30 December 2005
Day 3 - 30th December
No photos today, went shopping (eventually) Awoke to torrential rain, grey skies all day, it did ease off now and then later this afternoon, and a bit of clear sky appeared around 3pm but it was short-lived. Only good thing that can be said is thank god it's milder. So lovely to go outside without shuddering and coming indoors again as quickly as possible with frostbitten extremeties.
However as this is partly a diary as well as a photographic report, I feel I have to post something else about my day. Dear reader, today, if I had owned a gun, I am sure I would have shot myself! I did a very, very stupid thing, mainly through laziness. Let me explain. Two days ago I had an early appointment at the hospital, and because we had such low temperatures, and I didn't want to be outside scraping ice from the car first thing, I covered my front and rear car windows with old blankets. This worked a treat. So I repeated the exercise that night (it was Wednesday) as I thought I would save myself a job yesterday too as I was going to go shopping. However, it then snowed, and I left the blankets in place, didn't go out in the car, and thought no more of it. When I awoke this morning to the torrential rain, I thought oh damn, the rugs will be soaking wet now. I went to go out shopping just before one o'clock today, opened the car doors to remove the rugs, (I had shut each corner of them into each of my four doors to stop them blowing off in the wind) Have you guessed it yet? Where the rugs had been shut in the doors, the rain had poured in, as the seals were broken. I had six inches of water in the floor wells, all the seats were sopping wet, it had run into the door pockets and under the seats and ruined my map book,everything in the doors was soaking, in fact virtually everything in the car was soaking. I just wanted to cry my eyes out. If there is one thing that pisses me off with a car, it's when there are damp carpets and the car steams up all the time. The thing I loved about my car was that it is the first one I have ever owned which was dry as a bone inside. I bailed out as much as I could, soaked up loads more with four big bath towels, and had to put plastic on my drivers seat so I didn't get a wet backside. Drove with the heater flat out and windows open, but I need some hot, sunny days to have the slightest chance of drying it out. I am very, very down, and can't believe I could have been so bloody stupid. It even occurred to me when I saw it was raining that it may be leaking a bit round the windows, but no way could I believe that much could have run in - it was like a hose pipe had been running in the car for hours. :( Boy, did I swear, and chuck things around. Frankly, I am heartbroken, I can't see that it will ever dry out properly again, and with the weather we have now, the carpets are all going to go mouldy. What the hell can I do?
Well enough for today. Sick. :-(
However as this is partly a diary as well as a photographic report, I feel I have to post something else about my day. Dear reader, today, if I had owned a gun, I am sure I would have shot myself! I did a very, very stupid thing, mainly through laziness. Let me explain. Two days ago I had an early appointment at the hospital, and because we had such low temperatures, and I didn't want to be outside scraping ice from the car first thing, I covered my front and rear car windows with old blankets. This worked a treat. So I repeated the exercise that night (it was Wednesday) as I thought I would save myself a job yesterday too as I was going to go shopping. However, it then snowed, and I left the blankets in place, didn't go out in the car, and thought no more of it. When I awoke this morning to the torrential rain, I thought oh damn, the rugs will be soaking wet now. I went to go out shopping just before one o'clock today, opened the car doors to remove the rugs, (I had shut each corner of them into each of my four doors to stop them blowing off in the wind) Have you guessed it yet? Where the rugs had been shut in the doors, the rain had poured in, as the seals were broken. I had six inches of water in the floor wells, all the seats were sopping wet, it had run into the door pockets and under the seats and ruined my map book,everything in the doors was soaking, in fact virtually everything in the car was soaking. I just wanted to cry my eyes out. If there is one thing that pisses me off with a car, it's when there are damp carpets and the car steams up all the time. The thing I loved about my car was that it is the first one I have ever owned which was dry as a bone inside. I bailed out as much as I could, soaked up loads more with four big bath towels, and had to put plastic on my drivers seat so I didn't get a wet backside. Drove with the heater flat out and windows open, but I need some hot, sunny days to have the slightest chance of drying it out. I am very, very down, and can't believe I could have been so bloody stupid. It even occurred to me when I saw it was raining that it may be leaking a bit round the windows, but no way could I believe that much could have run in - it was like a hose pipe had been running in the car for hours. :( Boy, did I swear, and chuck things around. Frankly, I am heartbroken, I can't see that it will ever dry out properly again, and with the weather we have now, the carpets are all going to go mouldy. What the hell can I do?
Well enough for today. Sick. :-(
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