We’re currently car shopping. Its my favourite type of shopping by miles. I love cars and as all showrooms have really good coffee machines, biscuits even!!!, what’s not to like?

Mel’s ‘lectric car goes back in March. We leased it because then the government paid for it, virtually in full. And its been wonderful. Except when it wasn’t. Which really was only when we had to charge it away from the house, or when it just turned into the computer it was built as and went into ‘hanging’ mode. Otherwise, its the dream; smooth, noiseless and fast-as-fuck.

So we’re getting a hybrid. We’re only saving half the polar bears from March on. As I mentioned before, Mel has pretty much one overriding criterion: it MUST have pre-entry climate control. When you can warm the car up and defrost it from your bed. Or even from other parts of the house. Long as you don’t have to get involved in any scraping, or putting your bum on a cold seat. Can’t have that.

And if you’re getting a hybrid, there’s no question that Toyota is at the absolute pinnacle of that technology. 10 million Uber drivers can’t all be wrong. And although everyone hates the Prius, they do make other cars too. ALL of which have climate control!!!! All we had to do was find one small enough, big enough, white enough (she likes white), cute enough, high enough, fast enough (well I have to drive it too) and climate controlly enough. And they have one. Ah, job done, we’ve found it.

Oh, but Lexus has one too. And not only are they part of Toyota but they also have a showroom bang opposite on the Edgware Road. You know the one: right by the bus lane where I GOT FINED 80 FUCKING QUID LAST FUCKING WEEK!!!!, when we went for the test drive.

So now we’re torn between two cars which are basically the same. Except… when you shut the door. The Toyota door sounds like a car door. And the Lexus one sounds like something sumptuous and smooth and very solid and luxurious.

Do you buy a car based on the sound of its door shutting?
If you’re not there, does it even make a sound when closing??? If so; who’s closing it???

Its not easy.

Just a mention of Spurs yesterday. Most amazing second half comeback by my lovely band of heroic superstars to draw from 2-nil down. Incredible. Even though Arsenal became the main beneficiaries. Whereas the team we put out in the first half, although they looked pretty similar to their replacements, were a hapless bunch of inept, half-asleep, lazy, good-for-nothing tossers.

Its only football.

Happy Monday

A xxxx