this morning and ended up having to change it for the spare, only thing is the boot of the car was still crammed full of all our camping gear from the weekend, so after spending 5-10mins emptying the boot I discover my spares not exactly pumped up fully, also had a near-disaster actually changing the tyre itself, BMW’s shitty little car jack slipped backwards, nearly dropping the car onto its axle, thankfully though I’d just started to put the spare on and that was sort of holding it up.

Lucky for me there were a couple of workmen at a neighbours doing some wall insulation and they spotted what had happened and came to my assistance, helping me balance the car while I finished fitting the wheel.

So with a part pumped up wheel made my way to the local tyre garage and got them to check the tyres and after being shown in great detail that most of my tyres were near enough illegal ended up splashing out £276 on 4 new tyres for the car, something I’d rather not have had to do, but suppose it’s a good thing as we’ve got the drive to the big chill in less the 36 days and then theres the drive to Cornwall for our holiday, so we’re talking about at least 1400 miles of travelling in the next 2 months and I’d rather do it on new tyres then fcuked up nearly bald ones.

While I’m doing this post might as well let you all know I’ve now uploaded the pictures from our little camping trip to the Lake District, Coniston imparticular, not much to see except us lot sat round a camp fire