While I don't like to crow "Told you so!"...
Oh, wait.
Yes I do. In other news, my great-aunt (b.1917) passed on this morning after ten years of increasing decline. She was the last of her generation on my mother's side of the family.
And in a spot of good news, the car has come back from its somewhat overdue service and is no longer sounding like an asthmatic sewing machine.