Today I found out that my car is beyond repair, destined for the scrapyard.   Before lockdown there’d be no question of going without a car, but now?  I’m not so sure.

In theory a car gives me ‘autonomy’.  I can get in it at any time I like and go off anywhere I choose.  In practice that autonomy is (rightly) curtailed at the moment, and likely to be for a while yet.   So it seems a complete waste of all that embodied energy and raw materials to have it sat on my drive, slowly deteriorating through underuse.

It’s hard to imagine life without a car.  This might just be the practice I need.