Thur, Dec 4th

Dropped Dawn off at Hertford North and then drove into London for a change. As much as I hate the journey by car, I still felt that it would be easier taking the car in for a service in Enfield rather than locally when we're off work. Unfortunately it was raining and windy this morning though. I parked our car in the Astra dealer's car park (out the back in pitch dark) and stepped into a huge puddle which soaked both my feet up to the ankles. Then as I made my way to the bus stop, a huge gust of wind turned my umbrella inside out, destroying the stansions that held it together. Result - I was getting soaked. But I soldiered on and made it to work wet and weary ready to start another day. At lunch time I called the dealership to check to see whether the service had been completed. They seemed puzzled as they said I never specified when I needed it. Thankfully they assured me it would be ready when I got there a little after 3pm.

When I left work the sun was now shining and I felt a lot better than I had when I dropped the car off. However, when I got to the dealership I had to wait forever while they manually processed the invoice. In the end I paid for the service and suggested that they just mail the invoice to me. Best of all was that the service raised no problems for us. Tell a lie. What was best of all was looking in the service book and seeing that we had only done THREE AND A HALF THOUSAND miles in the last year. Well that has really helped reduce our carbon footprint in the last twelve months. A pat on the back for the two of us from Mr Gore, no doubt...