My world is pink
Monday, 5 December 2005 05:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightOoh, stretch-yawn-wriggle. Nice to be back home in my little cabin, after five days housesitting. Back with my own gorgeous computer, full of the Boys and other joys... Although to be fair its been a beautiful weekend, the sky has been clear, the sun has been out ... which means that its been -37C according to the gauge down the hill. But I've also been car-sitting, keeping my bum warm on heated leather and being way too excited about using the autostart.
Maybe I should start at the beginning with that one. When it gets really cold, if you have to leave your car outside, you plug it in. Really. There's a little electric plug at the front of the car, and you attach your extension cord, and you plug it in to the electricity socket that if you're lucky you have outside your house or office or where ever. At the other end, inside the engine, it heats up what are basically little electric blankets wrapping up various important bits. Ten minutes before you need to drive it, you go outside and start the engine and leave it to heat up properly. Yes, this is why the city is covered in what is known as "ice fog" - frozen exhaust fumes. If you're very posh you don't have to venture into the nasty cold and then stand around like a frozen eejit while the engine rouses itself, you use an autostart - ie. you go to some window overlooking your car's parking space, and you press a little button on a little gadget, and your car starts. All by itself! Alright, obviously not, cos you've just used the gadget, but that's what it feels like! I am not posh, so this is still weird to me, and makes me giggle. Yeah, well, you should have seen my face the first winter I was here, and I realised that not only do people leave their car doors unlocked, they leave the engines on and the keys in the ignition, and then go off shopping! And get this - the cars hardly ever get stolen! I'm effectively from Manchester - I locked one car and had a security system installed, and the bloody thing was stolen after the thieves came back three times for it. So you can imagine how I gibbered for days when I had to abandon my car with the engine running and the doors unlocked that first winter...
Anyway, I borrowed a digital camera from the library this weekend, and thought I'd share some of the results. I give you - my world today:
Sunrise - just before 11.00am
Around 2.00pm - the Museum - award winning design, folks, what does it make you think of..?):
Across the snow
Pink twigs!
2.30pm - where the icefog comes from...
Sunset - around 2.30pm
And finally - the soft blue - around 3.30pm
And in other news... well, there isn't any really. But I'm planning on either JJD or a Pros ep, so be prepared for further rambling.
Maybe I should start at the beginning with that one. When it gets really cold, if you have to leave your car outside, you plug it in. Really. There's a little electric plug at the front of the car, and you attach your extension cord, and you plug it in to the electricity socket that if you're lucky you have outside your house or office or where ever. At the other end, inside the engine, it heats up what are basically little electric blankets wrapping up various important bits. Ten minutes before you need to drive it, you go outside and start the engine and leave it to heat up properly. Yes, this is why the city is covered in what is known as "ice fog" - frozen exhaust fumes. If you're very posh you don't have to venture into the nasty cold and then stand around like a frozen eejit while the engine rouses itself, you use an autostart - ie. you go to some window overlooking your car's parking space, and you press a little button on a little gadget, and your car starts. All by itself! Alright, obviously not, cos you've just used the gadget, but that's what it feels like! I am not posh, so this is still weird to me, and makes me giggle. Yeah, well, you should have seen my face the first winter I was here, and I realised that not only do people leave their car doors unlocked, they leave the engines on and the keys in the ignition, and then go off shopping! And get this - the cars hardly ever get stolen! I'm effectively from Manchester - I locked one car and had a security system installed, and the bloody thing was stolen after the thieves came back three times for it. So you can imagine how I gibbered for days when I had to abandon my car with the engine running and the doors unlocked that first winter...
Anyway, I borrowed a digital camera from the library this weekend, and thought I'd share some of the results. I give you - my world today:
Sunrise - just before 11.00am
Around 2.00pm - the Museum - award winning design, folks, what does it make you think of..?):
Across the snow
Pink twigs!
2.30pm - where the icefog comes from...
Sunset - around 2.30pm
And finally - the soft blue - around 3.30pm
And in other news... well, there isn't any really. But I'm planning on either JJD or a Pros ep, so be prepared for further rambling.
