We had a new garage door fitted on Monday and today I managed to get the car hung up on it. Don't ask me how, I don't know. Keith normally backs the car out of the garage but today he was extra tired and due for chemo so I said I'd do it. I thought I was reversing straight but obviously I wasn't and we have a slight drop out of the garage onto the path. It was at this point I came to grief. I must have turned the wheel as the car dropped and managed to jam the car up against the garage door. Now as I mentioned it is a new garage door, the old one being over 40 years old gave up the ghost. This one though is just slightly narrower than the old one and I badly misjudge how far away I was from the frame. The new door sliding mechanism sticks out about 1cm and I managed to get that 1cm piece lodged between the join where the front bumper and the wing joins. Keith at that point decided he'd better unjam the car but in doing so managed to rip a piece out of the wing, ouch.....
Today I will be ringing round body shops to find someone who can repair it as our poor car has a bent bumper and a large hole in its wing. Photos to follow, I daren't have another go at getting it out of the garage Sy will do that tomorrow, hopefully. Who knows it might have to live there forever....
In the meantime I've been using my Big Shot to cut out hexagons in fabric and paper for my next doll quilt swap, the theme of which is "A quilt within a quilt". You'll have to wait to see what I come up with. Hmm wonder if I could make enough to cover the hole in the car wing..
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