Sally had gone off to the shop in Boris and I was cleaning the inside of Phil2 in an attempt to get rid of the doggy smell. Sometime later i was thinking Sally would be returning soon when i heard this terrific bang from the road outside the houses. I wandered down to take a look and Boris was parked at the bottom of the ramp leading up behind the terrace.
I'm taking this pic from the bottom of the ramp Sally is stood on the side of the road with the white van in the position where it was shunted into the back of Boris. The car that did the shunting is reversing off the road into the garage car park.
The car was drivable but had damage to the front of it. The driver claimed the sun was in his eyes. Difficult! as the sun was behind him at the time. He could have meant the sun was reflecting off the back of the large lorry parked off road in the top pic?
The van doesn't look too damaged in the photo but the back looked a bit of a mess.
Boris at first look didn't seem to have any damage but we need to get him looked at underneath as the van smacked the tow ball pretty hard.
What we hadn't noticed was that the van also smacked the spare wheel which pushed it out of alignment on the carrier and also bent the door, as well as the bottom of the ladder.
There's some conjecture as to damage to the panels either side of the door but we'll leave that to the garage inspection. At least no-one appeared hurt.
Having sorted all that out I went up to our wood cache only to find that someone has helped themselves to some of it!
Not only have they pinched some wood they left the cache uncovered! the pic above is how i found this particular pile. I did 2 trips and Phil2 performed well on the muddy track up and down the hill. I'll be picking up a load this morning so will leave a note for the thief! cheeky B!
So there we are not a brilliant start to the weekend and now all that fafffing around reporting the accident to the insurance company and sorting out repairs! To end a good day we lost the internet in the evening so apologies to anyone wanting to access our site or link to the blog from our website. It must have been our provider (Sky) as some of the telly channels were missing as well but all appears ok this morning.
Enjoy the day
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