This way for humbug, ladies and gents...

Of course, when I said I could feel movement on the wind, I didn't consider that it could be worse. This is what happens when you give optimism a chance, it gets you from behind.

In forty five minutes I am supposed to be meeting a friend for coffee, forty miles away.
My car is currently sitting in the drive, with the battery and starter saying BUHclikclikclikclikclikwhirrrrrrrrrrr rather than the more usual "vroooom" after the night's frost has done an excellent job of killing it off.

Except that being instead peaked and defeated by this, I'm going to kick some. I can multitask, and while rattling this tale of woe out, have been on the blower to Halfords. Coffee, missed. This issue firmly prioritised in the grand scheme of things, solution in the pipe and coming on fast.