Friday 3rd January 2025

Woke around 0815. Got up and brought tea back to bed. Eventually descended for porridge. Aki arranged for a prescription to be sent to Boots on Darras Hall, so we drove down. Popped into Davidson's to get takeaway coffees. When we returned to the car, we discovered the door fob didn't work. We had to walk back to High View bearing our coffees. I picked up the spare car key and walked back down to Darras...managed to get the car door open, but it wouldn't lock! It would appear that either both batteries had gone at the same time, or there's something amiss with the on-board computer system. I drove up to Western Way Garage, but it was shut. Drove back to High View for lunch while we planned what to do next. Aki found a handy YouTube clip showing how to access the lithium battery in the fob...dad found a couple of spares, and hey presto we were back in working order! I celebrated by driving down to Waitrose to do a final shop. Returned to High View to get the ragu on the hob. Once that was cooking, I made some meringues with the left over egg whites, to plonk on top of the chocolate orange pudd. Worked a treat. Watched a bit of telly before opting for a relatively early night...plunging temperatures tonight, and the threat of heavy snow tomorrow afternoon, so we need to get a reasonably early start for London.