So off I headed to uni today taking the sprightly little AX. for a run.
Now I suppose one of us should have thought before booking a 11 AM meeting on rememberence day. Parking was a total no no and I spent 20 minutes driving round before finding a slot in a pay and display car park discovereing that I had no change and being late had a "stuff this" moment and legged it.
We considered starting the meeting with 2 minutes silence but I suggested 2 minutes profanity with awards for lack of hesitation or repetition..
Our meeting went relatively OK with as much time spent dicussing the cuts and riots as university business.
Then it was over and time for home back to the car park and the warden had obviously been round as I had a lovely note inviting me to contribute 50 quid to the council. Bliss!
Back on the motorway and the weather had changed, the wind was really blowing. The AX is a remarkably frugal little car, delivering really impressive miles to the gallon, it does this by being as light as a leaf. Of course one thing about leaves is that when the wind blows they fly.
Each gust would shove the AX sideways anything up to a metre. If you think this might have been alarming you would of course be quite right.
That was on the motorway once I was on A roads it was lots more than alarming.
On the final twisty B road stretch, hitting a bend then suddenly lurching across the road / towards the hedge really was no fun at all. Especially as the road was surrounded by trees which were bending this way and that in a really worrying way. All it would have taken was for one of those to snap and I would not be here writing this now.
Still, it is all done and I am home typing this in the living room infront of the log fire I just turned down as it is 25 C in here.
Tomorrow though, is another day, we are off on manoeuvres again and should be on the 10 pm tomorrow night. If the thing sails that is, the weather in the channel looks less than good....
I might have an amusing little tale to tell on Sunday when we get back.
A life on the ocean waves
Bleugggghhhhhh
Is better than going to sea
Heeeeeeewwweeeeiiiiggghhhh.
R
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I suppose the god thing about the AX is it is a small target for the wind to gather. Whereas a Renault Master on an open road on the Linconshire Fens with no rees or hills to break the wind's path is a much larger target for the wnd to hurl across the carriageways...so glad we are both home on one piece tonight!
The Log Burners sound delightful, however we had to abandon our Log Fire as Jonathan was allergic to the ash I had to clear out regularly. When left with the choice of a nice toasty room at home whilst sat at the bedside of Jonathan in Hospital with pneumonia or the best the Oil heating can do and a healthy chest...there is little competition.
I am also not too sure what the concerns would be with Oxygen and a Log burner. The fire brigade already have us listed as Make Pumps 3! In case of call out due to the amount of Oxygen we hold!
make pumps three - we could do that.
Might need a few days notice though....
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