Driving with Miss Daphne

Nerea's been out driving in Daphne on several occasions with Andy. He's got nerves of steel and is quite happy to accompany her; I'm not sure if I went out with her it would do either of us any good! Nerea's still at the stage of gaining confidence so at the moment they're revising lessons and concentrating on navigating the quieter roads in the area.  We're happy she had several lessons before getting the car as it seems to have paid dividends.  She's able to use the controls and understand the driving concept.  Hopefully it all seems to be coming together

Caching local!

The weather was lovely again this weekend (Me? British weather obsessive? Nooooo)so I decided to hunt down several local geocaches that until now, we haven't had time to grab. Several involved solving highly inventive puzzles which required considerable effort (on the part of the cache owner to put together and then) for finders to solve. As Nerea wanted to go driving in Daphne, Andy accompanied her while I went off with Molly for company on Saturday but I had the pleasure of both Andy and Molly with me on Sunday , when we put the last few, finally to bed

Daphne, the yellow peril

“Daphne the yellow peril” arrives today.  She’s comparatively old but looking good for her years and will be Nerea’s first car.  Nerea has been learning to drive since March and is now at the stage of needing to practice in preparation for her test.  Unfortunately, she isn’t able to drive “our” car as it is one that Andy gets from work and she needs to have been driving for a year after passing her test to become a named driver. Consequently, we decided to buy an elderly, baby sized Fiat!  Nerea is totally over excited and can’t wait for 7pm!