A watched drive takes an eternity to fill, but just before midday Adam from The Old Volks Home arrived with Bob after giving her a final fettle earlier in the week.

We immediately took her out for a drive to find, thankfully, that she’s in a much better way than at the weekend. H also discovered that the CD I’d prepared especially for the occasion only had ‘Where Are You?’ – the theme from ‘Moonraker’ – on it! On our return home we showed the inside a cleaning cloth (H) and stuck the tax disc in and took photos (Me).

Here we go with the first proper pictures of the outside…

and of the inside (and engine)…

Once I’d worked out what all the keys do (and discovered that there’s a knack to unlocking the front passenger door that only H has) we had the two hour wait until the end of school.

A knew nothing of Bob and as far as he was concerned we were going to go and pick him up so we could do some Christmas shopping at Freeport, a prospect that he was not at all excited about. We’d had to stop whilst getting petrol and ask one of his teachers to keep the secret as he’d seen us, and we’d also spoken to Pete around the corner to make sure he didn’t rumble us either.