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How to Become an MOT Tester: Requirements and Training for UK Professionals?
Becoming a certified MOT tester in the UK is a rewarding career choice for those passionate about vehicle safety and maintenance. The role involves inspecting vehicles to ensure they meet legal safety and environmental standards. This article outlines the steps, requirements, and training necessary to become an MOT tester in the UK.

Understanding the Role of an MOT Tester
An MOT (Ministry of Transport) tester is responsible for conducting annual vehicle inspections to ensure compliance with safety regulations. The primary duties include:
Performing thorough inspections of various vehicle components.
Identifying defects and advising on necessary repairs.
Completing official documentation for passed or failed tests.
Ensuring that vehicles meet environmental standards.
Requirements to Become an MOT Tester
To become an MOT tester in the UK, candidates must meet specific eligibility criteria set by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Here are the key requirements:
Age and Licensing
Must be at least 18 years old.
Hold a current and full UK driving licence for the vehicle classes you intend to test.
Experience
A minimum of four years of full-time employment in servicing and repairing vehicles is required. This experience must be relevant to the types of vehicles you wish to test.
Criminal Record
Candidates must have no unspent convictions for criminal offences. The DVSA will assess your suitability based on your criminal record.
Good Repute
You must be deemed ‘of good repute’ by the DVSA, which involves a background check to ensure you are suitable for this responsibility.
Relevant Qualifications
To become a class 3 or 5 MOT tester, you need to have a level 2 testing certificate in class 4 and 7 vehicles (group B) and pass an MOT demonstration test after obtaining this certificate.
Steps to Become an MOT Tester
Step 1: Verify Eligibility
Before embarking on your journey to become an MOT tester, verify that you meet all eligibility requirements. This includes checking your driving licence status, work experience, and criminal record.
Step 2: Complete an MOT Tester Qualification Course
Once you confirm your eligibility, the next step is to enroll in an MOT tester qualification course. Here’s what you need to know:
Course Duration: The course typically lasts at least 29 hours, which includes both theoretical and practical training.
Course Content: Key areas covered in the course include:
Safe working practices in a vehicle test centre.
Managing professional development as an MOT tester.
Conducting pre-test checks.
Carrying out actual MOT tests.
Assessments: The course concludes with a multiple-choice question test.
Step 3: Pass the DVSA Demonstration Test
After successfully completing the qualification course, candidates must pass a Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) demonstration test, which assesses practical skills in a real-world setting. Here’s how to prepare:
Preparation Tips:
Review the MOT testing manuals and special notices.
Practice your inspection routine thoroughly.
Booking the Test: To book your demonstration test, you will need:
Your MOT testing service user ID.
The vehicle test station (VTS) number where you plan to take your test.
After Qualification: Maintaining Your Status as an MOT Tester
Once qualified, becoming a certified MOT tester in the UK requires ongoing training and assessments:
Annual Training Every year, testers must complete a minimum of three hours of training related to updates in testing procedures and regulations.
Annual Assessment In addition to training, testers must pass an annual assessment based on DVSA specifications to maintain their professional status.
Returning to Testing If you stop testing for any reason, additional training may be required before resuming duties as an MOT tester.
Additional Considerations
Financial Aspects
The cost of becoming an MOT tester can vary based on course providers. It’s essential to consider:
Course fees for the qualification program.
Potential costs associated with retaking tests if necessary.
Expenses related to ongoing training and assessments each year.
Career Opportunities
Becoming an MOT tester opens up various career paths within the automotive industry, including:
Working at authorized testing stations.
Advancing into supervisory roles within vehicle maintenance facilities.
Specializing further into areas such as diagnostics or repair management.
Conclusion
Becoming a certified MOT tester in the UK is a structured process that requires dedication, experience, and ongoing education. By following these steps- verifying eligibility, completing necessary training courses, passing required tests, and committing to annual assessments—individuals can successfully embark on this rewarding career path. With a growing emphasis on vehicle safety and environmental standards, qualified MOT testers play a crucial role in maintaining road safety across the UK.
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MOT Testing Level 2 Award, Class 4 Mot, Class 7 Mot – 4 days course

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Become an MOT tester with Mot Training Experts?
How do you become an MOT tester?
A nominated tester (NT) is somebody who can complete MOT Tests. To pick up your MOT License, you'll initially need to meet the qualification measures set by the DVSA just as pass a perceived level 3 pre-section capability. Next, you should pass the Award in MOT Testing and afterward at last breeze through a VT8 demo MOT assessment observed by the DVSA. After you have qualified you will at that point need to finish the MOT yearly preparing and pass a yearly evaluation consistently to keep up your testing status.
There are four fundamental strides to turn into an MOT Tester:
Stage1 Vehicle Technician Accredited Assessment (VTAA)
Granted by ABC Awards, the Vehicle Technician Accredited Assessment (VTAA) perceives information and abilities at Level 3 for experts without a proper capability. It is a certificated course perceived by DVSA as a pre-section accreditation to turn into an MOT analyzer. This course is an option in contrast to the IMI Light Vehicle Inspection Technician and is for specialists who are engaged with the assessment, upkeep, and fix of light vehicles.
