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New tyres

Interesting post title eh…

Got new tyres on Tuesday afternoon.  It’s the first time in a few years that I’ve chosen not to go with a ‘premium’ or well known brand of tyre.  I only have the car until around July, as the finance ends then, so I didn’t feel a need to spend a lot on tyres, especially when you consider that this brand ‘Sunny’ cost £55 a tyre…  I got Pirelli’s during the summer and they were an absolutely horrid price, about £170 for the two, which considering the car is only a Ford Ka, is a little bit crazy.

I also normally go to ATS Euromaster, but decided not to this time, for no reason other than wanting to try somewhere different, so I went to Lindsay Ford in Mallusk who have a small “Rapidfit” franchise type thing going.  I would go back again, and would even go as far as to say I would recommend them.  They fit to any brand (not limited to Ford), and they have a price match with Kwik Fit.  The only downsides were:

  • Really slow – took them two hours to fit two tyres, however the last time I went to ATS it took them about 4 days to source tyres, and I ended up with Pirellis, when I actually went in wanting Continentals, and had settled with Dunlops, arriving at the depot to be told “Oh we just got Pirellis instead.”
  • You have to book in advance, be it the day before or whatever,
  • Mallusk being Mallusk, there isn’t a terrible lot to do while you wait, but then again this seems to be a trend with tyre places, ATS on the Boucher Road, Magowan on the outskirts of Carrickfergus, or in Mallusk.

I don’t know what they’re like for punctures and stuff, don’t know if they can repair them or not.

So far the tyres seem to be fine, they (so far) have been giving a reasonable amount of grip, although I can notice the road noise more, which isn’t a big deal considering it’s a diesel and the engine makes a lot of noise.  But I’ll keep you all updated here on the lives of the tyres…

Merry Christmas

Haven’t blogged in a long long time, but… Merry Christmas everyone. I hope Santa was good to everybody, and hope you all got what you wanted.

Santa was terribly good to me – I got converse, new shoes, clothes, PJs, some sweeties, money, a new coat, camera bag, and some other smaller things, so, all in all, a great collection of stuff!

Anyway, hope everyone enjoys their Christmas Dinner.

Boredom!

Well, sitting in the car waiting for Amanda and her mum to get back home from work in Belfast.

Weird, Tinie Tempah was on Cool FM lol.

There’s a big shower of rain coming over Carrick right now, looks like it might be rather heavy.

The wee hamster is looking better. He’s still not himself, but he’s not doing badly, and is certainly looking a little brighter than he was before! He’s got a few more days of antibiotics to take, then I hope he’ll be all better.

Holidays, A Sick Hamster, and Almost Back to Uni…

Well, Amanda and I were away to Disneyland Paris last Monday to Friday.  We had a great time.  There’s a few new rides in the Studios park; RC Racer, Parachute Drop and Slinky…  They were all quite good, but it’s nice to have another ‘Thrill’ ride in Disney…

Got home on Friday night to a sick hamster…  Off to the vet on Saturday, who gave him an injection (didn’t think you could give a hamster an injection lol), and some antibiotics for a few days…  So he’s perking up the last day or two thankfully, so hopefully he’ll make a full recovery 🙂

Start back to uni on the 27th, just 26 weeks left yay.

Anyway, don’t know what else to let you know about at the minute, might think about something else soon…  Cyaa.

Not much to report…

Well, don’t really have a lot to mention on here. Still moving bits and bobs of websites over to the new hosting. Had some problems with mums school website, but it seems to be working now. The dedicated server is getting shut off later today.

Been working all over the place recently. Night shifts in Fortfield in Carrick, normal shifts in Rathcoole, my poor wee body clock is a bit broken, hence the quarter to four post at the minute! I suppose this is a better thing than sticking to my normal sleeping pattern though, it’s getting me sleeping through about half the day, which I think is maybe closer to what I need on nights? I should maybe try doing that thing where you sleep for half an hour at a time? Only problem would be getting the half hour during an 8 hour shift…

I tidied my room a bit today, it’s actually a little cleaner than before, but it still needs a lot of work! Maybe get a chance to do some more tomorrow.

Anyway I’m actually getting a little tired now, so I’ll head to sleep, yknow make hay while the sun shines, and all that jazz!

Cheerio

No updates in a long, long time!

Hey folks. Haven’t updated this in like a month and a bit! Well it’s now summer and I’m bored, not much in the way of extra hours going, so really just sitting farting around a lot of the time!

Amanda and I were in Fuerteventura from mid June until the end of June. We had a really good time, such a lovely country. We also got engaged 😀

Right now I’m sitting in the Subway in SPAR Mallusk. Had a breakfast thing, very tasty! Currently waiting on the car getting serviced. Must say, I’m at a bit of a loose end for a few hours! Might dander down into Glengormley or something. Hopefully the car won’t be too long 🙁

Sadly my flash doesn’t seem to be working, it won’t charge, so I presume something has blown up, which is crap. Shall have to send it to Mr Nikon and see if he’ll fix 🙁 I think it’s still under warranty, and it’s insured, but only if it costs more than £100 to fix… And I don’t know if I would want to claim on the insurance for something like this… Views please people lol.

Anyway I’m going to head on here, and find something fun to do. Cya!

Exams over, yay

Well, exams over for another while yay! Freedom! Two weeks and then I’m away on holiday, whoop whoop 🙂

Watching an old episdode of gladiators, funny programme!

It’s a terrible morning, really wet, roads covered in standing water, bit un-fun for driving..

Anyway, don’t know what I’m doing next week, mum’s school sports day on Thursday, so I have a date with my camera, as usual. The place that does her website is stopping their free service, so going to design her a new website I think… Exciting stuff!

Anyway, don’t have much else to say right now, might blog again soon if I can think of anything interesting to say…

Kinda shattered!

Well, it’s been an interesting few days. Worked Sunday night, last night, and I’m working tonight. On the positive side I’m off now until Sunday morning! So that’s good!  Just don’t like working so many shifts together, makes me really tired, although on the other hand it is nice to have the rest of the week off.

Only 2 weeks and a few days of class left, and then into exams…  Even those are over really early, so summer will come soon!  Need to lose a bit of weight before we go away to Fuertaventura lol…  Don’t wanna be too big!  Oh well.

Currently watching some old episodes of The Gadget Show, currently on the Christmas/Winter special from last year.  Really funny!  The last one had a jet powered hovercraft, which was quite funny.  The wee jets always remind me of Clarkson in Top Gear live a couple of years ago – he built a jet powered wheelchair – God, did it make some noise!

Got a telephoto lens a few weeks ago, it’s pretty cool having the option of zooming in a bit more.  Good for taking the slightly further away pics.  Glad that it has VR though, really makes a difference at full zoom!

Only one night of Anchor Boys left too!  Nice to finish a the end of the year…

Going on my flying lesson that Amanda’s mum and dad (and maybe her sister) got me for my birthday last summer.  Can’t wait.  Should be good fun 🙂  Getting new sunglasses too, just in case I need them 😀

There’s a cool computer controlled house in Dubai on TGS.  Are we going to end up with these houses in 20 years?  Ortis just walked into a room, the computer knew he wanted to watch a movie, he walked into the room, the computer decided to shut the curtains, turn the TV on…  Stuff like that lol.  Crazy!  Think it’s developed by eHome?  Pretty damn nifty…  What a way to spook the burglars!

Anyway, I better head on, need to go and get my dinner..  Yum pizza 🙂

Cheerio!!