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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nice photo of my Corrado at Tatton Park VW Show 2026 from yesterday.

Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just when I think I'm making progress with my polo g40 restoration, my Corrado VR6 decides it wants some attention. This time by springing a leak. New parts arrived today so will hopefully get it back together tonight. I'm at the Scouthead & Austerlands Motor Show in it on Sunday.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Playing Dungeon Keeper 2 the last few nights. Fans of the first one always seem to slate this but I think it's unfair, yeah it's not as good as the first one but it's still pretty damn good. #RetroGaming

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Unphased meetup in Rochdale yesterday. First proper outing for the Corrado this year. This is the first time they did a meetup at this location but hopefully they'll continue as it was very good even though it rained a bit.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

An exciting Saturday afternoon reassembling and bench testing my windscreen wiper mechanism.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Had a mooch about on the moors on Saturday morning in the sun

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

getting the waterpump and alternator off the corrado turned out to be quite easy. Slacken engine mount bolts and jack the side of the engine up and there's loads of room. Meanwhile, rebuilding the gearbox for the polo. The challenge there is keeping it all clean!

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Some of the highlights from Autoculture 2026 at Doncaster Racecourse today.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I seem to have a problem with buying new cars all the time. This one can't even be driven on the road 🤣 Nice bit of obscure racing history though.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Awesome, the cold start misfire on the Corrado is fixed! Culprit was a collapsed tappet. No real way I could work out to test my theory other than just replacing the tappets but it's worked. Very happy that I don't have to wait ten minutes for it to warm up before I can drive it anymore.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Re-discovering a 90s classic, Dungeon Keeper. Hugely addictive and with a dark sense of humour you just don't get in games any more. #RetroGaming

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

my engineering tipp-ex coming in handy again

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

doing some bits on my Corrado VR6 engine while it's off the road for winter. Replacing noisy tappets (suspect non-genuine ones when the engine was rebuilt before my ownership), leaky cam cover gasket and might as well get the injectors cleaned & tested while the inlet is off.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This year's Christmas Lego set. Built it quite quickly as my six year old son kept wanting me to do it while he was doing his own Lego sets. Very impressed with the detail on this but I wish it was silver like an actual delorean rather than mostly grey.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Polo G40 restoration now has it's body panels back on!

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Urgh, only ready salted crisps left in the house. Does anyone actually like ready salted to the point they'd choose them over actual flavours? It's like crisps Maud Flanders would choose

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I saw a rumour earlier on that the great Gary 'mani' Mounfield had passed away. Sadly it has turned out to be true. For me, the best bass player with some of the best bands ever most notably the Stone Roses. youtu.be/0xBzYsE4y1k?...

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Primal Scream - Kowalski (Official Video)

YouTube video by PrimalScreamVEVO

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Debian trixie is at it's .2 release now so thought it was time to upgrade my desktop computers at home and at work. All good apart from the usual NIS & NFS throwing a hissy fit on my work computer which happens every time, it sorted itself out after just waiting a while for the initial reboot.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I've been replaying Command&Conquer: Tiberian Sun for the first time since the early 2000s after I found out I can run it on my Macbook using WINE. Love those bomber helicopters.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I cleaned my keyboard keys in my ultrasonic cleaner and put them on a car drying towel. It looks like someone has ran over Wordy from Look&Read

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Weekend in the Lake District. Visited the Retro-Zone Museum in Keswick. Lots of toys & computers from the 80s. Lot of stuff that me & my sister had as kids. Great to look around and chat with the staff and other people in there about Sinclair computers, the best Amiga games. www.the-retro-zone.co.uk

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Shaw and Crompton Classic Car Show highlights from yesterday.

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The Wake @letthemeatwake.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

A new way of recording A chain round the neck #FallFriday youtu.be/zNG392kcpEY?...

