Okay, it's not quite an overland trip to the Cape ... but for a SIII firmly into mid-life our Kim (for that is what we call her) does get around a bit.
This morning, before work, I nipped up a couple of wheel bearings, checked engine and gearbox, transfer box, overdrive, diff and swivel oils, topped up the coolant and greased the props- for in the morning we are heading back to south western France for ten days of barn roof mending, bramble-destroying, a little light forestry and shutter painting.
Hopefully, Kim will behave herself and not eat her own rear diff again, as she did in the summer. It's a filthy habit.
She will be earning her keep, too, pulling tree stumps and being No1 mobile barn repair platform.
And do you know what I'm really hoping for Mother's Day? I'd like her fitted with a PTO, so that she could run a circular saw.
'spect I'll get chocolates.