May your May be Merry and Bright

It's got a lot warmer, so at least I feel like we might be getting a bit of Spring now, in what should really be the month that sees us transition from Spring into early Summer. But then I foolishly look at my weather app and it tells me the next two weeks will be full of rain. Make the most of next Saturday, folks, coz it's the only sunshine we'll be seeing in the next fortnight.

In other, less depressing news, I may have found a nice little replacement family car without having to try too hard. Someone at one of the other sites is getting divorced, which is a shame, but the silver lining is that he no longer needs his 7-seater Mazda Sport 5 SUV. (Or is it a Mazda 5 Sport? I'm not the most clued-up man on Earth when it comes to cars...)
Anyway, the point is that he has this nice 'people carrier' sitting on his drive that he doesn't need anymore, because his wife has taken the two children and moved in with her sister. A shame for him, obviously, but maybe he shouldn't have been meeting up with an ex-girlfriend twice a week for extra-curricular activities. So, he doesn't need this bus anymore and he is trying to raise some funds and he lives close enough to the site to bike to work, so why shouldn't I take advantage of the situation to get myself a nice little runaround without having to push us to the brink of bankruptcy?
I have a feeling Philippa will still want to spend more and buy something 'proper' and 'newer' but I could just go ahead and buy it without telling her first, right?
NO - that would be a terrible idea, and would probably put me in the same position as the nice man that I'm thinking of buying the car from. He and I could end up living together and sharing stories of how we totally wrecked incredible relationships by thinking selfishly. He could bemoan the fact that he couldn't stop thinking with his wiener and I could cry myself to sleep every night knowing that my marriage was ended by a stupid decision over a Mazda 5 Sport.

Or it could be a Mazda Sport 5, I'm still not sure.

RC 9-5-23