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The Fall - Bury

YouTube video by TheFallVEVO

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I thought Etsy was just for arts and crafts stuff but turns out it's ok for car parts too. 3d printed headlight adjusters fitted to the Corrado so the headlights aren't flapping around anymore. The smashed up bits are the remains of the old adjusters, one of them crumbled to pieces completely.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Some recent work on the polo g40 restoration. Bottom end built up and fixing up wiring looms ready to rewrap. Had to do the looms in the front room because no room in the garage, Gemma not impressed but at least I'm not in the garage.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Last day of holiday in Salou. My five year old son enjoyed some karting yesterday. Going to look into doing it regularly next year when he's six, local track does intro sessions for six year olds. Do we have the next Lewis Hamilton on our hands 😂

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Awesome photo someone took of my Corrado VR6 at VW Festival this weekend just gone

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Got the back end of my Polo G40 restoration onto some wheels for the first time in a long time. Feels like progress.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Replaying some of my favourite levels in Syndicate Wars last night. I think it's the best in the Syndicate series. Many will disagree and say the first is the best but I think this one just captured a Blade-Runner feel with the visuals and music perfectly. #RetroGaming #Retrocomputing #DOSGaming

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Nigel Mansell's Williams FW14b built to go with my Arton Senna McLaren MP4/4. #lego #f1 #formula1

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm Dangerous. Probably as far as I'll get for a long time on Frontier Elite II. I;m going to try some assassination missions though. I've enjoyed getting into this on the Amiga and the original Elite on the ZX Spectrum. Missed them both back in the day. #Amiga #amiga #retrogaming #RetroComputing

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

this lives on the wall in my office. It's a real one, the board is removed and doesn't work, it will get fixed one day. The case is just stuck on with double sided tape so hasn't been damaged. #ZXSpectrum #retrocomputing

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This week, I've been mostly playing Frontier: Elite II. Came across the systems from the original Elite so thought it'd be nice to visit Riedquat. youtu.be/6cszIqPBwHA #RetroComputing #Amiga #RetroGames #Commodore

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Frontier: Elite II - Visiting Riedquat

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Why does everything have to be a youtube video these days, I miss good old written how-to guides I could follow at MY pace and not having to watch someone waffling on about why they've made a video for ten minutes before getting to anything actually useful.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

RIP Clem Burke who has passed away today. The drummer for the band Blondie, he also played with Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop to name a few. I've been a fan of Blondie since being a kid. I love Clem's drumming on this track, just look at him go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-... #clemburke #blondie

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Blondie - Dreaming

YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Watch out, I'm Dangerous now. Great fun for a game over 40 years old. Don't think I've got the commitment to make it to Elite status though (Dangerous is 768 kills, Elite is nearly 7000!). #retrocomputing #zxspectrum

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

More moor fires last Friday in Saddleworth, had to stop on my bike ride home from work to get photos. Devastating :( #saddleworth #moorlandfires

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Elite on the 48k Spectrum. Docking with the space station is hard. #zxspectrum #retrogaming #retrocomputing

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

And the last 303 day post, the best one. Gerald Simpson era 808 State #303day #808state #tb303 #roland youtu.be/49P4GUA4AIY?...

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808 State - Flow Coma

YouTube video by TheMadFerret

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

#PythonProgramming Must remember to use lists for sqlite parameter substitution. Using a tuple makes it too easy to miss the trailing comma when it's a single value, an hour gone. (170) = 170 (170,) = (170,) [170] = [170]

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My new home ISP #zeninternet has assigned a /48 IPv6 prefix. I'm going to need to build an extension on my house to fit these 1208925819614629174706175 devices, not to mention solve nuclear fusion to power them all. I can't just waste all this address space.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

So now at a #PremierInn the "free" wifi is so rate limited it's unusable (like 20 seconds to load a single email unusable) and you have to pay an extra £5 a day for "Ultimate Wifi", which is just the same thing without the same rate limit.

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Testing some 80s Scalextric cars I repaired. Tyres still good on this one even though they look original. #scalextric

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Paul Hayes (hayesey) @hayesey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

another small batch of zinc plating using my DIY setup. Also used my own web application to work out current needed, which was more of a project to teach myself React but it was useful. Yes I had the current set to 3.76A not 3.72A but a few tens of milliamps doesn't matter.

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