When life gives you calamansi

Note to self: lie to Neil whenever we need to be anywhere on time — subtract 20 minutes from our actual projected departure time. This morning I was to drop him off at the train station, and we somehow managed to leave the house later than I usually do when only I am in the car.

Of course, it was seriously frosty overnight, and in the few minutes I had the car sitting outside with the engine off while waiting for Neil to grace us with his presence, frost settled on the car and the windshield was… not so easy to see out of. No scraping though, we were late!

I did manage to see a glorious sunrise this morning while on the motorway (the ice had melted by then). It was a layered sky, with a very uncloudy light blue top stack containing a cratered moon, fading into a pink stripe and back to blue, the closer it was to the horizon. If I wasn’t driving, I would’ve whipped out the camera for a shot.

Then the sun came up and shone straight into my rearview mirror and blinded me.

(Neil’s just texted to say he just spotted Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead fame in Newcastle!)

• 6 Feb 2007