How can it be possible to go from humid to cold in two blog posts? Well, it’s quite easy when you blog about once a month. It does seem that winter is on it’s way. The first car ice-scraping was on Tuesday and the first flooding of a cold engine took place the next day in Morrison’s car park on Wednesday. So used was I to the fierce reliability of the new vehicle, that it’s unwillingness to start came as quite a shock. It amused the old guy sweeping the car park no end. I half expected a round of applause when I finally spluttered and coughed it’s way into life. I spent the short trip home terrified of stalling at traffic lights and junctions in a way that I hadn’t done since my first car, an orange Allegro back in 1987.

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