Cornell Finch

12 Of 12 V3.0 – January 2008

One of my resolutions for 2008 was to try and participate in Chad’s 12 of 12 every month. I have even gone so far as to put a reminder in my phone on the 11th and the 12th of every month! For those that don’t know (and even if you are a regular reader then I haven’t participated since October!) the basic idea is that the blogger takes 12 photographs to represent their day on the 12th of the month. Chad collects all the links and we can get an idea of what happens around the world on the 12th of the month. So. 12 January 2008 goes something like this:

This was 1am. Yes, technically I know it’s cheating but when we finished playing in the garage it was 12 January! We have a Mini in the garage at the moment on which we’re doing “a few repairs”. This means, complete new front end, scuttle, sills, driver’s floor, rear valance and a complete respray. This was what I found when I took the old sill off the driver’s side.

While I was fiddling with removing the sill my house guest Scott was putting the finishing touches to his new sub-woofer. This includes a strip of blue LEDs round the sub. These have now been connected so that they “flash” in time with the sub beats. Sad but cool! I went to bed at about 1.30 am. Scott told me this morning he get to bed at about half six. He spent all night in the garage playing with the sub install. Muppet!

For future reference, when you’re playing with sharp metal, wear gloves. This is the result of me cutting the sill off last night. It was bloody sore this morning!

As per usual, we let the dogs out this morning. This is my wife following the dog (on the left) up the garden in an attempt to get him inside. They love barking at the neighbours when they are in the garden and it’s almost impossible to stop them. Little bastards!

Six hours sleep is enough right? That’s what I thought. This was what greeted me as I stood at the bottom of the stairs at 12.30. I would have left him longer but his girlie was coming down from Banbury for the afternoon.

Nick and his kids popped round to drop off an engine crane. It’s for a friend who will collect it stupid early tomorrow to enable him to remove the engine from his Mini. He needs to split the engine and gearbox to get the ‘box rebuilt.

This was a christmas gift from my brother-in-law (and his wife of course!). It’s uber nerdy but I don’t care. I pulled it out of the box and just had to play there and then. It’s so cool that I took video of it too!

The first row on the first three levels of Fareham’s multi storey car park is given over to disabled spaces. That’s enough room for 50 cars. On any given day I can guarantee that level two (above) will be devoid of parked transport. My wife told me as I was taking this that it was the same on Wednesday and yesterday too. I have no problem with disabled spaces but when I have to park on level five and level two is empty like this I think that Fareham Council may have gone a little too PC. Wankers.

The inside of Fareham shopping centre. It’s just a shopping centre just like all the others in the world. With all the same shitty women’s clothes shops and mobile phone sales centres. We can’t even say that we have a decent music store in town. Fareham really does suck.

Almost forgot to mention, while we were in town we bumped into our friends Paul and Helen who we haven’t seen for just over a year. Good to see you guys, nice to know you’re both keeping well, even if Paul has given up the weed and the football!

The obligatory dog shot. Staring at god alone knows what. Probably the rain.

Some evening visitors. Kaz (on the right) owns the Mini (photo number 1) that we’re doing a little work on. They came round to see the car (called Monty) and borrow an angle grinder to cut a Mini up.

This arrived yesterday. I walked past it at least 10 times today and every time I thought “must unpack the freezer and fire it up”. Guess what. It’s still there. Job number one for tomorrow!