What does it involve?
To complete the VTAA, technicians will need to complete an online assessment and four practical assessments in the following:
Brakes;
Suspension and steering:
Wheels and tires;
Emissions; and
Electrics.
Stage 2 Award in MOT Testing (Class 4 & 7)
The ABC Level 2 Awards in MOT Testing have been created in a joint effort with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency DVSA to give students the information and abilities needed to perform MOT Tests.
In the wake of finishing this course, the DVSA should notice you complete a VT8 demo MOT test before you can get your analyzers to permit and gain your MOT capability.
Course Content:
The course will cover theory and practical training on becoming an MOT Tester. There are 5 parts to the course:
Safe working practices in the vehicle test center;
Working relationships within the vehicle test center;
Managing your own professional development as an MOT tester;
Carrying out pre-test checks for an MOT test; and
Carrying out an MOT test.
Stage3. MOT Test Centre Management Level 3 Award – (2 days Course)
The MOT Test Centre Management qualification is a lifetime qualification, which means that it will not expire, and holders will be considered professionally competent for the rest of their lives. There are no eligibility requirements for those who wish to undertake the Level 3 Award in MOT Test Centre Management. The emphasis of this qualification is on the acquisition of the knowledge required to manage an MOT Test Centre. The Award in MOT Test Centre Management qualification contains mandatory components only which will be taken by all kinds of a manager.
Components within the qualification cover:
Understanding how to manage the legislative and compliance requirements of a Vehicle Centre;
Know how to deal with customer service problems within a Test Centre;
Understanding how to develop and supervise staff within a Test Centre; and
Understanding Test Centre quality systems and quality audits.
A qualified MOT Manager is eligible to become an Authorised Examiner (AE)/Authorised Examiner Designated Manager (AEDM) without any further competence assessment by DVSA as long as they meet all other requirements.
Stage4. MOT Annual Training & Assessment
To stay qualified as an MOT Tester, each NT must complete annual training and pass an assessment between April and March every year. The purpose of the annual training & assessment is to ensure each NT keeps up to date with the MOT Scheme which enables them to understand the latest developments in their profession.
If you have recently qualified, you don’t need to start training until the start of the next full year, for example, April 2019.
What you need to do
Do at least 3 hours of training each year and 16 hours over 5 years with us;
Retain a record of your training;
Book and take your assessment with us; and
Record your assessment result on the MOT Testing Scheme.
By booking with us, we will guide you through the whole process as above with no hassle. Contact MOT Training Experts and book your annual training & assessment with us now!
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Spring of Power, c’est notre bébé 💜 Ouvert depuis le 16 décembre 2022, il comptabiliser plus d’une centaine de personnages et une pléiade de joueurs tous plus adorables et inspirés les uns que les autres.
Si vous avez envie de vous tester à un univers original tirant ses inspirations de The Boys, Cyberpunk 2077, Ready Player One, Black Mirror, X-Men et autres œuvres similaires, n’hésitez pas 💞 (au vu de certaines inspirations, le forum est destiné à un public averti et est interdit aux moins de 16 ans 👀)
Pour ma part, j’ai de nombreux PL à proposer :
La famille Eyre :
Au niveau de la famille Eyre, nous attendons avec impatience le petit dernier, Octavian (dont l’identité est libre, il a très probablement changé au fil des vies).
En quelques mots, Octavian c’est quelqu’un de..
Parfois patient, souvent facétieux ○ La tête ailleurs, l'esprit plongé dans le Sidhe ○ Pensif et penseur ○ Volage, le cœur lourd ○ La sagesse au sein du trio ○ Compréhensif et à l'écoute ○ Sombre ○ De l'importance des racines ○ La peur de l'oubli ○ L'amour de la famille.
Il a pas mal de liens qui l’attendent (pour ne pas dire tous !) et une descendance aussi adorable qu’infernale 💥
Si vous aimez le drama familial, la Famille Eyre est parfaite pour ça 💖
Les Riders of the Apocalypse :
Les ROA, c’est une organisation de mercenaires souhaitant s’étendre et prendre de l’ampleur dans l’Underground de la ville. Leur volonté commune s’anime autour d’un besoin de revanche et de vengeance.
De nombreux rôles sont disponibles, comme le cavalier Famine, ainsi que de nombreuses têtes de l’Hydre 🖤 Il est également possible de créer un fléau lié à un cavalier ou une chimère liée à une tête de l’Hydre 💣
Le Clover Project :
Le Clover Project, c’est la dose de non-violence, de fun et d’inspiration nostalgique (pour les connaisseur.se.s d’Air Gear) 💞
Il se structure autour d’un construct existant au sein du Metaworld et organisant des courses 🤩 Les courses sont également été transposées IRL dans l’Underapple !
