Wow, your turbine looks pretty cool! 
2012 for me started as it went on - NYE last year I felt quite ill with a bad cold, got a phone call from my Nan at midnightish saying how my Grandads legs were 'leaking' and if they got any worse would I be able to take him to A&E (my parents had been drinking alcohol so they couldn't). Then next morning my step-dad was chucking up as he'd drunk too much and I had the sh*ts after eating some greasy 'party' food which is apparently fun.
My Grandad then passed away on 2nd Feb, meaning I then had 2 Nans that can't really do much for themselves and they've noticeably deteriorated over the last year, I didn't expect one of them to see 2013 if I'm honest. In January I did some work experience at Ford, which I really enjoyed - but it also reinforced the worries I had about coping with a full time job. A few months later I popped a £300 turbo on an expensive VAG, and ended up driving a 106. Then in August I broke the Golf completely, turning £2500's worth of car into scrap value (so I thought) and ended up driving an Avensis. Over the year my 'issues' got much worse as well as you know from my thread.
I guess it's not all been bad though, I made and drove the fastest, newest, best specced car I'd ever had. I ended up meeting quite a few OC guys over the year. I managed to distinction my Vehicle college course. At the start of the year I got along to several cruises and Dub meets to try socialise more. Gained a lot more confidence in doing car work over the year, even though I hadn't really noticed that till I was just thinking what I've done more recently that I wouldn't have touched last year! I managed to help fix an undrivable car that cost £300 up to a roadworthy condition again - and can't forget managed to drive that very car to 'almost' Norwich for a meet with the Norfolk guys....then the 120 mile round trip to Norwich to play cars with some car fwends - twice!
And from that list I guess it shows I need to thank you guys from OC for the good things in this year!
It's a shame that the bad things this year majorly over shadow the good things, but lets hope something drastically chnages for the better in 2013.
2012 for me started as it went on - NYE last year I felt quite ill with a bad cold, got a phone call from my Nan at midnightish saying how my Grandads legs were 'leaking' and if they got any worse would I be able to take him to A&E (my parents had been drinking alcohol so they couldn't). Then next morning my step-dad was chucking up as he'd drunk too much and I had the sh*ts after eating some greasy 'party' food which is apparently fun.
My Grandad then passed away on 2nd Feb, meaning I then had 2 Nans that can't really do much for themselves and they've noticeably deteriorated over the last year, I didn't expect one of them to see 2013 if I'm honest. In January I did some work experience at Ford, which I really enjoyed - but it also reinforced the worries I had about coping with a full time job. A few months later I popped a £300 turbo on an expensive VAG, and ended up driving a 106. Then in August I broke the Golf completely, turning £2500's worth of car into scrap value (so I thought) and ended up driving an Avensis. Over the year my 'issues' got much worse as well as you know from my thread.
I guess it's not all been bad though, I made and drove the fastest, newest, best specced car I'd ever had. I ended up meeting quite a few OC guys over the year. I managed to distinction my Vehicle college course. At the start of the year I got along to several cruises and Dub meets to try socialise more. Gained a lot more confidence in doing car work over the year, even though I hadn't really noticed that till I was just thinking what I've done more recently that I wouldn't have touched last year! I managed to help fix an undrivable car that cost £300 up to a roadworthy condition again - and can't forget managed to drive that very car to 'almost' Norwich for a meet with the Norfolk guys....then the 120 mile round trip to Norwich to play cars with some car fwends - twice!
And from that list I guess it shows I need to thank you guys from OC for the good things in this year!
It's a shame that the bad things this year majorly over shadow the good things, but lets hope something drastically chnages for the better in 2013.