Bath Half Marathon

Out with Raynet today covering the Bath Half Marathon. Nice day but a bit cold especially as we were standing around most of the time. However the various banana's and a camel but for a fun day. Thankfully no major incidents. Only 'excitement' was when a couple of Ambulances had to make their way against the runner flow. One was on a 'non life threatening' run and ran without escort, the other however, was not and ran with Police escort. It was amazing to be involved with such an operation. Everyone had a role to play and it was amazing to see a convoy make it's way through a sea of runners without incident. This was a incident that showed the value of Radio against mobile phones,in it that messages could be sent to several people at the same time enabling barriers and runners to be moved and warned.

Update on the MOT. After a lot of messing about getting the windscreen replaced and having the ball joint replaced the car now has a new MOT. Only thing now is to get a couple of front tyres. Next week is the bikes turn for it's first MOT.

MOT

That time of year again for the trip to the MOT station. As I am working most of the day now it was down to Fiona. I did it expect it to fail as it had a large crack on the windscreen. Anyway £35 latter and yes it did fail.
On - Front Windscreen £50
         Windscreen Wipers!! £10
          Mobile phone holder in wiper sweep!
          Ball joint worn £50

Not bad for a 'p' reg car. Did have an advisory for the front tyre so will get those done ASAP.

Smelly Day

Off today, managed to fix the bike. Usual wiring problem so spent some some time checking over the wiring and found a couple of potential problems. In the process of working on the bike discovered the drain outside was over flowing. The next door neighbour was also having problems. For those that don't know we live in a  house built around 1870, the drains therefore are 'intersting'. The drains of all four houses end up in the same drain in another neighbours courtyard. So the afternoon was spent trying to unblock this. Tried drain rods but to no avail, in the end I managed to get a hosepipe up the drain and blast the obstruction out. Despite a shower and washing all my clothes I can still smell the result!! Working for  four hours tomorrow and then off until Tuesday.