Holiday

I have switched off alerts i am off on my holidays tomorrow.  Daughter and g'kids coming as well.  Son, d'in law and other g'kids have gone up north to d'in law's nan's funeral.  We are going to Norfolk staying in a cottage, so i hope the weather is kind to us.

All last week was spent running around trying to buy a car for daughter, we have got her a Skoda Fabia like ours but a car not estate and of course diesel.  So this will give it a real test driving to Norfolk.

G'daughter stayed for a couple of nights and came to work with me as i was by myself in the shop, my normal helper was at a conference with the boss helping him to sell books.  :-(  We shouldn't be all alone in the shop but that's another story.

Thursday me and g'daughter went on a little shopping spree and then went and had a nice tea in a local restaurant.  Shame g'dad had to go to bed early for late shift, lol!!

I haven't packed yet, lost my get up and go but i will do it all in a spurt tomorrow.  Spent most of the week worrying if we had bought the right car for daughter, always a worry when it is not new.  Daughter was worrying as well as she will be paying us back.  Do you remember the film 'Christine' about a car that took over the owners life and tried to kill him when he wanted to get rid of the car.  Well, my daughter was dreaming her old car was Christine and upset about her getting rid of it.  So this car took her to the edge of a cliff and pushed her off.  This was when she fell out of bed, she had turned herself completely around in bed and landed on some ironing on the floor beside the bed so didn't hurt herself but she feels very quilty about trying to sell her old car, it has been good to her.

Every now and again i think of something i might want to take and put it in a little pile in the dining room.  I am sure there is an easier way of doing it???

Oh well this won't do i must think and make a list or else something important will be missed.

Be back soon.

Jenny <><

Painting by numbers badly

Last summer we bought a new car.  On halloween whilst my hubby was on his way to work about 11.30pm, 8 lads jumped out and threw eggs at the car.  Apart from the danger and egg on the window blocking his view the eggs damaged the paintwork on the bonnet.  You could see where the eggs had skimmed across.

He thought what the heck he might as well get it seen to through the insurance.

We had to put it into the paintwork shop that the insurance people chose.

The first time it went in for a bonnet re-spray, they sprayed the bonnet and a wing??  Then they sprayed the boot as they had scratched it whilst looking in there.  Why they were looking we don't know.

So that was one bonnet, one wing, one boot.

They hadn't done the bonnet right you could see a patch different from the rest.  The insurance asseser would not accept it and said it had to be done again.

Back it went for the bonnet to be re-sprayed.  This time it came back with the bonnet and both wings having been re-sprayed, but minus the badges that had been on the side to tell you that the car had been an 'elegance' fabia.  These badges we found inside the door-well.

So now we had had one bonnet, two wings and a boot re-sprayed.

Again it was wrong, the wing had the same mark as the bonnet had had and a run mark.

Back again, It went in Friday supposedly straight into the body workshop and would be ready maybe that day.  Monday we was told it would be ready Tuesday.  Tuesday (today) we was told it would be ready tomorrow about 3pm.  Oh, and we have sprayed the door as well to blend the colour in with the wing.

What!! It only went in for the wing to be redone.

So that makes now...One bonnet, two wings, one boot, one door.

They might just as well have given it a complete re-spray.

Hubby is not holding out a lot of hope of it being right this time (the door, why???).

Also this will put our insurance up even though we have a protected no claims.  We keep the no claims but the basic premium will go up next year.

We only had it done in the first place because we thought we might change it after a year or two and wanted to get the most part-exchange for it. 

You wouldn't believe eggs could cause such a problem, although to be fair they had gone through a few layers of paint.

So if you hear screams over the south of England tomorrow you will know why.

Jenny <><

Tags: halloween, eggs, car, paintwork,

This and that

Think i have been overdoing it and burning too much of the midnight oil, i caught my second cold in the last few months and after not having had one in the last couple of years.

Summer came for a few days and now they are saying that might have been it for this year.  What!! i haven't had my summer holiday yet.  Come back sun.

G'son came round today and got all his golden locks cut off.  He now has a little bit of blond fuzz on the top of his head.  I must admit that is how i like it.  Not such a big chance of catching nits that way.

G'daughter seemed to have swallowed a cup full of cheek before she came so i wasn't so happy with her.  It's a hard age 11 1/2.

We have a new minister about to start at church on 1st Sept.  We have been without one for a year and the one before was ill for the whole of the 5 years she was with us and then left suddenly so we are hoping that things will get back to normal, we have had a hard 6 years.

We are trying to find a new car for my daughter, not easy when none of us are car experts.  We are looking for a Skoda Fabia diesel, a car we know about as we are on our second and hubby is involved with delivering Skoda spare parts so we know not much goes wrong with them.  But because they are so reliable not many come up for sale and when they do we ask ourselves why.  Can't win can we.

Well i said this was a this and that post i haven't done much other than gone to work and nursed my cold.  Ah well, it is preferable to drama.

Jenny <><

Tags: cold, hair cut, car, new minister