Bloody motors

Had the campervan booked in for a minor body repair - no, not a little bump on my behalf, but a fatigued broken bracket that holds the wrap around of the rear bumper. Took the bus home using my free bus pass of course, after dropping the van off and on arriving back at the ranch, Carole announced she was off to the library and shops in the Peugeot. Seconds later she asked me to listen to 'orrible noises and I did. The front of the little car seemed ill on small reversing and forward tests and undriveable and the pain was down in the wheel arches, like as if the brakes had jammed on. In the end I had to call recovery, who declared broken coil spring and lucky it didn't break on the motorway coming back from Gatwick as it could have gone into the tyre. They took me to our usual mechanic. No problem, will get the part and do it tomorrow. OK.

Madam then used her bus pass to do her trip, we are on a very convenient couple of routes. I had to cancel my dental checkup appointment (bus not suitable).

She returned, the phone rang, the Peugeot was fixed and the van was too. Luckily the latter garage had sent a driver for me, so we both went, the two garages being about two minutes apart.

We got home with two repaired motors and a total bill of £150.00 !!!!

Bloody motors.