February 21st: What a difference three days can make. Enough rain to wash the salt off but not dry enough to get out for a run. It was dry and warm enough to get Bee on the drive though and have another look at the advisories of 'steering rack inner joint wear', and find they aren't. Also got the Mercedes washed - first time for many months.

February 18th: Second day with no rain ... but unusually Solihull have put salt down even though it's not dropped to freezing let alone below, so now a wait for enough rain to wash it off. Shouldn't be long, the forecast is rain or drizzle every day with no sun for the next two weeks ... but some snow as well so maybe more salt ...

January 24th: Finally get Bee out for a half-decent run of about an hour, first time since probably September or October, I still have the same fuel in the tank bought in August! Still not risking the usual lanes as even the lesser A roads still have some lying water. Some sun but cloud rolling in after a decent morning so - for the first time ever - hood up! It's the kind of day that I would normally have used Vee and top down in Bee would look a bit daft. Normally it's only up for MOTs and planned runs that are wet but with Vee having gone to pastures new hood up in Bee will become more common.

January 8th: More snow, and heavier, we were still digging out stuck cars three days later and it didn't completely go off the roads for a further three days:
Loads of rain following that (plus another night of frost in between) so hopefully when it dries out I'll be able to get Bee out again after another month of 'rest'.

January 1st: It snowed, and with below freezing temperatures (this after two days of full sun)
the roads will have been salted so no prospect of any outings for Bee until a decent amount of rain has fallen and dried up again.

This years jigsaw - needs no introduction, except to say it is from a painting by Trevor Mitchell who specialises in 'classic' scenes many of which have been turned into jigsaws, metal signs and other products: