Well, I'd gotten there finally and so I had a soft top to drive during the last of the sunny weather (it was early September by this point).
Impressions were good in so much that it was tight to drive with no ominous noises. It started and stopped as it should and the kids had fallen in love with it.
I did a few post-MOT fixes/bodges as well.
The wheel nuts were those awful capped ones that, once the chrome cover drops off, fit no known socket size.
A look through eBay found me some solid replacements with the correct pitch and taper (for a Ford focus). There turned up a few days later and after a fight removing the old ones that involved Urwin nut removers and other implements of destruction, the new ones were fitted.
Then I moved on to a problem that had stopped me being able to drive the car;
The right-hand exhaust hanger had dropped out of its knackered rubber mount;
I bodged it by spacing the hanger on the other side out with a jubilee clip to hold it in the other end;
I then ordered a replacement hanger with stainless fittings that is still unused in the glovebox to this day.... I will do it this summer, promise!
Then the battery called time so a new one was bought and fitted;
The MG then did a fair amount of commuting during the Autumn which it did in fine style and reliability. It was then that our house extension was started, and needing a clear drive way, the MG and my Puma had to go and live at the inlaws for a while.
During the Winter, other than the odd run out, my old Subaru resumed duties and the MG retired until sunnier weather.
Sadly, due to the building work and other stuff being stored, The MG never got the garage to live in and had to fend for itself on the drive in all weathers until March.
Not ideal....