Monthly Archives: March 2008

World Earth Hour

Published March 29, 2008

It says in the news and on Google and on the Earth Hour Web site (if you can get to it) that today we are meant to turn off our lights for 1 hour between 8 and 9. The idea is to highlight the threat of climate change. I may try to do it here, [...]

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Random

Published March 24, 2008

We dotted off into town today (in the shiny new car) and had Chinese at the recently raided Jumbo Chinese restaurant The prices have increased very slightly since the raid, related? Who knows? Still very nice though, which is what counts really. Then we just went for a random drive around, checking out Thoresby Market [...]

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BMW

Published March 15, 2008

We settled on the 118 in the end. The original guy who we had a test drive booked with sold the test car??! So we embarked on a search to find someone with a 118i to test, and eventually found one in Leicester – well, technically not because it was actually an old style 120, [...]

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Cars

Published March 2, 2008

So basically, because my car is getting long-in-the-tooth now, and so on, we’ve been looking at replacement cars. Firstly I was looking at teeny cars like the Nissan Micra C+C but this has pretty much been rejected for being impractically small. A shame as it’s rather funky, but I suppose we do actually have to [...]

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