Rain dominated the day; almost relentless, depressing and keeping
us indoors. With a lame vehicle and no solution yet, we waited for a call from
the garage, so that we could deal with other pressing matters and provide a way
forward.
The morning was spent reading and on the positive side, I finished
reading “Wolf Hall”, a book I have hugely enjoyed not only for the story, well
known history but the writing style. No wonder Hilary Mantel was awarded the
Man Booker Award in 2009; I look forward to reading the two volumes that
follow. I spent the entire afternoon editing and amending Chris’s genealogy I
have been working on this year. These were bright spots and happy opportunities
amid the gloom of our days. It is rare that I allow myself to succumb to
negativity, but today was one such.
Late in the afternoon when the rain finally relented, I took
yesterday’s rubbish across to the farm yard for disposal and ran into Chris G.
I told him we were intending to seek him out later, once we had some sort of
schedule from the garage. I related our sad story to him and asked the
important question; could we please extend our stay here for an indefinite
period until the vehicle was again roadworthy?
Happily he was sympathetic and assured me that there would be no
obstacles here; this was one weight off our shoulders.
No sooner did I return and report the good news to my Chris that
Pete from the Chapelhouse Motor Group phoned. Could we have the vehicle at
their workshop tomorrow morning so they can have the situation assessed for an
engineering solution? We responded in the affirmative and asked if they might
have a courtesy car available. There could be but circumstances tomorrow will
decree whether we have need of one. Hopefully there will be more clarity
tomorrow.
Since then we have phoned to the CL we were booked to stay near
Preston to explain the situation and postpone our stay. This is further
complicated by the fact there is mail already on its way to that address for us,
and the possibility of not having space available to us at some vague future time.
We also rang through to the CS we had booked near Penrith, and again explained
the situation; the booking is now cancelled but we did say we still hoped to
come at a later date if there are vacancies.
So at the end of the day, while there is no real good news, we
have moved on a little and look forward to another step tomorrow.
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