10. Now it's Boris causing problems!!!

I don't know it looks like the big man upstairs just does,'t want me to go racing, got a message today from Turbo to say he has had a letter from the nice Nazi's at Transport For London to inform him of the penalty's etc for driving a vehicle within the Low emission zone of London, which is everywhere inside the M25 in a vehicle that does not conform to the required standards. So DVLC or whatever they call themselves these days haven't updated their systems yet so I made a few phone calls to find out what the hell all this is about and as far as I can see it's just another stealth tax another way of getting money out of people that can ill-afford it.

I have choices...I can  convert my vehicle to run on gas which means converting the engine to spark ignition...yeah right!!!

I can replace the vehicle..again yeah right!!

I can use one of their registered suppliers and fitters and get a new particulate filter fitted to the vehicle...

Again I made a few phone calls I was directed to the list of registered suppliers and fitters there are 12.....3 are not in this Country 3 are right up north and the first one I tried that wasn't too far away has stopped doing them...this is going to be fun!. I managed to get hold of a company in Milton Keynes who informed that supply and fit would cost anywhere between £3500 and £4000 we are talking about £150 worth of materials here and two hours to fit...god lets just rip everyone off again...

So none of the above so I am now trying to find somewhere else to park it up that is not inside the M25 bloody rip off zone grrrr!!!!

9. Young Blood is now home

Its been another short while since I last blogged anything on here, it always amazes me how awry plans can go because life just keep getting in the way. Right the good news having spent a day or two trying to get my son and Bother to agree on a date that they both could be free on I gave up...so last Saturday I got on a train to Nottingham. now there is something I haven't done in a while, and I have to admit it wasn't too unpleasant a journey.

Ian picked me up from  the station and took me back to his place where after a cuppa and a very welcome pizza I set sail for home, it took a bit longer to get home then it did to get to Nottingham but thankfully the traffic wasn't too bad at all.

As you can see Emily has taken over already but I am afraid she is going to have to wait a couple of years first as myself and my brother have booked the seat for a couple of years at least, I will have to look at hiring the Santa Pod junior dragster for Emily and see how it goes from there.

In the meantime I have another small dilemma,, if I sell on of my bikes and it's trailer then I will have enough room to get the dragster in the garage, but I will still have to find somewhere to park the truck up.........

Even though it is all legal I think my next door neighbour ..Julie..would love to park her car outside her house and stop having the light blocked from her window.......problems, problems always problems LOL