Almost 2 years ago we crashed into a national lockdown. Months of being at home. Restricted to the house, the garden, to the adventures around the surrounding fields. The car was hardly used. It became such a luxury item, it gathered dust.
Yesterday I filled the car up with Diesel. I drove past two service stations which had NO FUEL signs showing that they were closed. The third station was open but with long queues. Wow it was expensive. The price has almost doubled in just under two weeks. Hardly any people wearing masks. The shop radio playing as I waited to pay had a Government expert saying that they didn’t know why Covid cases were rising so fast again, but don’t worry as we are now living with Covid. I reached the checkout, wow that’s almost three figure money to feed the car.
As I drove back it started to feel like 2020 and 2021 again. Time to park up the car. Let it gather dust again. Treat the car as a luxury item. Restrict long trips out. A period where adventures are just local ones. Ones we walk from the house.
One mile walk from our house, Captain Chaos almost trod all over these beautiful flowers. We are back in those fields again.
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
Yes, gas is very costly nowadays all over the world. Lovely pics
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Thank you
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In December, we replaced our Dodge Durango (5.7 l, 360 PS, Hemi. 95 l tank) with an electric car. Guess what… it was a great idea looking at those prices
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Brilliant idea
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I see this too now!
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The situation in Russia and Ukraine has driven gas prices insanely high up everywhere. We’re feeling it here in Canada too. Sigh.
Your field flowers are lovely!
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Going to get much more expensive I fear
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It’s good that you are able to walk out from your house into fields and peace. I am lucky too.
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We need them
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We keep having reasons not to go out, first covid and now a selfish war!
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Just keeps on coming
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Two years ago we went through a tank of gas every two weeks, normal driving, in our Honda CRV. Now a tank lasts at least 6 weeks, normal driving. Being seniors we cannot just walk to the grocery two kms away, but we buy more in order to go out less. No more drives in the country though. It is the trips to the city, almost always for medical reasons, that cost us. The nearest city is 500 kms away, and the city with the most specialists is almost 800 kms away. We now have to arrange our excursions to the city to see at least two specialists at a time, preferably three or more. Those trips take two to four tanks of gas, depending on headwinds. We slmost always have to drive into headwinds or crosswinds coming home.
Walking is nice, but when the knees and hips start to go, it can become a struggle.
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We are smaller but similar. Nearest small shop is a one hour walk across muddy fields
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That helps your health, lol. Walking destroys my knees. Besides that, I do more “random gravity checks” than I did at your age. Sometimes I have to wait for someone to help me get back on my feet. It’s almost embarrassing…
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Our world has changed much since March 2020. It has shrunk in some ways, as you’ve described, yet we’re still very much connected globally as prices at the gas pump indicate.
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We are more connected than our leaders realise
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The same thing is happening in New Zealand, gas prices are going up, and covid has taken a back seat to the Russia / Ukraine crisis.
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I think it’s a world phenomenon
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Great flower shot 🙂
Yep gas is on the rise, except listening just now to the backtwatted nob jockey going past the window with some screwed up exhaust pipe on no doubt a zooped up moped engine you wouldn’t think they were bothered about how much that car is going to cost them this time next week.
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Yes maybe in the long run it gets a few off the road. Sadly I bet the ones like that will fund the money from somewhere
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Sadly probably true.
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Covid? What’s that? Is that the flu thing that plagued us at the start of the twenties? old news matey now there’s some war going on….
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That is so true
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Beautiful flowers in the field a sign of hope. Car parked – a sign of high cost gas. Here too in Canada
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Yes, the prices are on the rise and the car is parked again. But you can do this. We can do this. We are getting lots and lots of practice. Stay out of the rain Superdad. ❤
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Understand this well gas prices are out of control. But it sounds like its peaceful again❤️
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The prices just keep on going up ❤️
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Sadly they’re. What can we 😔
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