The next chapter–Tigger’s journey to the Bones Hospital.

Ok, so the blog has been a bit poor since I decided to drive into the pit wall in Anglesey. Mainly because I am still truly gutted. It was completely my fault and one of course I will learn from. Motor Racing is an expensive sport without having to pay for additional repair bills. Anyway, to try and get the repair bill a little smaller I have managed to twist my mothers arm to pick Tigger up from McMM and drive it to Arch in Huntingdon (School holidays are not for another 2 weeks, otherwise I would have been able to do it to). In fact, it didn’t take much twisting but my mother hasn’t done much trailering on her own, so it was bound to be an exciting experience.

Ok, so today's mission by my mother was to drive from her home in Grantham with an empty trailer to McMillan Motorsport in Hinkley to collect Tigger and take it down to Arch Motors in Huntingdon.  All was going well until turning left onto the road where McMillan are based to find that the road was closed with local access only.  Because McMillan were very close by she thought that she would be able to gain local access but soon realised after turning left that it was access to just a short row of houses only.  She managed to just about turn round with the trailer (About 100 point turns) but was blocking the road (This is a very impressive feat, my mother has only recently starting towing, done very little on her own and I don’t think before today she has reserve it in a straight line, let alone completing a turn in the road).  A local resident got out of her car and asked if she could help and said that she was driving that way and would show her an alternative route.  However the new way my mother was shown ended up being another dead end. Unfortunately this time it was up a narrow residential street with cars parked either side.  My mother did not have McMillan's number so she had to call Arch to ask them to call McMillan to come out and rescue her!  To cut a long story short McMillan came to the rescue and Rodney finally arrived to save the day (Mums new knight in shining armour – or mine, who knows what would have happened without him! Im surprised she is still speaking to me!). Rodney reversed the trailer back up the road and guided her to the McMillan workshop. A dismantled and very poorly Tigger was put on the trailer and she then drove down to Arch Motors, delivered the car safely and then drove home! A round trip of four and a half hours!  She has to return next week to collect the car and take it back to McMillan to complete the rebuild (Let hope the road isn’t still closed).  Arch Motors are based opposite Hotel Chocolat that has a factory shop selling discounted chocolate.  I think she deserves a big box! I might even splash out and get the none discounted ones – I think she deserves it. Don’t you?