Well, after all the excitement of installing the PC and generally getting a lot more enthused with the car of late.......some VERY crap news!!
Looks like the engine has spun a bottom end bearing.
I heard the noise a week ago, and after a consultation with the Keyser we think thats the cause. Since then I've been pretty quiet on here - a combination of sulking, weighing up my options, making spreadsheets of how much I would get back from the car etc. But after a lot of thought I am going to try and get the car back on the road with a new heart, and enjoy her again!
On the more humorous side of things, which I only just remembered (last week was a blur), when I phoned Chris to see about listening to the engine noise he was working on the house and the radio was playing 'Another one bites the dust'
Any who, crap news, but its only a car/engine which can be fixed. Watch this space