Our columnist’s efforts to appear mature stall when he tries to buy a new family car
Every spring I’m reminded of the time I travelled to New Zealand, a journey that door-to-door, took pretty much bang on 36 hours. Add to that the 12 hour time shift that takes place when relocating yourself to the other side of the globe and you really do leave the house at 6pm on a Tuesday, and push open your hotel door at 6pm on Thursday. You have every right to ask what happened to Wednesday but I think the answer is you misplaced it somewhere over South East Asia. People warned me I’d lose a day, but imagine my amazement when I left my flat on a promising breezy spring day, only to arrive in Auckland on a drizzly autumn one. I appear to have misplaced an entire summer.
No such gallivanting for me this year – what with the newly arrived twins. Instead, I have to accept that I really need to be a grown up now and say goodbye to my beloved, yet totally knackered Vauxhall Astra; a genuine trooper of a car that has powered me from gig to gig since I became a stand up.
This story is from the March 2018 edition of Yorkshire Life.
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