Easy to forget how debilitating being without a land-line is for a few days, not the lack of phone, but internet. Am behind with all sorts of things.
Not having a contract directly with BT seems to afford you a back seat, and after 5 days of chasing, an engineer came out and found that squirrels had chewed some wires in a box up the road. Nuts.
You don't miss it 'til it's gone
Anyway, after a week and over 700 miles of owning the Maserati, I'm loving it. Have averaged 22mpg, which I'm stunned at frankly, as have opened her up plenty, but then I've done a couple of long journeys in bad rain, so taken it steady, and it evens out, I guess.
Haven't taken any decent pics yet, the weather hasn't been right, and though I've given it a quick wash twice, is still grubby from the tractor muddied road around here. Here's one from last Saturday outside of a clients, dull place, dull pic. It's a "Vintage LE", and I like the few little styling cues that harp back to earlier cars. It's in great condition, in and out, and has a full on-the-nail service record from Meridien. Real pleased with it.
It had a full service from a Dave Ball at "Fiorano Sportcars", an indie who specialises in Maserati and Ferrari, before I collected it. He'd done an excellent job of detailing it, it honestly looked like new when I arrived, engine and all. Anyone heard of him? He worked for "Meridien" in Lyndhurst for years and is now based not far from Beaulieu, which is where I grew up, and he'd also been the Meridien technician that had prepped the car when it was new, and remembered it returning for service. Small world, eh?! I went to visit him after picking up the car, and shall no doubt be using him in the future.
