I asked ChatGPT where could I go on this driech morning. I was hoping to pinch Ken’s bike and go for a run along the bike path but I’ll have to leave that for another day.

It’s only 20 miles so off I went. I’d forgotten just how narrow some of these roads are and also how slow 30mph is. The car is a 6 speed manual, which I’m still getting used to, and you need to stay in 3rd to keep a steady speed.

Once you wind it up it goes pretty good. So the Maritime Museum was quiet and I found it very interesting looking at the old machines that were being used for well over 150 years.

The size of these machines. The gear mechanisms that work in perfect harmony with each other. Who were the engineers that designed them? And who were the ones that made it possible? The ingenuity involved boggles the mind, well mine at least.

Victorian engineering is a marvellous analog adventure.