Movin on up...

[growler_south]

and up, and up, and UP!! 4 stories seems lovely from a layout perspective, until you have to carry household furniture up four flights of very small stairs. My back aches, my feet are throbbing, and I'm about ready to crash out. And I'm *still* in my old flat.

Moving suddenly became rather more complicated this afternoon when Alan's cute wee car, which I've been looking after, soiled itself spectacularly. Another water leak, probably another frost plug. Next time I see someone running their car without antifreeze I'm gonna smack them. Its not just to stop the water freezing! Its most important job is to stop the inside of your engine from rusting.

Simon and Neil cooked me dinner tonight too, fresh fish and roast veggies, mashed potatoes and crusty french bread, all consumed in their gigantic glass-walled house overlooking the estuary and city beyond. We also dicussed how I'd be house-sitting for a couple of months while they're on holiday... *BFG*

So, sleep time for me. More moving tomorrow, waah!!

Comments

Yikes.

[whiskerfish.livejournal.com]

another frost plug???

WTF?

I have only seen these fail in very old, high mileage, poorly maintained 3FE inline 6 engines.

Not good at all.

Re: Yikes.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

It's an alloy head on a steel block, so the galvanic corrosion should have attacked the block first (and by the colour of the water I'd say it has) but I'd be willing to bet the frost plugs are zinc-plated and so the first things to corrode...

The problem is that if one has rusted out, the rest wont be far off either. Nasty.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

When you posted a picture of the place, I remember thinking "I hope that place has an elevator..."

Plain water in the cooling system is an emergency fix ONLY... and anyone daft enough to run without a proper mix of engine coolant deserves what they get. (Unless I'm mistaken, the coolant one mixes with water also increases the boiling point.)

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

This is true, but (gay) boys without the benefit of a petrolhead (or even chemistry) education tend to think that whatever goes on under the bonnet hood of their car will be taken care of by the manufacturer. Not so, as proven quite spectacularly.

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

Hi-dee-ho neghbourino (sort of).

Glad you're getting it all together, and working those glutes up and down those stairs ;-) Not that you need to, really ;-)

When's the housewarming then?

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

You will be informed of the impending housewarming. Though Paul has already spilled red wine on the carpet, so a housewarming may be superfluous.

;-)