Des rôles sont ouvert à la création, tout comme la possibilité de simplement participer aux courses 💖
Quelque soit votre inspiration et votre envie, n’hésitez pas à venir faire un tour du côté du forum si l’envie vous prend 💞
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Il bouge. Il bouge dans tous les sens. La salle d'attente n'en peut plus. Il est bruyant, il utilise les jouets pour taper sur les tables, sur les murs, sur les chaises. Il les lance. Ca retombe. C'est bruyant. Il saute sur le petit matelas en écrasant au passage deux enfants qui lisaient. Il prend leurs livres parce que ça a l'air cool, il lance les livres parce que dans ses mains à lui, ça a l'air moins cool. Je ne l'ai pas vu, je l'ai entendu depuis mon bureau. Le reste, il me l'a raconté.
Sa mère ne sait pas où se mettre.
Elle est fatiguée, sa mère. Elle aimerait qu'il soit silencieux et sage comme les autres, pour pouvoir piquer du nez une demi-heure dans la salle d'attente. Elle est fatiguée de devoir courir en logopédie, en psy, en psychomot. Elle aimerait bien, après l'école, rentrer chez elle en repassant faire les courses avec son enfant sage qui reste à côté d'elle et qui ne crise pas pour tous les bonbons des rayonnages. Mais non, les courses c'est l'enfer, et puis la salle d'attente c'est l'enfer. Et puis le retour à la maison c'est l'enfer, il sera fatigué lui aussi, et il faudra seulement faire les devoirs. Et cuisiner le repas du soir en même temps. Et vérifier si l'ado a su se gérer pendant son absence.
Retour dans la salle d'attente. J'arrive. Un regard vers la tornade. Salut p'tit cœur. Je raconte au parent de mon patient comment s'est passée la séance pendant que la tornade s'accroche à ma jambe, grimpe, arrive sur mon dos et me fait un énorme bisou sur l'oreille. La seconde d'après il est dans le bureau. Plus précisément sur le bureau. Je prends congé du parent précédent.
Sa mère me dit bon courage. Elle soupire. Il a encore du rouge dans tout son journal de classe. Ca va pas les maths. Et ca va pas le français. Et je sais pas ce qui va. Ca va pas. Y a rien qui va.
Je rejoins L. en train de tester la solidité de mon bureau. C'est un poids plume, je l'attrape, je le fais voler au dessus de moi, ça le fait rire, je le dépose délicatement sur le sol. Il veut encore mais je refuse, tu veux me casser le dos ou bien? C'était toi tout ce boucan dans la salle d'attente? Alors les cubes font plus de bruit sur les murs ou sur les chaises? Il s'éclaire, il s'anime. Sur les chaises! Parce que c'est en plastique! Tu veux voir?? Évidemment je veux voir! Mais c'est moi qui choisis le cube, ça te va ?
On bouge la chaise, on sort les cubes-alphabet. Tout en me racontant ses expérimentations de la salle d'attente, il trouve le cube avec un "p", me trouve quelques mots qui commencent par "p", trouve le cube avec un "m" comme maman, me dit que sa maman est triste à cause de lui. Ses parents se disputent toujours à cause de lui, maintenant ils vont vivre dans deux maisons différentes à cause de lui. Tu sais les adultes pensent par eux-même, c'est jamais jamais la faute des enfants. T'es sûre? Bah oui je suis un adulte, je sais bien ces trucs là. On continue de faire le tour de l'alphabet. Trouve moi le cube de "chat". Il me regarde avec l'air espiègle. Toi aussi tu fais des blagues, il faut deux cubes! Il les trouve, on continue. Il propose de lancer tous les cubes de "pirate". Ça fait un bruit de fou. Tu m'as appelé "p'tit coeur"? Beh oui. Ca veut dire que tu m'aimes bien? Beh oui. Gros câlin. Moi aussi je t'aime bien! On cherche des mots encore plus longs pour faire encore plus de bruit. Tu penses que tu peux écrire "locomotive"? Des étoiles plein les yeux, whaaah il va faire beaucoup de bruit celui-là!
La séance se termine bientôt, je lui fais remarquer qu'il a su écrire tous les mots, comme si c'était une dictée. Il écarquille les yeux. J'ai tout bon? 10/10 m'sieur. Je peux l'écrire en vrai? (là mon cœur se retourne, je fais semblant de rien) Oui oui bah oui hein. (palpitations)
J'écris dictée en haut d'une page, j'écris la date, j'écris son nom. Tu fais gaffe hein lapin, deux points par faute, ça rigole pas avec moi. Je fais semblant de faire les gros yeux, il rigole. N'empêche, elle est concentrée, la tornade.
Locomotive, pirate, salade, vélo, crocodile.
Tout bon. Fierté de lui, émotion de moi.
Le voir retourner dans la salle d'attente avec son 10/10 comme un trophée. C'était il y a 5 ans. Cette dictée est toujours encadrée dans sa chambre. Il me l'a dit hier.
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Five Signs Your Radiator Is Damaged or Clogged

Your engine's coolant is being cooled by the radiator. Here's how to identify a faulty radiator.
