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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mx5-reflex-bluesep16-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3885" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/mx5-reflex-bluesep16-1-300x189.jpg" alt="mx5-reflex-bluesep16" width="300" height="189" /></a>Now when I said I was 90% of the way towards a decision having slept on that decision and spoken to the sales guy in the Mazda garage I at long last got an offer from him and it was an offer I couldn't refuse. I was expecting the Mazda to be the most expensive and with a series of "innovative deals" it turns out to be the least expensive of all the cars I've driven and yet is the largest and most luxurious; also it looks better than the Kia - I didn't really like the bonnet shape of the Sportage and it was difficult to see the front edges whereas the Mazda felt right when I was squeezing it into the garage. Also Nunns at Grimsby have been so helpful and it has a more upmarket (clean and welcoming) feel to it - yes I'm an impossible snob.

Today was a nightmare as I felt really destabilised by making this decision on my own - stressed and depressed; not a good place to be. I had to remind myself that I did deals worth millions of pounds when I was working but then again it wasn't my money. Don't get me wrong, I would have been mortified if I'd misspent public money.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/logssept16.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3881" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/logssept16-300x225.jpg" alt="logssept16" width="300" height="225" /></a>To cheer myself up I spent a few hours cutting and stacking logs with my new electric chain saw. The petrol saws are so noisy in an urban environment so I've purchased a powerful electric one which isn't too noisy and cuts through logs like butter. It takes more time to stack than it does to cut. I still have two more boxes to fill but given some cool, dry weather I'll soon be ready for autumn and the log burner can be fired up.