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Old 05-15-2018, 07:35 AM   #11926
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Nothing nastier than excessive lateral play!
'It wobbled about a bit' doesn't really have the same gravitas!

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Lovely quick and cheap fix, though!
That's the best bit. It didn't cost me a brass farthing!
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Old 05-15-2018, 08:37 AM   #11927
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Payback for Normandy, Battle of Britain, etc.
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Old 05-15-2018, 09:23 AM   #11928
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Payback for Normandy, Battle of Britain, etc.


Considering its age, the car isn't doing too badly, although when something minor is amiss I do wonder if it's a precursor to a catastrophic failure.
If today's problem had been say, a major gearbox or clutch problem, I'd have had to give serious consideration to replacing the vehicle.
It's only done 71,000 miles so, in terms of its age, that's nothing.
Given that I do one grocery shopping trip a week, and the usual litany of hospital and Doc's appointments for Dad, it is only chalking up a total of about a thousand miles a year.
That's why I'm attempting to keep it going. There's no point in shelling out vast sums of money for a new, or newish, car and watching it depreciate by the day on the drive.
Anticipating the worst for this morning, I had a look at the VW website last night and prices for the current version of the Passat Estate are well north of £20,000!*
That's not a road I wish to drive down if it can be avoided.

*$27,000
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Old 05-15-2018, 04:48 PM   #11929
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'It wobbled about a bit' doesn't really have the same gravitas!
[aside]

Years ago, a friend of mine in Seattle encountered a chair on the curb near his apartment. The chair had a sign on it: "Take me. I wobble."

My friend took the sign (but not the chair) and displayed it on the front of his refrigerator.

I think of that "Take me. I wobble." sign often. I should wear it on my back at all times.



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Old 05-16-2018, 10:16 PM   #11930
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You should launch an a peel, so everyone can keep an eye out. Want me to mash something together?
I posted it on youtuber but it went viral so now there's famine in Ireland......
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Old 05-17-2018, 07:16 AM   #11931
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Printing , matting and framing photographs for a group exhibition. I belong to the New England Large Format Photography Collective and we are having our first museum exhibit in June. It's a big deal for us, having had gallery shows previously but nothing on this scale. The nuseum is even using one of my images for their "Upcoming Exhibitions" web page. I'm so chuffed.
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Old 05-17-2018, 08:11 AM   #11932
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oh hai nowhereman! Where ya been?
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Old 05-17-2018, 09:27 AM   #11933
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Printing , matting and framing photographs for a group exhibition. I belong to the New England Large Format Photography Collective and we are having our first museum exhibit in June. It's a big deal for us, having had gallery shows previously but nothing on this scale. The nuseum is even using one of my images for their "Upcoming Exhibitions" web page. I'm so chuffed.
Is that at Lyman Allyn?
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Old 05-17-2018, 08:27 PM   #11934
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Printing , matting and framing photographs for a group exhibition. I belong to the New England Large Format Photography Collective and we are having our first museum exhibit in June. It's a big deal for us, having had gallery shows previously but nothing on this scale. The nuseum is even using one of my images for their "Upcoming Exhibitions" web page. I'm so chuffed.
Congratulations! Please link to the page when it's up, if you don't mind sharing that with us, I'd love to see.
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Old 05-17-2018, 09:21 PM   #11935
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Dittoes.
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Old 05-18-2018, 07:25 AM   #11936
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It's Lil' Griff's GraduBirthday weekend! Now I am old. Was given a senior coffee at McD's this week... should I be pleased about the savings?
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Old 05-18-2018, 08:33 AM   #11937
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Wow!! She was single digit age just a moment ago.

Seeing the young mens and womens grow up is a true joy. Being a near-step-grandfather now, I finally see it. I would have demanded to be a parent if I had known how totally freaking amazing it is.
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Old 05-18-2018, 09:12 AM   #11938
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Old 05-18-2018, 09:37 AM   #11939
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Old 05-18-2018, 12:51 PM   #11940
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I am constantly amazed.
Ya done something right.
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