The radiator in your car is one of the most well-known parts. While you may be able to locate your radiator, it's another matter to understand how it functions and how to spot problems.
It is advised to look online for car garages in Reading and make an appointment as it is often best to leave the diagnosis to the experts.
Continue reading if you think your radiator might be broken. We'll go over the five most typical indications that your radiator is broken and how it functions.
After reading this, you'll be able to identify the exact cause of any problems with your car's radiator, and you should be on your way to scheduling repairs. Take a brief glance at the warnings to get things started.
To avoid a failed MOT, have the overheating problem with your vehicle fixed by a capable mechanic before making a MOT testing service appointment. The most common indications of a damaged or leaky radiator are an overheated engine and apparent coolant loss. Perhaps you've also noticed how the temperature gauge on your dashboard varies over time.
Can I become a MOT tester without being a mechanic?
No, you cannot work as a MOT Tester unless you have a valid mechanic's licence. In the UK, the organisation in charge of regulating MOTs is called the DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency).
When enrolling in a MOT testing course, you must: a valid, complete driving licence for the classes of vehicles you wish to test in from the UK. Own at least four years of full-time experience as a professional mechanic working on the vehicles you'll examine.
What does PRS mean in MOT?
The PRS (Pass after Rectification at Station) procedure allows for the correction of errors up to an hour after the test, but before the results is entered into the MOT Testing Service.
One of the most frequent asked questions in relation to a MOT test is do number plate lights fail a MOT?
Is a light on a licence plate a MOT failure? At the MOT, defective lights that are meant to illuminate licence plates will need to be changed.
Let's return to the issue of the malfunctioning radiator.
Additionally, just because you have a radiator leak or an overheating engine doesn't necessarily mean the radiator is to blame. Below, we'll walk you through all you need to know and dissect each sign of a broken or blocked radiator.
1. High temperature readings on the gauge - If you notice that your temperature gauge is rising dangerously, something is not operating as it should. If the engine overheats, it will simply switch off, indicating that a little more serious issue has arisen. Find garages in Reading online right away, then schedule a booking with a mechanic for thorough examinations and repairs.
2. Coolant Leaks - Leaks in the coolant system are among the most frequent issues with malfunctioning radiators. While leaks are typically visible underneath your car, it's not always the case. If you see any white streaks or coolant puddles anywhere near your radiator, it has a leak and has to be fixed. To determine whether a defective radiator was the cause of a prior MOT test failure, use an online MOT history checker.
3. Damaged Radiator Fins - These are another frequent issue with radiators. Your car's radiators are located up front, yet their fins are one of the most prone to damage. While a few broken fins won't cause your engine to overheat, more broken fins will reduce the amount of coolant flowing through your radiator. Additionally, broken fins increase the likelihood that you have a leak.
4. Fluid Discoloration – Corrosion is one of the worst enemies of radiators. The risk of corrosion growing up grows as the coolant wears down, even though corrosion shouldn't be occurring inside your cooling system. Because the corrosion is on the inside of your radiator, you won't be able to see it, but it will cause the coolant to turn coloured. Try a coolant cleanse if the coolant is old, but if it's relatively new and already noticeably discoloured, your system likely has major corrosion. To test whether you can clear enough of the passageways, try flushing your radiator, but be ready in case you need to replace the radiator.
5. Visible Corrosion - Visible corrosion is frequently the first indication that a bigger issue is likely to arise. Corrosion causes worn-out fins, blown seals, and a plethora of other possible problems. While a small amount of corrosion isn't a big concern, if there is an excessive quantity, you should get your radiator examined by a qualified mechanic.
The Radiator's Function
A crucial component of your cooling system is the radiator. If given enough time and no cooling solution, the coolant that circulates through the engine will continue to heat up until the engine overheats and shuts off.
A crucial component of the system that cools your coolant is your radiator. Through the little metal fins, you can see the coolant moves from one side of the radiator to the other. It gets simpler to cool since the water thins out as it passes through the fins.
Your car accomplishes this with the assistance of an engine fan and by allowing air to flow over it naturally as you drive. This is why the creator positioned your car's radiator at the front of your vehicle.
Radiator Location
Undoubtedly one of the simplest parts of your car to locate is the radiator. It is always placed in the front of your car so that it may benefit from airflow when you drive to speed up cooling.
Typically, the radiator is behind the fan, which is behind the radiator, which is behind the bumper/grill region of your car.
Although the condenser and the radiator have striking visual similarities, they are easy to distinguish once you know what you're looking at. There are two ways to distinguish your condenser from your radiator. The condenser is first located in front of the radiator. Second, your radiator is frequently much thinner than the heater core.
Simply search for the larger of the two parts when locating your car's radiator and you should be fine. However, since it's frequently crammed in close proximity to other parts, accessing your radiator may prove challenging.
