Sleeping with the car

A week or so prior, I had such a big argument with the wife that I packed my belongings into the Maxi and went and lived rough in it for three days. I slept in a car park at the top of Beacon Hill, Ashurst Beacon in Skelmersdale.

I slept in the car park at Alcan and in various places around the industrial estate.

The car became my home for those few days and I washed and showered and ate at Alcan. I can remember sitting on the bonnet and looking out across the vast expanse of Lancashire from that car park on Beacon Hill, the dew was all around me and the day had yet to begin. It seemed at the time that my life would never begin, It was a complete shambles.

Fortunately, it did get a lot worse over the following few weeks....