Crazy!!

 We've been out a couple of times in the courtesy car - as it's an SUV, unlike our previous car, it's a nice height and is much easier to get in and out of.  I'd been finding the old car a bit of a problem getting in and out of it, with my bad back and hips.  It would be good if we could get a car like the SUV, it would be much better in terms of accessibility and driving view.  We have had several SUVs/MPVs/4x4s in the past and I do prefer them.  Husband's had a few minor problems driving this SUV - it's so much newer and has different equipment and drives very differently from our old car, he's not totally got used to it yet.  I'm having a bit of a problem getting my head round the keyless thing - the deliveryman told husband that he doesn't even need the keyfob thing to open and start the car, he can just get in and drive it off....erm, well how does that stop literally anyone from getting in and stealing it then? 😕😲 The guy did say though that once the car stops, you need the keyfob thing to start it again.  Well, what's to stop any thieves just driving away in any keyless car, then stopping and looking around for the next nearest keyless one and nicking that instead?  I don't understand it, but, frankly, I can't be bothered to google it - we won't have this car for very long anyway, and it's highly unlikely we'll be buying a keyless one.  The courtesy car is covered by insurance in the event of it being stolen, so I won't be worrying about it.

Husband has now come up with yet another totally crazy idea, honestly he's really doing my head in.  You know the 'GoFundMe' and things like that - charity pages people set up to ask for donations?  They're normally done by people who have a relative who needs life-saving very expensive surgery, perhaps in another country, or serious things like that.  Well, husband suggested yesterday that we (meaning I) set one up to ask for donations for a replacement car for us - and he was actually being serious.  He's got it into his head that we won't get enough of a payout to get a 'decent' car.  Well, he's partly right - we won't have £thousands, that's for sure.  But I wouldn't dream of doing something like that - in this case it's akin to writing begging letters to people for no good reason, and I told him quite categorically that I'm not doing it.  I guess it's fortunate that he's not got enough knowledge or computer savvy to do it himself.  I'm beginning to dread getting up in the morning, waiting to see what he'll come up with next.

We went to the local farmers market yesterday morning - as I've mentioned before, it's not one of those hugely expensive artisan markets, it's a market (held at the local livestock market grounds) purely for local producers and growers to sell their goods, at pretty cheap prices.  There's a cheese and cold meats salesman who sells big 1kg blocks of local mature Cheddar at the amazing price of £5 per block.  I buy two blocks at once, when I get home I immediately grate one block and freeze it, the other I cut into 4 smaller blocks and wrap each bit individually in greaseproof paper and put in the fridge, it keeps far better wrapped in greaseproof than in the clingfilm it comes wrapped in.  We eat a lot of cheese, especially me being vegetarian, and I love cheese anyway, and buying it this way works out so much cheaper than buying smaller pieces at the supermarket.

There was a heavy rain shower very early this morning before I got up, it does actually feel a bit cooler and fresher - thank goodness, it was unbearably hot and muggy yesterday.  However, the forecast says it's going to be very muggy again today, although rain showers and possible thunderstorm are forecast.