Category: Daily life

The mechanics still haven’t finished with the car. They say they that because the steering will is on the right they have been struggling putting the part back. We’d love to have it back this afternoon. Thank you for your prayers.

On the positive side, I know what the problem is (well, I knew but I have forgotten). On the negative side, I am not too happy:

• The garage  said they would phone in the morning and didn’t, so I had to phone them (twice…)
• The secretary didn’t know how much it would cost the first time and still doesn’t know after a second phone call.
• I still don’t know when the car will be ready.

In the meantime, we’re staying home and concentrating on the work to do: sermon prep, annual report, reading, blogging, playing angry birds…

We had problems with the clutch in September, and we had it replaced by a new one. To my surprise, the clutch gave way again this afternoon as I was going out of a car park. The symptoms were different, so I suppose it is another problem than the previous one. I was able to park it and phoned Esther to tell her that she would have to go and fetch Jean-Baptiste to school. The smart phone was put to use and I googled to find the number of the garage. I had the car towed fairly quickly (it is a small town, and the garage wasn’t too far). I had a lift back and was able to catch up with Esther and the boys walking home from school.

The garage will let us know what the problem is tomorrow morning. We’ll probably have to repair it since we don’t have the money to buy another car. Ideally, if we could have this one until the autumn or next winter, then we might be able to consider buying something. We’ll see.

It is quite ironic. I had just been leading a Bible study on Ruth, and we had been talking a lot about Providence. Now the car is broken down…

Chicorée is a replacements for coffee but without caffein.