A small German has managed to lift my spirits!

Right now, the weather is cold, with no hint that it will start warming up for months. To cheer us all up even further, we're told as well that we should expect our winters to become even colder due to global warming. Only in England could we get global warming only to see our weather get even colder! Apparently, we'll all be buried under eleventeen hundred feet of snow while we regale our children about the legend of "The Lost Underwater City of Norwich".

We also have been watching the numbers at the petrol station tick up to £1.30 a litre in some places. This is a lot of money, considering 90p a litre was enough to spark a fuel protest 10 years ago. This is getting a bit silly now, considering that most people who work rely on a car, and the electric alternative is simply impractical (unless you live in Central London, in which case it's merely embarrassing) and still quite dangerous. Apparently, as cars like the G-Wiz are classed as "quadricycles" and not a car (and the difference is...) they don't have to meet the same safety standards as an equivalent vehicle powered by small explosions. On an NCAP-style test, it transpired that a G-Wiz driver would end up having to pick his legs out of the back seat , and he'll need a Dyson to vacuum up his pelvis. I wouldn't drive one, even if the alternative was to be forced to use public transport. Apparently, some lobby group for these contraptions say it's not fair to test a "quadricycle" against a car in such a fashion. Do they think they'll crash in a different way?

On top of that, the NHS shake-up means that we'll all die of cancer of the face, according to those with the red rosette. The scrapping of EMA and the tuition fee rise means that all knowledge will be lost forever despite the fact that said students won't be paying their fees up front in one payment, and finally we're all going to be destitute because we don't have a massive manufacturing base like Germany, say, who have lots of home-grown car manufacturers.

Add to this all the other doom 'n' gloom stories in the news, and it makes you wonder why anyone bothers doing anything at all.

However, for me, all is not gloomy. Why? well, I have a new car! It's a VW, which means it's German. Therefore it was homebuilt by the Germans in... Mexico?

Whatever. Now, when I say that "I" have a new car, I mean Mrs Max has a new car that I am using. In fact, I'm using it more than she is. It still has that lovely new-car-smell to it, which ranks up there with freshly baked bread as one of life's nicest smells. As my name is not Jeremy, I'm not thousands of feet tall and the hair on my head doesn't look like it has been transplanted there from another part of my body, I'll save you all the car review. Instead, I shall say this: It's lovely. The one thing I loved today while driving in this morning (after scraping the ice off my car) was the heated seats. VW have made the most perfect heated seats ever! They're not luke-warm as most are, they sit at "toasty", like the temperature in the shower that makes you just want to stand under there for hours, just because it's so nice and warm.

It's the little things in life that make it so much more bearable. So while the man on the radio is predicting more doom and gloom, I will be sitting in the new car, with the warm seats. And I'll be smiling, which is more than most people today.

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