Blighty Bound - Day Four, Fog.

It's been a dank old day. We set off from Little Orchard in slight rain and mist, and I managed to get the rear wiper on the car going. That's all good in shitty weather, but I didn't know how I'd activated said wiper and therefore didn't know how to turn it off. DW found reference to the problem using a Google search on her phone, and it turned our to be a tiny toggle switch on the end of the right-side control stalk that I couldn't see because of the position of the steering wheel. It's a lovely car but intuitive it's not. It must be the Scandinavian mind because I had an Ericsson phone years ago that defied all logic when it came to operating it. Maybe we've all be become used to Japanese design?

The run to Plymouth was in alternate drizzle then mist, which some would say was standard fare for Devon in early March. It was quite busy, too, but then Sunday has become the big shopping day for a lot of people, and they're all on the road in the middle of the day. 

We did our humping and dumping for the parents, then returned to their place for something to eat and a bit of iPhone and iPad repair. I also set up another store loyalty card on the spare phone, and had pretty much all the same problems that I had endured the day before. Registering for the card, Nectar this time, was a pain as I went through the entire process only to be told there was a problem. Going right back to the beginning, I tried again with a different e-mail address, and this time there was no problem, so I'm guessing that I had used my first e-mail address when I had a Nectar card eons ago. I also had to load the app, and the apps for GMail and Yahoo! Mail so I could verify the processes. Just to make things more difficult, I loaded the Tesco Mobile Pay As You Go app, which also required much checking and verification. But like yesterday, I did win in the end.

We opted to head back home while it was daylight, and it was a good job we did because the fog was worse than yesterday, but easier to deal with during daylight hours. 

We both felt cold, this despite it being around 10-12 degrees Celsius, which is significantly warmer than at home. It must be the dampness in the air, and believe me, there's lots of that.

Tomorrow is a day of tasks, family oriented for sure, but a little more indirectly. Perhaps I can do more on that in a future post. The weather looks to be less foggy tomorrow, but we'll see what actually happens as the day progresses. Snow is a possibility next week, which will be nice...