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Crude oil market has opened, with Brent Crude opening at $81.27 from Friday's close at $73.14! 

It's already fallen back to $78.60 though.

Brent Crude now at $76.72.  I filled up this morning and diesel was £1.399 in Tesco.

Keeping warm next winter might be a bit pricy though as UK natural gas futures are up 45%! 

I can see you still desire another Marina, Sir Tig.

Not sure you could use one as a daily now, without it disintegrating around you....

There's an antique centre near here that sometimes has old cars out the front for sale, and for a while they had a nice looking Royal Blue Marina Coupe there.

Luckily it wasn't the 1800TC, because I might have been tempted if it was. 

Once I had ascertained that the front tyre on the C1 would hold air when the rim was straightened, I felt luck I was having a lucky day.
So, I pulled the whole dashboard out of it and then removed the steering column.
Now need to get another steering column / PAS motor and hopefully put everything back where it came from - which will be the hard part. 
It could be on ebay as spears or rapiers on the next week or two. 

Had a bit of luck with this one. Had a look in daylight and the steel rim was bent, allowing the tyre to deflate.
I hammered it straight again with a lump hammer, inflated the tyre and it seems to be holding air ok. 

Looks like our council has had enough of paying out claims & they're actually sorting the potholes out at last, bit of a pain with the temporary lights popping up all over town but grateful something is actually being done.

Driving out of the village tonight in the C1, avoiding the worst of the potholes, most of which have traffic cones sat in them to help with this.
Suddenly realised that the cone had gone missing from the last one, just too late and hit it so hard it burst the n/s/f tyre, which was brand new a month ago.
The state of the roads are a national disgrace, but the powers that be couldnt give a toss. 
Will need to check in the morning if anything else is bent / broken.   

Although there’s no guarantee of a successful claim, our council has been inundated with damage claims for pot hole damage. Anything ranging from a tyre to suspension damage. Such is the scale of the number of claims, the council have reported that it may take over four months before your claim gets dealt with. I’ve had to replace nearly new tyres due to pot hole damage, so has my daughter and son. I’d like to think that the more people that claim, the more chance that they may do something about it. 

I drove to Coventry and back yesterday, and found myself shouting and ranting at the stupidity of other road users.  Including the stoned out knob jockey in a Saab doing between 55 and 75 in the outside lane all the way from Longbridge Island to Banbury.

Totally oblivious to the carnage caused.

And that surprises you because? Saab drivers always fell into one of three camps... Those flat cappists who graduated from MGs, Architect types (and we all know how they are ) and hairdressers in their 9-3 convertibles.

No reason why that has changed any

It's probably a 25 mile stretch. Even most local Merc drivers realise within 10 miles....

I can see you still desire another Marina, Sir Tig.

Not sure you could use one as a daily now, without it disintegrating around you....

Driving out of the village tonight in the C1, avoiding the worst of the potholes, most of which have traffic cones sat in them to help with this.
Suddenly realised that the cone had gone missing from the last one, just too late and hit it so hard it burst the n/s/f tyre, which was brand new a month ago.
The state of the roads are a national disgrace, but the powers that be couldnt give a toss. 
Will need to check in the morning if anything else is bent / broken.   

Crude oil market has opened, with Brent Crude opening at $81.27 from Friday's close at $73.14! 

It's already fallen back to $78.60 though.