Moving the furniture here last night was a slight disaster. Getting the desk out from upstairs was much easier than I thought – it was fairly light. What was less than ideal was moving the old desk out of my office – not my main desk but another one that was sitting in the corner. It was REALLY heavy. Too heavy really for two people to lift. By the time my brother came to help me it was dark outside. And of course the outside light outside my office door is blown… I will get the ladder out to fix that later.

Anyway with difficulty we get it out of the office, and then realize that it is too heavy for us to get up the stairs. So drag it through the car port and into the garage. The only problem was that the carport is also not lit, so I put my car headlights on. That worked well, although I forgot to turn them off. Normally this would not have been much of a problem. But I do have a car alarm… so just as I was about to sit down for tea the car alarm went off…

Now, of course, since the battery voltage was too low, unlocking the car did not help. So I needed to open the bonnet and turn off the alarm. But that requires a key. And I did not have the key on my ring. Race up stairs with the alarm running to find the key. Found it. Grabbed a torch. And then need to shove the key into the back of the siren. Which of course is still screaming at this stage… Get the key in and turn it off. Finally!

After that things were simple… Charge the battery and the car then started without problem. Mind you I did cheat… I have a charger set up to keep the car charged when I go away so it only took a moment to get the car onto the charger… Fantastic.