You need to be sitting down for this – the bug passed its MOT with no advisories earlier this month – amazing! This has never happened before in approximately 22 years (combined) of VW ownership history! Admittedly the speedo in the bug has stopped working again, but that’s not material…….
Category Archives: General Waffle
Everything’s Cancelled
Everything’s cancelled. Even a gig that had been rescheduled for September has now been pushed back to next May. Not even the mighty Rammstein could get the better of this bloody virus. After 11 weeks of being home alone, my sanity is just about hanging on in there. Just about. I even got so bored …
Strange Days
Seeing as we’re pretty much confined to barracks during the middle of a global pandemic, there isn’t really any excuse for not bringing the site up to date. Not that a massive amount of VW related stuff has happened so far in 2020 thanks to a ridiculously wet start to the year and now Covid-19. …
It’s Been a While
Well this post has been sitting on my desktop for a while now, originally saved as “August post”. The original opening paragraph complained that the weather was October-esque and here we are now in October (actually November now) and yeah, that was a pretty accurate description! So yet again, there’s been a fair old gap …
Double Lake Action
I’m kinda digging the new layout for the site. Still not quite got the hang of the whole blocks thing, but I’m sure we’ll get there. Not sure I share the same confidence with the new job. Well, I say new, but it’s been pretty much 7 months now. They must be reasonably happy with …
Plans Afoot
The passage of time seems to be a continual theme and that’s probably because there’s usually a gap of a few months between posts! It’s early March and my first trip away in Clarence this year is only 5 weeks away. We seem to be foregoing the usual March trip to the Peaks this year …