Its on ebay so get it why you can…
Drove it many times to France and once to Madrid. It was great fun, nearly as great as my GSX-R 750. Wonder where it is now??? Post here if you have seen it.
If your looking for more photos or stories about it try clicking the mini tag in my tag cloud.
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Rick and Me At El Rickys Mexican Restaurant
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Yesterday I got invited around a very good friend of mines – Rick Marden. It was excellent we had fajitas and they were good. Also had to have a photo with the hat !!.
It was such a great send off for my emigration to the USA. It ended up with him giving me a bottle of Pol Roger which was Winston Churchill’s favourite champagne and a special edition scalextric mini cooper from the Italian Job. So kind, thank you.
It was just great and I will miss him and his wife Judy a lot.
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There was a small FEATURE in the plugin that didnt allow it to work when php is hosted on IIS but have worked with the author and have now solved that which is great. Actually great support from them and it works a treat.
So I now have ebay items on the sidebar and you can post directly into the text like this… Check out the tattoo flash from my impending brother in law !!! yahoooo. OK OK I am getting a bit wild for a Monday morning I know any way check this out.
Not sure on the ebay header bit but I guess thats ebay doing that so probably nothing we can do about it.
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Well first blog of the new year and its snowing once again.
My road outside the window has been white for nearly the whole time over Christmas. It just hadn’t cleared. This morning I woke up to find heaps and heaps of snow. The news is saying its the longest cold spell for 30 years. One thing is the UK grounds to a halt when its snowing.
Looks rather beautiful though – don’t you think?
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First snow of the Winter hits us here in Guildford, Surrey. Its not as bad as last year but looks like a substantial amount of snow none the less.
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John Sparke thought we should go to a Spanish restaurant that he knew…
El Faro
3 Turberry Quay
Pepper Street
London E14 9RD
It is right next to Crossharbour station on the Isle of Dogs.
The staff were welcoming and Spanish which is great as most of the waiting staff these days in Spanish restaurants are english.
I would say the menu was small but precise with some really good stuff on it.
I had the Spanish omelette to start with, followed by a perfectly cooked blue rump steak. The wine menu was excellent and I and a colleague had a red rioja which was just fantastic.
For dessert I had the caramelized bananas served with Madagascar vanilla ice cream.
My colleagues meals were also excellent.
The bill was 433 pounds which worked out at 86 pounds a head so it wasn’t the cheapest lunch although I think the three bottles of champagne and the brandy’s after the meal somewhat pushed the price up.
Would I go back – YES I would.
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The date for the match is 12 June 2010 and I think it will be a great day in terms of me and the relatives watching the game. Although most of them don’t even know what soccer is !!! They can be ‘edumacated’ – hopefully.
Will be great if we can get to the beach to watch it, would just be like being in South Africa. Barbecuing, beer and great weather – oh cant wait, might even buy an England shirt which is something from a person that is not crazy on soccer, unlike the rest of the nation.
Come on England…..
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Firstly it was empty when I went in there which is very strange as it used to be a very busy and you had to wait a while for the food. I ordered chicken chop suey, special egg foo young, sweet and sour pork.
While I waited for my food to be cooked, in came what I recognised as a regular face to the takeaway. He was moaning that his sweet and sour chicken was not cooked properly. This seemed odd to me as I have never had any problems there. The guy behind the desk said they had a new chef and that he had a different concept of what was cooked and not cooked. At this point it should have spelled trouble to me, but I just sat patiently and waited for the food.
Then up came my food I immediately checked my sweet and sour pork, felt fairly warm. So I then trundled home. Once home emptied the carrier to find at the bottom of the bag the special egg foo young (special omelette) but instead a block of omelette it was more like special scrabbled egg. It looked terrible. The chicken chop suey was cold and the pork in the sweet and sour pork tasted as though it had been cooked over a week ago was all tough and didnt taste that fresh.
So basically probably wont go back there for some time, or at least until I hear reports that the chef has been replaced. It truly was horrible.
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Buff and Cooper in front of Tower Bridge, London
Originally uploaded by paulfarrow
We decided that it was about time Buff brought her son Cooper over to England. So they came last week and we had a blast. We went to the Bluebell Railway, Birdworld, The London Eye, Hamleys Toy Shop, Winter Wonderland and generally out and about in England.
Hopefully next time Cooper ‘AND’ Olivia will come visit me.
Lets hope so.
