I fixed my door mirror and it will do for now. It's a different colour but hey ho, it will do the job and at least keeps the water off of the electrics which were exposed. A few of the lugs were smashed up so it didn't seat quite as neatly as I'd like but a small bit of Duck Tape seems to have held the snapped clip for now.
I have to do a bit of Motorway driving tonight so that should prove the installation one way or the other. It's a fix and whilst it looks a bit strange it will have to do as if I'd bothered my insurance company they'd have got me to pay the excess which is about £200 anyway so for £30 it will just have to do.
It's a car not a work of art and so I don't mind it too much. Years ago it would have bothered me. It did with my old Jaguar with its lovely blue and white leather interior but I really like this Volvo, it is a working car and it gets dusty and dirty and is scratched where it rubs along the hedgerows, dirty as it bounces in and out of the potholes and it does its job perfectly.
I'm about to go out to meet some people. Annoyingly it will cost me £12.50 for the privilege with this ULEZ crap payment and like everything else that is wrong in this country at the moment we all know it makes no difference to health or air quality at all. It's about the money. If it was about anything else they'd ban cars wouldn't they? You can but hope the people of this country wake up from their sleep walking, realise that the magic money tree is in fact their own purses and wallets and do something about it! After the By Election result last night you wonder what people are thinking? The Green party are now anything but and a few of my local councillors are Old School environmentalists and their hearts are mostly in the right place. This new incarnation is the nearest thing to communism dressed up as "be kinder" politics I have ever seen. Let's see what happens - it looks a bit worrying to me.
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