We decided to find the place in the whole of England which has, on this weekend, the worst weather. Its called Suffolk. And its very nice, a bit agricultural, very pretty, full of quaint little towns which, to fully appreciate, you actually have to get out of the car. But only for a minute, then it’s done, tick it off, move on. Not like the weather. This photo was taken this morning on Aldeburgh beach, which is really lovely, especially if you like stones, like Joey does. If you come here to go on the beach, best to wait about 50,000 years, by which time it’ll be lovely soft sands. And then it started to rain. And hasn’t, at the time of writing this, some 8 hours later, stopped. But never mind, we had a JOB to do, whilst holidaying in East Anglia.

We had to ‘fill the car up’. Because Suffolk is lot of miles away from home and we couldn’t bring our charger with us, so we need some ‘lectric before we go home. How hard can that be?

We ‘popped’ into a Shell station which offered EV charging. Great. You need an app. Fuck. Never mind, got that, entered card details, plugged car in… nothing. App was not working. Uninstalled, re-installed, installed on Mel’s phone, begged the man there with a fistful of cash, still no power. Didn’t take more than about 40 minutes, most of it in the rain.

By which time, Spurs had kicked of at Newcastle and were already 3-0 down after 10 minutes. Life was getting better and better.

The car found another charging point and took us there. It looked like a wheelie bin but I plugged in anyway; ya never know. Turned out it WAS a wheelie bin and the car was (fucking) wrong. So we went to a Tesco. That had chargers but only slow, 8 hour ones. Yep, let’s sit in the car park of a closed Tesco for 8 hours.

By now Spurs were 5-nil down and quite frankly I’d have run the car off a cliff if they had any in inland Suffolk, but by quirk of fate, they don’t.

And having given up completely and decided to ‘do it on the way home’, we inadvertently bumped into a charging station. Not only were there chargers, they were very fast ones. AND, you didn’t need a fucking app! AAAAANNNNDDDD, you just literally plugged and paid, in a simple, easy, livin-the-dream kind’a way. We sat there next to a man sitting in his Tesla. Solitary business, charging.

So I’m not sayin its a pain having a ‘lectric vehicle. It can just be… challenging. The car scores a complete 10 out of 10. Our national support infrastructure; 0.00000037.

Happy Sunday.

A xxxx