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Just before Dad died one of his investments matured. The idea was for the money to go to the purchase of a new car. Mum has never bought a car all by herself so I went with her the other Monday to help her choose. This was the day I spent with Mum sorting out the paperwork after Dad's death.

Mum has since done her sums and come to the conclusion that she cannot afford a new car so it's going to be the second hand C3 we saw the first visit. Mum went back to the Citroen garage on Sunday (she's owned two Citroens and likes them so there is no other choice!) to have a test drive of it. She's checked to see if her bows fit it in it - she has a recurve bow and a long bow, about 6feet long) so she had to check if they fit. Talk about a dominant buying feature. If they hadn't fit she wouldn't have bought the car!

Anyway the car was perfect so she decided to buy it there and then. They even took the old Citroen Xantia POS (piece of spit - ahem) in part exchange. She's just texted me to say that the insurance is sorted and she should be picking it up on Saturday. Good for her. It's great to see her taking ownership of a few things.

Must sign off now - I'll update things as and when.