Delivered my car to Tesla Solihull to have the fan module replaced. No point waiting on site because Tesla don't want actually start work the moment you deliver the car but just when they get around to it. Estimated time of completion is always 17:00.
So I looked up cafés on Osmand~ found several within easy walking distance. So now I'm in the Stables having a just about ok mocha and a very good piece of carrot cake.
The background music is slightly more up to date: Human by The Killers, 2008.
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No sign of Tesla working on my car yet. The app shows that it hasn't moved from where I parked it. After the Stables café I asked Osmand~ for a route to the nearest charity shop. It found one in Shirley about 4 km away. So I followed that, with a detour through the fields so I'd be able to take some naughty pictures for Fabguys. Got to Shirley and found that the centre is a long strip with a low speed dual carriageway down the middle, and that there are nearly half a dozen charity shops. Picked up a nice hardback book about Avebury in one and then a skirt I couldn't resist in another.
The skirt is a lady's kilt, at least that's what it says on the label.
As it will take me at least an hour to walk back to Tesla I've stopped at the local Spoons, The Pump House, for a pint of Silhill Try Star IPA and a small bowl of chips.
I like Wetherspoon's pubs more and more. They are sometimes a little noisy but it's the noise made by large numbers of ordinary people having quiet conversations in a large echoey space, there are no giant screens pumping out inane football commentaries. There is a 40" screen in a corner by the bar but the sound is off, at least I can't hear it and there's a couple of fruit machines in the same area.
And there are good beers available for not much money (mine was1.99 GBP) as well as very cheap tea and coffee; 1.72 GBP with free refills, you pay and they give you a mug that you fill at the machine as often as you like.
