By this time it was around 7 45 p.m., seven hours after leaving the campsite, and still we had only got to Portsmouth docks.

He again contacted the firm who said the would send a replacement truck out, great so we should be on our way by 8 p.m.  (The garage is 5 minutes from us) so we waited for him to arrive, and we waited and waited. He had been diverted to do a job for the police so we had to wait; he arrived at 9 p.m.

At last we were able to load up the car onto the back of the truck and fit the tow hitch for the trailer and we were on our way.

What would happen on the way home, I was becoming quite paranoid at this time.

We made it home without any trouble, arriving there just after 11 p.m., were we glad to get home, the trailer was parked in the garden and there it would stay, enough was enough for one day, everything could stay where it was till the following day.

The following morning I contacted the insurance company who informed me of the assessor’s decision, and after a few choice words I hung up before I went too far.

So now I had the problem of a car that I was unable to drive, and as it was my only form of transport to work it was looking as if I would not be able to get there.

Ann suggested we ring her brother in Portsmouth as he had a couple of cars to see if he could help us out until I could get mine fixed.

He let us borrow his jaguar xjs, probably the only good thing about it was it got me to work in some comfort, as for the fuel consumption it cost me a fortune, I had it for around 3 weeks and it cost me nearly £300 in fuel.

I try to do a repair on the wiring but it didn’t work out so I had to look for the wiring loom for it.

I was glad when I finally managed for locate a wiring harness for my car but it was the other side of London.

A friend of mine drove me over to pick it up and it worked out that it was the whole of the wiring loom for the engine compartment so that would save me some work in replacing it.

I started to do the rewire after we got back and it took approximately 6 hours to replace the loom with help from Peter, my arm and chest had started to ache something badly so I decided to finish of the next day. The following morning I started again, as I was eager to get it sorted outs and gets it on the road again.

I am glad to say all went well and the job was successfully completed with the car starting first time and all the electrics were working, so we were back on the road again.

We contacted Ann’s brother and arranged to return the Jaguar.

 It looked like things were starting to work out a little better now.

I got back to work and everything was going quite smoothly were work was concerned.

There was an impending fuel crisis looming not long after I had got the car back on the road so I was glad I didn’t have to use the jag anymore.

I went into work a day or two after the blockading of refineries started and I wasn’t feeling 100 per cent so I asked one of the nurses on the ward to check my Bp for me, I should have known better, my Bp was a little low and I was sent over to occupational health to be checked out, from there I ended up in the EMU for a check up, that lasted from Tuesday am to Thursday p.m. which saved me the petrol I would have needed to get to work but did nothing for my sanity.

It worked out that with my medication being altered just before they were reacting a little together resulting in my Bp falling, this was rectified by separating the tablets and taking them at different times instead of together this has worked.