I was ready for the recovery truck at 9 o’clock. 5½ hours later I phoned the AA. I was on hold for a long time. They checked with the recovery people. They’ll be about 15 to 20 minutes. An hour later I get a phone call . . . we’ll be with you by 4 o’clock. They were :)

The blip is a bottle of wine I opened on Saturday but only had a small glass and another on Sunday. There’s still some for tomorrow.

15 phone calls later (out and in), 11 text messages (in) and much stress over the past 4 days, the car should now have reached my trusted garage for repair.

There are no doubt numerous grammatical errors in this and the previous text. I apologise.

Backblips posted and if anyone wants to follow the saga from the start you need to go back to Friday.