It’s midnight and I have put myself over a barrel by doing these countdown to NZ images… It means I can’t just fall into bed without having to jump online long enough to get a picture up!!!

Yawn…

Anyway, that is going to have to do for tonight… I have a stomach full of steak and sticky date pudding and now I have to sleep it off…

Maybe when I wake up tomorrow my hit rate will have gone over 4000 – astonishing really that these pages have been looked at so often…

Of course most of the time it’s me checking in…

But if you are stopping by from the wibsite or various other places where the address is listed…

Hello…

And welcome!

Glad you stopped by.

I had been putting it off for MONTHS…

I knew it was risky… these things should be attended to for my own safety and the safety of others… but I waited… and waited…

I solicited advice from friends as to how they go about it and still I hesitated… there is so much conflicting information out there…

You see … when you are a singular white female you are a moving target for sharks …

and charlatans…

The last time I did it it cost me $300.00 … when, if I had done it myself the equipment required would have been available for around $50.00…

I got a name of a practitioner from someone I trusted and so last week I called him and booked in.

Today… early in the morning … Dolly and I went to see Flex and with a smile and a wave I left her in his care for the whole day…

[insert image of anxious deeleea]

I arrived back after work, twitching that the plastic might not stretch far enough and handed it over through clenched fist…

Cha Ching $$$$$$

$149.95 … and not only were the customary bits and pieces like oil and fluid levels taken care of but now Dolly has a tighter hand-brake, her squeaky door is silent and her tyres are black as pitch and all fat and bouncy.

Of course… in 4 weeks she will need new brake pads which will cost around $400.00 but Flex didn’t want to hit me with a bill that big without some time to get used to the idea…

I think I luff him.