50+ and proud of it.

It's like this - "Control Panel / Add/Remove programs" shows small icons down the left and bugger all anywhere else. In other words, you've got no hope in Hell to add/remove/update anything. Would you like to know how to fix it? Yup? You re-install Internet Explorer. Go figure. Also, I've just watched England lose in style to Croatia 2-3. Hey ho. I'm one of the people on the "Lost 25m Child Benefit Records" and, to put the icing on the damn cake, my exactly-one-year-and-three-day-old-your-guarantee-has-just-run-out O 2 sensors on the Mustang are returning EEC IV codes 41 & 91. Go Google 'em, sorry, I can't be bothered to explain... More wine? Yes please.

I finally got the last bit of trim back into the interior of the Mustang over the weekend. I have to confess to waiting until "David" the air-conditioning chap had returned to re-fit and re-fill the system just in case the evaporator had done something unpleasant (like split). I'm not (that) stupid - I know that if you're my age and take out screws and don't put them back within 3 seconds, you're going to forget where they went. So leaving them out for 3 weeks would leave me no chance. Ergo, I religiously put each screw back into the hole it came from as I removed them. However, having replaced everything and now had a completely vacuumed out and cleaned interior I was left with four small screws in the magnetic bowl. I know where one goes, so that's OK. The others? No idea. Nothing is loose and nothing rattles at all. This is my point - at my age The Screw Fairy is someone who leaves 2mm Japanned self-tappers around when you’re not looking, and not someon...

I read with interest this week some internet articles entitled "How to change a Fox Mustang heater" and "How not to change a Fox Mustang heater". All of them were variously sub-titled "I'd rather have root canal surgery" and "How to spend a week in the cold" and so on. There's a chap somewhere in the USA who reckons you can change the matrix without removing the a/c evaporator - and this is the same chap who freely admits he's done the job six times. One wonders if he's got the message yet? Well, to you sir, "No, you sodding well can't" . If you've got hands the size of a garden gnome and an 8mm socket made out of tin foil and a pipe-cleaner, then perhaps, maybe. Look, just cough up the money and get the aircon evacuated! This is a marvelous opportunity to vacuum out all the otherwise inaccessible places and wash all the plastic bits that come off. I also found the door chime - now, I didn't expect that . I ...