Across the lake where I live we often see balloons taking off into the skies. It’s something that has always appealed to me and would be great to do but there is one problem. I’m scared of heights.

I don’t mind being in an airplane but the thought of being in an open basket looking down just freaks me out.

Once you take off there is no going back either. You can’t just say I don’t like this get me back down. You would have to wait until the flight is over so it’s something I won’t be trying anytime soon.

If you fancy it then you can get further details at Balloon Flights from Watermead.

I sold my VW Beetle and decided to get a Mercedes SLK230 to run around in during these hot summer days. The Beetle was okay but we didn’t find it that comfortable and even though it had air conditioning it wasn’t powerful enough to keep cool. Whether it was because it needed recharging or the sheer amount of glass in the Beetle letting all the sun and heat through I don’t know.

So I got the Mercedes and as with any car you get I guess you have to get used to things being different.

The first thing that caught me out with it was on returning to the car with bags of shopping I couldn’t figure out how to open the boot. No matter what I did I couldn’t unlock it. We managed to get it open in the end but it was more luck than judgement. It turns out that when you unlock the car with the key fob remote it only unlocks the drivers door and you have to press it again to unlock the passenger door and the boot. I should have expected that really as my Beetle was the same. Must be a German thing?

Now what really puzzles me is that I kept struggling to get the ignition key out. The engine had stopped, the hand brake was on and the gearbox was in park but it wouldn’t let me take the key out. Eventually I did manage but wasn’t sure how I did it so I got the manual out to read if there was anything in particular I had to do to get the key out.

Now here is the puzzling thing. It turns out that even though the engine is off, hand brake on and gearbox in park if you have your foot on the brake it wont let you take the key out? Now why would that be? I’m sure there must be a perfectly logical reason for this but I for one cannot think what it is. Perhaps someone could let me know.

I bought a baby Harley Davidson last year and its just had its 1st birthday which means I have to get it serviced. Embarrassed about the fact I have never cleaned it once since I got it so I thought I ought to do that before I got to the Harley dealership. I like things to be clean but sadly don’t have the patience to do it myself unlike some people I know. I have a friend who bought a Ducati from a dealer who delivered it to his house in an enclosed trailer and he spent the next 2 days in his garage taking it apart to clean it “properly” as he told me.

That’s something I’m never going to do so I searched on the internet for:

Motor cycle cleaning
Motorbike cleaning
Motorbike valeting
Motor cycle valeting

but couldn’t find anyone in my local area to do it.

Then I thought on the off chance I would call the guy who recently valeted my car for me to see if he did bikes and much to my delight he said yes.

He came round to my house and after a few hours I couldn’t believe the difference. It didn’t look like my bike at all and it was if it had just left the showroom.

Now I don’t feel so guilty taking my bike to the dealer anymore

So if you are in the Aylesbury area and you need a motor bike or a car cleaned I would highly recommend David Hadley who did mine. He can be contacted on 0808 178 7117.

Welcome to my new blog. I did a search today on my name Philip Nicosia on Google which produced 430,000 results. I decided to register this domain to see how long it would take for me to get the number 1 result on Google for it. Let’s see how long it takes.