Get to the petrol station. Put some fuel in the car, pay, hop back in the car and... ... nothing. The engine wouldn't even turn over. My heart dropped to my stomach. I had a car that didn't work - again!
Then a very nice gentleman came over and offered to help. Bless him! He checked the battery didn't have a lose wire. And then he towed me to the garage up the road. He even stayed while the garage checked the battery and then jump started the car, just in case I needed a drive home. So a huge thank you to my Samaritan today. He won't ever read this blog but this is my way of telling him thank you again.
When I got home and turned off the car engine, I tried starting it again, and it worked. So I repeated the process two more times. And it started each time. What on earth was that all about?! I couldn't start it at the petrol station. Mr Samaritan couldn't start it. The garage couldn't start it. I came home and it was acting okay. Wonder if it will be nice to me in the morning?
Meanwhile I have completely forgotten completely what I was going to blog today. I did spend quite a bit of time handquilting on Emily's quilt. And then I played with some aqua scraps thinking they might work in my design for Mouthy Stitches. I gathered together even the smallest bits (because Judith makes me keep them).
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| Here are some on the world's most vile ironing board cover! |
At some point between smiling happily picking up my girls at school and returning home I seem to have lost some brain cells. It is taking all I have to piece together this blog post.
Suppose I am going to have to make dinner too! Not sure if I trust myself around a cooker right now.
Susan
hope the oven "started" for you!! xx
ReplyDeleteHope I'm your partner! Love the pattern and the colours
ReplyDeleteThe pieced 'top' looks great! Do you have a totally silent partner like mine? Not a sound? How frustrating, hey!!
ReplyDeleteHooray for good Samaritans :) I love your piecing it looks really pretty! I do have to point out that you don't have the world's ugliest ironing board cover, that particular honour rests with mine ;)
ReplyDeleteDoes your car mainly get used for short journeys? My last car had a similar problem.
ReplyDeleteLove what you're doing with all those scraps!
What a nice chap!
ReplyDeleteJoin the AA tonight x
I think you've got a loose sprocket in your wankle rotary engine!
ReplyDeleteWhy on earth do they make ironing board covers so ugly. Surely it doesn't cost any more to use a nice pattern?
I think you've got a loose sprocket in your wankle rotary engine!
ReplyDeleteWhy on earth do they make ironing board covers so ugly. Surely it doesn't cost any more to use a nice pattern?
Oh Susan, you do not have car luck, do you! sounds like you need a night away from the sewing machine, with Masterchef and a glass of vino :) x
ReplyDeleteI'll ask a daft question...but is your car on a slant at home? Could it be a fuel pump issue?
ReplyDeleteIt's a stab in the dark...but I thought I'd mention it.
Sounds like your car is hormonal! And what a good girl for keeping those teeny scraps - see, I told you they'd come in handy! Hope you didn't blow anyone up over dinner! Jxo
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about the car trouble. Dumb machines.
ReplyDeleteLove your scrappy piecing...especially the snorkling flamingo in the center!
stupid car! But the aqua is a pieced wonder, I love it ;-)
ReplyDeleteHooray for kind Samaritans! Love the aqua mini piecing!
ReplyDeleteI vote you treat the car like Bail Fawlty - whip it soundly with a tree branch cursing it! It may not get it going but it will maybe make you feel better!
ReplyDeleteI love your scraps! Pieced and unpieced - good for Judith!
yep that Hadders may be right, join the AA! Works for me :) and Judith knows a thing or two too! Lovely lovely scrapalicious! :)
ReplyDeleteWoo hoo for strange kind men in petrol stations ;) Love the scrappy pathcwork!
ReplyDeleteglad your good samaritan was there for you begining to think your car is needing a good kick :)))i am loving your scraps !!
ReplyDeletelove the scrappy piece - it'd be a fabbo pouch
ReplyDeletesorry to hear about your car - and don't you love a samaritan? when is was about 24 ish, i was driving a mini moke that didn't like the rain - it stopped in the middle of a roundabout and not one bastard stopped to help me push the bloody thing to the side of the road - they must have been afraid to get wet!
Yay for good samaritans, and love the scrappiness you're creating :o)
ReplyDeleteYikes, I hope the car behaves and that you have joined the AA (we call it the AMA here). I love that piece of crazy piecing, maybe its for me?
ReplyDeleteHow weird. I wonder what that was all about.
ReplyDeleteVery strange about the car. Fingers crossed for you.
ReplyDeleteLove your tiny aqua scraps, I'm sure your partner will love it.
Bless your helper! Hope the car behaved for you today!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely bloke! I hope your car behaves well from now on but it could be a problem with the distributor cap (don't I sound knowledgeable?!) as my last car had exactly the same intermittent problem...easily solved though! Love your scraps!
ReplyDeleteI remember getting a flat tire on the freeway with two of my little boys in the car. This was before cell phones. I was panicked sitting on the side of the highway with cars passing me at racing speeds. Then a man stopped, got on the ground on the traffic side and changed my tire. He was my knight in shining armor. He wouldn't give me his name so I could thank him properly or take any money. He was just a good soul. So there are really nice people in the world. Hope the car is still working.
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Lucky there was a nice guy round to help :-) Very bad car though. :-(
ReplyDeleteif it was really low in fuel, its probably brought some of the sludge up and it could be a blocked fuel filter, now you've diluted it again with lots of new fuel it will have settled :)
ReplyDeleteIt's heartwarming to read that there are still good samaritans in this world. It doesnt occur often enough.
ReplyDeleteDo you think your car is possessed?