Le Twingo est arrivé!
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday don't really count. Nothing happened.We did get Google Wave up and running, and I have a few invitations left if anyone is interested. Until it reaches critical mass in terms of numbers of users it is, for me, a bit of a solution looking for a problem. Its strength is probably as a collaborative tool, better suited to a business environment than to silver surfers desperately trying to keep up.On Wednesday afternoon we took the Mazda for its last drive - all the way to Montluçon. We handed it over to DiAM and took delivery of our new baby.

What a lovely week for weather!
I called the lady at DiAM on Monday to ask about my new car. She immediately said "Don't go away", and promptly proceeded to do just that herself. For about ten minutes.When she came back (an event of whose occurrence I was, by then, beginning to despair), she said, "Good news - it will be here soon, and you can collect it on 25th. Would you like to come in the morning or in the afternoon?".Given that the original delivery estimate was late November, and the promised delivery, designed to ensure that it would be bettered, was 31st December, actual delivery on 25th November seems more like "as expected" than "good news" - but, hey-ho, such is the nature of the be

15th has arrived, but no Twingo
The day after the Carte Grise arrived (see earlier post) I had a call from the man through whom we ordered the Twingo. "Good news", he said, only in French. "Your car will be delivered six weeks early. Delphine (commercial assistant) will call you."This was, of course, six weeks early according to their conservative promise of 31st December. To be six weeks early according to their expectation, it would have needed to have arrived early to mid-October."Do you have an exact date?" I asked. "Yes, 15th November.", came the reply. After the call ended, I checked the calendar, and thought it odd that he date he had given me was a Sunday - t

Muggy, misty, miserable Monday morning
I usually update this blog on Sunday mornings. This week, I was in Paris collecting Tania's dogs to look after whilst she has a week on Malta visiting a friend who is there studying English. Here I am, then, writing it on a muggy, misty, miserable Monday morning, after a week when little of interest  happened.I saw a release from a UK web site (www.w2w.com) offering a natty little Bluetooth gadget for, I think, £14.99. It clips onto the car's visor and gives hands free to the mobile phone. That sounded cheaper than buying a full car kit for the Twingo and continuing to use the old ex-work Nokias,

Trevor IS the new Flash
... or is he the new Hobie, or a bit of each of them - and what of Ulysse? Is he the new Hobie, or the new Flash, or a bit of each of them?Inasmuch as Trevor feels the cold (see picture), and in many of his habits, he really does put us in mind of FlashHowever,