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I tried to be sensible last night and go to bed early enough to get a full nights sleep. Unfortunately my mind and body did not agree with me and I woke at least four times in the night and had various strange dreams that though coherent at the time are now slipping away from me...

To aid in my forcing me out of bed I even gave myself only 30 mins to get up and head for work. It was a good plan except I forgot that it was frosty at the moment and I reached the car to find it covered in swirly ice patterns. Pretty swirlly stubborn ice patterns that did not want to come off the car. I managed to scrape a small window for me to view through and decided to get in the car to see if that would be enough. Opened the driver's side door sat down closed the door. Thought I need to scrape a bit more and then discovered that the door would not open again...

Yes I could have clambered out another door with a bit of work but by then I would be late so I just decided to go for it. Fortunately the roads are real quiet at 4.30am.

So now here I sit with my stomach in turmoil, my head feeling woozy and with no desire to sit here for 6 hours with nothing to do...

So another morning of frost sees me go out to the car early to scrape windows. I unlock the doors and then find to my horror that none of the doors wish to open! Ok no panicking, just get some warm water and hope you can open fast enough that it hasn't refrozen.

Armed with my jug I return to car to find it locked. Brain at this point goes "I don't remember locking it?" but I put it down as one of those lapses I get. Pour warm water, unlock pull door, Success! I now have the back door open if not all the others. I then foolishly shut the door. Damn can't open it again. Poor more water over door and tug but to no avail.

Now the water has removed the ice from the window making it possible for me to notice that it is in fact locked again. Hang on a moment!? I definitely unlocked it this time. Queue experiment. Unlock, watch carefully. Locks open and then lock again a few seconds later! So quick thinking I unlock and pull open back door. Clamber in and turn on engine to heat up car. Momentary panic as I realise all doors locked and if the one that is open shuts I will lock keys in car. I wedge it open.

I then hit on the idea of trying to unlock it from passenger side. Low and behold it turns out this lock is slightly frozen so would not stay unlocked. Having now turned it it opens fine and I can breath a sigh of relief. After I've climbed into driving seat from back as usual.

So this morning scraper at the ready I prepare my demon chariot for work. I remove all the frost from my window and wipe the white scrapings away. Revving my engine I think "right ready to go." Which is of course the point when I realise there is a fine mist on inside of my back window. So squeegee at the ready I remove that layer and head out. I also decided keeping car cold was more effective than warm as the heater wasn't heating fast and, well, the car was already chilly.

I had to wipe my rearview mirror twice. I was steaming like a flamey dragon, and when I turned the blower off I ended up with condensation on outside of window.

It must be pointed out that this is still an improvement on the night before when I drove to the garage for petrol and had to wipe my screen the whole way so I could see where I was going. I prefer frost any day. Much easier to scrape away.

Teas so far: None but my chocoexpresso was never more welcome.

Oh poor thing. The dragon looks more worried about being chilled than me.