Check out these nice cars for girls images today:
one-thirteen.
Image by Hammonton Photography
3/30
Yes I took and posted tomorrow’s 365 early. I was just trying to catch up..
It’s been kinda rough.. being sick and all.
I’m looking forward to the nice weather ahead..
I hope that everyone is having a nice week!
Stay healthy!
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EDIT
03.30 – 3:18pm
Today has been a crazzzy – awesome day.
It started out with me helping my husband load up a full Olympic weight set in the car.. But first we had to carry it upstairs out of the basement! Oh fun, I’m Mrs. Muscles!
..later on…
Lots of DEEP cleaning being done in the house today – among other things [laundry, organizing, etc.]
My husband and his friend had to go do some work together, so I stayed home with my son and our friend’s child. I have them helping me scrub the house [and they're loving it!] – i think I deserve an award for that one!
I took care of the big stuff and I had them scrubbing in the smaller easier spaces, [door ways, baseboards, doors, etc] – Always trying to find a way to tire them out! Their energy seems to be endless when they’re together!
So now.. we’re planning a day trip [hopefully] to a local Historic site with our other friends, when the guys get back. Hopefully they don’t run too too late with their work, that way we can make it out there today!
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So that’s my day… & I’m loving it!
Have a nice Thursday everyone!
PS: I’m obviously feeling a lot better today as you can see! Still kind of sick, but MUCH better. Thank you all for your thoughts!
52.18 – End of the night
Image by dichohecho
And one of 2 photos of myself that I actually took that night.
Amy, Meg & I (L to R) went out to celebrate Meg’s 19th birthday. We met up with Dom who we hadn’t seen in aaages, not since she left school, and her boyfriend. T’was a nice evening, and good to see her again. She seems a lot happier now than she ever was before.
While we were in Café Mambo we saw people filming for Young Mums’ Mansion, a reality TV show in which a group of single Mums (and Dads) have to share Halswell House in Goathurst & take it in turns to organise cleaning, cooking & activities for each other. As far as I could tell there were just two of the Dads there. There was also a slightly weird woman in tartan trousers who kept poking the cameraman and got removed by a bouncer. Town wasn’t very busy at all, or at least that end of it. Possibly because Dellers was shut? Hmm.
This week at Debenhams has been Mega week, meaning that there was up to 25% off everything and some "Hot Offers". I get 15% discount normally, and I got 25% this week, so I’ve been buying all the tights etc I’ll ever need. I’ve already bought most of my family Christmas presents :s
Because it’s been so busy this week they’ve needed more staff so I’ve done full days, which is good because I get paid for it all 
There’s been a raffle to encourage us to open Debenhams card accounts, we get a ticket every time we do one, and I won a bottle of wine. Possibly unethical but oh well…
On Friday evening after work I went back to the Park & Ride & drove off, then decided to go to Sainsbury’s on the other side of Taunton to find something nice for supper as it was just going to be me & Kate at home. On the way there I noticed a kind of rushing slooshy watery noise when I accelerated away from roundabouts and traffic lights, then there was a funny smell which I hoped was just outside but I thought could be coolant. Then when I was reversing into a parking space the car was all jittery.
After I’d bought a couple of things for supper I went back to the car and the smell was still there. I tried to start it and it kind of worked but was very reluctant to do it and sounded downright unhealthy. So I turned it off and had a look under the bonnet with the torch from the boot. The engine coolant was clearly leaking so I tried to call Mum & Dad. I had finished work at 6 so it was now about 6.45. Mum and Dad were going to a concert starting at 7 in Bristol, but they’d planned to have supper in Bristol so I thought they might well have one of their phones on. No such luck.
Then I phoned Kate to tell her what was going on.
Then I wondered if we had any kind of breakdown coverage so I phoned a certain well known company from the Sainsbury’s payphone and after telling them my postcode & name they confirmed that my parents do. But I can’t use it.
I decided I didn’t want to join them, or call out a local recovery firm as that’d probably involve large amounts of money, so I decided to sit tight until I could get hold of Mum & Dad. I got myself something more picnicky and a takeaway coffee (café closed at 8, boo) in a Pepsi cup and sat in the car.
I decided to text Amy to while away some time, forgetting that she wasn’t still in Plymouth, and she decided to come & find me!
I ended up going to her house (invited), taking with me everything valuable from the car (it looked like we were ransacking it), having checked with Customer Services that it’d be ok. It was a LOT warmer there, and we had access to the internet so I was able to talk to Kate at home and Anna in London. They were more worried than me, I don’t know whether that says more for their sisterly affection/concern or my detachment from reality.
Anyway, Amy’s parents kindly let me stay there until Mum & Dad finally turned their phones on (after supper, after the concert) and came & got me.
We went & Dad had a look at the car but decided to leave it then. They went back yesterday morning and towed it home. Dad says there must’ve been a leaky hose & the car’s lost a lot of coolant. So the remaining coolant had overheated & boiled over, making the slooshing noise. Meanwhile the lack of coolant had meant that the engine overheated and hot gas inside it had escaped from the wrong place, blowing a head gasket.
If it is that he can probably fix it in a few days with the right parts. I hope he can.
In the meanwhile he’s going to have to drive me to work & Kate to school, and/or insure me on his car. Hmmm.
