New Car and off to Birmingham

Busy day today, finally got the new car yesterday after a man drove it all the way from Birmingham to deliver it.

Today I get to drive it all the way back to Birmingham for our head office Christmas party tonight.

Yes, it would have been easier to pick it up in Birmingham today, but I didn't know it was coming from Birmingham and the man who delivered it didn't know we were going there, so what could have been a good plan did not happen.

Tonight's "do" is a black tie function in a 1960's hotel in the centre of England's second city, a place that I detest almost as much as London. The hotel looks like a cheap Spanish tourist tower block, I just hope that the rooms have been upgraded a little from the 1960's standards, back then this particular hotel would have been cutting edge and you may even have had carpet on the floor and one of those new "continental quilts" rather than heavy woollen blankets and an eiderdown.

Christmas meal tonight followed by a 70's tribute band and disco the only saving grace being that it is all paid for by head office including (I hope, it had bloody better be) the booze, then on Saturday morning its up early and the new car can drive us all back to Leeds - by Sunday the poor thing will wonder what its life is going to be like with the Leeds/Birmingham route being thrashed every day of its short life so far.

I like gadgets on cars, couldn't give a stuff what they look like or how fast they accelerate or any of that Jeremy Clarkson stuff, I just like gadgets and this car (Mondeo Titanium X) has headlights that turn corners with you - turn the steering wheel and the headlights move and point to where you are going to go, its like the car has real life eyes that follow the road for you - I will never bore of playing with those and will probably break them soon.

In the meantime and in lieu of Video Saturday tomorrow, here's the best Christmas song ever...

...I mean ever...