A Good Day

Sun was shining this Sunday, so I dragged the missus from her duvet at 8:30, checked over the Chimp, removed the roof panel, put "Songbirds 2008" on the excellent Pioneer CD changer for her (instead of Tom Waits / Nick Cave / Bruce Springstein) and set off for Wells-Next-The-Sea about half an hours gentle cruising distance away.

The Chimp purred lazily through the lovely Norfolk countryside at 60 mph, with the heater blowing lots of cosy warm air. What a pleasant drive, which the missus seemd to thoroughly enjoy; which is nice.

We stopped at the wonderful Wells Deli for Spicy Chian coffee and to buy some local cheese and bread, fed the ducks, noted a Porsche Boxster and an XK8 in the car park, walked up an down the wharf and headed for home again.

I have driven this little route in/on many vehicles and begun thinking on the way home how the Chimp is so well suited to this kind of driving and what a great morning it had been. The Chimaera has to be the quintessential English sports car and very much at home on the highways and byways of Norfolk. You can choose to cruise gently along or with a drop of a couple of gears get to insane speeds in a matter of seconds, relishing every corner with the V8 howling fortissimo. If only the MGB / Elise / Triumph TR / Porsche / Mazda MX5 crowd new what they were missing and for so little money.

Bloody Marvelous!