Guilty Pleasure

[brightlywoven]

For the first time ever...
...I own a car!

Now I firmly believe in living the minimal life - eschewing consumerism and avoiding the trap of expanding the cost of your lifestyle to fit your means. I love my little bike (which has now paid for itself in work transport alone - by cylcing everyday I have saved the bike's capital cost in bus fares, plus had the satisfaction of climbing that damn hill).

But...

My new job will require me to have car mobility - to be able to zip up to Banbury mid morning, and be back at the JR at lunchtime. So I have investigated, read AA reviews, scoured advertisments and last night we took the epic trip to Swindon [1] and I bought a (cheap, second hand) little green car.

And I love it.

It is so fun to drive it, and now my brain is concocting little plans like 'let's drive to Cornwall and see the coast' or 'Let's drive to Hidcote in autumn to see the gardens' and other bad things.

I fervently hope not to become a naughty bad car addicted CO2 emitting person.

[1] yes, we went around the magic roundabout, no, I didn't drive round it myself

Comments

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, the pheasants! We were so excited by these (I wanted to go poaching, and carry a brace of birds home over my shoulder, but I thought The Duke might take exception)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a gamekeeper's son, I advise you to be very careful what you say around here ... ;-)

(Besides, with poached pheasant, you have to pluck and gut them yourself ;-) )

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then you get to turn those beautiful tail feathers into quill pens ;)

(Honest sir, I weren't doin' nuthin'. The birds just fell on them bullets)