Evening work – New front screen and oil filter

Hi David, your comment on rookie errors made me chuckle, about 30 years ago, I was bleeding the brakes on my mini, and to make it quick and easy I had jacked it up and removed the wheels, front left wheel was the last one on, tightened finger tight, ready to torque, got a phone call, ten minutes later, hops in the car to head home, going down the avenue towards Bel Royal, I started laughing out loud as I saw a wheel bouncing along the empty car park, only to immediately notice my nose dropping, nipped into the car park via the exit, the errant wheel was secured back on by removing one wheel nut from each of the other three wheels. Talking of brake cleaner, I was welding on the St Brelades Battle of Flowers float, and my sleeve caught fire, no problem I thought, as I keep a spray bottle full of water on top of the welder, only to discover that somebody had taken it, and left a spray bottle of brake cleaner on my welder instead, one Burning Man impression, which included a very impressive imitation of self flagellation whilst having a full blown heart attack later, which wasn’t helped by everyone convulsing in fits of laughter at the time by the way. Nowadays, I write impressive to do lists, before grabbing my Birmingham. screwdriver (Hammer), and attacking said project, however, my imbecility levels are still very impressive, surpassed only by my Super Hero survivability levels, which makes mincemeat of Darwin’s theory of evolution. At the end of it, we learn by our mistakes, I suppose the trick is, that we learn by other’s mistakes first. Keep well. Kind Regards Nigel