In last night’s\/this morning’s dream, I invented, built and test-drove… A Fishing Car.<\/p>\n
Yes, I know. Because fishing is such a big part of my life. Not.<\/p>\n
Even more bizarrely, the Fishing Car seemed to be modelled on a 1956 Ford Prefect, which (if memory serves me correctly) was the device responsible for the name of Ford Prefect, a significant character in Douglas Adams’ radio play, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’.<\/em><\/p>\n Because I am such a great engineer (obv), and because I am super-skilled in the specific area of converting ancient cars in to Fishing Cars, I had waterproofed the engine compartment. I had also built a breather intake (like the trunk air intakes that some Land Rovers have) and – get this – had also built a dual-purpose periscope\/air intake thing for the driver.<\/p>\n A periscope? For spotting fish galavanting about on the surface?<\/p>\n On the test drive (drive?), I found a lake with a gradual shore and drove the car down in to the water until it was completely submerged.<\/p>\n So not too much a Fishing Car and more of a driving submersible.<\/p>\n And then I sat there, below the water, listening to the car radio (!), waiting for the fish to come.<\/p>\n I don’t know what I was going to do when the fish turned up because I didn’t seem to have figured out how to get the fishing rod, that was on the passenger seat, out of the car window without letting all of the water in.<\/p>\n But perhaps I had invented a cunning device to take care of that little obstacle.<\/p>\n I can remember that the water was so murky that I had to switch the headlamps on. Now that, you have to admit is completely brilliant.<\/p>\n Illuminated fishing! Oh yes, I have not only invented a driving submersible car-thing for fishing purposes, I have invented illuminated fishing for when the water is too cloudy!<\/p>\n Anyway.<\/p>\n What is it with me and dreams?<\/p>\n This is the second dream in a week that I’ve remembered on waking – normally I am unable to say whether I’ve dreamed or not.<\/p>\n The first dream was the Janet Street-Porter dream of which we shall never speak again; it still makes me shiver in horror and makes my skin crawl.<\/p>\n Sometimes (well, most times really) my mind can be a strange place to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In last night’s\/this morning’s dream, I invented, built and test-drove… A Fishing Car. Yes, I know. Because fishing is such a big part of my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}