well, i’ve been out for a tinker tonight and sorted the diesel leak problem.  it was one of those bloody leak-off pipes had split again - they’re the bane of my life.

they seemed OK at the MOT station where i went. i just took him to the same place as the old MOT cert said he’d been done last time, as i knew they’d have a tall enough shed to fit him through the door. the guy seemed to actually want it to pass and was quite apologetic about the fail items. 

the last MOT garage i went to [with my previous motor] the bloke reeled of the list of things it failed on in a tone of voice with suggested he held me personally responsible for everything wrong with the car.

i bought some packets of bullet fuses the other day, to swop out a couple of the more dodgy looking ones,  and i found that the new ones [made of plastic] are actually very slightly longer and fatter than the original ceramic ones and seem to fit a lot more snugly into their holders.