You're probably right about the slow car thing after all it's the sensation not the numbers that count!

I haven't driven today as I couldn't be arsed to chip the ice from the car. Walking the dog was challenging especially as he pooped on a slope and I could only reach one of the nuggets. Thankfully the wind blew the others away.

It's a flying poop kind of day.

Yes, me too. I go through a junction often where there are stop signs on the other road but vehicles routinely don't slow down.

Similarly, I never assume that a vehicle that is not indicating will go straight on, I try to work out which way is likely from the position of the car but right turns from the left lane are very common. Indicating, if any, here is always too late to be useful; if the light was red and the car is going left, the indicator comes on when the light goes green. Any Asian vehicular product will be in the target lane before the indicator expresses interest in going there. And then there is the left turn into the oncoming lane...

Can't there be some sort of scholarship scheme to send people who were born here and yet want to drive a car to Europe for a few years?

All poop bagged and filed without incident. We have a stockpile of poop for whenever the weather breaks and we can go to the dump, possibly a truck load.

Touch wood, the power has been on all weekend, I didn't expect that.

I am so looking forward to the driving when we go to the UK and Europe next year. It seems so safe with the lack of drink driving and everyone being so attentive. It's pretty amazing that there are no bad drivers over there!

Ha! Firstly, France must lead the world in drunk driving. I think drunk driving is routine in Ontario but that doesn't suggest people don't do it elsewhere; I was at a wine tasting in Australia from which everyone drove home. It's not something I get bothered about, when I see a car where the driver is obviously drunk, I wave and make toasting gestures.

Secondly, while you won't see the errors that are usual here; lane discipline is routine there and people do indicate, a different catalogue of issues arises. People are car aware in a way they're not here. People there use cars as status symbols while, in Canada, it's all greige minivans and no one knows which is better. Accordingly, people who operate BMWs drive as if they own not only the road but the car park.

Here one must expect any vehicle to be driven poorly, there one must know the brands.