Hello sunshine!

This week’s main priority was to get my car serviced (Tuesday), have two new tyres fitted (yesterday) and get it through its biennial CT (equivalent to a UK MOT) today and I’m glad to say that the mission was successfully accomplished without a hitch. Amazingly, I’ve now had my Kia Sportage for ten years almost to the day and aside from having to have a second-hand engine fitted when it’s (expensive) Bosch fuel pump failed and destroyed its engine (I was lucky to get hold of a very cheap replacement in San Sebastian in Spain), it’s been incredibly reliable.

The tester was very complimentary about it (I doubt he’d have been if he’d seen it a couple of days ago before I’d thoroughly cleaned it inside and out) and he was disappointed when I told him that this would almost certainly be the last time he’d see it. I’ve used it to help me fetch and carry heavy and dirty stuff to do with my house build and other stuff in my old house and I intend to continue doing the same with the work I’ve now started in my garden. When that’s finished, though, it’ll be time to pension it off and get a newer car.

But that wasn’t all that happened today! The postman delivered my long-awaited new bed linen for my new bed. It’s taken a long time to come because I think it was made to order. It’s the biggest bed I’ve ever had (I ordered a smaller mattress and when the supplier replaced it they said that I could keep the ‘wrong’ big one for free!) and getting the duvet cover onto the enormous (to me) new duvet was a nightmare in itself. But ultimately I got it all together so I can sleep in it for the first time tonight and the results are shown in the photos.

The room is still very sparse as it only has the bed in it but you don’t think that I’ve gone… errrr… too yellow do you? 😀