My car started to sound like a pimped up Chevy a couple of days ago. It sounds great but probably isn't very healthy - and after about five minutes, it's also a bit embarrassing. Some minor investigation using my closest neighbour for assistance (Vince, who now owns a Thai restaurant and I believe was one of the camera crew on the original Italian Job movie) revealed a hole in the joint of the exhaust as I suspected. Typically I can't find the guarantee when I had the whole system replaced a couple of years back.
So there I am looking for this valuable piece of paper and I glance at the MOT certificate and see that it ran out on February 1st. How did that happen? I coud swear I only got it done in October. Apart from the sexy sounding hole, I think it's still in pretty good shape - at least I hope it is. It has two lights and the wheels go around. Seems to be good enough for most other people on the road. File under pending.
I was collating some news for the mag this morning when I found a story about how Miley Cyrus is trying to shed her "child star" image by growing up very fast. Apparently, she's had a dreamcatcher tattooed onto her ribs - now, here's the best part of the story - allow me to paste the entire paragraph. The bold is mine and any typo's are theirs!
The "Hannah Montana" star, who's recently rumored dating her "So Undercover" co-star Joshua Bowman, was also seen smoking cigarettes in her car. She drove around town and managed to stop by a local tattoo parlor. She reportedly got the tattoo before the outing though.
Apart from this paragraph not making any sense at all, is smoking cigarettes in your car a sign of being a grown-up? I really hope so. I'll finally be able to tell my Ma that, regardless of what she thinks, I've been a grown-up for absolutely ages. And I have a tattoos. Just call me "old man".
The whole story is here - check out the part about her having "inked the phrase 'just breathe' on her other torso" - how many torso's has she got? If nothing else, this is a great example of what the internet should not be used for.
Right... let's find the telephone number of my favourite garage...
UPDATE! Further investigation reveals that it might actually be her fifth tattoo and the place I stole that paragraph from have got her tattoo placements all wrong as well - all of this nonsense pales into insignificance when we are treated to a good read about Miley tripping her face off on DRUGS - here!
MORE UPDATED! ...and then her dad got divorced because her mum had an affair with Poison's Bret Michaels, but no she didn't/yes she did/no she didn't... yeah but no but yeah but...
I think I'll take my car needing an MOT over this kind of hassle and day of the week.
