Weekend Roundup 11/02/12 – 12/02/12

A travelling weekend this weekend – I was very quiet on social media and so forth, mainly because I was feeling very 2/10. Stupidly I didn’t do my Zazen either day this weekend which probably didn’t help either, and no exercise either – but more down to circumstances. Sometimes I don’t help myself – but at the time you don’t realise it has such an effect. The malaise just onsets.

On Saturday morning we drove down to Worcestershire to see my parents. En route, I noticed that the window washers weren’t working on the new car, even though I’d put in almost neat window washer fluid a couple of days previously. I just put this down to the fact that it had been around -12C at our house overnight and the washer was just frozen. Even when we got down to my parents house it still wasn’t working, but I figured it was still frozen solid and didn’t think any more of it.

Quick pint with my Dad, and once we’d had some lunch and I did a quick scoot around on some work things due to issues, Michelle needed some shopping for the girls, so we went to Merry Hill. Always busy this mecca of shops at the weekend. Normally I’d have been tempted to go and spend some cash but I just tagged along acting as chauffeur and didn’t spend anything.

Saturday evening I was still feeling a bit Meh so I went to bed early.

Sunday morning I didn’t wake till 7:30am, but after a nice breakfast got everything ready as I needed to do some work today. Thankfully there is an ADSL link at my parents house so I can just connect in. I retired to the office for a couple of hours to do some work, and then once that was done it was a bit of lunch and then back in the car and up the motorway.

We stopped to fill the car up at the garage nearby and I realised the washers were still not working. It’s 8degC so it can’t be frozen, but when you try there was no pump noise either. Must be a fuse.

I asked Michelle to get out the manual. Is there a fuse diagram for a Polo in the manual? no. VW decided to say ‘Because this manual was produced prior to the completion of the full design of the car, the fuse layout may change so there is no diagram’. Wankers.

So we drove home praying for rain – and thankfully we randomly got it so the salt wasn’t too much of a problem.

Once home, a quick unload of the car and I wasn’t going to let the fuse defeat me – so I pulled out my torch and proceeded to check every single bloody fuse. Eventually I found the offending fuse and thankfully I had a spare one in a little kit in my other car (VW don’t give you spare fuses either). And lo and behold it was fixed.

We then quickly went back out to see Reverend and the Makers at Fibbers in York. A brilliant concert – added to at the end by John McClure coming outside and doing an impromptu acoustic session on the green opposite Fibbers! A great night.