Oil's Well that Ends Well

The lovely man at the garage explained things to me. Despite what various garages said, we have a wet belt, which apparently doesn't need changing, and instead I needed oil. Lots and lots of oil as there was practically none in the car. I suspect that Red has an unfortunate oil drinking habit, which set me back £85, which was a lot better than the £1,000 that I would have to pay for a new wet belt. 

I think that we're going to have to look for a new car. I don't want to, as Red has been a wonderful car, and she's very economical when it comes to petrol. But the wet belt on our car usually only lasts for 90k miles, and we're on 95k, and £1,000 is a decent percentage of a cost of a new-to-us car. She also needs to get out more, so I'll have to bite the bullet of expensive petrol and go on some runs. It won't kill me to go into shops. Having said that, I had a delivery today. It had the first chunk of the stock up. The promotion runs to 19 May, so I'll space out the purchases. 

I didn't do much to get pics, so here is the progress on the shawl. Yesterday it looked like this.

And today it looks like this.

I've added another six inches in length, and there's around 150 stitches on the needles. I've almost finished that skein of yarn but I want to add at least another one. I would guess that the shawl is currently around 20 inches long, and I want it much longer than that. I suppose it depends on how many stitches I can fit on the needle. 

Hugs and good health to all.