Now those of you who read my blog, now about my gorgeous little red Mini Cooper, and how much I love it, what can I say it’s my pride and joy and it was a present for my *cough*th birthday

The only thing that annoys me is that with the Mini you don’t get a spare tyre, just a tyre welding kit in the bottom of the boot, just in case you do get a flat!

Yesterday, I had my very first puncture, the first puncture in all the years I’ve driven, so it was bound to happen sooner or later. I pulled into my friends drive and popped in the house, when I came back out I could hear a slight hissing noise and on closer inspection, found that the front tyre had a slow puncture.

So, in an effort to get some help, I rang my Mini service and was told to get it to the nearest tyre service to have it repaired, luckily it was slow puncture, so I managed to get to the tyre garage to get it sorted.

But, unluckily for me, the puncture, a tiny little whole, was in the wrong place to be repaired, so I had to buy a new tyre.

So now after £58 I’ve got three Michelin tyres an a Pirelli tyre, couldn’t get a matching tyre, poodoo!!!

Now a quick message to BMW Mini, redesign the Mini in a way that a spare tyre is “standard” fixture not an optional etc, that way, it would be a lot easier than having the silly tyre welding kit in the boot

I’m telling you all now that I’m not going to say any swear words in this post, except for the ones that I use, well sort of!

In this day and age swearing has become a part of every day life, but there are easy ways to curb swearing by replacing it with some well chosen alternatives and I thought I would bring you some of my favourites and been a bit of a sci-fi fan, you can probably imagine where this is going, they are from some of my favourite sci-fi shows and films

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A little while back I posted about the Children\’s Village in Rhyl and how disgusted I was the state of the so-called fountain that used to be in the middle of the car park on the walk up to the middle of the Children’s Village.

Well Today I visited Rhyl again and as I got out of the car in the car park, I could smell the distinctive odour of wet paint!

The fountain that was once full of stagnant water and rubbish has now been filled with what seems to be rubble from a demolition site and it’s around it has all had a lick of light grey paint, which doesn’t look to bad, but not sure about the rubble though!
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It’s been a funny old day today with the weather, at first it looked like rain, then it warmed up, then cooled down again with a few spits of rain, but overall it’s been warm!

So today we decided to take the dogs for a walk and go up to Tir Prince Raceway, where on a Sunday there is a boot sale, what can I say gets us out the house and gives us a bit of fresh air

It doesn’t take long to get there as we only live a short distance away and to get to the Raceway we have to go through the lovely park in Towyn. Now it’s not very often we visit the boot sale, it must be a few years since we last went as we usually prefer to go somewhere further afield.

But today we decided to give it a go and my friend @quiffylaa31 came by, so we all went together. OK it’s a boot sale and you don’t expect much and believe me there wasn’t much, it was full of bewildered holiday makers looking for something cheap to buy to take back to relatives to say where they have been for their holiday!

Mind you it did give me an excuse to try out FourSquare, yet again, on my basic phone using their mobile website and it worked quite well.

So it was a lovely walk and nice to have a bit of fresh air, but I wouldn’t say that the Boot Sale was anything to boast about, but when are Boot Sales anything to really scream and shout about

Those of you that read my blog frequently may remember when I posted “What Has Become of Rhyl?” and a picture I posted then of the so-called fountain that used to be in the car park underneath the children’s village.

I posted that picture back in 2008, seems so long ago now, but yesterday I went into the same area of Rhyl, something I don’t do very often if I can help it and though it did seem that the ramp and stairs going around the fountain had been made safer with some form of anti-slip surface, I am sad to say that nothing has improved with the fountain!

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It’s been one of those days for me today. I’ve went out to work this morning and just wanted the day to be a day to myself, no distraction from anyone or anything and luckily everywhere I went to was just how I like it.

But to improve the peace, I decided to keep my mobile phone turned on, but set it to silent, so I couldn’t hear it, if anyone did ring or text. It’s been a perfect day and though many may say that I have been very antisocial, my answer would be so what.

It’s just nice to have a day with no one bothering you, so you can get on with what you do and take everything in your own stride, without those worries of someone ringing and saying, “where are you?”, “What are you doing?”, “What are you doing tonight?” and so on and so forth.

And to top it all, it’s lovely and peaceful at home, it’s quite warm outside, so no one is making too much noise and they are relaxing taking the nice weather in.

So do you ever get one of these day? And what do you do?

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Now I wouldn’t say that I’m a coffee-holic, OK I am and I love to drink different types of coffee from around the world, but a lot of us who drink coffee may take it just for granted, you know put the kettle on, put the coffee in the cup and add hot water and milk, worth maybe sugar to taste, but do you know the true story of coffee and where it actually original came from.

If like me you haven’t a clue where that lovely tasting beverage came from and when it was first discovered or what varieties there are in the world of coffee and why is it the national drink of the Ethiopian people then I have just the thing for you to see!

The video below will tell you about who discovered coffee and where it comes from and you may be surprised to find out how long coffee has actually been around and why at one time it became more popular than beer! Seriously can you image that.

Coffee has always been popular and nowadays you will find many types of coffee, we all socialise with friends in “coffee houses”, I myself love to meet up with friends when out and about sitting over a lovely hot coffee and spending a few hours catching up etc.

So since coffee was first discovered it’s become so popular, a drink which almost everyone enjoys, I know I do