Not fixed yet but not my problem

 Not much progress on the car problem.....the garage husband took it to yesterday said they were too busy to do it and recommended somewhere else, a main dealer.  Husband went there, they were also too busy to do a full diagnostic on their testing equipment, so have booked the car in.....for a week on Monday.  After we come back from our Midlands trip.  Sigh.  The mechanic had a very quick look at the car and said, purely based on a quick visual glance and husband's description of the problem, that the car 'should' be ok for our 3.5 hour each way drive......I hope he's right!

Meanwhile, husband rang a mobile mechanic recommended to us by our friend - he left a message on the guy's voicemail but he didn't get back to us - presumably he won't now until Monday.  I guess people have to have some time off.  As there's now just a few days before we go on our trip, there's very little time to get the car problems diagnosed and sorted, if necessary, anyway.  Which is precisely why husband should have done it weeks ago and why I was so annoyed that he didn't, despite me asking him to several times over the past few weeks.

The trouble with garages/vehicle workshops is that they quite often have a bad reputation, and unless you have a personal recommendation from someone you know, there's no way of knowing if you can trust them.  After all, online reviews can be written by anybody, how do you know they're not written by the business themselves, or friends/relatives of theirs?

Anyway, it's husband's problem and I'm leaving him to deal with it.  He knows how I feel about it.

I'm just trying to focus on the caravan and our (well, my) new plans for it this year.  My craft room, the little spare bedroom, is full to overflowing with new stuff for the van - all the cushions, legs, loose cover and new throws for the new sofa, a lovely white 4 drawer tallboy to replace the pink plastic one in my van bedroom, new bedding, new garden shoes, some new kitchen equipment.  It's one big clutter in there (which puts me off sitting at my craft desk, but never mind), but it does make me smile to go in there and just have a look at all the nice new stuff and imagine it in the van.

I've done all the necessary housework jobs this  morning, got tonight's dinner prepped (homemade pork, sage and paprika burgers with new potatoes and salad).  So this afternoon I'm going to sit and crochet whilst watching a film.  Seems there's nothing worth watching on TV tonight, it's all game shows or reality TV, neither of which we're interested in, or films that have been repeated dozens of times.  We did record quite a few things over Christmas/New year, so I expect we'll watch one of those.

I've got a pork loin out of the freezer to roast tomorrow, it's quite a big one so I'll have to plan pork meals for the next few days.  I do like cold pork sandwiches with stuffing and mustard mayo on sourdough bread, so that'll be Monday's lunch, and probably a pork stir fry for the evening meal.