My trip home was "interesting" to say the least, there is a stretch of road between Crosshands and Carmarthen where the A48 is quite straight I must have looked like a one man and very low level red arrow display team, I looked back in my rear view mirror and could see this pall of white sugar smoke drifting across the dual carriageway along it's entire length, confirming that the Pug's life has come to an end, thankfully it got me home but probably burned as much oil and water as diesel in doing it, it only coughed once on the whole way back, Andrea is taking it to work today but it will probably be it's last day on the road...... :(
we looked on Ad trader last night on t'internet and found a nice Peugot 205 XL which is cheap to run and cheap to insure, it's not exactly new, it would have been during the height of the "Duran Duran" era though, and is definitely not an 80's icon car, but it didn't break the bank paying for it, will be cheaper than chips to run, so for an A to B car it's perfect :) and it was cheaper than repairing the 106, we both decided it was false economy to throw more money at the comedy clown car.....from deciding to look at, arrive and then buy said vehicle took just over an hour apparently a record
Andrea drove the comedy clown car to work this morning and it has been dubbed "puff the magic dragon" the kids were horrified apparently I don't blame them it must have been embarrassing to lose their "street cred" turning up for school in a car that creates it's own travelling atmosphere loosely based on London smog, hopefully it will hold together until we can get the new (old) car on the road, but with 11 months MOT left on it and we have both driven it, I don't think we will get much trouble with it........touch wood :)
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