March 24, 2007: The new car

new carSo here it is! Photographic evidence just to reassure visitors that we now only have one old banger. A couple of weeks ago we purchased an old new car or a new old car. It is a classic one lady driver with very low mileage (you can’t say kilometrage can you?). We even have all the service documentation to prove it. Even though it dates from 2003 it is very hi-tech for us. The salesman, who is also our regular car mechanic, was very keen to point out the bottom warmers and keeps switching them on at every opportunity. I’m not used to being beeped at so much and there are warning signals which I don’t even recognise.

I wasn’t going to take it to Billund airport when I went to Germany last week as I thought it was a shame if it was going to stand idle while Tony and the girls needed a car. However it was a very good decision to take the new car as the old Suzuki’s radiator gave up the day I left and I would never have caught my plane if I had taken it.