A frugal life is an easy life!

After the complete joke last week, breaking two cars and a van all in the same day, then the debacle of trying to tax sprog1's car (that is sat on the drive) and ended up costing me £46 on top of the actual price of a years road fund license, due to government ripping off, when the new insurance document fell through the door today, I thought my problems were easing..... How wrong I was!

As it stands, the van wont start as the 18 month old battery has died, so yesterday I got it jump started and let it tick over and warm itself up. In the hope that when I came to start it, once I have the tax for the sprog's car, it will start first time, I will move it from the front of the drive and then move sprog's newly taxed car on to the road and put the van on the drive in its place.
Our other car, the wonderfully crap, seat leon, that has been riddled with faults since we bought it a year ago, is now sat up the road, completely useless as it will only "turn over" but won't fire up, it is also getting full of water, as the kind men at seat dealership, when replacing the windscreen (that was broken and they tried to make us pay for) damaged the passenger side door seal, and it has gotten steadily worse. So worse has it got that it now leaks in at the slightest sign of rain.

So we are resigned to borrowing Dad's old fiesta to get to and from college and work.

Today the new insurance certificate came through, ahhhhhh at last, I can now tax the sprog's car and use this instead of borrowing Dad's car... wrong!
I got in the van to move it, started up fine, put it into gear.... it wouldn't move forward!
It will move back slowly, but no matter how I tried to rock it, it would not move one inch forward.
So now, not only do I have 3 vehicles that none of us can use, I also have a big repair bill coming for the van that thinks it is a shy horse facing beechers brook!

Fair to say, it has not been my week for motoring...