Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Reflections on Farewelling My Old Car

Watching my old car of 30 years being towed away was one of roughest days I've suffered through... 

 

Certainly up there with the deaths of my grandparents and pets  (except, well maybe the deathly chill that I felt after getting the phone call that Grandma had died), and also those work-related times when certain bastards have had an "existential risk" type go at me...

 

Here's the car halfway down the driveway, driving past the row of pretty spring flowers... 


Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Farewell Dear Friend 💔😭

Today, the inevitable has finally happened. Even 10 years after it probably should have happened, and having captured all the photos + videos I could think of to memorialize its memory, it's still been a very hard few days... 😭

 

 

This is one of my favourite photos of my beloved 1988 Toyota Corolla ("White Car"), that we've had for 30 years this year (i.e. 1996 - 2026).  This photo was taken on the morning that I headed back to campus to submit my thesis back in 2017.