air’s life lessons #1

thumbs up1a. If you misplace your MOT certificate and can't get your car taxed when it runs out, you have at most TWO MONTHS grace to get it sorted. After this period the computer goes 'blip' and you get an envelope in the post stuffed full of FINE.

HA HA.

thumbs up1b. If you lose your phone in London, cancel it immediately. IMMEDIATELY. Not the next trembling day, after you have slept yourself back to something like a human state.

Because – naturally – you are liable for ALL CALLS until the time you report it. So in the handful of hours before I called mine in, my phone bill was made familiar with such places as Libya, Norway, France and the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

HA HA HA.

Other than that everything is going exceptionally well, so I can take the financial puss-raps without weeping.