Happy Birthday..........

.........to my wee car. See blip 12 months ago!

It's 12months to the day that I picked it up from the showroom, the same day it was first registered.

Not sure if this is a car's birthday or whether it should be the day it rolled off the production line but hey ho. Does it really matter.

The worrying thing is that, in a spare moment in time, I worked out that, at an average of 40mph - and that is what it says on the trip - I have spent 700 hours in the car to date. That is 29.1 days of my life.

What is even more worrying is that, at an average cost of £1.20 per litre of diesel, this will have cost me over £3K!

What is even more worrying is that..............I can be bothered to work all of this out!

But happy birthday anyway. I still loves ya!

And that is the sea in the background. Looking out on a driech day from the sea front in Helensburgh.

How come my son gets trips to Portugal with work - and I get Helensburgh?