Monthly Archives: December 2005

Taking it up the DVLA

A quick link to this Times article by Libby Purves because

  1. A quick misreading made me wonder what ‘taking it up the DVLA’ was
  2. It describes Simon Hughes, il presidente del’liberal democrats, as ‘fiery’. He’s a nice bloke, sincere, earnest, entertaining, hardworking, and all the rest, but fiery…? Maybe by “fiery Lib Dem” she just means fiery, for a Lib Dem.
  3. Well, I spose, the civil liberties angle is something that ought to be taken seriously, once we’ve all stopped laughing at fiery Lib Dems taking it up the DVLA.

Frustrating

Kyaking with Lara Croft is one of life’s more frustrating experiences.

As is both of us coming down with the yuckier of food-poisoning symptoms, with added nausea and weakness in a week when we’re supposed to be strenuously tidying and boxing possessions and preparing for a holiday to destination as yet undisclosed to P, and when I’m supposed to doing a fair bit of heavy lifting and guillotining at work.

Bah. Cancel Christmas, we’re not going to be ready in time.

Still, on the plus side, at least I don’t feel like eating. With any luck I’m losing weight.

New House Progress

Things hurrying up a little. Drains can’t be done now until the New Year, but we’re pretty much booked in.

The builder can start next week. Or at least he says he will.

Removal men are booked for 14th Dec.

We’ve already painted and recarpeted three rooms.

This is starting to get exciting now!

All becomes clear

Since the cold weather began, I’ve been having a problem with my car in that I couldn’t get the windscreen properly clear. I’ve been hurtling down the M1 with only smeared taillights to guide me.

Yesterday, my screenwash ran out just short of J26, so I soldiered on home not daring to use my wipers at all for fear of losing even more vision.

Last time I topped up the screenwash, I did it in the cold and dark one night on finding that the current screenwash wasn’t helping clear the frost of the windscreen. Checking on my bottles in the boot of various things that go in the car, I realise quite why the smearing was happening.

I’d poured antifreeze into the screenwash silo and not, er, screenwash.

Now, with new screenwash in there, the problem has gone away again, and I can see once more.