Pass

who would have thought it.  MOT PASS.

with no advisory remarks. - my brakes also rated quite well apparently! the test chap was surprised too. 

yay.
 

there was a great Xmas tree shop round the corner from the test center so i stuffed on in the chair for the drive home.

EDIT: got to mailing off my registration docs today too. Let hope the application is successful and speedy.