Whoever says you can sleep in the back of a discovery..... they're lying. Well - either their short, or they're lying! With the back seats folded up and most stuff either under the car on on the front seats... I'm about 18" too long!
I'd agreed to go and marshal on a stage at the rally.... In twiglees, no less (just over the road from Castle O'er)! I combined it with a trip to Forrest Estate to collect the stuff we'd left behind 'cos we'd run out of space to bring it up at the end of take-down. (In the end, I couldn't fit it all in.... there are still a couple of hundred stakes down there!!)
I then drove over to the start of Twiglees, and set up to sleep in the back of the Disco. Whichever way I lay, I just could not stretch out.... so had a broken & fractured sleep - and woke up with cold feet, aching knees, sore hips, and a pain in the small of my back. Mind you - with three layers + padded romper-suit + 13.5 tog duvet, the rest of me wasn't cold :)
Sunday dawned.... as I was boiling the kettle & making a couple of hot rolls. The lads in the van that arrived during the night (I must have been asleep at that point!) told me it had dropped to -8 overnight.... which would explain the ice on the inside of the window :chuckle:
Anyway - it's strange the people you meet on a Rally stage: I wasn't surprised when Big Eck turned up; however the two lads in the van run a garage in the village I live near, and the small bundle of wrapped up person turned out to be Cat Ratter!
The stage itself was largely un-eventful: one car managed to spin it into a ditch a few hundred yards down the road from me (and I'm not build for running!!), however driver & navigator wanted to stay with their car rather than come into the (relative) warmth of my car (and the stage wasn't going to be stopped as the course was passable)..... so I gave them a reflective tabbard and a warning triangle, and left them to it.
The drive home was fine, however the water nozzles for the screen-wash froze up, so I was washing the window with Mr Muscle [need to be below 30mph to spray it sensibly] and having over half-a-tonne on the back of the car made some of the back-road corners.... "interesting".
But it's snowing today, and the world is looking far more fun :D :D
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