Car Maintenance...

... please don't laugh... it isn't funny... not at all... well, ok, upon reflection... maybe a smidgey bit amusing but... at the time I was SO not laughing. It all started yesterday morning when Ferdy hit a big pothole on the way to The Stamp Attic for my class. I cursed, as you do - well I do lol, but didn't think anything else of it... until lunchtime when I went to feed the parking meter so that Ferdy didn't get a ticket. Well, as I was walking back to Ferdy I noticed something black and plastic looking underneath the front of him... I thought it was a black binbag or such like, so, being a bit stooopid, I kind of leaned over, resting my hand on the bonnet and grabbed what I thought was something loose. When I pulled... it resisted... which is when I felt the most horrendous burn right up my back... akkk!! Turns out the pothole had caused the sill thingywotsit that hangs down under the back of the front bumper to come loose... but only on one side. To the point that it had dragged against the road for goodness knows how long... scraping away the plastic to reveal the metal jobby the runs along the top of it.




So, being a rather resourceful lass *ahem* I decided to lay down in front of Ferdy and pull at the rest of the sill, thinking that it would come away easily enough. WRONG! It was stuck fast... held on my hoooge clip thingys... and the bit that was flopping about wouldn't clip back on because the little tab things had been busted off. Needless to say, I did get a few "comments" as passers-by... erm... passed by. One chap was really helpful... he asked me if there was a problem with the car!!! How intuitive of him... ahem. *I mentally awarded him with the Award For Being Captain Obvious of The Day* Anyways... all was not lost because... I managed to fix it! Oh yesh indeedily... I used... my Tim Holtz scissors to cut through the plastic sill AND the metal thingywotsit that runs along the inside of it! Now that is what I call THE perfect tool... so, if you haven't already got a pair of the Tim Scissors, I urge you to invest in some... you never know when you might have to do a bit of car maintenance yourself!!! Unfortunately, whilst Ferdy is "fixed" my poor old back isn't and after a visit to the Doc this morning he has told me to "take it easy" and not to "overstretch" myself... aw shucks, that is my urge to Hoover and dust dampened then... (like I am bothered rofl)


The class yesterday was a really good one... lovely ladies who all really engaged in covering themselves in ink and paint... I will post the photo's later on... in the meantime I have just blogged my latest DT creation for The Stamp Attic... HERE. The pics on this post are little snips of the creation. I am embracing all things Hallowe'en this year... even if I am being a stick-in-the-mud and insisting on the apostrope. Right... time to go and rest up for a bit... there are some crumpets in the kitchen with my name on them.. well, not actually really my name on them because that would be far too weird... but you know what I mean... nomnomnomnom.... Thanks for looking... TTFN

Hels x

PS... a quicky reminder... my candy giveaway is HERE... to celebrate my Octocentarian of followers... THANK you all for the comments btw... love them!!