Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
No More Hiccups
by admin - 17:13 on 29 June 2012
With machinery, there's always bad news to temper the rare good variety. So when Richard, the Chief Spanner Twirler at RM Motors, presented a merely modest bill for the work to cure Mr Ford's engine hiccups I knew that gloom was just beyond the horizon.
The real financial pain will strike in August when work involving corroded brake pipes, well-worn brake discs and redundant handbrake callipers is carried out – all vital if another MOT is to be secured. The windscreen needs to be replaced too.
The cost won't be such that it's cheaper to abandon Mr Ford at the side of the road and buy the low-mileage S-Type Jag that Mr Gardener's dad is keen to sell, but it's tempting. Or it would be if I wasn't in the process of amassing the cash to print A Cat Called Tess (sure to make the perfect Christmas gift for any cat-lover; reserve your copy now).
It's fortunate that I've got more markets lined up at which to earn money from my snappery; less fortunate is that the next is at North Kessock, where experience tells me I might earn enough to buy a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the refreshment stand. But you never know. It's in the village hall if you've nothing better to do between 10am and noon.
Marten Update: The light had faded somewhat when Young Marten visited last night but there was enough to prove for certain that she's not a boy. It was even dimmer by the time she loped over to The Nutella Stump and gave me the first opportunity this year of capturing some poses in the tree.
Circumstances were against me so there was little worth keeping, but Squirrel James will be delighted by shots that don't feature the gate. He's a hard man to please.
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