My 4 yr old / 57k Mazda 6 is buggered up good and proper.
Assuming i have rememberd this correctly…Carbon from a faulty injector found its way into the oil blocking the sump’s oil strainer which inturn caused oil starvation which has screwed up a fair bit of engine inc the turbo and oil pump.
Repair is going to cost around £3.5K +/-10%
All covered by my £314 Mazda extended warranty along with a courtesy car for the duration of the repair (2-3 weeks). Thank god i decided to tick the box.
Buyer beware.
In fairness to Mazda uk and the dealer, their service has been excellent. Shame their engines are shite.
I’ve had two night out on the trot - Thursday at Sadlers Wells, for some contemporary dance and Indian classical music, last night to a local theatre to see a surprisingly good local theatre group put on the Crucible. The kids came to the former, which blew their minds somewhat.
The Crucible is such a good show that provided the cast can remember the lines and stand in the right places it can be great. The better they are, the better it makes them look. As a teenager I saw my local (very basic) am dram lot do it and I can remember it still. As a student I was involved in a production by Daniel Baron Cohen at the Oxford Playhouse using students. They were good and he was brilliant and the show was fantastic.
I also remember Dan laying out the poster. To this date it’s the single most impressive piece of high-speed freehand Letrasetting I’ve ever seen (you had to be there really).
I’m a little bit confused about all this here “Nationalism” malarky - seems like when a minority exhibit it and demand their own state (e.g. Scotland and Catalonia), it’s a jolly good thing and to be admired, but when a majority do it, such as in Poland, or here with “Brexit” it’s a bad thing and they’re all racists… It’s almost as if there are double standards being applied or summat…
I don’t know much about Catalonian nationalism but I suspect it is akin to Scottish nationalism i.e. an inclusive left leaning civic nationalism that bears no relation to the blood and soil type of right wing ethnic nationalism displayed in Poland or Charlottesville.
My suspicion is that people can’t really cope with being “a citizen of the world”, it’s too big, so they come up with an arbitrary border depending on the size of their mind.
As long as people care about traditions, have disparate preferences and are reluctant to share resources and opportunities equally it will be difficult to make a success of the idea that the whole world can act as one. Not impossible - there are a few things that the world does, pretty much, agree on (that CFCs are bad for the ozone layer, that ships should be allowed to navigate freely outside national waters, that no nation can own the moon …). But I suspect we’re going to be divided up into nations, where the like-minded can have things their way, for a while yet. Let’s face it, [blatant stereotyping] until everyone agrees that the best way to do everything is the French way there will still be France [/blatant stereotyping].
