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That may well have been me... I quite enjoyed the day to be honest - but a little disappointed that Hammond and May didn't interact with the audience much...

That was me! It's good to get a wave from another zed - doesn't happen very often - had a big old grin on my face afterwards.

I agree with you on that one. I really needed a laugh today after work and this worked wonders.

D'oh! I had a quick look and couldn't find anything. Oh well...

I haven't posted for a while and thought this was funny enough to share. Enjoy... ===================== Here's a thought for all the Edinburgh dwellers on the service your boys in blue / black / yellow provide. True email sent to the force, lengthy but absolutely brilliantly written..... Anonymised correspondence from a member of the public Dear Sir/madam/automated telephone answering service Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Leith police station to pick up a telephone I have decided to abandon the idea and try e-mailing you instead. Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this message on to your colleagues in Leith by means of smoke signal, carrier pigeon or Ouija board. As I'm writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments (I think you call them youths) in West Cromwell Street which is just off Commercial Street in Leith. Six of them seem happy enough to play a game which involves kicking a football against an iron gate with the force of a meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout the entire building. This game is now in it's third week and as I am unsure how the scoring system works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon. The remaining five walking abortions are happily rummaging through several bags of rubbish and items of furniture that someone has so thoughtfully dumped beside the wheelie bins. One of them has found a saw and is setting about a discarded chair like a beaver on speed. I fear that it's only a matter of time before they turn their limited attention to the bottle of calor gas that is lying on it's side between the two bins. If they could be relied on to only blow their own arms and legs off then I would happily leave them to it. I would even go so far as to lend them the matches. Unfortunately they are far more likely to blow up half the street with them and I've just finished decorating the kitchen. What I suggest is this. after replying to this e-mail with worthless assurances that the matter is being looked into and will be dealt with, why not leave it until the one night of the year (probably bath night) when there are no mutants around then drive up the street in a panda car before doing a three point turn and disappearing again. This will of course serve no other purpose than to remind us what policemen actually look like. I trust that when I take a claw hammer to the skull of one of these throwbacks you'll do me the same courtesy of giving me a four month head start before coming to arrest me. I remain sir, your obedient servant xxxxxxxxx Mr xxxxxxxxxx, I have read your e-mail and understand you frustration at the problems caused by youth playing in the area and the problems you have encountered in trying to contact the police. As the Community Beat Officer for your street I would like to extend an offer of discussing the matter fully with you. Should you wish to discuss the matter, please provide contact details (address / telephone number) and when may be suitable. Regards PC xxxx xxxxxxxxxx Community Beat Officer Dear PC xxxx First of all I would like to thank you for the speedy response to my original e-mail. 16 hours and 38 minutes must be a personal record for Leith Police station and rest assured that I will forward these details to Norris McWhirter for inclusion in his next book. Secondly I was delighted to hear that our street has it's own community beat officer. May I be the first to congratulate you on your covert skills. In the five or so years I have lived in West Cromwell Street, I have never seen you. Do you hide up a tree or have you gone deep undercover and infiltrated the gang itself? Are you the one with the acne and the moustache on his forehead or the one with a chin like a wash hand basin? It's surely only a matter of time before you are headhunted by MI5. Whilst I realise that there may be far more serious crimes taking place in Leith such as smoking in a public place or being Muslim without due care and attention, is it too much to ask for a policeman to explain (using words of no more than two syllables at a time) to these twats that they might want to play their strange football game elsewhere. The pitch behind the Citadel or the one at DKs are both within spitting distance as is the bottom of the Albert Dock. Should you wish to discuss these matters further you should feel free to contact me on xxxx. If after 25 minutes I have still failed to answer, I'll buy you a large one in the Compass Bar. Regards xxxxx P.S If you think that this is sarcasm, think yourself lucky that you don't work for the cleansing department.

Thanks for the responses everyone. I was using the meguiars wash mitt. I hosed the car off first paying particular attention to the affacted areas. When I came to wash the bird poo off the car, the wash mitt was loaded with water to help in the soaking. Unfortunately some of it was rather caked on and the soaking didn't help much. I try to avoid parking under anything where birds can congregate. It's a shame the largest parking space in the car park is next to a lamp post. I guess it's either a car covered in bird poo or dents from other peoples car doors. At least the bird poo can wash off... The scratches feel slightly rough to the touch, but my finger nail doesn't catch in them at all. I haven't used scratch-x myself, or anything like it. I'll read up on it and maybe give it a go at the weekend. I want to be careful though as sometimes it's better to leave things alone than make them worse by trying to fix them...

Upon returning to my car yesterday after work it seemed as if it had been dive-bombed by just about every bird on the south coast. So, I decided it would be best to clean it all off to avoid any damage to the paint work. Unfortunately I got a little carried away and have ended up scratching it instead. The scratches themselves are not deep and are fairly thin but you can feel them if you run your finger over them. I want to try and fix this as I feel a complete buffoon and it would be a shame to spoil thee finish of the car. What would your recommendations be? Would a gentle polish be the first port of call? Or should I use something else (like Scratch-X)? Oh, and next time not rub so hard... Many thanks for any advice.

My CD player started skipping about 5/6 months ago. I thought it was the cold weather so didn't worry about it. After a couple of months it seemed to be getting worse and popped in to see my friendly Nissan dealer. I was told that CDR's are the main culprit as the dye used in them isn't as good as on pre-recorded CD's so try to avoid using them. Funny thing is CDR's are pretty much the only ones that play first time in my player! Pre-recorded CD's are extremely tempremental. Anyway, Nissan said to try a few things out. Try the same CD in different slots to see if that makes any difference. Take the CD out as soon as it starts skipping to see if there's any moisture on the surface. If there's still an issue they would have to remove the CD player and send it off to BOSE for testing. A process which could take 3 months! Something else Nissan said was that with some of their 4x4's the air conditioning unit was next to the head unit and people who constantly had their air con turned on were causing condensation within their stereo and problems with it playing CD's. Although this is not the case with the Z. Not wanting to be without my CD player I've been trying a few things out. It seems that the player has to warm up before it starts playing CD's properly. I haven't been able to figure out how long that takes but it certainly allows CD's that wouldn't play before to play quite happily. The warming up is either park in the sun or use the player for 15/20 minutes. Oh yeah, for information my car is an 06MY with the trusty BOSE head unit.

I used the Meguiars Microfibre Wash Mitt for the first time at the weekend (been using a sponge up until now) and I must say I'm very impressed. Holds plenty of water, cleans the car up well (including bug splats), and feels somehow gentler on the bodywork than the sponge ever did - don't want to end up with scratches. I don't think I'll be going back to a sponge now (except to clean the wheels and exhaust).

Not a particularly inspiring range of colours. It would be interesting to see Night Blue in the flesh. I was wondering today what a dark blue would look like on the car. Might not be quite so bad... As for stone chips - I've had my car nearly 8 months now and have picked up 2 or 3 on the bonnet - all fairly small. You can only notice them if you look for them. The real problem are the darned gritters! Gotta avoid those bad boys like the plague!

Sorry for the repost - did do a search to see if it had already been posted but couldn't find anything. The styling really does leave something to be desired. I take it Nissan haven't heard of the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". +1 Maybe they should have done something with that darned Bose stereo instead!

Saw you this afternoon and waved.

Seen a few times the past couple of weeks.

Was on my way back from work today and came across another Z. After reading this post I thought I'd wave... and I got a wave back!

I don't know if this has already been posted (apologies if it has) but thought I'd share it. http://www.redlinemag.com/page/redline?entry=nismo_350z