The picture is of the birthday cake at the party we went to today. The cake was a Victoria sponge with icing and haribo types sweets all over it. To be honest it looked both disgusting and fascinating and an absolute sugar nightmare. I would have had a second slice if there were enough left, it was delicious!
The birthday party was in Hampton, south london. We thought it would be easier if we took Alex’s car, it would give it a run plus we wouldn’t. Have to worry about charging. Only problem is, it’s a manual gearbox, and I haven’t driven manual for quite a while. I needed to drive as Alex wanted to have a drink – not at all unreasonable.
An automatic car really is the lazy drivers vehicle, there is so much you don’t have to think about, in fact I’m not even sure if electric cars have traditional automatic gear boxes, because the motors drive the wheels directly, but it behaves like an automatic, mostly.
Actually once behind the wheel, and having got used to the brakes, it didn’t take long for me to get back into using a manual car. I didn’t stall it, or forget to change gears, or forget that it didn’t auto-brake when you lifted your foot off the accelerator, I managed through all of those, and actually, I enjoyed it.
Going back to the automatic after having manually driven over 100 miles over the course of the day, getting back in to the automatic felt stranger. It was a lighter car, and I kept looking for gearstick, wanting to change gear. Also, 60mph in our car, really feels like 40 in Alex’s Again it took a couple of minutes to re-adjust, but once there I was absolutely fine.
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