Unfortunately Southampton City Council have decided that we’re not allowed to keep Big Car’s garages any longer. So as of as soon as possible, we need to find a new home for our Big Car. It looks as though she’s going to go and live with our resident mechanic, Shaun, for the timebeing, as he’s just got a new house with plentiful parking facilities which also means that he could work on her as and when he felt like it. Considering that the current Big Job for Big Car is to rewire the dashboard, he needs all the time he can get.

Obviously this is a ball ache in terms of having to load up all the stuff and actually physically move a broken 2 tonne (ish!) Land Rover through Southampton, one silver lining is that it will ease things on our finances and leave us more money for repairs, rather than the 70 odd pounds a month we’re spending on garages at the moment.

Moving day might be as early as this weekend, but hopefully we’ll have some pictures of her new home soon.

I was up the early this morning to take my folks to the airport, and after rapidly abandoning my plans for a pre-work surf (in the dark, in 40mph winds in an 8m high tide), I managed to install a few tweaks to the site. Most noticeably will be on the comments form, which now does a fancy-schmancy slidey realtime posting thingy. Try it out, it’s very slick. You can also now subscribe to comments, so that you’ll be alerted when people follow up to any comments you make. Have fun!

I popped along to Maplin’s today to get a much needed wireless soldering iron – this’ll let us get on with Big Car’s electrics whilst she is still down at her garages.