Going up a hill earlier, pulled in to let a car go down the hill, tried to select first heard a little noise and suddenly no gears

Managed to roll the car back onto the pavement so it was out of the way and took a look at the gear linkage:

As you can see, something's not quite right

On closer examination one of the 3 prongs is missing:

Managed to stick the car in 1st and limp it home....waiting for VW to ring me back with a price for the part now.