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WITCHING HOUR, a sequel.
chapter one: genesis
word count: 5.8k
rating: m for now, rating will change in later chapters as things develop, tags will be updated accordingly.
warnings: naughty language, religious blasphemy, cults amok, massively canon divergent (if you’re here then like...you know), body horror and horror in general, brainwashing, manipulation, you know the drill. john is himself, and thus: deserving of a warning. in this chapter specifically, brief mention, in passing, of mass suicide.
notes: hi friends! yes, i'm aware that this is a week early. i apologize. i wanted to get this chapter out while i had the thoughts in my head; not a lot of exciting stuff happens, most of it is just... setting things up for where we're going and where we're going to be, but i hope that you enjoy it nonetheless! thank you, of course, to my beta reader @starcrier; this chapter was in a lot rougher shape before she got to it. if you have the chance, please check out her writing--she is just absolutely incredible!
and thank you to everyone who did me the GREAT blessing of reviewing and supporting ancient names. i really can't believe i'm out here!! with people interested in what i have to say about this fucking nutso canon-divergent universe i am building! gosh i just hope y’all enjoy it. fun stuffs to come.
summary: —to fall like a wounded animal into a place that was meant for revelations.
there are many injustices that john seed will tolerate. the betrayal, and subsequent departure, of his wife and child is not one of them.
or: elliot honeysett just wants to live her life in quiet seclusion, and there's no way in hell that's happening.
“This is a very old story.”
It was cold, and dark, and the night stayed cloudy and moonless. As Helmi picked up the gun clasped between the two corpses, she glanced furtively in the brunette’s direction. Her gaze was impossible to read, the severe lines of her face accented only by the dim, flickering light of the neon sign; Kajsa had always looked like this, though, sharp like broken glass was, reflecting only and not taking anything in. Protected.
Helmi lifted her gaze back to the dead pair at her feet, up to the neon sign that blinked The Spread Eagle, and then down and stopping at the words written in dried blood on the paneling.
WRATH, DO YOU WANT TO BLOOM IN ME?
“You and me,” Kajsa murmured, and now it was her turn to watch. “Them. Eden’s Gate, and the Mother. All of it has happened before and will happen again.” She sighed, as though it troubled her, the dark arch of her brows pulling together to knit at the center of her forehead. With the only source of the light being the bar’s sign, her skin was an eerie, pallid red-and-blue, darting and worming across her expression. “We’ll turn this world into winter, Hel. The two of us.”
Helmi watched her for a long moment. “Kajsa—”
“Douse them.” She stuck her hands into the pockets of her sweater, turning and stepping over the two other dead bodies they had dragged from where they had been propped up against the wall. “I want this place in ashes by sunrise.”
“Yes.”
Kajsa didn’t wait for her to begin walking to the car, idling still a safe distance away. Helmi preferred it that way. For a few minutes—and that’s all it would take, really, to unlatch the canister lid and toss the gasoline over the bodies, against the paneling of the wall, atop the roof—she could turn her brain off, forget the way Kajsa’s eyes see straight through her, forget the bodies of her brothers and sisters as she tossed the match on them and watched the flame eat through the fuel.
Hungry. A beast. Like me, Helmi thought absently, as the flames licked at the sky, reaching reaching reaching. Watching them felt like watching the souls of her brothers and sisters reaching for the stars, carried away in wisps of foul-smelling smoke. She wondered, do they feel it now? Do they feel the sting, the burn? When their bodies haven’t been given to It, do they feel it all after?
“Come, Helmi,” Kajsa called from the car. “We have a long drive ahead of us.”
They had been at it for hours, this methodical and clinical extinguishing of bodies. Every spot that they had agreed and picked out on the map in such an instance was now blacked out. Burned. Their brothers and sisters had done what was expected of them, and for that, they would not be forced to rot—they would be turned to charcoal, to ash, only blood and bone spent.
Her feet carried her back to the car as the flames began to devour more than just flesh, crawling along the rooftop of the Spread Eagle and popping in the still, quiet night. Kajsa’s hand came up to her face and cradled her cheek, fixing her with those eyes: dark eyes, shades of gray and glassy, like a shark.
“Ingenting under solen är beständigt,” she said, the pad of her thumb brushing across Helmi’s cheekbone. For a second, the older woman almost looked like—well, looked like something, an unknown flicker of emotion crossing her face—but then it cleared.
Hel watched her curiously, waiting until the hand against her cheek dropped before she said, “I know, Kajsa.”
Kajsa nodded. Only once, short and brisk, the gesture as sharp as the lines of her face. “Make sure you do not forget.”
I won’t, Helmi thought, but did not say. Kajsa had never believed words before, and she would not start now. Helmi would just have to show her that she had not forgotten.
She looked back; the singeing of flesh fizzing in the air, the crackle of devouring flame whispering to her. A cleansing fire. Their bodies weren’t given to The Father, but they had given in another way, with their lives—in a way that still mattered.
“Kajsa,” Hel said, bringing the woman’s attention back to her, “do they feel it, still? The fire, when they’re gone?”
