Clunk

 The Gorse Fox had planned to give his little Fiesta a run and take it to football today. He went out to the garage and tried to fire it up. Nothing but a clunk. Clearly the battery was dead - but then it’s been sitting there, unused, since before Christmas. The Gorse Fox should not be surprised. Time being short, he returned to the Silver Vixen’s Skoda and took that.

Arriving at the leisure centre the Gorse Fox went to the desk to query why his app wouldn’t allow him to book. It turned out that his membership expired last week. He renewed, there and then, but pointed out that a) there was no warning that his membership was due; and b) there was no way to renew it through the app. This is what is called a UX-fail (user experience failure).

Football was hard work today. It was bitterly cold, with a biting wind. The Gorse Fox played three games back-to-back. So after 90 minutes he managed to leave the pitch having failed to win a single game, and only managing one shot that brushed the post. Oh well, better luck next week. He was quite pleased with the way he played and the number of interceptions and tackles he completed, but the teams were just too lop-sided.

Back home, with a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich tucked away, the Gorse Fox went and plugged the battery charger into the car. An hour later it fired up without a problem. He took it out for a quick run round the load all area and up to Chichester and back. Hopefully, that will have given the alternator time enough to drop some charge into the battery.

Finally, the Gorse Fox has decided that the new laptop (due on Friday) will be known as “Merlin” on our network. A merlin is another bird of prey (as well as wizard)... and all of the systems in the house are named after birds of prey.