Do it!
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Plus one.
I saw my first āfat boardā graphic on gateway skateboard club earlier today and it gave me āthem feelsā.
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All this talk of belts reminds me of this classic
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I found my first one in new condition maybe 15 years ago on eBay. Unfortunately it was in Australia 
Holy shite that top graphic matches my first board, except mine was bright yellow with blue trucks, wheels and tail bubble, bottom graphic was a larger version of the eagle. My great uncle Angus got me it from a dingy off-licence in Greenock, I was 5 or 6 and a core memory was kneeboarding Glasgow Central Concourse on a Sunday evening getting the train home to Cumbria.
It was pretty much like above, Iāve never skated a smoother floor since, didnāt get any hassle either because I was so little.
Edit ; found it! The bottom graphic doesnāt match but this is pretty much my first board, I rode it to death and called the wheel stone crunchers. I unfortunately left it out in my backyard and it rained the board completely delammed and was laying over the trucks like wet cardboard.
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4th & Broadway X Battenberg cake
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I had exactly the same board in blue. It must be the most popular skateboard ever made! Tonnes of mates had them, and i the late 80ās youd always see the odd one with rain damaged delamās in mates gardens and stuff. My tail bubble had worn through and it wasnāt solid plastic, but had square shaped holes underneath. Used to go down a hill in a cemetery in Gateshead scraping the tail along the floor as a brake.
I already new that mall grabbing was lame, and used to carry it by one of the rails 
Such a blast from the past. Doubt iāve thought about those boards for 35 years.
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10kg of chicken breast half price yes please!
Mrs broke the flush button on the downstairs shitter. Instead of a sunday call out and plumber I fixed it for Ā£7.36 and two trips to screwfix. Super stoked
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Well in mate, thatās satisfying when you do stuff like that. Hate to think what a plumber woulf have charged on a Sunday.
Not that I helped fix it much, but my mate accidentally drilled a small hole in my radiator as it was a few mm out from where it should have been.
One trip to some bell who we asked is the radiator for a GTI (it was for a GT in the end), and then one drive to a guy breaking a load of GTIās.
Multiple breakdowns in his car on the way home. We (royal) put a new radiator in, new set of headlights (mint), new bonnet, new front grill, new front grill lining, screw on GTI badge rather than clipped on to the grill, GTI seat mats, new number plate housings, some other stuff for the engine that I had no idea about for like Ā£200.
Cannot even begin to imagine but that would cost at a garage let alone VW.
TLDR saved cash doing it ourselves.
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Rad.
My car is getting to the point where things like light bulbs are starting to failā¦ got frustrated taking it to the garage to get it fixed as cars are like some kind of mysterious black box to meā¦ but then realised that itās old enough that things are easy enough to replace yourself.
Had to replace a rear brake light bulb yesterday. Hardest part was trying to self film the brake light actually working after Iād done it. Barely even a 10 minute job.
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Had my first online French lesson today 
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Just saved the price of a new microwave by cutting open a little door in the bottom and replacing a Ā£6 motor.
DING!
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Comment est-ce que Ƨa sāest passĆ© ?
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TrĆØs bien, jāai tout captĆ©.
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āDid you hear about Gary?ā
āOh yeah mate, he was the one that fixed his own microwave and slowly cooked himself right?ā
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Only boiled my eyeballs slightly when looking to see if the glass plate was turning.
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