Voila, new car (ish)

September 10, 2009 9:06 PM

I haven't moved from the house today, and the primary reason for that was that I was waiting for my car to be redelivered from it's repair of it's repair job. But you know, waiting in wasn't necessarily a bad thing because I was exhausted from yesterdays adventure and so doing a little less today was probably a good move on my part.

It really has given me an appreciation of the sort of thing Phil has to go through on a daily basis so kudos to him, I don't know how he does it, nor how I did many years ago during my commuter phase. I must have been on smack. Or speed. Or possbily both!

The morning is filled with bits and pieces of work with a minor panic from one client which was quickly resolved after someone screwed up, not me for a change, and then most of the afternoon was spent pottering on the computer and honing my Pen tool skills.

The car arrived back at around 4PM, so I just enough time before they arrived to fill the loaner up with a bit of juice so it was ready to be returned to the garage. It looks like they've done a better job this time which is great. The only thing I need to do now is go back to the previous repairers and complain to them since the boot hasn't closed properly since they supposidly fixed it last year. Good job then they give a 5 year warranty on their repairs!

I guess part of me would really like to get a new car, but I'm trying to be logical about it. The Yaris is all paid for and it's functional so really there is no need to replace it other than the burning desire to get a Toyota IQ³ (seriously the site is worth a visit just for the funky music!). But even if I did cave and got one of those, it would be redundant next year if the family planning all goes as it should because it would be way to small to ferry me, phil, baby, dog, baby accessories around in.

So I guess for now I'll stick with what I've got, but get it fixed up. I have to say I quite like the fact it only takes £25 to fill it up and I only have to do that once a month at the moment!

As an aside, I noticed on one of the pictures I posted yesterday the word "Filbert". I had no idea what it is, but apparently it's a type of hazelnut.