It's my Birthday!
Today's my birthday! Leela and I are taking the day off, and she has cunning plans, the details of which are top secret. More later!
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Garagey Joy
The car's with the garage again today - but only just, it stalled 5 times on the one minute drive to them up the road. Three times without moving, waiting for the lights to change. Jokes.
It's been there since 8am this morning, and I'm still waiting to hear how it's going. Unfortunately in this case, I doubt that no news will be good news, at least where my wallet is concerned.
Stop the press! Literally just as I was about to post the entry, my phone rang. Off to pick up the car now - wish me ...
Petition For Road Pricing?!
Hot on the heels of that petition against road pricing, there is now a petition for it. Yes, that's right, there's a petition for road pricing, and it even has signatures. But they won't be getting mine, and I won't be linking to it either.
I probably stand to gain from a road pricing scheme, as most of my miles are off-peak, on little quiet roads and empty motorways, but I'm still against it. It's the big brother principle of being tracked, and not knowing how much your journey is going to cost. Or ...
Cars Suck
So, I just gave my car a little test drive over to Sainsburys (10-15 minutes), and it stalled 5 times. Twice without even moving the length of the car. Looks like I'll be booking it into the garage again then...
And before anyone accuses me of my driving style, this is sitting in traffic in neutral, with handbrake on, clutch fully depressed (like me) and my foot off the accelerator.
Am now very tempted to just drive it to the scrap yard and pay them to 'fix' it... ;)
Leela's First On-call, Richard's First Trip to the Garage, and Other Short Stories
Last night was Leela's first on-call, and everything went fine. Until 11.30, when she was just off to bed - the phone rang, and they wanted a drug. She went in, and despite their records saying they had plenty, they didn't have it in stock, and they didn't have it anywhere else in the hospital. So she had to ring Gloucester and get them to send it over in a taxi. At midnight. Baptism of fire!
And today was my first trip to the garage. I took the car in at 8.15 this morning, and they ...