So, a month ago today, in about an hours time, my car was heading sideways at 50 miles an hour into a road sign. Apart from some lingering back ache, I seem to have recovered relatively well. The insurance have paid out for my Peugeot (though currently against me), as they are still pursuing the lorry driver, but it's all complicated by it being a foreign lorry. Basically don't hold your breath because it will take time!
However, I picked up the new (to me car) the week following the accident, and now having driven it for a few weeks, I can report that it is very nice to drive. I'm slowly getting used to it, learning where the front and the back are and how it handles, but I am safe to say it is a very nice car and I am very pleased with it.
At work it's that time of year when the foreign student registrations go through the roof. It is a relentless stream of them and there are times when you want to scream, like when you have said for the 68th time 'Do you have £34 cash, exact money' and the response is 'yes' and then you're presented with a £50 note!!! But, give it another 6 weeks and hopefully it will start to slow down. On the plus side for the last two Fridays I have escaped from the office and done registrations at Oxford Brookes and Oxford University. Okay, still the same relentless stream, but different scenery.
