Celebrating our car's birthday

School was quite fine today, despite the boys not getting the maths at all, or the language section in which they had to write ‘attributions’ – “do you even know what that is?”, she asked. We had to break for lunch before finishing, but we only had the history and read-aloud to do afterwards so it didn’t take long. Then I went to town, with both boys in tow. The reason Caleb though it would be fine to come along is that we are driving a different car today, following Brenda’s panic phonecall yesterday to say that our car is no longer insured (must be a year since we got it them – time flies!) and we mustn’t drive it – she had forgotten to attend to it earlier (she is the treasurer and doer of things while Vincent and Vilma are away). Nick took the car in early this morning for its first service and MOT, after which insurance will be bought. Fortunately Ian from the garage could lend us a car, and the boys think it’s quite fancy on the inside – it has a brown marble-finish dashboard, but it’s actually just a Ford something, Escort I think. Anyway, town was fairly quiet but the boys were not on their best behaviour, and kept running around the shops.