To the North

Just cold and grey

SAAB to .... You guessed it. Six foot uprights won't fit in the Aston.

Still above 10 Degrees

SAAB again - rain predicted so left the Aston in the garage.

Warm Winter Wednesday

December 28th and 11 degrees.

SAAB past 176k on the run back from Germania too. Not even needing the warm seats this winter.

Not quite Spring

Aston re-washed and run around for the crack. Nice run round the usual circuit - and Halfords of course - having located the water feed pipe to the Golf.

Now looking at wood store /bike shed/car port for the front...

Murky start in Germany

Mist in the hills but no snow at all - 400 miles to go.

Dull day in Deutscheland

And the wardens were out too ...

At Chunnel

SAAB Dash

Quick early dash to the office in the drizzle in the SAAB. Need to prepare for a few hundred miles tomorrow.

No Snow forecast - glad I bought the snow chains but not the winter tyres - 11 degrees today.

Golfing in the wet

Seems that the Golf has a few leaks - resulting in wet carpets.

Also went Karting - James won (well he was the best Brazill).

SAAB again

Back in big warm SAAB for first "-1" degree start.

Sunday Golfing - "Four"

Suspension very poor fully loaded. Four up it was bouncing on the tyres over bumps - needs fixing. All the way back from London.

Saturday Golfing - Two under par

Two tyres that is. And the small spare is probably dangerous too.

Focus Five

Rain ahead of sleet we're warned. Which arrived at lunchtime.

Golf missing rear tyre now to...

Hurrah for public transport

Late first thing due to signalling faults into London

Late out of Paddington due to unspecified delays to Slough

Late and dangerously overcrowded back to Paddington

Tube delayed a bit

Looking forward to tonight's trip from Liverpool street though.

More Focus Days

Just backwards and forwards again.

The Electric Menace

Wow - my first sighting of a car charging on a street in central London.

Let the train take the strain

Great slogan. Now running more than an hour late on a journey of about the same.
At least I can read and write while I wait.

Focus again to the station - needs petrol and my SAAB needs 2 new tyres. Well after 170k miles it needs a set.

Small Cars have there place

The Focus runs backwards and forwards to the station in an easy efficiency.

You can see the attraction of the small car - although the Focus is probably small medium sized at least.

This one is a good spec too which helps. I would add heated seats perhaps if I could but not much else.

So that's one car in the fleet sorted - now for the rest ...

Dull wet Sunday

A bit of Black and Blue SAAB action.

Aston Cleaned

Then off for some more night shots.

Blast - past a gritter spraying salt everywhere.

Night shots were OK ish.

Four Times Focus

Popping around in the blue Focus - eking out the fuel. Need to fill up next week.

Frost again on it's way.

Modes of Transport

Focus to start with, on to train, by foot to office then taxi across London - tube back, then train and Focus home.

Must wash the Aston soon - I don't think I'll be using it much in the next few months until the winter ebbs.

Focus again

Wet and Cold - I still think if we stopped the clock in 2000 cars were good enough.

Focus - but not that Frosty

And wintry rain on the way home.

Brrrrr 2 degrees start

Golf fixed - fault with ignition. Switch was broken behind the ignition. It would have foxed me forever.

Bubblitious

308 back into the first bubble. Getting colder but no sign if snow yet.

The e-type into the bubble with the frame. It takes about an hour and I'm not sure it's worth the extra hassel.

Then went out taking pictures of the Aston at night by the marina. Need to work out how to take better shots. 

Finally the Alpine is still sitting unloved.

62 not out

62,000 miles exactly when I left today - early December and still warm and dry enough for a run in the 308.
Nice drive back looking at the greenish glow over the White on black dials.

Antiques by Aston

Golf to garage first thing - then popped out for the day antique hunting in the Aston. It hit me how small the vantage boot is.

And it still 'shimmies' on rough roads.

E-type also got a run out in the late evening - it's not as fast but keeps up with modern traffic and speed limits ok.

SAAB vs 308

Well SAAB is big and practical, but 308 sounds nicer and can carry lots of scrap metal to the yard.

Blast - Golf GTI has electrical gremlins. It has sat in the rain though.