For those of you that have thrown some sheckels into the kitty, thank you. Thank you loads and loads. Our official target was £500 but we've breached that and have more pledges we are awaiting to come good. With a bit of a nudge to those folk that haven't parted with the equivallent of a kebab from the scabby van in every town center on a Friday night, we should hit the £1,000.
Now the harrass for cash bit is over, lets do an update. Not the biggest update on the scumrunner again as with the exception of 2 things, Juliette is now battle ready. Not sure that Gruff and Myself are, but the car is done. ish.
Lets resort to the old way of doing things, a snappy paragraph to get you lured in, sum up whats been happening, throw in some piccys and finish with a moan about donating. Oops, already done that bit.
Pedants moaning, photoshop, Sage accounts, Doggers at the beach (yes), Gruffs playlist (no), Leccy windows and full on Fry up's.
Let's start with an apology for this bit. The last update didn't really touch on Juliette the Scummer but more focused on HoboJo, the project. There's your apology. I wasn't gonna mention the Hobo but a pedant has wound me up. You know the sort of person... everyone knows the one who can rattle off 0-60 mph, top speeds, BHP of every car ever manufactured since Ze War. Up until a few years ago, I was that person. Like a deck of top trumps of useless car info. I still amaze the wife when we're watching a Touch of Frost or an old episode of The Bill when it shows the people getting into a car and I can tell her what car it is by seeing the trim cards on the inside of the door wen they shut it (yep, it's my rainman like hero power) but anything post 2000 I'm not that great on.
There is a bit of a geeky rant coming, so feel free to skip the next paragraph. Normal service is resumed there.
Where I'm going is this. Last update I said I had the 1.8Si Cabbie (HoboJo). One weirdy beardy has pointed out that it is not a patch on the XR3i variant as they were the same power (105BHP) but the XR3i was tuned better. As such, the Si would be nowhere near the RS2000 in terms of speed or acceleration. This is a point that I have taken on board, chewed over and spat back out. The Si was the direct replacement for the XR and produced with the 105BHP engine. It was also produced with the rarer 130 BHP which is the one sat in the project. Also worth noting is that although the RS is a 2.0 150 BHP, it is a tin top and carries a lot more weight. My argument still stands, here's 2 pounds, pop down to WH Smiths and buy some more Top Trumps and a can of fizzy wizzy. 'AVE IT!
Out my system.
We spoke very nicely to Triangle Cars and asked them to let us use their forecourt space for some piccies of Juliette. We're trying to get some close to each sponsor or at least relevant to their company and Triangle are the closest so figured that was a good place to start. We have taken some half decent shots (well I have, Gruff's not too technical when it comes to cameras - he appreciates the pictures that Google safesearch filters out of most peoples results but apart from that he has no interest) and I've loaded them up onto the lappy. A lot of them are ok as they stand but I like to tinker with things so had a go with photo shop. Not for touch ups but just to arse about with a representative image or 2. Theres a couple of tweaked but some standard ones as well.
Completely seperate but I may as well mention it, I have now run the expenses through Sage accounts as a project entry and I think we have spent far too much money. I have used analysis tools, charts and audit runs to see whats been spent where etc and generally buggered about. It took bloody ages to get all the data in. This is of no interest to you at all but the good bit for you is coming up... At college I am studying (well turning up and disrupting the rest of them) an accountancy course - The AAT. This uses SAGE software and I needed to draft up some stuff at home. I booted up the program, started a new company (cos I don't want to wipe everything off) and did my work. Unfotunately, a combination of baby crying, wife nagging and brain not working at the point, I backed my work up on the Scum expenses save file. So now if I look up what records we've had, it shows that I banked a cheque from Mr Patel in return for some bloody bulbs at a garden center, but thats about it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Thankfully I kept my paper notes but that irked me.
I'm pretty sure that you've been looking for the word that comes up next since I mentioned it earlier. Doggers. Thats right search engines, come find this word and disappoint those that are searching :) Dogging, Dogger, Doggers. Dogging, slang; the practice of carrying out or watching sexual activities in semi-secluded locations such as parks or car parks, often arranged by e-mail or text messages. It was my birthday the other day and I've crested 33 years of age. And a memorable birthday it was too. All of the following events are TRUE and unplanned:
For my birthday, Mrs Savage had planned (without me knowing it) for the kids to go to her mums so we could have an evening child free. Once I found out the kids were going we decided it would be nice to go out for a blat in the Scummer down to Hayling. I have a new camera and we watched the sunset from hayling beach a week or so ago and it was beautiful. Figured we could take the scummer down there, take some artsy shots of roof down, sun setting across water with a fairground in the backshot. For that 1 targeted shot, realistically there's only one location which is a pebbled car park on the sea front.
We got down there parked in the corner so no other vehicles would be in shot at the angle we were looking and waited for the sunset (remember at this point, it is a sunny day, in a public car park). Whilst chatting to Mrs me I looked out her side of the car and saw to my amusement a middle aged dark haired woman facing backwards in the drivers seat. I don't mean looking over her shoulder, I mean proper sat the wrong way. At first thought, I guessed it was just a mother changing her son leanig over the seat. Then the gold focus really started to bounce and occasionally this guys head popped up . She was riding him proper cowgirl style. Then they had a break. Then they started again. It was truly the most un-erotic thing I have seen. If they were lookers, then maybe, it might have been fun, but no.
We have Scumrun on the outside of our car, whereas they had cum run down the inside of theirs :D
Anyway, to shorten this bit, we turned up at the beach, to find a couple dogging, sunset was poor and then we left. But I thought you guys might like to know. If you happen to be that couple in the gold focus and are reading this, then please feel free to correct me with a story about contact lenses being dropped on the floor and a game of twister, but I know what you were up to.
I've now almost got to grips with my seemingly working phone and started to load playlists onto it from the 'puter. Got the aux lead into the stereo wired nicely behind the central heater vents so it's not in the way but still useable. My tunes of choice obviously kick arse, but Gruff seems determined that we are going on an 80's gay pride march. Barry Manillow, Aha, Wham, ABBA etc are all on the playlist he wants. I'm going to have to corrupt the files or employ some random model to smash my iPhone with a spanner before his songs hit the "now playing" tab.
We were having an issue wih the drivers side window runner not opening and closing as it should. Not the biggest problem you might think, and you'd be right. Except if you want a drive through maccy D's have you any idea of how much of a penis you look dropping the eleccy roof to collect a meal when it's raining and you've parked to close to open the door? Picture it in your mind right now. You're laughing aren't you? So the window needed to be fixed. That's now fixed. Whilst out for a drive to Gruffs old place of work, we stopped off at a great greasy spoon in Liphook named after some old footballerist and had they're big bertha of a fry up. Bloody amazing. I recommend it. Opposite a parking area with a pavement outside. You can't miss it. :D
Thats pretty much me done for this update, 3 weeks today and we're off.
Oh, and before I forget, if you want a countdown of minutes and hours til we register at Brands Hatch, Joe @ Bugsplat has a countdown on his site - click the team bugsplat logo to the right for his blog and the timer.
I've changed the header picture to one of the ones submitted by Doug S as I think it looks pretty cool. Any other pics anyone wants to send? email us at floppythrottle@live.co.uk
Here's an interesting one I got sent as well:
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