Guess who's back..

As yours truly is just not busy enough Rock HQ received a call long awaited late last night, one of the critters missing since JULY 2020 had been captured and was creating havoc in the yard of one of the local militia. Which is why at quarter past sparrows fart I dutifully reversed Moby up to the tow hitch of the horsebox and for the first time ever managed to achieve successful hitch first time. This obviously woke the small god of misfortune and so began a series of events that really could have ruined the day had it not been for my calm approach and good humour, and squadrons of flying pigs cheering as they performed victory rolls over the bonsai mountain.

Four wheels were locked solid, seized through inactivity so a bit of gentle back and forth and 3 were spinning as they should. Typically the fourth refused to free and tried to annoy me further by bursting.

Being the prepared type a spare with a brand new tyre was on the subs bench and called forward to glory.

The difficulty then was no jack. Modern cars don't have spare wheels now apparently so you get an inflator and a tub of tyre filler to get you home but no jack. In an inspired moment I decided to build a ramp from stones and get the ok wheel on it this lifting the broken one clear. Hurrah!

This tyre has definitely expired.  

Much WD40 later and a severe bashing with the sledgehammer the hub spun free and the wheel could be attached. A hole was dug with a hand axe giving enough room to put the inflated tyre back on. Genius!

The more observant would have seen the apprentice helping so rather than mock his attempts to do real jobs other make reassuring noises I relented and let him do the wheel nuts up as what could possibly go wrong. Well, nothing, unless you forget that you have let a 10 year old boy do up the wheel nuts. 

Flushed with our success at changing the wheel without a jack we packed up

and turned around in a sub optimal turning space, hurrah another win, and boldly went down the lane to the gateway to the world. That really smug feeling that you have thwarted the small gods attempts to derail your day evaporated as soon as I looked in the rear view mirror and saw a wheel remarkably like the one we had not five minutes before attached to our trailer was bouncing over the fence and into the next field. 

Three wheels on my wagon was perhaps not the song to sing but it was a statement of fact and what happens when you don't tighten wheel nuts up properly. MBAOSPW saved the day (again) by finding the wheel nuts along the drive and having reversed the trailer over a pot hole the wheel hanging process was completed successfully this time with really tight nuts, 

So why was all this trouble gone to? To fetch Benjy back after his very long absence without leave. This young pony is in for a bit of a shock as we have plans for him.