Jim Christie

I've already been told "headgasket" isn't a name for a cat... 🤣🤣

Hmm... 🤔

Apparently obviously automotive-themed names are not acceptable.

This instantly ruled out my first choice of "startyabastard" 🤣

We have just adopted two kittens - and can't agree on names.

I think "pinky" and "brain", Mrs C thinks "holly" and "ivy".

What does #weirdcarbs #carbluesky think?

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... or a description for a certain ex-tory MP?

True enough.

In this instance, it seems that tactic didn't pay off - the candidate was beaten.

It's not leaking anymore. E confirmed today that after yesterday's downpour, it was - relatively, anyway - dry as a bone inside 👍

[ Some of those small dehumidifiers you can put in places like wardrobes or behind the curtains are currently squirrelled under the front seats to help with that ]

This 2011 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon - I've had it nearly 11 years, and added almost 100k miles to it in that time.

Age is starting to show in the failed lacquer and there is a little rust around the edges in places - but I'll still happily jump in and drive many miles without a second thought.

It does to a certain extent - but I was sparing with it and we left the car to ventillate while it flashed off so it's minimal.

Hadn't even considered the curtain airbags 😬

Ah-ha! Gotchya! Water seems to be overwelming the drainage channel down the n/s edge of the screen, running along the top edge and coming in here.

Long-term, the screen will need to be replaced.

Short-term?Tigerseal to the rescue! 👍

#weirdcarbs #carbluesky #AlfaRomeo

That's a good shout - thanks - hadn't thought of that 👍

Was going to take the opportunity, as it's been damp up there, to use some BiltHamber rustproofing cavity wax though!

Picture shows the underside of the Mito's roof panel with the headlining dropped

Operation "Stop (floating) the boats" on The Dort's #AlfaRomeo Mito steps up a notch, having not found an obvious source of water ingress from the outside last weekend.

I have a plan. And a hosepipe.

#weirdcarbs #carbluesky

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned :

- Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon
- Triumph Mk2 2.5 PI
- Ford Sierra Sapphire Ghia
- Ford Mondeo Ghia X
- Ford Escort Mk2 1300L

Image of Noddy Holder with the text "Not yet" - referring to the Slade christmas hit, and the fact too many folks pull it out and play it repeatedly from very early in thr season. There are 12 days of Christmas, none of which are in November. Stop it.

I noticed Classic FM, which I usually have on low in the background when I'm working from home, started playing carols over the last day or so.

F**k off, it's November.

Sorry!

Alternative cynical answer:

Didn't get in at the last elections on a Conservative ticket (they ran in a different ward, really low vote share), has watched the way the wind has been blowing in the polls and is thinking where their chances best lie.

So we have local council elections coming up. The person stepping up to represent RefUK in my ward used to be my neighbour years ago.

Genuinely lovely person, 2nd gen indian immigrant, educated.

Am completely and utterly puzzled why they believe the hard right racist party are the way to go.

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Now I can't help but wonder how Khan would've sounded as a lad from Gateshead... 🤔

"Gan on, man! There's ow Kirk in th' Ennerprise"

Same. Got the MIL a new TV having bought my parents the previous model only weeks before.

New version had google baked in, so it demanded an email address just to be a TV. Absolutely full of unnecessary rubbish and failed to maintain its tune every time the power was unplugged too.

Returned it.

Two radomes on top of a Viking cruise liner. I feel I should clarify that the company are merely called Viking and that they don't do all-inclusive looting tours of European monasteries. Some trans women and non-binary people may also need to check their testicles, of course, and trans men get a free pass on this one but ought to look after their health anyway. Basically it's meant with good intent and just look after yourselves, y'all!

It's International Men's Day, so a quick reminder that if you have testicles give 'em a good fondle every so often to check for any changes in things like size, texture, or the ability to spot other ships at thirty nautical miles.

Picture showing the illuminated instrument cluster of an AlfaRomeo 159 displaying an outside air temperature of -6.5ºC

Now I know, after 11 years of ownership, that my #AlfaRomeo 159 Sportwagon is a habitual liar when it comes to reporting the outside temperature - but I might go turn off the feed to the outside tap all the same...

#weirdcarbs #carbluesky

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I'd seen similar when I looked earlier but it seems a bit too... simple... as a solution, and I don't want to force it on the basis that's what it is only to find out it is actually clipped and break something!

Photo showing the black trim along the roofline hiding the offside roof drainage channel. How does it come off?

Photo showing water dripping through the headlining just above the top of the windscreen - seemingly ruling out a leaking windscreen as water doesn't usually run *up*...

Photo shows water collected in the interior courtesy light assembly.

Photo showing drips along the inside of the driver's side inner sill trim panel. No comments about the state of cleanliness of the carpet, please. She knows.

Hey #weirdcarbs #carbluesky collective.

Daughter's 2017 #AlfaRomeo Mito has started to leak water somewhere behind the headlining.

I suspect, from where it's dripping through, that it could be a seam failed behind the driver's side drip channel trim - but how does it come off?

Thoughts?

TIA 👍

Had a 1999/T-plate 2.0 GhiaX estate in some deep metallic blue once.

A comfy cruiser, loaded with options - although somewhat spoiled with not just an automatic transmission that bored me to death but a cruise control setup that seemed to randomly accelerate for the horizon when it felt like it 😬

Yes, but how did they *carry* the coconut...?

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Give me a two second burst of one quarter impulse, I'll do the rest with thrusters...

^ This.

I have upper front arms to change on the Alfa Sportwagon before it goes for MOT in mid-January.

I had intended to do it in the summer when rolling around on the floor is tolerable, and any rain dripping down your neck is likely to be warm.

I didn't so am now debating paying a man 🤣

I think their shareholders love them being in business - but have an attitude that suggests they don't give a shit if customers like or can use what they provide or not; they almost arrogantly believe there is nowhere for the customer to go.

Microsoft's new mantra - same as the old one, I suspect - appears to be "If it works, keep fiddling with it until it doesn't"

It's a seminal moment; marking the end of a time in your lives that began with sitting on plastic chairs that felt far too small, progressed through christmas shows with far too many recorders being played, and ended with graduation.

It's a celebration - but I still felt sad when ours finished.

Congratulations to Thing 1, and what a lovely photo of you all! 👍