{"id":22834,"date":"2024-05-24T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22834"},"modified":"2024-05-24T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:42:09","slug":"hello-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/hello-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello sunshine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;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&#8217;m glad to say that the mission was successfully accomplished without a hitch. Amazingly, I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s been incredibly reliable.<\/p>\n<p>The tester was very complimentary about it (I doubt he&#8217;d have been if he&#8217;d seen it a couple of days ago before I&#8217;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&#8217;d see it. I&#8217;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&#8217;ve now started in my garden. When that&#8217;s finished, though, it&#8217;ll be time to pension it off and get a newer car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24may24_00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24may24_00_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t all that happened today! The postman delivered my long-awaited new bed linen for my new bed. It&#8217;s taken a long time to come because I think it was made to order. It&#8217;s the biggest bed I&#8217;ve ever had (I ordered a smaller mattress and when the supplier replaced it they said that I could keep the &#8216;wrong&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24may24_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24may24_01_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24may24_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24may24_02_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The room is still very sparse as it only has the bed in it but you don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;ve gone&#8230; errrr\u2026 too yellow do you? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;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&#8217;m glad to say that the mission was successfully accomplished without a hitch. 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