So our babe of a car is in the garage. We’re waiting to hear whether her engine can be saved. We’re hopeful. She’s been well looked after. Luckily being in a city means we don’t need to use her. Luckily we weren’t on the way to a house-sit when she broke down (on the motorway). She was rescued by lots of lovely nice recovery people. Simon, the superstar, dealt with it all perfectly. Without stress or worry. Just gratefulness that he hadn’t needed to be anywhere urgently when it happened.

Now we wait and see. We’ve given the nice mechanics two weeks to sort her out. We’ve told them we have a time scale. We need to be in Dorset at the beginning of July. So we’re sending the Wu Bus (her nickname) lots of love and happy vibes. That she may come back to us swiftly and more healthier than ever.

This is her basking in the New Forest. She likes a peaceful sleep amongst the trees.