Unsprung Heroes

Paying at the Severn Bridge tolls with my card is always a stressful experience because I can't reach the card machine without climbing out of my seat #miniproblems

If you're in a car park looking for a space and you see a man getting into his car, you might wait for him to leave so you can have his space. What you wouldn't do is sit there and beep at him to make him hurry up. But that's what I witnessed today. A disabled man was getting into his car, which was parked in a disabled space, and a woman in a Range Rover waited with her car practically touching the bumper of this man's car and beeped at him continually while he slowly put his shopping away and got into the car. As if that wasn't bad enough, once this awful woman had parked, she climbed out of her obnoxious vehicle and trotted across the road to M&S in her high heels, showing no signs of a disability that would require her to need the disabled space she had forced her way into. People like her make me incredibly angry and I hope her stupid car gets run over by a tank.

Blue is getting a new brushed aluminium dashboard soon - question is do I leave it as it is or paint it? What colour?

Looks like Blue and I might have to swim home today, wish us luck. Minis and flooded roads are not an ideal combination.

Got some car maintenance to do this weekend after my dad finally identified the cause of Blue's mysterious rattling noise. I can't help but wonder what other problems we'll find along the way. It's all part of the fun of Mini ownership though, of course.