.....and it was, indeed it has, since Saturday. Especially Saturday, when after breakfast we discovered that the camper had a flat tyre. The camper had already been on adventure the previous day. Collecting it from the garage and driving it home I was concerned that it tended to pull to the right, was slow and lethargic, and, as I turned into our road, smelled of burnt toast. I’d driven at around twenty five to thirty miles an hour along a lane with a sixty mile speed limit, sort of knowing that I should turn back, but definitely knowing that it would be my ‘driving’ that would be blamed, so I continued home and told my better half when he arrived back from work. I saw the ‘it’s her driving’ flash across his face, but he is experienced in the ways of Mrs.T. and he didn’t say it. To humour me, he drove the camper a couple of hundred yards........ rang the garage, and very slowly set off back there. Our weekend away looked over before it had started. After much peering under the van and head shaking discussion, the brakes were discovered to be at 200 degrees and the cylinder thingy had been cracked when the discs were replaced. A new second hand one was quickly put in and we eventually set off for the Cotswolds . See, I may not know the names of thingies, but I know when they are going wrong.
Saturday morning and it was raining again... and we had a flat tyre. It’s tricky with a camper van finding a garage with a high enough roof to take it, but we did and the great guys at Malvern Tyres took good care of things. I waited in the shop/waiting area, thoroughly entertained by the comings and goings of mechanical men (now there’s a dream) and customers. A poster advertising tyres caught my attention:
‘ tyres epitomise style, trend awareness and individuality’
I want them and I want them bad. Because I’m SO worth it. A well dressed gent came in, leaned sort of confidentially over the counter and asked
‘Do you have any rubber exhaust hangers?’
Now even I know that exhausts are not made of rubber.
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