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After a late and boozy night last night I had a really crappy nights sleep but had to be up earlyish to get my car to it’s MOT for 9am. Ady had stayed home to follow me there and bring me home again – it’s about a half hour walk from here. The kids were barely up and out of bed so we left them here and went to drop my car off. We also called into the council office which is on the same industrial estate to hand back our alllotment key and get our £10 deposit back.
Back at home I rang my parents hoping to get my Dad and ask him to take me back to collect my car later but got my Mum instead who was day off from work today. She offered to drop me at the garage and arranged to come over an hour later. In the meantime the garage rang to say the car had failed it’s MOT and needed new brake pads to get through that at just over £100 (including test charge) but rather urgently needs various other work totally over £400. Mum arrived in the middle of this.
Muy opinion is that we don’t really have £400 right now to spend on a car which is about to be declared SORN, have it’s insurance cancelled and be stored off road for a year but Sensible People have overruled me with talk of retaining vehicular security and other such stuff and they are very likely right so we’ve authorised the go ahead on the MOT necessary work and will book it in for the rest after pay day.
So the car is there til tomorrow and Mum ended up staying for lunch, which she went to the shop to get bread for and Ady appeared home to join us for. We discussed Christmas plans and had a very nice few hours with the children coughing and blowing their noses by way of punctuation marks throughout.
The kids played with Playmobile and after Mum had gone Davies did some Xboxing. We had lots of cuddling on the sofa and having kept the fire burning all day it was cosy and Scarlett did several rounds of cooking chestnuts and sharing them out :). I ♥ winter 🙂
Ady was lateish home having joined work colleagues for their seasonal festive drinks so it was nearly 8pm when he got back. Kids went to bed , I made dinner and ate around playing with friendfeed.
Really must blog about cavity wall insulation tomorrow but I have to be up in the morning for work. I know, wuss 😉