Crumbs...how long is it now?

Okay, so I haven't been keeping up with this but you know how it is - more important things to worry about. Like paying for the car.
There's good news and bad news.
The bad news was that the fan wasn't working and so the car was seriously overheating whenever I was queuing in traffic - so quite often on a school run or driving into London.
The result was that it needed surgery.-

Replacement of fan switch and thermostat
Replacement of timing belt kit and water pump
Investigation diagnosis
Total                     £428

That's including VAT (at 20% mind you....20 bloomin' percent!). So that's blown a hole in the budget and I'll have to add that into the running costs for this year. Over 12 months it's about £8.20 a week!
The good news?  Er....the garage washed it for me...