In light of all the fuel price moaners:
from better transport (who in turn got their figures from a DFT publication) - it turns out the people moaning about fuel tax may be looking in the wrong direction.
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We had our return trip to the safari park and the clutch didn’t burn out - although it had a good try. For some reason while waiting to go into the wolf enclosure he clutch pedal refused to come up and so we had an interesting burning smell. We were escorted back to the car park (although by this time the clutch pedal had come up), had our lunch and went on some rides (giving the clutch some time to cool down) and then we went round the park again. The car seems fine, but it’s obviously something to keep an eye on.
On Thursday, in my continuing efforts to have a rubbish week I had a car accident. I was driving to work when a car came out of a side road, I braked and swerved - but not enough - and the end result is the bonnet and front left of the car are completely caved in (so much so that we couldn’t move the car from out of the road until a recovery truck arrived). According to the other driver the left indicator was on, although I don’t see how that would have happened since I was a good mile from the last left I’d done and the road I was on is fairly curvy which should have knocked it off even if I hadn’t noticed.
Anyway it is in the hands of the insurance company now.
Hopefully things will improve tomorrow with the delivery of our replacement new washing machine.