My son came over and kindly took me and a car full of boxed up belongings to the new place. Is was very surprised to find that some of my belongings had already made the journey! Christmas trees, some decorations, soft toys, new coffee cups and even some supplies were already there. It was apparent that somehow my wife had visited, but quite how she had managed to transport so much stuff was a mystery to me.
Back at the other home I was kept guessing at how it had been achieved. It had to be on the Wednesday when I was out at work, but there was no conceivable way for her to transport that amount of stuff on public transport. After much suspense and a lot of banter about how blind I must be not to have missed the relocated items, it was finally revealed that her mother had father had visited. They had made two trips and it had been an opportunity for my step daughter to check out our new place.
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The VW started by the key, but until it has warmed up it has a tendency to stall. Today it stalled and refused to start again. I changed out three batteries eventually borrowing the fresher battery from the Fairlane. Still it refused to start. It waggled the gear leaver in the hope it was just a poor contact in the start position switch which was recently the cause of a similar problem. I had replaced the switch and carefully positioned the contacts up only a few months ago. Again it failed to turn over the engine. Prior to replacing the switch I had replaced the starter motor and thought I had eliminated it as the cause of the problem. However it did start when I gave the starter motor a tap with hammer while my wife turned the ignition key. Before getting off the drive the van stalled again but this time started on the key.
I had not performed some of the basic checks but simply had to hope all the lights were working as we were now late for the MOT test. At the test centre the ignition was turned off and again it refused to start. Even with the aid of a gentle tap on the starter. Eventually with a lager tap the van started. All rather annoying, but it did not fail on that.
Unfortunately an area of rot that will need welding work and play in the steering did cause the van to fail. Now the race is on to how quickly the problem can be rectified and at what cost. I really needed the van to pass as we have to move it form the drive and cannot have a SORN vehicle on the estate we are moving too. I also needed it to be working as we need to move all our stuff and do not have the money to rent a van.
It is starting to look like the van may very reluctantly have to go to the scrap yard.
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The VW has been sat on the drive on a SORN for the last few months, as there was no money to put it through the MOT, and the Road Tax and Insurance were about due too. It was not long after that every inch of its interior was given over to the storage of stuff! Stuff that could not manage to get indoors as indoors is full of stuff on top of stuff!
I managed eventually to locate the disconnected battery and the battery charger amongst the accumulated stuff! Once the battery was connected and given a brief charge, the engine did start. However if there ever was any fuel left in the tank it was on longer there. The boot of the fairlane yielded five litres of unleaded fuel.
Now all I need to do is find a way of making stuff disappear and then I will be able to drive it to the MOT test centre.
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After 3 years on the waiting list we have at last been offered a shoebox sized flat. It overlooks a very noisy skip sorting plant. It is a new build and to us that means yet another year of not being able to decorate or put shelving or pictures. The are many reasons why the property is far from ideal, but it is very close to a train station.
We had no real choice but to take it, we need to be gone from our current address by Febuary and we needed to move nearer to Ware for schooling reasons at a matter of urgancey too.
Somehow we now have to pay for rent at two addresses, buy a cooker, something to sit on, wardrobs, repair two vehicals and get moved before Christmas, but at least we will have a roof over our heads.
Broxie Life
Today we received a call to request that we view a property next week. If I had kept my original surgery appointment I would have still been in hospital and no in a fit state to consider a move. Life moves in mysterious ways.
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It was a great honour to meet with the lady that took my canceled surgery date, she proudly showed me the results of the operation that she had yesterday.
I had thought that being on the ward would either make me remorseful about my persponed operation or scared of what is to come. That was not the case though and I was simply happy that a friend had the result she wanted so much.
It was also a great opertunity to see the staff and how the ward worked.
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The genital electrolysis session today was the best one to date. I had out the EMLA cream on before leaing home, so it had time to work. My wife attened with me and the the way conversation was a welcome distraction when the pain was very intense.
Broxie Transition Electrolysis