Low ebb

This afternoon we had the annual ceremony of "trying to start my old Zodiac".

I reconnected the battery, and after fewer attempts than usual, got her going without resorting to jump leads. She ran beautifully over to Buckie, where I filled up with petrol and checked the tyres, and I was trying to think where to pose her for a blip, but....that was as far as I got. For the last two or three summers, we've had an intermittent problem that's made her quite unreliable - once warmed up and having been stopped for a few minutes, on restarting she'll often stall when the engine's put under the slightest stress (e.g. engaging gear), and isn't drivable until allowed to cool all the way down.

It's frustrating, because at the end of last summer we tracked down and fixed an overheating problem (as well as discovering the temperature gauge was radically under-reading), which we assumed had been the root cause of this. Apparently not!

So instead of blipping the gratuitous chromework of my old pride and joy, she's sitting in the "naughty corner" outside the garage workshop (where some summers she seems to spend most of her time!) , waiting for the mechanics to take a look at her.

After messing around with cars, we came back via Cluny Harbour where the tide was out. I spotted the exposed greenery and the reflections, and stopped to take this.