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Sonar - 23/12/2009 - 11:15 GMT - [Link]

-3.5 this morning. So, after the daily ritual of de-icing the windscreen (quick-turn-the-wipers-on-before-it-freezes-again), I get out onto the motorway and start getting the usual little droplets of water on the windscreen, flicked up by the car in front. Stupidly, I give the wipers one sweep and discover all those little drops have frozen and now there are thick white trails across my field of vision and I can't squirt water to clear it because of course the water has frozen in the lines. And then I get to Newlands Cross and turn right down Belgard Road. Did I mention it's a clear morning and the sun's sitting about 20 feet above the horizon? It's shining directly in my eyes and lighting up all the pretty ice crystals on the windscreen, making it almost completely opaque, and I've got to drive this way for a mile and a half. I mean, I made it because I'm an excellent motorist, but it was a little tense. Hang on, hang on: they actually sell something to prevent this? Well, fuck me.


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