Preparing

The Gorse Fox and Silver Vixen are preparing for a short trip. As a result, it has been a day of bits and pieces.

It all started with a trip to Skoda to see if the Gorse Fox could get to the bottom of the DAB radio tuning. A nice engineer came and sat with him and in a slightly condescending way explained how it worked. The Gorse Fox said, ok then do it. It didn’t work. Much head scratching began and a random selection of buttons and settings were altered. Nothing. “You’ll have to book it in so I can put it on the probe” said the confused engineer. Another random button was pressed. The Gorse Fox agreed to set it up. At that moment the missing national stations on DAB appeared. Now the engineer was really confused. “But I haven’t done anything” he wailed. The Gorse Fox responded “Whatever you didn’t do worked perfectly. Thank you”. He drove home, a happy man.

Next there was some shopping to complete. This took longer than expected as the coupon that the Gorse Fox was spending (and expires tomorrow) wasn’t being accepted by the automatic till. A nice man came to help. He pressed some buttons. Nothing. He called a nice young lady. She pressed some buttons and concluded the Gorse Fox need to spend a few pound more to exhaust the value of the voucher. This, indeed, worked.

The Silver Vixen has gone out with Lady Penelope this afternoon. It’s an opportunity for her to explore the new car a bit more as the Gorse Fox has done most of the driving so far.

In preparation for the short trip, the Gorse Fox is planning to use his iPad instead of his usual Lenovo Tablet. This then is a test of how practical it is for blogging and how easy it is (or isn’t) to include photos.

If all goes well, there will be a photo of Cousteau-Cub and Urban-Cub when young, embedded in this post.