Post by tiggy01 on Jun 7, 2007 14:37:01 GMT
Well its been an interesting week - as some of you will know we had been waiting for a new lorry which was being built for us and finally on Thursday last week it was due to have its MOT so we could bring it home - build has taken 4 months in total - had a call on Thursday to say that it had not been mot'd as the poor chap building it had a heart attack and was in hospital anyway to cut a long story short we agreed to collect it and sort the MOT ourselves. Spent most of Friday on the phone insuring it and getting a mot date and then Friday evening we went off to collect lorry - Helen and I could not believe it - they had fitted an electric ramp (Tiggy does not do electric ramps so we had said do not fit one and explained why) this was the worst thing but there were loads of niggly silly bits as well so we managed to agree that they would refund the money we had paid so far including the purchase cost of the lorry which we also bought from them. This leaves us with no lorry so when I finally got home at midnight on Friday we started going through the internet to find another lorry and set off saturday morning to look at one in Somerset and thankfully it was absolutely perfect so as the next one we were interested in was the other side of birmingham agreed to buy that one - have had a few nail biting moments waiting for the cheque from original lorry to clear as you never know but it has cleared today and the lorry passed its mot this morning so its off to somerset to collect my lovely new lorry on Saturday just in time for the Welsh show - its much better spec than the other one and has a shower, central heating and horse wash as well oh and a on board generator for our weeks hols at PUK so if I have a silly grin on my face on Sunday its cos of the new lorry. Then it has a real test the following weekend as we are off to Scotland to deliver Twts to her new owner Jaimie. Can now breath sigh of relief and settle back to enjoy showing instead of stressing over lorry - yipee.