Little Lolly's Small Adventures: It's "broke" but can be fixed

The garage thought the headlight washer part would arrive on today but it didn't.

According to the law, if headlight washers are fitted as part of the car - they have to be included in the roadworthy test. If they fail then the car fails the test altogether. Unfortunately we had to collect the car away today without having its roadworthy certificate because we need head back to the Netherlands tomorrow. Paul has an appointment on Monday that he has to attend. We will come back to the UK re-MOT'd later this month to get the part fixed and car.

When we collected the car the technician at the garage advised that the headlight washers were broken and someone had glued them back on, ditto the washer covers (small flat plate cover in the bumper). They are washer and washer covers are only ever taken off for repair or MOT therefore they are easily accessible. But these were GLUED on!!??

Paul thinks that when KwikFit in the Netherlands fixed the radiator last year (and did a botch job which left us stranded in Croatia ) they didn't know how to remove the bumper so broke things and patched it up in the hope we wouldn't notice. Paul is not a happy bunny and neither am I.

Reward!

Paul and I made the most of a lovely day to do yesterday's drive in reverse - because we get to see a different angle/aspect to the scenery that we don't see when driving in one direction only. We were not disappointed and enjoyed our drive.

Our last evening was spent in the pleasant company of Sue and Ian. Their dog, Kai, is learning new game puzzles that involve a reward at the end. E.g. putting a paw on a remote button and a feeder doles out a few treats for him if he manages to press the remote button. Another thing was to move wooden lids, with a paw or nose, over a hollowed out piece of wood to find a treat underneath. He started to 'cotton on' a bit and work things out.

Tomorrow we head back to the Netherlands tomorrow via the Chunnel.

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