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Well this is nerve wracking. The cub's taxi completely failed this morning and, an hour after she's expected home this afternoon... she's still not. Edit Finally home. The school run is now two hours! Edit edit This morning we thought the kerb would be collected at about 20 past 7, as this was the time her new driver had said when he arrived a day early, on Monday morning. I got his name, I got his phone number, and everything went well this morning for getting the cub ready in plenty of time. We waited until The Time. 20 minutes after The Time, I texted and then phoned the driver. not a bean. 50 minutes later I phoned the taxi company, where they indicated Transport had taken the contract to deliver to school arrest. Then I phoned the Transport department, who were (very fortunately) at work by 8am, who said the taxi company had RETURNED the contract (I'm wondering if I had anything to do with that) and that a driver would be with us 'some tiny i'. I cancelled em for the morning and loaded the cub, the Panda, Weston and myself into a car and took the duty myself because that way the cub had a chance of being only a few minutes late. We were late but not incredibly late as our local schools are only back on Thursday and so the traffic was much lighter than it might have been. We crawled home for a LATE breakfast and a very fragmented day, as we'd lost a couple of hours. Not a dead loss, but we had to juggle around just to get anything done.