A major part of this involves doing literature research and writing a thesis. Our project team had two members that included a girl classmate, Penny. ...e were writing the report and for this we decided to work undisturbed at her home rather than my hostel room. While my first two visits were eventless, the next visit turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Penny used to live with her elder sister, a divorcee. While we were busy in our work, she used to look after us by serving tea and snacks. It. "Hi, I'm Alan. I heard you have problems with the emergency lights coming on intermittently," I said."Yes, over in the Mansion. The lights come on for no reason at all. I know we're not being burglarized." She chuckled."I should be able to fix that easily enough." I said confidently."Great, Heff will be glad to hear it." She said."Where is Heff, by the way? I would love to meet him." I asked."Oh, he is away in New York for the week. He won't be back until Tuesday."Damn, just my luck. I come all. Spotted sounds as if I was alert, it was more like it was half blocking the road, allowing just enough room for my van to squeeze through. Because of my near miss I was more interested than I would have normally been. I noticed that it seemed to contain a lot of boxes labelled Vin de Pays.When I got to the farm and my workshop, Bert was out and about, so as usual I stopped for a chat. I mentioned my near miss and he told me that it was probably the same lorry that called at the pub every month. "Hi Jacqui, am I too early?" she said cheerily."No, come on in, I've got the kettle on for a coffee." I had dropped my daughter off at school in the car so I had been back a while. "Any joy with the job hunting?" Nooo. I went for the part-time job in the bakers up the road, but even they wanted some experience." What was it you did then?" I was a legal secretary, but there's only one lawyer in the village and he had nothing. Without a car I can't travel far and being a single mum, I can't do.