Stuck in recycling

Today was a bit of a Toad adventure it started off with mrT annihilating reshaping Flopsys' holly tree into a bush, he emerged covered in holly shaped scratches from head to toe.
We gathered up the cuttings and headed off to the recycling centre, off loaded them jumped back in the car and - nothing - the car wouldn't start so we called the AA and the very kind man seen in the blip told us to go and sit in the office & offered us a cup of tea while we were waiting.
The breakdown man arrived and diagnosed a problem and then on to the garage for it to be fixed.
A five minute outing took us about 3 hours & cost us nearly £60.