I haven’t actually stopped knitting, but I might as well have. I have watched almost no television and done almost no knitting this week, which may be some sort of record for me. The break down of our car on Monday has lead to spending the rest of the week car shopping. The part that wasn’t spent injecting hormones and having blood tests that is - “I don’t want to go to the friendly hospital” is what Isabelle said to me in the car at 7am, this morning.

I don’t know if I have mentioned this but Jesse is HUGE. 2m (6′7″) type huge. As in can’t buy clothes, shoes - or cars. With this in mind we made a short list of ten cars with an A list of 4. Yesterday I looked at the top three of the top 4. I got hopeful, I got excited and prioritised even further. Today Jesse wrote off our entire A list in one fell swoop, he could get into them (he often can’t even get both legs under a steering wheel) but not well enough to even try test driving them. Our short list is now made up of small European cars which he has a reasonable chance of fitting into but which may be too small for our needs and massive tanks to which we have equally massive philosophical objections. I just can’t fathom buying a car that gets 17l/100km, I don’t want to spend my life worrying about whether I am about to reverse over a small child that I can’t see.

Our current list looks like this (sorted partly by favourite and partly by probability of making it to test drive):

Renault Scénic II
Toyota Avensis Verso
Toyota Kluger
Ford Territory
Mazda 6 wagon
Volkswagen Golf*
Peugeot 307 Touring
Toyota Prado
Holden Adventra

Our failed list includes:

Holden Zafira
Honda Odyssey
Subaru Forrester

If you have any suggestions or reviews, please share! Tomorrow morning Jesse will see the top 4 cars listed above and most likely write them off too… wish us luck (and knitting time, my vest is soooo close to done)

*we currently drive a VW Golf, which is like a tardis and has ample room for Jesse, not so much for anyone behind him though. It is fine for us now but would be problematic with another child, let alone 2 more if my fertility treatment results in twins! Also VW seem to be having quality and reliability issues so we are reluctant to go there again…