After a night out with Tony and June, who kindly put me up for yet another night, I drove down to Leeds to see Gosia, Robert and Magda for dinner. We ate a pretty decent pizza in the city centre before Gosia gave me a bed for the night in her “under construction” home.

My mum’s car only has a tape deck, but this is ideal as meant I could pick up a tape adapter and listen to my MP3s. Something that would have been tricky to say the least had she had a CD player. Six years, she’s had that car and the odometer was barely over 2000 miles. That wouldn’t last…