No walk this morning. Tried sorting out the rattling air cleaner on car. Dropped transmission oil check cap into an inaccessible place Argh! Now have to buy 3 parts not two. Next had to ring Telstra in Oz about phone they told me I had to fix phone on iTunes but after stuffing up Reg's iTunes phone started working on it's own Now have UK number and Internet access. We took the girls for a walk along the promenade in Eastbourne ending up at Hollywell tea rooms. I...

Early walk seems best weather early morning not so cold this morning either. Thank god no more car hunting today Took Emma And Linda to Brighton. First stop Halfords for car goodies for driving in Europe etc Next stop Apple shop to sort out phone - still no joy Argh! Then lots of shoe shops and equal amount of rain Lunch at Bills quirky place. Ness dropped girls in afternoon

Another early wakeup and walk to Exceat Took phone into T mobile waited forever only to have a moron for a sales person who could not help me Second day of car hunt. God so much driving around deepest darkest Africa ( oh no sorry it was London my mistake) road test in Hakney was interesting all roads have speed humps every 100 meters Argh!!! Finally had breakfast at 4pm We ended up buying the first car we saw yesterday. More stress trying to insure car. They ...

Woke up way too early so read from 4am then big walk at 5.am First day of looking for a car. Reg and I drove miles looking. We found one possible Meanwhile Emma and Linda got us new sim cards. Next problem mine doesn't work

Early start today all went well with check in flight OK duty free cheap in Dubai. Reg and Linda picked us up at airport The first hiccup happened at bedtime - my Kindle has a stuffed screen.