Both boys have now finished their last exams, so we celebrated at Miller and Carter with a lovely dinner on Wednesday evening.
The sun is most definitely out to play (nearly 30 Celsius for a few days) and summer has started for the two of them.
Happy days until results days in August – Happy Summer 2025 everyone
RT Took this piccy last night as I thought it was funny….
The goods news is that Vicky is driving “little” to school this afternoon to collect Oliver from his last GCSE exam….
We ended up thankfully with three passes 🙂
However on the way to the testing station, little Mia began exhibiting a rather unfortunate scraping sound. The assumption being that the rear wheel bearing had given up…
So, we arranged for Mia to make a visit to a local garage to have both wheel bearings replaced (we had already bought them some months ago as they were in need of replacing) and while it there the new stick suspension installing – that way the car is better placed for taking Olly into school (currently too low and won’t go over the speed humps in the car park) as well as being in a strong place to take us to Goodwood Festival of Speed in about a mo the time.
The suspension is now sorted but they were unable to get the wheel bearings out as they could not get the wheel hub off without causing damage that would not be repairable 🙁
However, what they did establish was that the rear nearside wheel was not fastened on fully and hence IT was the source of the noise. How it didn’t fall off is a miracle in honesty and a lesson for Dad to check all maintenance items following their “completion”
We have also taken out and AA policy to protect us against any issues should we decide to take Mia to Goodwood…
Wishing all the dads (and those who have the role of dad but without the official title) a terrific day
The sun is shiny in Flockton this morning and the boys are enjoying a laze in bed…..
Both Teslas and little Mia have their MoTs in a 10 day period starting with Mia on the 18th June. The Teslas are already booked in at Halfords near Simon’s Leeds workplace but we still need to get Mia sorted out.
While there is no obvious detriment to her condition since last year, given her age, anything is possible.
Olly has cleaned up her underside and checked that it is just the paint on the suspension areas that was corroded – the arms etc all still look OK.
We have also finished the stitching of the rear window surround so the soft top is ready for summer, although obviously that has nothing to do with MoT.
Fingers crossed all goes well as Oliver really wants to be taken to prom later in the month and that is entirely dependent on an MoT pass