Well - it has been an eventful few weeks with cars. I have now bought 10 new tyres and 4 2nd hand winters with 7mm of tread on them for my trips to Germany.

I have also bought a Mondeo ST220, like my son's, as the new daily. bought for it's economy :-) well 35mpg on a cruise! Heated red leather Recaro interior, air con, Xplod Stereo - CD/DVD player, Pearlescent Panther black - apparently a £2000 option when new? Some small jobs to be done, service, oil leak from

crank shaft seal (common problem with these cars), wheel alignment and refurb, front track rods, new front disks/pads. Seems a good car and my son has given it a thorough look over and upgraded it in a number of ways already with his knowledge of the model.

Went on a trip to Germany, but while checking it for the journey discovered three tyres would not be legal in Germany as they were not stamped M&S for winter, hence the 3 new tyres. I arrived in Germany to the smell of excess fuel from under the bonnet!

Roy, who lives in Germany, gave me a hand (well what I mean is he sorted the problem while I looked on - thanks Roy) to sort the leaking injector - just not sited properly? why would it suddenly come out of position.

However, as I got to Dunkirk on the return journey I suddenly had no PAS, reservoir empty? filled it up and got all the way home before I lost PAS again. Looks like the rack is leaking! Merde! This A8 was definitely not a good decision. :-(