I should have got WordPress set up with “Postie” so that I can post updates from my cellphone while travelling – Postie is smart enough to filter out the embedded graphics that T-Mobile adds to anything I send (of course, Postie can’t do anything to make the terrible Motorola RAZR camera pics any better .. I guess I need a new phone!)
Garden, Sweet Garden
A few pics from the garden recently – a mild winter, and lots of rain earlier in the year with lots of sun now, has brought out the best in the garden again this year:
Flaking paint
Washing GP0203 today, I noticed that it is suffering the same flaking paint problem reported by a number of other GP owners, namely that the paint is flaking away around the dummy “air intake” on the passenger side of the front bumper:
There was clearly some sort of process control issue causing this, since multiple owners (goodfinder, Metal Man, eimr – all early delivery GPs!) have reported the same problem at the same location on the car (the paint around the driver side “air intake” is perfectly OK!) – so presumably there will be no problem having MINI USA take care of this …
UPDATE: After gaining warranty approval from MINI USA, the re-work was done excellently at my local & favorite body shop, Sublime Restorations … all’s well again with GP0203 🙂
M&I / GBMINI 
