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John Wards

John Wards

@johnwards.bsky.social

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Husband, Dad to 3 boys. Mostly watching F1, Rugby, Football and a bit of NFL. Likes cars. Bit of a geek, CTO of Colateral. Borrowing a TR7 from Borrow a Classic. https://borrowaclassic.co.uk/

borrowaclassic.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Join.greenparty.org.uk

If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 21h

YES!

otherwise I’ve not had a vacation in years.

Currently on a staycation this week, spending the money I’d have spent on the break on doing things locally.

Well spending much less, because that’s the point of a staycation.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 21h

That is a spot!

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 1d

My lad just built his own gaming rig "on a budget" for Beamng (£800 I think)

He saved up for a year for it.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was to line up to make sure he's in his box? BTCC do that

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 1d

workos down too. So YAY Enterprise B2B logins broken.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2d

The post-Winamp era of computing is straight up dogshit.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

Watched a few fights last night. Was great watching a little guy get lifted and nearly dumped out by a huge guy, somehow survive then lift and dump the big guy out.

Big guy must have been 1/3rd bigger.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

GDPR request to delete your account, then create a new one.

Not hard mate.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

It’s such a rare name so probably understandable, STILL ANNOYING.

I’ve never met another Wards that I’m not closely related to.

I knew of a family in a near town, and based on some family tree research I did a few years ago we were distantly related (back 3 or 4 generations distance)

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

* made me score them all out put it in correctly

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

Well, the biggest issue is missing the S.

Went through school with a hand drawn S on my coat peg, locker, and drawer. SO ANNOYING 😠😂

Funniest one was Warts. Which was on loan documents, and they made them score it out and put it in properly (in the olden days) just to rub it in.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

Done a wee bit of poking about and seems they are part of "MIROX Corporation" and the projects on there are wild. Seems to still be in business, or at least had a project last year.

www.mirox.us/projects.html

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

The best bit is that my middle kid has fully got the bug and has decided he wants to do a mechanical apprenticeship on classic cars specifically.

He's applying in January to the Heritage Skills Academy with the idea to start after his GCSEs in the summer.

Apprenticeships | Heritage Skills Academy | England

Heritage Skills Academy brings experts together from across the restoration industry who are committed to preserving the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm required to maintain and restore the world’s f...

www.heritageskillsacademy.co.uk

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

I'm loving it. We're encouraged to tinker to have the full ownership experience, which is why I'm searching for a replacement alternator this evening 😬

What started as a noisy rad fan (which is now fixed) ended up with a busted lug!

borrowaclassic.co.uk for others if they want to apply.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

Must have been fatigued. I hardly put any pressure. I was just starting and he was about to put the spanner on and pop.

He’s not heard his dad swear so much before 😂

A well. Good for his apprenticeship portfolio (he’s applying in the new year and is putting one together)

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

New ones are £60, so I'll be getting a new fancy alternator for it, looking at this one, probably original, which means it's older than me

(Which isn't very old, of course 👴)

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Ruby in all her glory though 😀

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I was up in the car park. I didn’t get a show ticket in time.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

It was all going so well today. Boy2 had done most of the work to get the radiator out, get the fan pully out etc. Putting it all back together was fine as well.

Then I came in to provide the muscle to tighten the fan belt.

And this happened. Off to look at recondition alternators. 😭

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

You putting the widebody kit from @carpervert.bsky.social's mad Welsh guy?

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

I’m most delighted they spelt Wards correctly.

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

Me and boy 2 have made it into Practical Classic. We had a chat with the editor at Rustival @hubnut.bsky.social

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

I went to see a man about angle grinding this off for me. We saw his weird cars in his shed.

#WeirdCarBS

John Wards @johnwards.bsky.social · 2d

He’s level F now he tells me.