A new car

Today we bought a new car. We're both very excited because we've never had a brand new car on the first day that new registrations come out. This is a 'Fiat Qubo'. Ann chose this for us because there is lots of room in the boot for me (apparently the back seats fold down in about 16 different ways?!), the back doors slide open (very good when I'm in the boot and Ann wants to throw the shopping on the back seat), the driver sits quite high up in it, and, it's supposed to be very economical on petrol consumption.

Ann's teenage nephews were not impressed with this choice - apparently they are now going to call her 'white van Ann'. In fact, we might not even be allowed to park on their drive the next time we visit incase it destroys their street cred?! But we don't care. We're not followers of fashion.

Tomorrow we're heading up to Swaledale in North Yorkshire en-route to Edinburgh. That means I'll have to be in the car for at least 8 hours. I had a little practise at sitting in the new car but I didn't go anywhere. In fact I felt a bit stupid. Ann made me jump into the boot, then she took photos of me, then she said we were going back into the house.

Sometimes I really do think she's lost the plot?!!!