SLU Cycling

I’ve had my boat for about five years now, and it was not in the best condition in the world when I originally bought it! I’ve got a four berth twenty eight foot sailing boat with an eighty horsepower inboard motor, and for the last five years, although it has looked scruffy, it has kept me pottering around the local waterways without any difficulty. We even ventured about ten miles out into the Atlantic last year with no problems whatsoever, and I wanted to do something similar this year.
Unfortunately we’ve had a few problems with the engine over the last six months. Luckily I know a great online site which sells boat engine parts and once I had worked out what exactly was letting the engine down I ordered the part I needed. Once the part arrived I managed to get down to the boat yard where our boat was being stored, and after an afternoon up to my elbows in the bowels of our boat, I managed to get the part fitted.
As soon as we got the boat back out into the water it felt like it had a new lease of life! The boat was quicker than before, and the engine sounded so much smoother.
I got a few more localised trips under her belt, and once my confidence was up I decided that it was time to head out into the Atlantic again! I couldn’t wait to head out into the open seas, and now that the boat was running so well, I might even venture a bit further afield!

I always like to get my dad nice birthday presents because he never seems to treat himself! Being a typical dad he views money as something to be saved rather than spent! I think we all realise that he is a bit uptight about money, and you can tell that he always feels a little bit bitter sweet even about the things that we have bought him, because in the back of his mind he is thinking how much it cost!
I think this year though that it is going to be a slightly different story. I have decided that, since it is his fiftieth birthday, I am going to push the boat out. Whilst I was having one of those meandering browses on the internet the other day, I came across this great site which had some really amazing prices on sports tickets. My dad is a massive sports fan. If he’s not watching football or cricket, he is talking about one of them!
I was searching through this site, when I saw some tickets to a Manchester United game, at home, two days after his birthday! I knew that a ticket for him and one for me would be the perfect present for him, and it wouldn’t be too bad for me either! We are both massive Manchester United fans, and although he hadn’t been to see them for about ten years, I knew that he would love this. We live a good two hundred miles away from the ground which is why we never got up to see them, but for a special trip like this I wouldn’t mind doing the driving.
I can’t tell him about it now of course, because he will tell me to get my money back! I know, though, that once I give him the tickets on his birthday, he will realise that it is too late to send the tickets back, and he will look forward to the game with glee!