good news!
my car has sounded like it’s got dustbin lids under it for ages now, I’d intended to take it to the garage when the Red Cross money landed (but it didn’t so I’ve just been hoping the exhaust didn’t fall off anywhere too public in the mean time!)
Anyway, Duke peered under there today and guess what? It wasn’t the exhaust, it was some heat shield that reflects the exhaust heat away from the boot so not terribly important but terribly noisy when only held on by 1 bolt and therefore boinging about under there!
So I have extra money in the budget for next month (which could just fall through my fingers at the Education show of course!)
In other news, I have had to almost physically prise Aprilia off the PC to put her to bed tonight! Why? Because one of the games on Study Dog that used to reduce her almost to tears a year ago is now so easy it’s FUN. I am so glad I put level 1 on "By mistake" for her to play with before installing level 2!


