I was mucking out water gardens in the sun, and refitting plumbing gaskets.
Greggs is stalling its store opening programme and will instead focus on relocations and refitting existing shops.
On Wednesday, the car giant announced its intention to fix the problem, including recalling and refitting 5m affected vehicles worldwide.
Everyone else had to make do with buying, selling and refitting cars made before Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
The brigade's officers always said they would pause there for a day or two, resting their soldiers and refitting their weapons for the last push to Baghdad.
The owners, part of a new wave of homesteaders and entrepreneurs, are tearing off plywood, gutting old storefronts and banks, and refitting them with kitchens and dining tables.
(The cabinetmaker, for example, charged $15,000 for the cabinets, the pocket doors and refitting the panels; his usual rate would have been three times that).
However, many garages offer to circumvent the visual check by, for example, by "discreetly cutting a small window in the top of the chamber, removing the internal filter before rewelding the window and refitting to the vehicle.
They are unlikely to replicate Silverjet and Eos: stripping out planes designed to carry hundreds of passengers and refitting them with flat beds for mere tens with a single class.
Those proposed upgrades include modernizing computers and refitting the planes to carry cruise missiles, a move that helped prolong the life of the B-52's, a bomber the B-1 was supposed to replace.
The issue at hand is that Clearwire already needs about $1 billion to continue building its network and refitting it for the latest in wireless data technology, Long-Term Evolution.