“Perhaps,” Kajsa replied, jaw absently working something wadded just in the hollow of her throat; words she wanted to say, and could not. Or would not. It was always hard to tell, with Kajsa. “It’s not for us to know. The after belongs only to the dead.” The dark-haired woman opened the driver’s side of the car, pulling her gloves off of her hands and tossing them inside. “Get in the car, Helmi. I want to keep track of that interloper.”
Interloper. The kinder of the words that what remained of them had been using for John Seed and his merry band of fuck-ups and patience-testers. Heretics, zealots, apostate—
The list was unending. Helmi wished she could run out of disdain, but she knew that she would not be able to. Sorrow and mourning for those they had lost came in absolutes, in fixed amounts, but the bitterness persisted. She swung into the passenger side of the car, shutting it against the smell of burning skin, and exhaled slowly through her nose.
Kajsa pulled the car away from the sight. Hopefully it would be just as the harbinger wished—by sunrise, Hope County would be leveled by fire and flame, nothing but ash and ruined structure left. If the scraps of Eden’s Gate didn’t try and douse it out. If they didn’t continue to interfere.
She glanced out the window to the sky. The tires of the car hit the highway, and Kajsa clicked the cruise control on, and as tendrils of smoke clung to the stars, the clouds parted and the light of the new moon filtered down. Just a sliver of her light, but cold and cruel and reliable all the same.
“It’s pleased,” Kajsa said lightly.
Hel made a low noise of agreement, closing her eyes as she leaned her head against the glass. “Are you?”
“Not yet,” the older woman murmured. When Hel glanced over at her, her eyes were fixed on the road; the headlights switched off, and in the far distance, she could see the tail lights of another vehicle glowing red as blood in the darkness. Seed, Hel thought through the haze of her exhaustion.
“But very soon, I will be.”
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One Week Later
“Are you warm enough? Where’s your scarf? Elliot?”
The door was only inches away, and yet—somehow—she’d managed to not make it out without the barrage of questions that typically accompanied any of her departures. Taking in a soft breath, Elliot closed her eyes for a moment, leaving her hand on the door handle.
“I am sufficiently bundled,” she promised, turning to regard her mother, standing in the foyer. “I don’t need a scarf between the front porch and the car.”
“Scarf, please,” her mother murmured, deigning to set her martini glass down in order to pluck it off of the coat rack. Elliot watched the movement curiously—not because she had never seen her mother set aside an alcoholic beverage before, but because these days it seemed more often than not that she was beginning to slow down on them; a thing which Elliot never thought she would see. Part of it might have been the sudden upheaval of having her grown, child-carrying daughter and dog suddenly move in with her, and part of it may have just been, well, time—but either way, she didn’t think she could ask.
There were some things that were just better left unsaid.
“Okay,” Elliot relented tiredly. “I’ll wear the scarf.”
“It’s not just about you anymore, bunny.”
“I know, mama.”
“So wear the scarf—”
“I am,” she insisted irritably, making a great show of flinging the scarf around her neck. I know it’s not just about me, something prickly inside of her said, I fucking know, it’s never been about me, and it’s especially not about me now.
Scarlet eyed her for a moment, wary. This had been happening a lot more now, too—these odd, lingering looks her mother had begun to favor her with. It was the same way Sheriff Whitehorse had looked at her, and the same way Burke had looked at her that last time before she—
Well.
Forcing her tone to lightness, Elliot said, “Happy?”
“Hardly,” her mother replied tartly. “No reason to be spending time around horses in your delicate condition. And you’ve been so irritable as of late—”
“It’s supposed to be good for anxiety.” Elliot glossed over the additional barb blithely, years of muscle-memory kicking in now.
“Getting some sleep would help your anxiety.” Jab, jab, duck, her mother’s tell-tale movements, skittering across their conversation like so many little spiders. It had been so long before this that she’d nearly forgotten what it was like to be engaging in a constant verbal battle with someone who was supposed to love her.
That wasn’t necessarily true, either. She had plenty of experience ducking and parrying verbal punches from someone who claimed to love her, as of late.
“I don’t—” Puffing out a sharp breath through her nose, Elliot passed a hand over her face. Sleep had not been her friend, not before and certainly not now. Too many strange, unnerving dreams about handsome, blue-eyed men with flowers blooming out of their eyes for her liking. “I’m not taking medication that’s not prescribed to me, mama. Sorry. But it’s like you said, it’s not just about me anymore. Right?”
Scarlet picked up her martini glass, waving her hand as she turned to head back into the living room where the fire still glowed warm and hungry in the hearth. Yes, there was nothing she would have preferred more than to give in to the despair and apathy welling up inside of her, curl up under the blankets in her bedroom, safe and tucked away in a perfect bubble; but she couldn’t, because stronger than that apathy was an uneasiness, anxiety that vibrated just under her skin.
Not safe, it told her, during the day when she was trying to relax and at night when she was trying to sleep. Not safe, not us.
