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As some of you already know, our much-loved car recently got to the stage where you either need the time, tools and expertise to do a lot of wrangling yourself, or you have to be prepared for one garage bill after another. Serious car maintenance is not readily compatible with living in a second-floor London flat, so Susan has gone to live with a hairdresser in Wales who's going to restore her to her former glory.

We've acquired a new car, via the lovely people at Palmdale.  Not a new car, obviously, but a newish second-hand one. It's a Hyundai i30 if you care about that sort if thing.

The problems of starting a new car )

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On the way to work this morning I passed a new, shiny, soberly sensible grey people-carrier. In fact, I passed several. But one of them was sporting a big purple Optimus Prime decal in the middle of its bonnet.

This made me happy.
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Today, I took my car to the garage for a service. The nice people let me have a shiny Corsa to drive around while Blue Johnson was looked at and seen to. A brand spanking new one, with only 1800 miles on the clock.

It had that scary new-car feel, where everything seems very stiff and uncomfortable. It hadn't been worn in yet, and you could feel the corners on the gearbox. The brakes were very sharp and the clicks on the twisty heat control very loud. I also discovered - once on the road - that it had Scary Vauxhall Indicators )

Other than that, the little gold Corsa and I made our way to work quite happily. Except for the bonging. The terrible, terrible bonging )

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