Get up early and manage to convince Django that today would be a good day to have breakfast at nursery. So, in the Range Rover on loan from the lovely garage that is fixing my Jeep, I get Amber to the childminders and Django to nursery in super quick time. This is because I have to be up Birmingham for a couple of days programming the 6.1 mix of the Xerox job that’s happening at the NEC next week.

I get to the Nursery car park and turn the engine off. Except it’s still going. Even when I take the keys out of the ignition, the engine is still running!

There is then some horrible smoke and a tell-tale burning smell. To cut a long tedious story short I have to walk home, drive the wife’s car back to the duff car. Change the kids seats over, find a hire vehicle load up another car with all my computers and gear and only then start the trip to Brum.

Nightmare.