As well as having
rostered days off I also have annual leave. Today I thought I'd use
up a day's leave. If nothing else I needed the opportunity to take
the car to the garage; the parking brake warning light keeps coming
on ever since the people in the garage serviced the car a few weeks
ago. The plan was to drive over and walk back with my dog. It was a
plan I carried out; it was a shame about the rain. We got rather
soaked on the way home. Once home the garage phoned to ask what the
problem was...
I then had a crack at the
ironing; that's what I do an an actual leave day. Whilst I ironed I
waatched a film. I've been meaning to watch "Bend It Like
Beckham" for years. I must admit I found it somewhat
predictable, and when the garage phoned to say the car was ready
(about two thirds of the way through) I gave up watching.
Me and "Furry
Face TM" walked back to South
Willesborough to get the car. The garage had fixed the problem and
didn't charge us anything. Basically the manual release switch for
the parking brake is on the blink; using it causes an alarm when it
shouldn't. I can either have the thing replaced (for about £170)
or not use it. I don't need to use it as the brake releases
automatically and I've never actually used it for years. I only
fiddled with it because I could. I shan't do so again.
By now the rain had
stopped and the day was chirping up so I took Fudge over to Great
Chart to finalise arrangements for the New Year walk. I acheived what
I had planned to do, but despite the fact that the day had brightened
up it was still *very* muddy. A little dog had to have a bath
when we got home.
Pausing only briefly to
watch an installment of "Upstairs Downstairs" I
spent much of the afternoon updating twenty web pages for this New
Year walk. Or that was what I told "er indoors TM"
when she woke me up when she came home.
We had a bit of tea;
she's gone bowling. An evening in front of the telly beckons...
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