I'm back. Duddon valley if you must know. More on this later and my love affair with an Audi Allroad Quattro.
As a rule of thumb and forefinger I don't tune into the news on holiday. Often as a result we have returned home to find our village devastated by an earthquake/nuclear detonation/council election.
With no small amount of heartfelt joy I tuned into HM Government's BBC Radio 2, or the Home Service as you may know it, and heard on the 08.00hrs news that the Automobile Association was raising doubts about the green credentials of alternative fuel cars, based on the premise that we actually know four fifths of sod all about long term effects compared to the more efficient petrol or diesel engines now being built.
Good Lord, ten days up a moist Lakeland valley and there is an outbreak of good sense to come home to.
Much of the biodegradable data comes from computer models. Which is fine.
Except that wandering the hills in the Allroad it’s computer sometimes told me the diesel engine was achieving 240 miles to the gallon. Clearly not the truth.
Needless to say the AA’s opinion was rubbished immediately by friends of the cormorant or something who once again made the point that there is no sustainable alternative than the bicycle powered ox cart.
Incidentally the same bulletin revealed that the Dartford warbler had returned to Essex now that summers are warming up.
Er, that means that once they were even warmer than now. Then they cooled and the birdies warbled off.
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