Yesterday was my first day back at work.  It didn’t start well.

As I was reversing out of the garage, I heard a thwang, and then noticed the aerial on the car waving at me through the windscreen.  CRAP, I thought.  I stopped the car to view the damage, thought about cutting it off as it was only held on by a piece of copper wire, but decided that a piece of tape or two would hold it.  Upstairs, I went, but on the way, decided to close the garage door.  CRAP, I didn’t reverse out far enough probably because I was disconcerted to see a piece of my car waving at me.

I nearly had an extra stripe across the bonnet with a matching contour.  Tape retrieved, I proceeded to ‘fix’ – in the loosest definition of that word – the aerial.  It seemed like it would hold, and in fact did, but I’ll keep you posted on that.

The new decoration on my car

So then I moved the car back far enough to close the garage.  Garage closed, I proceeded to start the car, again, but as I was doing that, the gate, which is a very large, very hard, very wide gate swung outwards towards my car (you can see it in the picture above).  Oh CRAP! I thought. And had to get out of the car again!

So my first day, I broke my aerial and nearly dinged my car twice and that was before I got out of the driveway.  It does not bode well for the year.

But then, it can only go uphill which is the direction of the driveway.