Got our car back!

Well we finally got our car back! There's still a couple of things wrong with it (the electric mirrors don't work and there is a pssshhhht noise at about 4000 rpm) but we're happy to have it back. I've got to take it in to the dealer again on Wednesday for them to do the above things, though.

I don't think I mentioned our visit to Chessington the other week. On the 28th of September Jessi had a a parent-teacher consultation day at school, and as we had free Chessingon tickets I took the day off work and we went, thinking it'd be a nice day to go as the kids were at school.

So, we had the consultation in the morning (all good), and then went to Chessington. The car park was promisingly empty, but when we got to the ticket place there were a few people milling around looking like they didn't know what to do. One of them told me that all the rides were closed for the day, and only the zoo was open!

Eventually the manager came down to explain and she said that they only open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays because there's no demand during term time (why open Fridays then? Kids are at school then, too!). A couple of other families were like us and had free tickets and had taken days off and one of them suggested that they give us free entry to Thorpe Park instead as it's all the same group. The manager went off and came back and said she could give us entry for £10 to Thorpe, so we were saving £18 per ticket. I pointed out that we were therefore spending £18 rather than nothing, so weren't saving anything at all. Besides, Thorpe Park isn't as suitable for Jess as Chessington is as she is too small for a lot of the rides.

Anyway they plainly couldn't open the rides for us, so I asked if we could keep our free tickets and have complimentary entry to the zoo so that the kids had something to do. She kindly agreed to that so we went into the zoo, which was actually quite good. So we've still got our free tickets to use up before the end of the month! Not sure when we'll go though, maybe in half term.

We had lunch at my mums on Saturday instead of Sunday and then on Sunday we had a very nice home-made curry at Ele's mums for Vickys birthday.

And I had a letter printed in the Daily Express! I sent an email letter in about how this business of charging for rubbish by the weight was daft because it's the lack of space that's the problem, not the weight of it all and it got printed!

Form a queue for autographs, please...

-Neil