Car auction day today

The Grand Union Canal, Willen Park, 0 miles, 0 locks

It's Wednesday, and that is car auction day. The weather for the occasion, well it's raining a lot. Raincoats required today!

I will attend the auction this time, and that means I will get some pictures of what goes on. The plan is I will take the car along at about 4.30pm. Fill the paperwork out, then hang around for a while until the auction starts at 6.30pm. It's supposed to take a couple of hours for the auction to take place. If I do not sell the car I will drive back, but if it sells I will get a taxi back to the boat. I don't fancy getting the two buses late at night.

Before that though, I checked the diesel tank on Brumpoolie yesterday afternoon and the diesel level is way down. I know we are not going anywhere at the moment, but we run the engine to give us electricity. So I will drive to Peartree Marina this morning, which is about 4 miles away, and fill my two barrels with diesel. They both take about 25 litres each, so this will give me 50 litres and a good top up.

The gas bottle also ran out the other day. I had a spare which I changed, so I will also need to replace this new empty bottle with a full one from Peartree Marina today. One thing I found out was when I came to change the bottle on Saturday, was I did not have a spanner to undo the large nut that connects the bottle. So I had to borrow one from Paul next door. As we went to the Car Boot sale on Sunday morning at the MK Bowl, I managed to get one there. We checked to see if it would fit on a gas bottle we spied behind a burger van. The owner spotted us with our spanner on his gas bottle and thought we were trying to pinch his gas!. We quickly explained what we were doing, and made a hasty retreat to the spanner seller.

Lynne, I'm sure will be doing her favourite pastime of cross stitch today while I am out. So, several wet and muddy walks with the dogs (v quick ones), a visit to Peartree and then the Car Auction later. Fingers crossed we can sell the car so we can finally move off on our travels.

After the auction I'll post a blog to let you know how we got on.