It's Wednesday morning and the brilliant weather has gone for now - it's a grey start to the day - in more ways than one. Yesterday we drove through to Inverurie as usual to pick up Luca from school. We left Banchory a bit earlier than usual as we had intended to go via Costco, Westhill. It was the first time I'd driven my car any distance since it was "fixed" last week.
Jo's worst fears came true when we got to Garlogie - the traction control warning lights started flashing on and off again, causing a loss of power. "Why didn't we take my car?" says she. We decided to abort the Westhill trip and head back to Banchory to change cars. I disabled traction control and we made it safely back to Banchory in good enough time to drive over to Inverurie in Jo's car.
So this morning, I had decided to take the car back to the garage but I thought it would be a good idea to give it a run first to check it out again, so I drove to Aboyne and back. Sod's law, the car behaved itself - no warning lights, no loss of control and no hot wheels. Mmmm..... What to do?
I know - it's time to put my winter tyres on - get the garage to do that and check out the car at the same time. So now, we're a one car family - the garage is short-staffed this week and they probably won't be able to complete the work today.
Grey days like today make me think about holidays next year. It's just over 10 weeks until we head Down Under again. Earlier this year we visited the Clare Valley area of Southern Australia, so it was nice to notice the origin of the wine we opened last week:
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