Technology, Ancient and Modern

Forgot to mention that, when we were buying fish in Dungeness on Friday, we were treated to the sight of the Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetzov, heading west in the hope that it may make it as far as the Mediterranean.  Notoriously unreliable, she was accompanied by an ocean-going tug and a number of other warships.  Described by one commentator as 'this lumbering old tub, fit only for the scrapheap', she was issuing vast clouds of black smoke as she rounded Dungeness, and is due for a complete new propulsion system if she ever makes it back to the shipyard.

Gradually getting the hang of the car, though the proximity switch for the tailgate generally ignores my choreography - you're supposed to be able to open it with your hands full of shopping by waggling a foot under the back bumper.  Still, between us, we managed to find the button that operates the heated windscreen, but only by elimination, after finding a similarly-labelled button in amongst the air-con controls.  So, former heats the screen with electrical heating wires; latter blasts dehumidified air at the inside of the screen.  Next week's task is to make head or tail of the audio set-up.  I suspect I'm unlikely ever to want to hook up a mobile phone or iPod to it, but you never know...