For so long, our to-do list has been nothing but essentials, so it feels especially satisfying to finally get round to a job that was not all that urgent, only unsightly. The steering wheel was one of those jobs. It still worked perfectly well, it got us to some beautiful places, so it was easy to leave for another day.

But now that we were having critical work done and we had nowhere to go for a while and no need to steer, the wheel came off for a full strip-down.