sunday came and it was bright crisp sunny… love;y sunday for doing things and getting things done… ed decided to get loaded up and return londonwards early to get into his shed and work on his fastback…. so we loaded up the wheels i’d collected for him from dubfreeze (or to be more accurate hubbs…

**ed** came down to visit for the weekend in his newly slammed passat estate… slammed to the floor on majorly cut springs it looks the bomb! ed had done a deal with chris CSP who lives on the other side of bristol for some moon disks. yes, moon disks on the passat (more on this…

hubbs decided to hang around in bristol for another day or so and the new headlights he had got at dubfreeze were itching to be fitted to something so a test fitting to the race panel van (sat sad and immobile under the trees)* was called for… and here they are, screwed into the old…

after a pleasant saturday night in the swan hotel bar in stafford i woke early… … to a very frosty morning in the hightop westie wedgebus. i’d parked up behind the main hall at stafford county showground after unloading and setting up the stall on saturday. given that the temperature outside was someway below zero…

and all through the pub not a word could be heard properly, not even a shout… so to do the day backwards hubbs and i ended up in the swan hotel in stafford having a rather pleasant social with mick from kinky micks wheel shack, wayne from volksheaven, folksy and jane from bluebird, retro steve…

first meet of the year… shopping for greasy parts (or shiny bits..) standing round clutching styrofoam cubs of tea for warmth… must be dubfreeze! we’ll be there trading, chatting, drinking tea and assembling greasy car parts… see you all in stafford !

had some mail this morning from mr XXXXX who works for XXXXXXXX ltd (the ones who sell XXXXXX XXXXXX) requesting not to be named and shamed (in case his/her sees how much company time has been spent at akciddento….) sorry, all incriminating evidence removed…. 😉

having a quick look through the stats and stuuf from the website server logs it turns out that akciddento has had nearly 10 million hits in the last year looking through the referrers it appears that someone at xxxxxx ltd, a company makes xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx hit the website nearly 97 thousand times !… hello, who…

arrived by courier, another cheap ebay win… …not really sure that i needed them… and there’s only two of them…. hmmm… maybe i’ve started to devcelop an ebay habit… but then again it’s costing me less that my smoking used to….

dave in suffolk asked me to pick up a load of parts for a TATA pickup that he’d bought. i’d already done a deal with dave for the 1.9 wasserboxer and a pair of chrome bumpers from a van dave was breaking to all we need to do now is meet up and swap piples…