Mom’s first car

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A Robin Reliant car

Mom was the driver in our family. She drove a Robin reliant 3 wheeler car. Fibre glass body. Me and my sisters would squeeze in it with her and sometimes my gran too. The three wheeler struggled with hills because it only had a very low cc engine. It was hard to drive in snow because the front wheel would have to push it’s way through fresh snow… Eek

One day on a very long steep hill l remember it boiled dry dragging 5 of us and our combined weight upwards. I remember a hot day and wondering how we would get home. Luckily mom found a house and they brought a watering can of water down to refill the radiator.

BTW Robin reliants got the nickname “Plastic pigs”!

One event?

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If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?

What could I possibly choose? Like the beating of a butterfly or moths wings, what chaos would my choice cause?

We imagine that we can be all powerful, have the ability to alter history, but like the grandfather paradox (the one where someone goes back in time and accidentally kills his grandfather, so he can no longer exist), you don’t know what your action will do.

Stop the meteor that killed the dinosaurs? Lizards walk around in suits and ties. The Spanish Armada beat the English? Everyone in America is now of Spanish decent.

Steam engines are improved before automobiles, we have clean air and no climate change, but we are heading for an ice age instead.

So basically I would have to keep things as they are for fear of making things worse!

Trouser leg for tea…

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Thoughts go astray sometimes, especially as you get older, but I’ve never said “I’ll have a trouser leg for tea”? before….

I was deciding what to have for my evening meal and thought chicken leg with rice and a tomato pasta sauce would be simple and tasty…

I did chuckle as I said it to myself, I immediately realised that I had uttered the wrong phrase, I’m glad I did, I’m not completely gaga yet!

Tomorrow night I might have mice pudding…… Haha!

Early Autumn

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The trees are starting to get brown. It’s August, it’s mid summer but it’s too hot. In some places there has been no rain for two months. We have had temperatures over 30°C for most of June, July and now August. Feilds are yellow, crops are failing. Cattle don’t have enough feed. Milk production is down.

There have been lots of grass fires and some forest fires, but today several houses in different towns were burnt to the ground. Even in the North of this city.

So Autumn of Climate change? Big business wants us to drill but it’s more like burn baby burn…..

There’s a meme going round which is something like “is this the coolest summer you will ever remember?” perhaps we will look back and wish we had listened to scientists and tried to do something about it?

Threads threw me out!

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Apparently I was fraudulent or trying to get money from people.

If you’ve ever read my blog here I think it’s obvious that I am friendly and try to be helpful. I was doing the same thing on Threads. Maybe I was too nice.

I had found a place I thought I could write useful things, trying to be a good honest person. Clearly that doesn’t fit their algorithm.

There’s no one to talk to or email. No way to challenge this as far as I can see.

As it is I’m proclaimed guilty without any way to explain myself. Evicted by AI apparently. Guilty and no way to prove innocence. Cut off from new friends, ghosted by the machine!

Is this fair? Is it possible to get it overturned? Does anyone else have any experience on this? What about free speech.

It rained

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Only for ten minutes, but the sky was cloudy, then darkened. I could HEAR it pattering against the windows, and when I went to the back door the noise was sublime. There were even puddles!

This is nothing, we have not had rain for weeks and it has been above 30°C in some parts of the country for over a month.

Now I’ve just finished the washing up and I’m drenched with sweat. It’s still warm and extremely humid. I’m so tired.

Goodnight.