Good news! The car has passed her MOT test with flying feathers, I mean colours.( I ran over a pheasant on my way down 
) By 8:30am I had the sought after document in my sweaty palm and the garage had £ 42:00 in theirs. Not bad for about 15 minutes work? Oh well, we Brits would have nothing to moan about if we weren't being constantly ripped off.
On the way back home, I called into Tesco's to get some diesel. The things they sell in those places makes the mind boggle, they are mini supermarkets in their own right. According to the pamphlet I was given there is a new concept in fast food on the horizon with the introduction of the UK's first Soup Station. Soup Stations are already big news in Denmark, where they use the same technology that we are already familiar with on petrol forecourts. Customers can drive up to the pumps and fill up with a variety of different soups, then pay at a special kiosk, where they can also purchase breadsticks, napkins or brake fluid but not petrol for now it seems!
Soups currently available are tomato, minestrone and unleaded. It was hoped that leek & potato would be available by now, but in initial trials it proved to be too thick and kept clogging the nozzles. Research continues.
Everything bodes well for the summer trips in the caravan . Pull in, five gallons of fuel and two pints of mulligatawny please and a packet of fag papers. Aaah bliss, I can't wait.
'Til next time
Byeeeee
