Hard to believe but a girl managed to infuriate her father when she asked him whether she had spent money wisely for servicing her car.

Incredibly it seems that he actually believed her when she asked him if he thought that the £60 she claimed to have shelled out to get her tyre pumped up was a good deal.

Incandescent and actually believing that his daughter could have been so stupid, he called her a “headcase” and said there must be something wrong with her.

In response, she explained that one of the back tyres had gone flat so she had taken it to the garage to get it fixed where she reported that the man behind the counter had said that it would cost £60 as the tyre was to be filled with “premium air”.

Enraged almost beyond measure, her father stormed, “Premium air? Are you bloody simple? Premium air!?

“Listen, there’s only one kind of air, that’s the air that you breathe. Air is air, it pumps up a tyre. You don’t give someone £60 to put it in your tyre.”

It’s unknown whether they are still on speaking terms!

Margaret Mills joined me in the second hour of today’s programme and took a look at the “so-called” pop-up racecourses that at one time were all the rage across our county.

Of course some racecourses were well known, but perhaps less well known was the course in Writtle that drew substantial support from Lord Petre of Ingatestone.

Listen again here to what Margaret told me on this subject: –

I hope to have your company again next week,
Scott