So I opened up the hosting space of akciddento.com after a little bit of a break and thought to do some security upates. Drupal 8 was still under the hood running a mildly butchered version of the old Movable Type website and blog – it’s an odd process keeping a blog working for 20 years…

after sending off a web order to German Swedish and French car parts on friday they turned up today via courier 🙂 nice to see ’em. a full wbx gasket set, cam bearing set, main bearing set and big end set plus a new oil pump 🙂 get on !

thought i ought to put up some of the old videos…. and took the plunge into youtube

1958 pieces of email – that got through the filters on the server… in EIGHTEEN HOURS ! wtf is going on… ? on amuch ahppier note i went up to see gemma and thomas heel at the hospital on wednesday and was introduced to elena katherine amy… 36 hours old and beautiful in every way…

got nine hundred emails today, in about 20 hours…. got the spam filters set to ‘slow-and-painful-death’ but still over NINE HUNDRED got through… ! on a lighter note, abi – who bought my samba – was up at raceshack on the dyno with the new big type IV engine in the back . her partner…

picking up my email this evening and found that i had exactly 1,100 pieces of maikl to download fvrom the server… this is AFTER The automatic filters on my mailerserver have cleaned it up…. i was working late last night and picked up mail at about 2am so its under 24 hours since i last…

in venlo in eastern holland for a smoke and a pancake.. and it’s flat, raining and i’m being persecuted by mosquitos. or possibly just one mosquito that’s been riding in the bus since antwerp……. set off on sunday from dover and got into boulogne in the evening , a quick blat south to condete and…

all packed up and ready (ish) to roll for the continent… built a platform to go on the load bed of the bus so that when the seats fold down there’s a level bed… i bolted in the fridge & sink and the cooker boxes and filled them with food, mugs plates glasses and all…

i called up to raceshack, i’ve been refitting the office for them as a favour and while i was there asked conor to have a quick look at the pierburg carb on the wedge. its got a gurt big flat spot in it and i though he might be able to help it a bit.…

well its about that time that i ought to write something 🙂 i’ve been busy with all sorts of things, doing lots of stuff on the new wedge, ripped out all the minging carpert and recarpeted the whole thing, picked up som emore of the missing trim. I even obtained a new/old headliner form gazt3…