Not the ideal day to be crawling around under an old Landy. But is there ever an ‘ideal’ day to be doing such stuff? After last weeks discovery of a new leaking brake pipe – while fixing another newly fitted, but leaking, brake pipe – sorting this was always going to trump an ideal day.…

Some good news, some bad. In case you didn’t know, I’d had to replace one of the brakes pipes on Lucky (my Discovery 2), from front to rear. I was sat at a set of lights, on my way to work, foot on the brakes – as you do – when the pedal went… ‘pffft’…