Music in Lincolnshire

As some of you may be aware, stevieannie and micktim help run a singers night at the George in Leadenham just down from them every month.

Next month's is on Thursday 10th Sept. I intend to take a car up from Peterborough, and will have room for between 3 and 4 others (depending on whether Mal the bassist wants to come along). Folks would need to be at the Mill House by 7 or arrange collection.

Any takers? (There is no truth in the rumour that I'm only interested because it's called the '600 Whiskies Unplugged Session', honest. Besides, I'm driving.)

Cars...

So, my somewhat battered 'get me to the station' Vectra bit the dust yesterday evening at Birchanger Services, having as far as the AA man could tell run out of coolant with little or no warning at all...

Got me thinking: in my time I've owned:

Y-reg (I think) 1.6 petrol Vauxhall Cavalier in a sort of tawny orange/brown. For reasons lost in time, it was christened 'the Falcon', as ci5rod can no doubt attest. Was my dad's before mine. Written off when I slide into the back of someone in a traffic queue on the A127 in the wet. Crumple zones - a great way of losing your no claims bonus.

E-reg (if memory serves) 2.0 petrol Vauxhall Cavalier automatic, in metallic blue. Very nice except for the intermittent electrical fault which caused the whole car to just die when least expected, finally nailed after 4 callouts to the AA and two visits to Cambridge's useless Vauxhall dealer by the fifth AA man as one of the main electrical cables having a broken core inside the insulation. Sold to a friend of a colleague of Anne's who was a s/h car dealer.

J-reg (IIRC) 1.6 petrol Vauxhall Cavalier in red. Also used to belong to my dad. Completely unremarkable in every way. Part-exchanged for....

R-reg 1.8 petrol Daewoo Nubira, brand new, in green. Nice car, marred by the fact that Daewoo/Halfords service network bordered on the criminally incompetent. Part-exchanged for...

R-reg 2.0 diesel Fiat Ulysse MPV, aka the big blue bus. Schlepped us and Fleetfoot Mike to all parts until we bought the Green Vanalishi, at which point it was P/Xed for...

R-reg 1.8 petrol Mazda 323F in boring old silver. Lovely, fun car that was a little too low for me on days my back was playing up, until I tapped the back of someone who'd changed their mind about moving off at a roundabout at about 2mph. I really enjoyed driving this. Sadly, however, if you thought crumple zones are a means to write off a car, believe me, fibreglass front wings do a much better job. Replaced by...

S-reg 1.8 petrol Vauxhall Vectra. Also in silver. This car had one redeeming feature. It moved. Reliably, as far as I could tell. Otherwise, I can't say I liked it for any reason at all - it got me from A to B, and it had enough boot space for a few guitars. Pretty much the point at which I decided Vectras and Cavaliers are just... plain... boring (albeit practical). Some ratbag stole the CD player from it sometime earlier in the year, some other ratbag bumped it while parked at the station and damaged a light cluster (and never said sorry). It died yesterday. Which is rather fortunate, really, as on September 1 it was getting scrapped anyway in the Government Scrappage Scheme, when I will be getting...

'59-reg 1.9TDi diesel Skoda Roomster SE in a rather fetching shade of dark burgundy.

Till then? It's the bus.

For... well, reference

In case I ever need to find this little note again...

There is a very nice font called Worstveld Sling. For various complex reasons, however, there are several versions of it.
If you want the full set without bugs, you need Worstveld Sling Extra from dafont.com, the Worstveld Sling Oblique from macfonts.com, and the plain and bold Worstveld Sling from GemFonts (because the macfonts versions is missing a few important characters like ellipsis.

End of note to self.