Christmas -7: One car required. One car to drive me and a chum to some mountain in France for a skiing expedition. Christmas -6: SMS car appeal launched to friends and relatives for ‘spare cars’. Christmas -5: SMS appeal returns no results. No surprise, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Christmas -3: Visit Uncle. Uncle […]

“Flat battery?” Within ten minutes, we had the ailing motorbike in the garage and a gas heater on. Nothing like as cold as the -37 degrees to be expected at the highest lift in Val Thorens next month, but frosty nevertheless. “It’s probably your voltage regulator. Common problem with the ER5.” In an hour we

My freeserve broadband contract has been cancelled for a few days now. After 30 days you have to pay for broadband services, so on day 29, the contract was mysteriously cancelled. Paying is so distasteful and middle-class sometimes. What does someone in the Midlands do with broadband for 29 days? Initially, the Midlander thinks software