I'm waiting for my car to arrive - Grey 500 Esseesse. I am excited (actually make that very excited - I haven't slept properly since ordering it.....). However, I also felt a little bit guilty at the weekend and thus lovingly polished my aging Honda S2000. We have had a nine year relationship which is going to be hard to end.

As is normal, a member of the public engaged me in conversation about it outside the local shops because it does now look great. He would, apparently, like one. "As luck would have it", I told him, "I'm selling it soon" and the conversation came round to, "what are you replacing it with?". So, I told him, formerly thinking he appeared to know a thing or two. However, he didn't so I had to explain what the A500 was. To which his only reply was, "Are you mad getting rid of this and is it a pink one?". Now, none of you know me, but the last thing I would think of myself as is a "pink" kind of girl. More to the point, please tell me I'm not mad and my new car represents as much fun as I recall from my test drive?!