That was the real gut-punch of the whole thing. Before, the paranoia, the anxiety, the hyper-sensitivity—they had all been things that served a purpose. Her body had been ready for constant assault because she had been under constant assault. But now? Now, she was in bumfuck-nowhere Georgia, with no bills to pay, no job to maintain, only one task: be healthy, for baby. Be happy, and healthy, and do it for baby, because that was her only responsibility. She could no longer function as a single autonomous unit because she was not, by all intents and purposes, a single. Autonomous. Unit. And yet?
And yet.
And yet, the off switch was broken, somewhere in her brain. Broken, or locked behind bars, or somewhere that she couldn’t reach it. Her brain still liked to think she was under constant assault. And if Scarlet’s verbal fencing skills were anything to go by, maybe it was a fair judgment of the situation.
“...standing there for?” Scarlet asked from the couch, her voice filtering in through some strange fuzziness that had erupted in her brain.
“Just—thinking,” Elliot managed, forcing a smile onto her face. She could tell it fell flat from the way her mother regarded her, but she cleared her throat quickly and glanced at Boomer, waiting patiently by the door. “You gonna take care of mama, Boomer?”
“He certainly will not.”
“Protect the homestead.”
“Elliot—”
“He can’t come with me to the barn,” Elliot informed her mother primly. “He’ll be well-behaved here, I promise.”
Her mother’s lips pressed into a thin line. It was something that couldn’t be argued, Boomer’s manners, and so finally she said, “Just don’t be gone long, then.”
Nodding, Elliot opened the front door and slipped out, keys clutched in her hands. The first snowfall of the winter had hit; it was still fresh and powdery, crunching underfoot, and by the time she was carefully pulling out of the driveway, she had nearly forgotten about the strange static fuzz rattling around in her head.
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Elliot lifts the glass of champagne to her mouth. Here, John can see the wedding band on her finger—gold and simple, for now. He’d promised her something nicer after things quieted down. She’d said, of course, that she didn’t need anything nicer; she was happy with the one she had. With him.
He thinks that she has never looked so beautiful, bathed in the romantic glow of fairy lights, hair pinned back and the white of the wedding dress dappling lace across her skin. And wearing the ring, of course.
I love you, he wants to say, but cannot. I love you so much, he wants to say, but does not; he watches her set the flute down on the table and he opens his mouth to say it. He has to tell her—she has to know, all of those things he had said, he didn’t mean them. He loves her. He has to tell her so that she can know.
John reaches for her and opens his mouth. She lets him take her face, lashes fluttering closed; when he tries to say it, when he wills the words out of his lungs, he is choking, choking, choking, the sickening scent of flowers rushing over him and he heaves.
The petals spill from his mouth. They tumble to the ground between them. You’re mine, he wants to say, I love you, but the petals choke him on their way out, billowing out from his lungs and tripping on their way out of him, blowing out in gorgeous baby-soft puffs that leave his throat shredded from the inside out.
His hands find her shoulders. He clutches her, because he can’t breathe—there are too many of them, these flowers, each labored attempt at breath making it worse. He’s choking, and Elliot grabs his face with her hands as he struggles to keep his eyes open.
She shoves her fingers into his mouth, packing the petals against the back of his throat, and he can’t breathe, and she says—
“I told you that you couldn’t have both.”
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John jolted awake, the sound of the alarm on his phone echoing in the tight space of his car. The dream lingered, stuck somewhere in the back of his throat and on his ribs like a heavy meal yet to be digested. It took a few blinks for him to really gather himself, remember where he was, who he was, what it was he had been doing. It felt like he could still taste the petals in his mouth.
Wicked devil, he thought tiredly, the image of Elliot looking down at him—wretched, and unyielding, as he choked to death—burned behind his eyelids. Even in my dreams, you’re ungrateful.
On his way out of Hope County, he’d dropped the Eden’s Gate truck for some poor shmuck’s sedan. It certainly wasn’t the kind of car he was used to driving in, and not for long periods of time, but he couldn’t risk a cop tagging his plates and finding out that the car was owned by him.
Not that he thought news of what had happened in Hope County had reached anyone yet. The government had their hands full as it was, he was sure—if the news on the radio had anything to say about it, anyway—so he imagined that the extraction of a few “criminals” out of Hope County, Montana had hit the backburner.
Passing a hand over his face tiredly, John tossed the book he’d fallen asleep reading onto the passenger seat and shut the alarm off on his phone. The book joined a collection of others, the titles including but not limited to Unconditional Parenting, The Whole-Brain Child, and other such riveting pieces, set to guide him along the path of parenthood.
He had been in Weyfield for three days; finding Elliot’s ancestral home hadn’t been hard, considering there were only a handful of houses that said rich by their exterior, and fewer less of those that looked to have been constructed so many years ago. In fact, the house that he had narrowed down looked the epitome of a wealthy Southerner’s ancient household; big front columns binding the two-story structure together, a sweeping front porch, and what he could only assume was a painstakingly-maintained garden when it wasn’t covered in a healthy foot of snow.
But more than that—more than the house, and the snow, and the stupid, shitty car he’d been living in for the last week—was Elliot.
