Another week over

A bit of wind!  Not me personally; although, as we had a veggie visit for dinner, I did manage a bean burger - so beware. 

I have been saying that it has been getting steadily windier for a number of years - but nobody takes any notice of an old fool like me.  Perhaps they will start to listen now.

Yesterday, it was batten down the hatches and hope the roof stayed on.  Well it did; but the pig arc took a stroll across the field.  Luckily the arc is only used by the hens at the present time and they had taken shelter by the hedge (hedging their bets perhaps!). 

 I bet the wind turbine up the road was whistling merrily, but I am not sure if the neighbours are that keen on the noise.  I wonder if, with all the wind, the electricity generators could turn off a power station or two.  There again I have my suspicions that wind power may be a bit on the line of British Rail - the wrong type of wind.  It would be interesting to find out the figures.

Talking of the wrong type of things; it seems I bought the wrong type of car.  My Rover K series engine may have blown its head gasket.  It seems that this is a common fault.  As a grumpy old man my though is that if they know there is a common problem then they should fix the problem and let everybody have a free update or provide a different engine - not continue to distribute potentially faulty ones.  But I suppose their argument is that to them it is only a rare occurrence (they probably all drive BMWs).  What failure rate should this kind of response kick in at?  Even I would not expect too much tea and sympathy if there were a few failures as I would be considered unlucky.  But, browsing the web has uncovered hundreds of ‘unlucky’ people with the exact same problem - it is even mentioned in the Wikipedia entry.  This could now cost me several hundred pounds for no fault of mine (except in choosing to buy a British(ish) car).  I can feel a letter to some motoring industry executive coming on. 

“Rover K engine.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 2 Jan 2007, 03:33 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 19 Jan 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rover_K_engine&oldid=97865651>.

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