Not long ago, my wife and I sat down to come up with a list of things that we wanted from our next house. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that we wrote down such considerations as a nice garden and a good local pub before thinking about schools for the children.
A decent garage also came above educational concerns.
In the past, I have been spoilt in this respect by having access to a huge workshop with room for six or eight cars, two ramps, a mezzanine level for storage and everything from an air compressor to a shotblasting cabinet and a tyre-fitting machine.
Not so at home. Our previous abode had no garage; our current one has a single garage but with no power.
I'm happy to admit that I'm a fair-weather mechanic. I could, for example, quite happily spend all day tinkering in that workshop. The beauty of it was that, if you decided that enough was enough, you could down tools and go home.
With the single garage, the car obviously has to be dragged out for me to work on it. That's no problem, but when I've finished (or have simply reached a difficult job that requires a deep breath, an afternoon's thought and a cup of tea), everything has to be packed away and the car reversed into storage. Which means putting wheels back on and suchlike.