Give a man a Lithium Crystal.......

Captain blogger described his progress today as cruising into Warp factor 1 (steady as she goes), this will only make sense to Trekkies so if Mr Spock is not your bag please ignore!
The man with no neutrophils (alias captain blogger) spent an hour in a blizzard tonight outside the Vet School in Edinburgh waiting to be rescued by the RAC as the MG (rather sensibly) decided that it was not the sort of evening to be out and about and would rather be tucked up in a warm garage in Marchmont, so decided to stop permanently about a mile from our house. Poppy, Holly and I had to make several trips from the house to get petrol, jump leads.....general supplies and then to park the Jeep with the heater on and play eye spy for an hour before the RAC man came to rescue us. I did try to reason with the captain that a man with no neutrophils, an infected Hickman line and recovering from "industrial chemo" might be better off under the duvet with a hot toddie watching the third series of the Sopranos....but he refused to abandon the car to our inadequate attentions as we hadn't rebuilt the engine and didn't know where the battery was etc I think the captain quite enjoys when something goes wrong with the MG, which luckily for him is quite frequently, as he can spend a happy day or 2 in the garage tinkering, lots of spanners, swabs and oil and of course cups of Tea and meditation/contemplation. This knowledge did stand him in good stead this afternoon when negotiating the ransom at the Aston Martin garage to service the latest Mulligan acquisition. The Aston Martin people had found several very expensive problems with the car which seemed to amount to a drip of oil coming out of the sump, a slight fading of the upholstery on the drivers side, Maria Callas singing the final act of Tosca in the Sound system was slightly screechy and they had to remove a blond hair from the passenger seat. The captain thought their demands a little steep as he has taken apart and rebuilt MGs with his bare hands (as we know from the above he is on dodgy ground here but they don't know that!). So the Aston Martin people are holding the car to ransom...watch this space no doubt you will get an update on progress tommorrow.
On a completely different tack I would like to recommend the restorative value of a large glass of Bailleys Irish Cream and Barry White.

Deputy Blogger signing off.....steady as she goes......