Hooray!

The Vixen has come home. H’ray!

The Vixen is very, very shiny. Even bigger H’RAY! (Do you think that perhaps we should have her washed every so often? We find that she is a very shiny red when she is clean!!!!)

The Builder came and collected me from the station at 20 to 5 yesterday afternoon, just after the news had arrived that she was ready for collection. Off we trundled, eventually found the repair garage, handed over the space craft hire car and took The Vixen home. This morning The Builder took me to the station (fortunately, nobody has ever thought to ask exactly what I do for all those hours at the station!) and then went to put some fuel in the car. Was trundling home when the red, there’s-no-water-in-this-here-car warning light came on. He called at a local dentist’s surgery (dentist? There’s a dentist somewhere near? ) and borrowed a jug of water and topped the radiator up. Got home and rang the garage. Hmm, they muttered. Very very sorry and all. Air blockages, don’t you know. Air blockages? A whole radiator full of air! Very bad garage, to let the poor car out without water and anti-freeze in its radiator. Memo to self: must check that The Builder has thought about anti-freeze. The weather may still be mild, but there is still a serious danger of frost and freezy weather!

I reckon the rhinoceros will be happy The Vixen is back. Poor thing has been reduced to guarding the fruit bowl since we dried it out after its snow adventures.

It’s a beautiful, beautiful day today. I went out for an amble at lunchtime (trying to increase my step count from 7-8k to something closer to 10k!) and had a lovely wander. Someone is erecting a large marquee on Fargate, though I don’t know what for. In the meantime, The Builder is at home, digging.

I am still very, very, very tired. This might be a tail end consequence of the virus I had last week or the week before. Personally, I put it down to all this clean Lenten living. It is clearly not good for us to live without cakes, biscuits and CHOCOLATE for more than one or two hours at a time