After a hectic ten days zooming about different places far and wide I'm in an interim period.
I'm not looking forward to it.
I have a mountain of stuff to do and new things popped up I needed to do.
My new car for one, turned out it had been leaking diesel .. which I .. kind of hoped it was doing.
I spotted it leaking .. something which was splattering all over my tailgate.
At first I thought it was, or more accurately worried, it was gearbox oil. Or transmission fluid, if you prefer.
However after covering a thousand miles I noticed that getting around was costing a lot more than I figured it would. A lot more.
I knew that fuel had gone to considerably in the time I had been without a car but still .. this was a lot. A trip to the North West of England and back had cost me double that when I did it in either an Audi A6 Quattro 2.8 V6 or an Alfa GTV 3.0 V6 and I was now in a diesel fuelled car?!
I went to a Land Rover specialist and he said immediately he could smell diesel. Once up on the ramp you could see it was leaking .. a lot. It was actually dripping while we looked at it.
This was a relief as I'd been worried about doing damage to the automatic gearbox while driving there. There was no engine management light lit up so technically there shouldn't be a problem.
So after removing a tray or cover the mechanic looked at me and said it was the fuel filter.
Twenty minutes and one hundred pounds lighter the problem was resolved.
It was a result in three counts, first it was a lot cheaper than I thought. Second I didn't have to leave the car there as I thought. Third it was going to vastly improve, at least in theory, how much diesel I put in it and how often.
Another trip back to the mechanic is needed to replace a water coolant tank, ball sensor had absorbed water and sank. Also I forgot to ask them to look at the air con system as it's not blowing very cold.
Of course it had to turn unusually hot in London whereas the North West was much cooler and had the most miserable weather. Go figure!
So I've not commented on news stories as much as I had been. Well other than filming the site of a very large and very damaging explosion located at New Ferry in the Wirral.
So tonight in flicking through news stories in the BBC and what do I see?
Germany has banned the website of a far left group that has been inciting violence and had something to do with the protests at the G20 summit in Hamburg.
I never thought I'd see the day!?!
There had been various far right groups targeted in this way but no one I was familiar with, as I'm not far right .. it right at all really. I had not looked to this selective targeting so knew very little about it.
I am sure I've heard people I listen to, or some, speak about this targeting of the far as alt right and then stating it was suspicious. Suspicious because no one in the far left had been targeted.
Well .. until now.
Wonder if it will turn out to be a tokenism gesture before going straight back to targeting those that fail to agree with them?
They have even made it illegal to do any work on the site.
There have been raids by the Police who have seized computers as well as weapons.
And wonders never cease.
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Germany bans far-left protest website over G20 riots - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41047166
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