Twenty Inch
Guru
- Location
- Behind a desk
Some of you know I have an allotment, mainly for because I like growing food and cooking fresh vegetables, slightly because I resent supermarkets' power and quite enjoy being subversive by eating a fresh swede I've grown myself, but mostly because I like growing free food. OF course, for free food you need fertility, so when I saw a freegle add for free manure, I was delighted.
Loaded the BX up with about 200kg of free manure, and got two miles down the road when the back end went down, the steering went heavy and the brakes evaporated. I'd bust a hydraulic line and had no suspension, steering or brakes - they all run off the same system. So I started limping home with hazards on, and was within 1/2 a mile of the allotment when I drove into a combined VOSA/HMRC/Police/Environmental health checkpoint at the side of the road. Well they ALL had a go at me, with the result that I got an instant prohibition on driving any further. Fair enough, they cut me some slack and gave me an exemption if I could get the manure unloaded so I called my mate Reg and he drove up in his shiny new Dodge 4x4 pick-up and we put 200kg of shoot into it....
Anyway, the garage is going to charge me about 300 quid for the repair and subsequent MoT. In the meantime however I goofed around on Ebay and found a nice Xantia estate for 500 quid that I committed to buy, hoping my offer would be rejected.
So since Saturday morning, my free manure for my free veg has cost me 800 quid and has lumbered me with 2 cars...
You've got to laugh, haven't you?
Loaded the BX up with about 200kg of free manure, and got two miles down the road when the back end went down, the steering went heavy and the brakes evaporated. I'd bust a hydraulic line and had no suspension, steering or brakes - they all run off the same system. So I started limping home with hazards on, and was within 1/2 a mile of the allotment when I drove into a combined VOSA/HMRC/Police/Environmental health checkpoint at the side of the road. Well they ALL had a go at me, with the result that I got an instant prohibition on driving any further. Fair enough, they cut me some slack and gave me an exemption if I could get the manure unloaded so I called my mate Reg and he drove up in his shiny new Dodge 4x4 pick-up and we put 200kg of shoot into it....
Anyway, the garage is going to charge me about 300 quid for the repair and subsequent MoT. In the meantime however I goofed around on Ebay and found a nice Xantia estate for 500 quid that I committed to buy, hoping my offer would be rejected.
So since Saturday morning, my free manure for my free veg has cost me 800 quid and has lumbered me with 2 cars...
You've got to laugh, haven't you?