An early start yesterday morning to head down to Stratford-upon-Avon where we met Kevan for the first time and his P reg MGF, in paint code HAM, known as ‘Moira’ that was named so by the previous owner.
He’d initially enquired about a pump up of the hydragas, but given that ride wasn’t great and the mileage on the car he wanted to go for replacement of the spheres themselves. So this we did for him, and it all went really well. We look forward to hearing how his ride out went.
Good to meet Kevan, who makes a cracking brew too.
From there we headed on up to Kidderminster for work on Marks LE 500, 80 of 500 (paint code 106) and Micks 2003 TF 135 (paint code JFV). We’d briefly met Mark when we were at Steve Cottons, last year, when he came over to buy his roll-hoops, which are now looking very good on Marks LE.
Weirdly, both of their drivers side door mechs had packed up, and they’d both been having to enter and exit via the passenger side for some time, much to other people’s amusement!
So these were replaced for them and they can now gain entry on the correct side once more. Great to see them both and have a natter before we went on a very long and slow haul back home.
Now here’s the thing we should have been staying over for the night ready for the call this morning in Walsall, but having been away so much lately we wanted to get home. Plus it wouldn’t have been much of a haul to Walsall anyway, it just seemed like a good round trip when first planned.
Thank goodness we did go home as we were met with a burst pipe! What an absolute nightmare!! Long story short, we managed to turn off the water, clear up the flood, but had no electricity throughout the house apart from weirdly one socket, so extension cables duly rigged up around the house to enable us to see etc. The insurance company did their usual of promising emergency plumbers, electricians and accommodation, but none of these transpired until this afternoon.
Unfortunately, we were unable to make it to our call in Walsall today, we contacted the customer last night, which didn’t go down well. Understand his disappointment and frustration, but I can count on one hand how many times we’ve had to cancel an appointment, and wasn’t expecting a response like the one we got.
It’s our 10th wedding anniversary today, and as most of you who know us we never really do the whole celebrating fussy stuff, so I suppose it was quite fitting that the day was spent, mopping up, replacing sink hoses and taps, repairing the boiler, cleaning and generally sorting out carnage. Deep joy all round. 😩 – https://ift.tt/wAZuy1i
