Spring StuttersAdded : Friday at 10:45 The thing with modern cars is that they either start or they don't.... Either, you press button, the dashboard goes through all the animations and the car fires up and off you go, or the on-board computer decides to give you a random error message for a part of the car you didn't even know you had and refuses to start?
Even these days, the key needs to be in the car, but not in the ignition, but if the battery in the fob is low then you need to convince your car that the key is actually in the car itself!
Go back a few years and cars had a sense of humour and a thing called a choke. You'd start the car, it would stutter, give it a few revs and pull the choke out and eventually it decided to run. Sometimes it would start to run and then decide for whatever reason that it couldn't be bothered that morning and you'd have to start all over again.
This Spring is turning into a 1970s Austin Allegro... We had a week or two of dry and sunny weather, but this weekend the Easterlies are back :-
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Pull out the choke and give it a bit of throttle and next week we have a Northerly to contend with :-
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Spring is one of those seasons which tends to stutter from Winter to early Summer across the UK. We get some warmth, but the cooler air is still not too far from our shores.
Perhaps one day, we will end up with the smooth transition from Winter to Summer like a new modern car with full on board computer assistance, but then again, it may at some point decide to tell us that there is "Loss of pressure in rear right tyre!" at some random point on a motorway sending us into a panic...
But for the moment, the UK weather is as unreliable as a 1970s car... but then again, there is something quite romantic about that...
METEOROLOGIST : MARSH |