Cars:
Right as promised earlier in the year I have started to reduce the fleet from its once heady heights of 7.
Currently the following has taken place:
The faithful servant that was my Seat Toledo V5 has departed for pastures new after suffering the ignominity of blowing up on the M25 late one night. Dutifully fixed up by yours truely it was punted out for £600 or so, not bad considering it had been run nearly into the ground by myself!
The green/blue little Ax i had was loaded onto my trailer and dropped off at a friends place down in deepest darkest Sussex.
And yesterday a deal was agreed on the Volvo 850 T5 and within a week or so that will be gone as well. Reducing me down to a mere 4 cars!
The new kid on the block, the Skoda Octavia vRS is filling in beautifully from the Toledo. Its quick, practical, smart, subtle yet aggressive when needed.
Unsurprisingly since acquiring it in April (the week before my brothers wedding) i have covered 4000 miles or so, although it did get a break a few weekends back when i crazily decided to take the Polo on a 400 mile round trip to Bristol, via Dorset!
Remarkably, considering it doesn't ever go anywhere, it made it there and back unscathed. Yes it was slow, yes it was noisy and doesn't have a stereo, but shockingly it was quite relaxing and liberating. A real sense of achievement compared to tanking it there and back in the comfort of the Skoda.
Resting on the campsite:
The trip down to Dorset had a purpose, mainly to attend my good friend and ex-youth leader/Pastor Matt's 40th birthday.
Matt's blog recently mentioned cycling, another of my hobbies, and it seems only fitting to include something about the Tour De France in here somewhere. SO tomorrow there hopefully will appear a blog post about the first 5 days.
Watch this space>................
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