Category: driving

• April 15, 2022

  Best Places To Park in York

  

  Are you looking for the best places to park in York without paying a fortune or queueing for years to circle a car park with no spaces? This article is going to cover the best places to park and save money on parking in York. I’ve written this article for all the men (and women)…
• April 4, 2022

  Review: Cheap double buggy that fits in a hatchback

  

  Tl;dr it’s the Joie Aire double buggy. When my oldest child was 18 months old I got pregnant again. I really wanted a close age gap but the practicalities were daunting. Most things were going to be hand-me-downs but I didn’t know what on EARTH to do about a pushchair. I looked at several options:…
• October 15, 2020

  5 things I wish I’d known before buying a VW T5

  My second campervan was a VW T5. I might buy another one, I might go for something different, but I would want to ask some much harder questions this time. After all, I’m not buying something to drive to work, this is going to go on adventures. 1. You really do need the service history.…
• October 14, 2020

  Why a motorhome is better than a van on your V5

  

  What’s in a name? Well, if you’ve landed on this article, you want to know whether it makes a difference if your UK campervan is registered with the DVLA as a motorhome or a van. Or you’re wondering how easy is it to re-register your converted van to a motorhome. Or you just like Googling…
• April 21, 2017

  £250 car update: Recycled Home-Made Cupholders

  Remember how I bought a car for £250? Here’s the next update! I made these cup holders by recycling some cylindrical containers (they used to have Timmy’s Pro Fibre supplement in), which I painted gold: Once they’re finished I’m going to drill holes in the plastic around the dashboard and screw them to it with small…
• March 8, 2017

  £250 Car Update

  So, remember how a few days ago I bought a car for £250? Yeah well I promptly fell in love with the little rascal and of course it’s got a lot of problems. Here’s what’s happened this week so far: ___________________________________________ Update Monday: Biggest thing it needed was a new fuel tank. My usual garage…
• March 3, 2017

  I bought a car for £250.

  I bought a car for £250 from Auto Trader. I wanted to know whether it was even possible to buy a car for that sort of price that would start and work (also, it fits the engine size requirements for the Mongol rally… or at least, it did before they revised them again. Fuck it,…
• November 19, 2016

  Review: Why you need to see The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime

  I was left stunned after former Top Gear presenters, Clarkson Hammond and May’s new car show came out today. The first episode of their new show, called ‘The Grand Tour’ (I saw what you did with the title, Jeremy Clarkson), made its debut on Amazon Prime today. We took out a free trial of Prime…
• July 5, 2016

  Amazon Prime Day, Rainbows + Bestseller Lists,

  So the book I can’t tell you about on here has now made it (quite a long way) into the Amazon Top 100 Bestseller List for a third week!! SQUEE I WROTE A GODDAMN BESTSELLER, BITCHES!! (…and my in-laws and assorted relatives still think I’m an unemployed layabout loser working occasional days as a substitute…
• June 3, 2016

  Review: We Buy Any Car (why I chose to sell privately despite being out of time)

  This is a review of We Buy Any Car, discussing why I sold one car privately and scrapped the other car after trying to use We Buy Any Car. I am writing this on my website because We Buy Any Car has fiddled it so that you have to post an invoice number to review…