DATE: <$BlogItemDate$> 7/02/2007 08:47:00 PM
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    TITLE:Big foot
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    <div style="clear:both;"></div>So it would seem that my stint of book reading is to come to an end. The reason is that my stint as a user of public transport is coming to an end. We usher in a new stint of being a two-car family.

In a characteristic impulse way, we bought a new car at the weekend. The bus I get into work is quite unreliable. It's also the only bus I can get, and is changing it's timetable for minimum usefulness as of today. This means that getting a second car now looks like a good idea.

It's only a little one. I did look at a Matiz (900cc engine) but it failed to meet one of our three criteria for a new car - I didn't fit into it. We plumped for a 5 year old Vauxhall Corsa, with a 1.0 engine. In the test drive the accelerator didn't seem to do very much but it did fulfill the other two criteria, namely that it will get from A to B, and back from B to A, and that it is cheap to run.

The biggest problem with this is that our carbon footprint has just gone up to 'outsize shoes' level. I'm probably not concerned enough about this, but it's the bus's fault. When the day comes that I come home to graffiti scrawled across my door with the words "Anti-Earth Eco-fucker" in red spray paint then I'll know that society has tipped over the edge into demonising such iresponsible petrol-burning behaviour.

In the meantime, I'll have to content myself with zooming my little puddle-jumper to and from work.

Ooh, and it means I can go to the gym in the mornings too. I just hope I get to finish my book now though, it was rather good.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div>
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