► I still can’t quite believe it’s happened as it seems only yesterday that I was collecting my daughter from primary school, but Katie has just turned 17. We were hoping to buy her a car as a birthday present. However, something that’s affordable insurance-wise for a 17-year-old but which also has sufficient ‘street cred’ for her – and which is also sufficiently reliable and in good enough condition to satisfy me – has so-far proved elusive. So, while the funds have been earmarked, for her actual birthday, I bought her instead a personalised registration (direct from DVLA, so no classics were harmed or robbed in its acquisition)
