Country Living: Our Man in Arundel

Good news! My house isn’t going to flood, despite my living near the river. I’ve just checked on the Environment Agency’s web site after reading a BBC news story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6448525.stm) about the 1947 floods. The secret of my safety is living uphill from the river rather than on the flood plain. That, I’m sure, is one of the reasons my house was built here in the first place.

But I digress. Today is an exciting day for me. I’m test-driving a new car. I’ll let you know how it all goes. It’ll be the first time I’ve seriously considered buying something genuinely ‘new’ since 1985, when I was the proud owner of a Ford Escort 1.1. Proud for a couple of weeks before the creaking and rattling started to annoy me. C815PCD, where are you now?