[Luckypants]

Cars!

Yesterday we got a puncture in the big car, rendering it useless as like all modern cars it has no spare. The OE tyres are self sealing (allegedly, experience proves otherwise) so not even a self inflation kit in my car. The wife limped it to the garage who will have a look today. The bright spot is the punctured tyre is due replacement anyway, so I'll have those done a week or two early.

Mel got her son to pick her up in our little car that he has been using for the past few weeks, so we are not without transport. A few miles into the drive to go shopping (her original journey) a check engine light came on! Seems we have a problem with the exhaust on that too. Car manual says its safe to drive with this light on, so we are limping around until we can get that in for analysis.

Grrrrr!