Well I'm driving the
Green Moose over this week and taking the scenic route across France so as to avoid the hell that is the Antwerp Ring-Road at mid-morning...
What'll really hurt is that I did all the conversion work myself and sourced all the suspension components from the US, instead of just buying the FRRP, Roush or Steeda packages which are all a bit of a compromise...
proper racing suspension courtesy of Eibach, Koni, UMI and Hotchkis and it's finally dialled-in
just right...
Put two coats of Meguiar's wax on over the weekend in case it gets rained-on in the UK this week... It is a
proper garage-queen! lol
Constructive criticism is good, but when people don't listen, then it's time to be a little more blunt... bad imagery is just bad imagery, no point in sugar-coating it... and I'm Mr Blunt hereabouts...
One of the reasons I'm here in Germany is so i can do most of my resettlement here and not in Aldershot - with young 'Max' on the way and jules suffering from the Mother of all Morning Sickness, I need to be close to home now, not 'ferrying' across the channel every two weeks.
Got my enhanced learning credits all squared away about 5 years ago, or whenever it was and also been in touch with the resettlement people here at Herford (where I'm posted-to next month as planned) and started booking business and language courses.
Bespoke photographic courses I'll look into later as I have up to 5 years after I leave to use the credits the Army gives me...
Money's in the bank set aside for start-up costs, but 90% of the equipment I own already. Just
maybe one more body and one lens to buy (and some printing kit if I decide to do on-site printing). To save initial costs I might have to investigate online mail-order printing to begin with. Customer chooses from the website and prints are delivered within 7 days.
The car will probably have to go as we'll need to bring in at least 2,000- per month to make the payments
and pay all the bills - especially with a newborn to look after. Without him/her I think we could have managed, but not with an extra mouth to feed. Thankfully it's not twins!!! The
Kindergeld will help, but not to the tune of 500 per month...plus the exchange rate has really hit my pocket hard - I've effectively 'lost' 900
per month from when I was first posted to Germany three and a half years ago. That was the car-payments
and the fuel to run it...
I reckon I
could do that on average over the course of a year, but with photography in Germany being seasonal, I couldn't guarantee making that amount
every month without fail...
