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Wednesday 19th September 2007
It's all about the timing . . .
  
So yeah . . . we're happily driving along the A7, heading north towards Hawick, but actually with Jedburgh as our destination, for to visit a deer park, recommended by my elder sister. We're about five miles out of Langholm, doing about 60mph when, all of a sudden, the car lurches forward and makes this horrible whirling/screeching sound from the engine. Thinking something is very, very wrong, I go into neutral and coast into a nearby farm access road on the opposite side of the road (fortunately there was no traffic about). The car refuses to start again so we have to get some breakdown rescue.
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A tow-truck (from Armstrong's Garage) turned up about thirty minutes after making the call, if that. The driver was very helpful, even carrying out some of our stuff from the car to the cottage. I think I'm all out of sequence here. To cut a long story short, my parents very kindly agreed to pick us up from the cottage, which meant we were able to do our packing and cleaning up whilst our broken car headed back towards Lancaster.
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Once all packing/cleaning was complete, we went for a walk on the other side of the stream, as we had done on the first day here. M**** took a load of these pictures; I wasn't sure what to do with them all, whether to keep them or not. Ah well. Oh, I nearly forgot - the problem with the car was the timing belt - it broke.
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