Rain, and Transport Trouble Part II

It has rained for the past three nights, off and on, which has been nice. Some green is actually returning to the grass around and about and the brook once again can be thought of as a contiguously flowing body of water rather than a loosely connected set of puddles.

The garage phoned this afternoon and I went to collect the car about 3 o'clock.

Naively thinking that having been in a garage to have the problem fixed, and having received a service on top of that, it would be safe to drive for a while, we headed off to do some shopping. It cut out the first time half way to Mt Gravatt on the South Side.

We got to Mt Gravatt and did the shopping - a tripod and cable release - only for the bank to reject my card payment on the grounds that I would have exceeded our daily limit on the account, having spent so much bleeding money on the car that day.

So we trooped off back home and the car cut out about five times before we thought Bugger This and called the RACQ again and got a tow back to the garage. The nice lady at the garage had stayed behind and gave us a lift home.

We actually had some social activity planned for the evening and Bronwyn from Nicole's work and husband Scott came round after a while for tea and Scrabble Ashes.

The English scraped home at the last minute by about a few points. We didn't bother counting in the end.