Mini-wander to meet Charlotte from work.

I love cars, but I kinda hate driving these days. Still, they are pretty.

In case you’re unsure, there’s no car in the first picture

You know the problem with cars? They sit on your drive all the time, never getting used, then once a year they drive up to your door and are all like “MOT me! Tax me! Insure me!”. Fucking cars.

Still, being the jet-setting business-guy that I am, I was able to take the car to the garage shop and leisurely saunter back home taking photos of the city I’ve lived in for nearly four years. Some of them came out OK, I guess.

Southampton’s new police station. I predict that this is going to stop crime in the city once and for all.

And this is the dog and the cat being friends. People don’t believe it happens (and nor do I, until I’m reminded), but it does.

I announced to the small masses on twitter the other day that I was going to indulge in a spot of carpentry. The last bit of woodwork I did was in Mr Totton’s (I think – verify, anyone) year 9 CDT class, where I made a disastrous Cartman clock. I am rubbish at manly things like DIY.

After having purchased Forza 3 and the Official MS Wireless Race Wheel, I quickly discovered that adopting a piece of home furniture to clamp this thing to was just not going to suffice. I looked into buying something fit for purpose, but I’ve spent loads on gaming in the last two weeks, and they’re really expensive. This presented a pretty unique opportunity to do try and prove to myself that I’m not a total failure when it comes to woodwork. I set about getting my measurements for a table that I could clamp my race wheel to and rest the pedals on so as to be a self-contained, geek-tastic cockpit type affair. After annoying Charlotte for a few nights drawing squares and triangles and figuring out how high it’d need to be (something that I messed up, incidentally!), today I set about using the bench saw in our workshop to carve up an old table to make this thing.

Without going into boring details, here is revision one of my race wheel stand. Future improvements I could make one day but won’t are:

• tidying the cables
• four little rubber feet for the bottom
• painting
• replacing the bit of the pedestal mount that I split driving a screw in
• some kind of elevated plate for the pedals/a stop for the back edge

Now taking orders. It’s pretty fucking badass.

I’m not taking orders. Charlotte would kill me.

I love the front end of this car. So unnecessarily muscular. The spots on the forecourt were highlighting it and illustrating my point!

This garage is amazing. They have a Ferrari of some sort (I’m not really up on Ferrari models)

I love this unashamed rip of a VW Bus. It looks exactly the same and entirely different all at once!

I know this isn’t exactly a great photo, but I wanted to try something with the processing to bring it back. It’s difficult to describe, but the kind of look I was going for was “American”. Like in skate videos when the colours are contrasty and bright but also quite dull.

My essay writing skills have somewhat dissipated in recent years.