Keep on trucking

  I took the car in for a service on Friday, it is at 242000 miles and needed to be checked out. The final result? It is still pretty much in total working order. After 8 years and that many miles there is still nothing wrong with it. The only things they found were normal wear and tear (brake pads, tyres) or stupid niggly things that don't affect the car itself (like the small shocks that no longer hold the bonnet up or the one that is meant to pull back the parking brake pedal (yes it's a pedal) that doesn't fully pull it up). All the important stuff though like the engine and drivetrain and wiring is all in working order. I can only hope that it keeps up like this for many more miles to come since I don't want to replace this vehicle any time soon and if we do it will be with something that is equally capable of towing our caravan.

  In other important news I have a delicious muffin and lovely bap to eat today. My wife did some baking at the weekend using a brand of flour that we found recently. All her previous efforts didn't come out quite right but just by changing to this flour everything is coming out perfect. It is amazing the end effect using crappy mass produced supermarket flour has on baking. Of course with my wife's careful eating she can't eat half the things she makes but I am definitely going to benefit from all this :) .

  The final piece of news, I wish we had the ability to have and support more cats in our lives. I was at the pet shop this weekend picking up some biscuits for Daisy (she really likes one type of one brand) and as usual looked over the pets for adoption (the very same place we got Lucy and Daisy). In there were two absolutely lovely siamese kittens that had to be about 8 weeks old. They looked very like Fudge at a younger age. They were so lovely I had to take a quick video and send it to my wife who promptly ordered me to bring them home. I really wish I could since having cats around, despite the odd bit of annoyance, is a wonderful part of our lives. One day I hope we are in a position to have more than 4 cats (which is a fair bit of work but so worth it).