The fleet is back to full strength!

[GarethB]

Been really odd past couple of days being down to 2 cars.

While the Capri was having damaged repaired from its last race; cracked the exhaust manifold, so a slight drop in power. I have been putting one of the other cars in the garage.

First morning thought someone had nicked one of the cars, but I was slightly hungover after helping my wife and friends drink some wine!

Roll on the weekend, I have my three cars to clean and a friends car to service and give a full valet treatment so that's me happy.

What's everyone else upto then?

[jayuk]

Aha! Question...whats the best alloy cleaner?....I have dark dust residue on my car from M-Way driving and did a search and theres so many! But i know that there are only a few that worked! Before I used the cleaer from AutoGyln?....but that was ok ..any other tips?

I have a weekend with my little 11 month!..Wife is going to hen nite from sat to sun...so me and Dylan will be chilling!..already setting an agenda!...although I am concerned that he now starts biting other kids at pre-school!.....and then laughs and crawls away!....

Oh and I need to read and design around a solution for 64 Bit SQL 2005 on SAP!..lol.....so thatll kill alot of time Sunday!

[GarethB]

I use Autoglym Alloy cleaner, but I have their wheel brush too.

For best results, take the wheels off the car and do both the back and front. Otherwise as soon as you start to drive, the dust from the back covers all you hard work and ruins it!

Rinse it off well with soapy water after 30 seconds and repeat as necessary. To make it easier for next time, use Autoglym Super Resin Polish followed by their Extra Gloss. Once you have nice shiny wheels spray the wheels and tyres with Autoglyme Tyre Black and let it dry naturally. As well as a polished finish, it has a silicone coating too which makes it hard fro any crud to stick on again.

I think most boys go through a biting stage, but most child care places soon sort it, usually by isolating thekid and taking toys away. As soon as they find they are deprived of the attention they want they realise what they are doing is counter productive.

At that age, kids crave attention to them it is the same if they are good or bad. With Gemma, we would say if she had done something wrong and as soon as she was behaving again we would give loads of praise. We have always tried to make sure she gets more praise than telling off. Seems to have worked, told her off last night and if she was going to angry with the computer to turn it off. She did, so I let her do something else she wanted and helped her get a game ready for when Mum arrived.

As far as SAP goes, I miss that, used it a lot to track my sales and determine trends to help with my teritory palnning.

[Paul Osborne]

What's everyone else upto then?

Not a lot. SWMBO is in Nurse Ratched mode, which isn't really a bad thing considering.

So at the moment I am forced to listen to the cricket on the radio - which is a hardship.

Tomorrow R5 for the footy in the afternoon, Sunday Aussie GP (will watch that probably).

Time will be filled in by a largish stack of audio books and the odd posting here I guess.

Still at least I am not feeling depressed which has been my biggest fear.

Paul

[jayuk]

Gareth - What about all this other super duper cleaners?..not worth there weight?.....Ill prob go with Auto as you say, and get the brush.....im a sucker for cleaning my car.....never done it realy!...get it valeted once every 6 weeks and thats it......but what Ive found with the Golf is that the brake dust that appears on the alloy is more than that when I had the previous Peugoet


Paul

What can you see right now?.....

J

[GarethB]

Paul,

I'll be watching the Aussie GP too.

Jay; brakes on a Golf are far better than a Pug so no need to brake so hard

Braking earlier and gently, change down through the gears and use engine breaking uses less fuel and saves wear and tear on the brakes too.

Have you tried doing this; Institue Advanced Motoring

I know many people who thought theye were good drivers change their minds once they started this course.

[John Smith]

Well on Sunday I'll be on the banks of the Thames cheering on the light blues.

Yes, it's the Boat Race this weekend.

[GarethB]

I always thought it was Oxford and Cambridge.

Since when has Chelsea been in the running?

[Anne B]

Hi

Had a big blonde moment. I thought the Aussie GP was a soap that you were all watching about australian doctors. Now i realise its the Grand Prix.
Out for curry with the girls tonight.
The kids break up from school today so am in chill out mode.

Do you think the kids would enjoy the boat race. May take them if its a nice day.

Have a good one
Anne

[jayuk]

LOL - Anne you did make me chukle there!....