A grand day out.

Silly silly me,

Now, just because it is large Green (with of course the orange hi viz stripe) one would not expect management to realise there was a fire engine outside the house and not where it was on Friday. It was of course exactly where it was yesterday afternoon...

So anyway the car was not that badly damaged and the fire engine not at all.

A quick trip into the bank with my beloved all attentive in a touching way. A cheque paid in and off we went to the scrap yard.

Getting a rear light out of a xantia estate is not that complex. You open the tailgate, well unless the car is in a scrap yard and you can't open it in which case you open the back doors unless of course it's in a scrap yard and the door cannot be opened in which case you climb from the front seat over the back seat form there you get into the back of the car and using the skills of a professional contortionist you pull the trim apart at the back of the car and reach in to the nut that you cannot see and with lots of force undo the light unit.

That completed and you will be able to repeat your complicated contortions out of the car and rejoin the management outside of the car. This being the bleakest midwinter the heater motor in the Xantia has decided that now would be a good time to die. Filling the car with brutal electrical cremation smells.

I did think of going back to get the heater motor then thought better of it...

Naturally, the heater on the IVECO did not want the Citroen to feel lonely.

R