8th March: What a beautiful day for a drive in Bee ... marred by two people pulling out in front of me, roadworks, horses, cyclists, farm machinery and someone crawling along pulling a wide trailer, a lot of salt in some places and some lying water in others despite no rain for two or three weeks. Sunday mornings aren't like they were 35 years ago. I'd have been better off using Vee for the 200-miler yesterday.

6th March: Some beautiful sunshine over the last couple of weeks and dry, but repeated applications of salt overnight, and no rain in the offing. Annoying as I have a 200-miler coming up and I don't want to risk running into heavy applications that some authorities insist on slathering about.

13th February: Roads finally dried up enough to get Vee out for an hour in 5C and dunkelflaute, Bee just round the block to check the new alternator as hood down it was too cold for anything further and I couldn't be bothered to put it up for what would only have been a few minutes more anyway. Next two nights frost and more salt! Subsequently had some rain to wash that off, and a bit of sun that tempted me out in Bee to confirm the alt, but pretty wet on roads not in full sun, even busy-ish roads.

1st & 2nd February: After a dire winter for classic car use (and it's not over yet ..) I get the V8 out for an hour on Feb 1st in cloud and a bit of damp then Bee next day with mostly sun but still a bit damp. Bee only for about half an hour though as 15 minutes in I suddenly realised the alternator is not charging.

1st January:
This year's jigsaw - Life in the Slow Lane by Czes Pachela. Rather apt at our time of life (although maybe less so when driving the MGBs to get there ...).