Whoops

I realised yesterday that with Christmas and lockdown I hadn't been out in the car since the 20th - so pretty much three weeks. I decided I'd better give it a run and it was as well I did. I got out to the car to find that the last time I'd used it I'd left the solar charger I bought after killing a battery in Lockdown 1 face down in the passenger footwall, which doesn't do a lot for it's charging efficiency*. And when I turned the key there was a very distinctly laboured "whhhhhhrrrr" before the engine caught, so the charge was right on the edge of not being able to turn the starter.

But it did manage, so I took it out for a drive for a while to charge up the battery and I'll try and do it a couple of more times this week, but whoops, that was close.

* The idea isn't to charge the battery enough to use, but to keep enough charge flowing into it that I don't get cells dying, as has happened regularly in the past - that way the AA will just need to jump-start me, not sell me a new battery.

Completely forgot to mention...

... that my mother had her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday, which was completely uneventful.

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was just on doing the covid press conference and said so far they've done 2.6 million doses to 2.3 million people, so that's 300,000 have had the double dose despite government strategy moving away from it.