It’s VERY cold now. But not snowing. Boo. We’re eating teacakes and watching Bride & Prejudice. Happy week.
And I hit 10,000 views on my Photostream today
1955 Mercedes W 121 B II (190 SL)
Image by Georg Schwalbach (GS1311)
The Mercedes-Benz 190SL was a two door grand touring convertible with a removable hardtop. It was produced by Mercedes-Benz between May 1955 and February 1963. A prototype was first shown at the New York Auto Show of 1954.
The 190SL was sold alongside the faster, more expensive Mercedes-Benz 300SL, which it closely resembled both in its styling and in its fully independent suspension, with both cars having double wishbone suspensions at the front and swing axles at the rear. However, the 190SL did not use the 300SL’s purpose-built tubular spaceframe W198 platform, but was instead built on the shortened monocoque R121 platform, which was modified from the W121 small saloon platform.
The 190SL was powered by a completely new, slightly oversquare 1.9L straight-four SOHC engine (Type M121 BII), that developed 105 PS (77 kW; 104 hp) (or 120 gross hp) that earned itself a reputation for not running that smoothly mostly due to the difficulty in properly synchronising the twin-choke dual Solex carburetors, and that, in detuned form, was later also used in the W120 180 and W121 190 models. In fact, the four cylinder engine block of the 190SL was based on the six cylinder engine of the 300 SL. The 85 mm bore was transferred unchanged from the larger engine to the smaller, although the stroke for the 190 SL was reduced from 88.0 mm to 83.6 mm.
The car was available either as a soft-top convertible (initially priced at DM 16,500/$ 3,998) or with removable hardtop (DM 17,650/$ 4,295). A nice option to be had was the third-passenger transversal seat that could even fit an adult. In its early life, the 190SL could also be had as a sports-racing model with small perspex windscreen and aluminum doors. In 1959, the hardtop’s rear window was enlarged.
The 190SL was also referred to as the Nitribitt-Mercedes after the scandal surrounding the murder of the call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt, who owned a 190SL.
Both the 190SL and the 300SL were replaced by the Mercedes-Benz 230SL in 1963.
(Wikipedia)
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Mercedes-Benz W121 (zur Unterscheidung vom Pontonmodell 190 wurde der Werkscode um den Zusatz BII = Baureihe II ergänzt) ist die interne Bezeichnung des von 1955 bis 1963 produzierten Mercedes-Benz 190 SL. Plattform für diesen Touren-Sportwagen war die des oben aufgeführten 180er/190er Ponton-Modells. 1953 gab es Studien einer zwei- bzw. viersitzigen Variante des 180er Pontonmodells mit weitgehend der geschlossenen Limousine entsprechenden Karosserien, die aber zugunsten des Entwurfes von Walter Häcker und Hermann Ahrens verworfen wurden.
Die Modell-Zusatzbezeichnung „SL" ist die Kurzform von „Sport Leicht". Der 190 SL sollte nahe an seinen „großen Bruder", den b300 SL Flügeltürer, heranrücken, die Fahrleistungen differierten aber erheblich (105 PS gegenüber 215 PS). Bei Daimler-Benz war man sich von Anfang an dessen bewusst und sprach in den Prospekten von einem „Touren-Sportwagen".
Der 190 SL wurde in folgenden drei Varianten angeboten:
ab 05.1955 Roadster mit Stoffverdeck – Baumustercode 121.042 – Preis 16.500 DM (nach heutiger Kaufkraft 37.356 Euro)
ab 12.1955 Coupé mit Hardtopaufsatz (d. h. ohne Stoffverdeck/Verdeckkasten) – Baumustercode M 121.040 – Preis 17.100 DM
ab 12.1955 Coupé mit Hardtopaufsatz und Stoffverdeck – gleicher Baumustercode wie Coupé – Preis 17.650 DM (39.960 Euro)
Die Mehrzahl der hergestellten Modelle waren Roadster. Hier gab es die Möglichkeit, ein passendes Hardtop nachzurüsten. Mit der teuersten Version, dem „Coupé mit Roadsterverdeck", gab es für den Ganzjahreseinsatz beide Dächer. Die 190-SL-Coupéversion wurde sehr selten bestellt, weil man nach Abnahme des Hardtops zum Offenfahren auf schönes Wetter angewiesen war. Ebenso hatte eine spätere Nachrüstung des Stoffverdecks samt Verschlussmechanik und Verdeckkasten hohe Mehrkosten zur Folge.
In den ersten Verkaufsprospekten wurde eine Sportversion des 190 SL angeboten. Für den Renneinsatz (gedacht wurde hier an regionale Bergrennen oder Rallyes) sollten bessere Fahrleistungen durch die Verringerung des Fahrzeuggewichts erzielt werden. Hierzu konnten die Stoßstangen und das Verdeck abgenommen werden. Zusätzlich konnte die Windschutzscheibe durch eine kleine, leichte Plexiglasscheibe am Fahrerplatz ersetzt und die Türen gegen spezielle Leichtmetallexemplare ohne Fenster ausgetauscht werden. Von diesem „Sportroadster" wurden jedoch nur 17 Fahrzeuge (Quelle: Motor-Klassik 2/1986) produziert, die Modellvariante wurde im März 1956 eingestellt.
(Wikipedia)
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