Poor sick (expensive) motor.

My poor little car had to go in for its MOT today, the past 3 years its gone thru fine no problems. Luck ended this year, it failed. It's got a structural crack that needs welding, so its gotta stay there and be sorted. Only bugger is that I won't be able to get it back till Monday Grr. So thats 3 or so days without a car to get to work with, so going to have to rely on buses and generous lifts.
Just annoying, and so the whole thing is gonna cost around £200, ouch! Good job I have money saved (for a rainy day) but it doesn't help in the meantime as its a bit of a dent so gonna have to scrimp by for a little while which is annoying as means I have to delay a few investments while I regain funds. Everyone goes on about owning a car an how great it is, but its an expensive thing to have.

An also with having to hang around home waiting for the phone to ring, I wasn't able to go out and lend some support to the brilliant Sport Relief bike ride. For those not in the know 5 celebs are riding from one end of the UK to the other on bicycles raising money for Sport Relief. No easy task. An the route they were taking went right through Truro, would of liked to have popped along and cheered them on. Did sponsor them in the week so would of been nice to have seen some of the hard work they did, but hey ho :(

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Got Heavy Rain in the week for the PS3. A little game I been keeping an eye on and have been looking forward to playing. So had to purchase it and whoa what a treat. To say its a game isn't exactly an accurate description, its more like an interactive story. An experience to be sure, you play the role of 4 different characters all linked together because of the "Origami Killer" who's been behind a serious of murders in the city.

Graphically its stunning, the characters look near photo realistic, the facial expression and details are stunning. The tiny little pores in the skin, to the shaved hairs on the face. When I first started and was controlling the starting character Ethan walking around in his boxers at home, I almost forgot I was controlling and it was a game and not a film I was watching, bizarre.

The game centres on the idea of "What would you do to save a loved one?" a strong emotive theme, and some of the stuff I've had to do so far has been unnerving, but you decide alot of the time what it is you do and that's the power of the game.
Not close to finishing yet but enjoying the plot an the many twists an choices on the way so far.