Service

 Another prompt start today. Again, Ellie was due to be at the child-minder so Urban-Cub had to get her up and going. Once Urban-Cub had left the Silver Vixen and Gorse Fox did the "car dance", whereby the Silver Vixen's car is shifted off the drive to allow the Gorse Fox to get to his car. The first activity was to remove all of the plastic bags from the boot. Perhaps the Gorse Fox should explain. Each week the Ocado delivery comes in a series of plastic bags. In the time "BC" we were charged for these, but reimbursed for every bag we returned the following week. During the pandemic Ocado stopped the bag collection and suggested we store them for when they restart. We have some six months of bags compressed into bundles and stored in the boot of the Fiesta.

After a really hard year, where the Fiesta has clocked up nearly 750 miles, it was time to get it serviced and get a DVLA MOT. The Gorse Fox whizzed the car into Chichester and eventually found somewhere to park it at the dealership. Waving a cheery goodbye he left them to it and strolled back to the bus station to get the bus home.

Back home, The Gorse Fox spent some quality time developing some new code. He has two versions (based on yesterday's conundrum) a Plan A version, and a Plan B version. Both versions now work perfectly - but there's still some documentation to complete.

Mid afternoon, the Gorse Fox headed back to the bus stop. Getting into Chichester a bit earlier than planned he leapt off the bus early so he would have a longer walk to the dealership. As he got within 100 yards of the garage, his phone rang. It was the service manager phoning to confirm the car was ready. Timed to perfection.

Needless to say, the car passed its MOT. The frustrating part was that this was a scheduled major service. So despite it being the scheduled 75,000 mile service, the car has only done 15,000 miles in 6 years and only 750 of those were this past year. Despite that it still managed to drain £460 from the bank account. (They were very expensive those 750 miles!)