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Today I got my first ever puncture. It would be a bank holiday weekend that it happens on

My car (07 Honda Civic) doesn’t actually come with a spare wheel, but fortunately the space saver spare from my father’s Accord is a perfect match so I’ve got that fitted at the moment.

First thing I do after I get the tyre repaired is put an order in with my Honda dealer for the spare tyre kit. I can’t be arsed with their crappy can-of-gunk-and-compressor solution that will get you home and also make the tyre impossible to repair. This means I lose a convenient storage space in the boot but gain the ability to get the fuck home next time this happens.

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Got back home from China (again) late last night. The 12 hour flight from Shanghai was fine except for the fact that I was stuck sitting beside the smelliest, most ingorant bollix I’ve ever had to endure that kind of time with in my life. I also had several hours to kill in the dump that is Heathrow terminal 1. I arrived in Shannon at around 9 last night. Got out to the long term car park at around 9.30 to find my car’s battery completely dead I really did not need that after being on the go for 24 hours between travelling and airport hanging about!
Fortunately the airport has a jump start service and they arrived after about 10 minutes and got me going.

Here’s a photo of Shanghai at night. I took this last Sunday night. Forgot to change the time on my camera so the EXIF data will have the GMT timestamp on it. I was very busy with work this time around and ended up taking bugger all photos.

Click it for the flickr page and larger sizes.
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