Having a spare wheel is probably a good idea...

...so with that in mind, our sincere thanks to Marcus and the team at Bespoke Wheels of Leamington Spa who did us a favour by changing our flash alloys for the original Rover ones this morning. This way we can deal with at least one flat tyre, well possibly.

In exciting news, it turns out the alloys are worth around £200 so if anyone wants to make us an offer - leave a comment or e-mail one of us.

We might even throw in something extra. Like a car.

Untitled Number 37 sets off at lunchtime today, Nick and Ray have been off doing minor tasks such as getting the wheels sorted, plotting a route and confirming breakdown cover. I on the other hand have been sorting out the more important side of things such as:

- Staying in bed until 10 am, so only a half hour lie-in really.

- Failing to get a hair cut, despite the fact that I actually live opposite a barbers

- Buying a large amount of mars bars/water/coke/chewing gum

- Almost accidentally buying a fairly "niche" durex product instead of earplugs in Boots and then following some box-swapping needlessly saying to the assistant "no really I am planning to put them in my ears".

With a bit of luck, I'll be able to do an update once we get to Calais tonight.