returned 40+ MPG on a run. Not many stories to share about the Jag XFS really. It’s a stunning car and […]
TVR Chimaera One day I stumbled across a very nice TVR Chimaera. I’d heard of the TVR brand, more from a poor reliability perspective, but I’d never really seen one up close and I’d never driven one before. It was sitting in the sun when I arrived, it was deep metallic red with a camel […]
Audi A4 I’m 40 and as a treat to myself I decide to buy my first brand new car. I had been really happy with the beemer so I tootled along to my local BMW dealer intent on buying a new car there and then. What happened next put me off BMW and to this […]
Vauxhall Carlton Next up is one of my most favorite cars a Vauxhall Carlton 2.0 in metallic brown. I bought it from the auction and took a risk on it as whilst it looked clean and the engine sounded good the front wheel bearing was seized solid so it couldn’t be driven. However, the risk […]
Opel Ascona Exit the Capri and welcome the Opel Ascona 1.9 Berlinetta in metallic green (the German equivalent of the Vauxhall Cavalier). Apart from having a persistent problem with condensation forming on the inside of the windows this was a nice car and very quick too for its time. I don’t really have much to […]
Ford Consul My next car was a Ford Consul (almost a Granada) in metallic brown NVK 375L. I’m not exactly sure why this is the only registration I can remember from my early cars but maybe it had something to do with the number of times I was stopped by the police that I remember […]
I’ve had a great time writing this story. I set out to write about the cars I’ve had over the past 35 years, but 6000 words later, I ended up writing about the many fond memories I’ve had around car ownership and life in general. Austin 1100 Whilst still too young to legally drive, I […]
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Seduced by a thing of beauty…
This is a sequel to my “Almost Seduced by a thing of beauty” post a couple of weeks back As you’d expect from the title, the temptation was too much and I’ve finally been seduced by the thing of beauty. Putting aside my own petrol head desire to own such a beast… this was only […]
I’ve deliberately used the word Cloud to grab your attention but the question is equally applicable if you use Cloud systems or in house systems. This post was prompted following an interesting twitter conversation I had last night with Frank Scavo and Dennis Howlett around yesterday’s outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Frank started […]
Stuart Lynn - Masters Athlete 