His sleep schedule was fucked up because her sleep schedule was fucked up. He’d only caught glimpses of her through the windows, on occasion, and as much as he wanted to go charging into that house and demand she come back to Hope County with him, John knew he had to go about this very carefully. Elliot had willfully left him to be arrested, and she had willfully lied to him, and she had willfully and spitefully informed him of her pregnancy, and that meant that there were too many factors for him to think he could just breeze in and out. He was going to have to be diligent about everything—and that meant learning as much as he could before she figured out he was there.
It made him feel psychotic. It made him feel like a madman, but he supposed that was to be expected. That’s amore.
He had figured out precisely three things since his arrival in Weyfield: Elliot was staying with a woman he could only presume to be her mother, she had yet to make any friends, and she wasn’t sleeping. Every single night—or morning—she was up, moving around on the second floor and sometimes the first. It was nearly Christmas, now, which meant that she had to be at least nearly five weeks. What was she doing, up and about all hours of the night?
Now, watching Elliot haul herself into the jeep, bundled up and puffing hot air onto her hands, he thought, where are you going without the beast, huh? Haven’t seen you spend a second away from him.
John watched the car pull carefully out of the driveway and then head down the road. He’d been parked beneath the cover of a snowy row of cedars, the air inside as cold as outside by the time he’d woken out of his tenuous sleep. Now, as the sight of the dark Jeep disappeared down the residential lane and turned onto the street that would take her out to the country, he turned the key in the ignition.
The car came to life with a shuddering groan. It took a few tries to dig himself out of the fresh snowfall, tires skidding and the orange light reminding him—time and time again—that the tires were having a hard time. Thanks, you piece of shit, he thought tiredly, finally pulling out of the little ditch and setting off down the road. He let a few cars go ahead of him before he turned down the same street Elliot had, driving until the houses became fewer and fewer and it was more pastureland; three cars ahead, he saw Elliot pull down a long drive that wound for an eternity until a...barn?
A fucking stable?
“What the fuck,” he said under his breath, sighing. He should have known—of course she’d find some reason to spend her afternoon around stinking animals. Was that safe for her to be doing? Being around horses?
He pulled a slow u-turn and found a turn out at the top of the hill—close enough to see when she was leaving, but not close enough that he could be seen if she was pulling out. As soon as he shut the car off, the engine ticking as it cooled, John settled back against the seat and let out a long, suffering breath.
Well. He supposed that she should have been grateful she wasn’t leading a particularly exciting life, but he wouldn’t have minded something a little more exciting than this. Something more than staying holed up in her mother’s home—something which he was sure she did not enjoy, if the way she had spoken of her mother before had been any indication—or the occasional walk down the lane with the hound.
It didn’t matter, in the end. Once he felt confident he knew what was going on, once John had figured out what exactly he was up against when it came to fetching Elliot from this Stepford nightmare of a back-water-nobody-town, he’d get a couple of extra resources gathered and snag Elliot hook, line, and sinker.
But first, he would just have to wait.
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It was pretty easy to find a place that wanted someone to come and brush their horses for free. Elliot had called around to a few places at the behest of her doctor, who had been displeased when she explained no, she did not want to speak to a therapist, but yes, she would take the suggestion of seeking out other avenues of emotional healing.
I’m going to be frank with you, Miss Honeysett, the doctor had said, her voice stern, you can’t keep going the way you are. Stress is bad for babies, let alone post-traumatic stress.
Elliot had fervently nodded her head and explained that yes, she understood, and yes, she would make sure to find a place to relax and destress. And that was how she ended up here the first few times, and now standing in a stall, bringing a brush slowly over the shiny gold coat of a palomino that stood by idly while she fumbled herself through the motions. She had spent a lot of time around horses before, back when she was a kid—back when her grandfather still had his own little mini stable. After he’d died, the horses had of course been sold, even though Elliot had begged her mother to let her keep just one of them.
“They’re racehorses, Elliot, not show ponies,” her mother had snipped, all those years ago. “What are you going to do with a racehorse?”
Run, she’d thought then. Run and run and run, as far as he’ll take me, and we’ll camp out under the stars and then we’ll run some more until no one can find me ever again.
That had been a dream, of course. Now she only had her two legs to carry her wherever she wanted to go, and they had served her pretty well.
“Been around horses before?” someone asked lightly from the stall door. “Before the last couple of times you’ve been here, I mean.”
Elliot’s gaze flickered, snapped out of her thoughts—out of that girl she had been so many years ago—and landed on the same young woman that had gone through all of her paperwork and given her the run-down. Her name was...Sarah? No, it was something else. Something with an S. She was pretty; dark honey-blonde hair swept up into a ponytail, her face pretty enough to be woman and round enough to make that woman look angelic.
“A long time ago,” Elliot admitted sheepishly, her fingers braided into the palomino’s mane as she worked the kinks out of it. “When I was little.”
“Ah,” the woman said, smiling. “It’s sort of like riding a bicycle. How come you aren’t riding?”
“My doctor said not to.” She paused, because that sounded suspicious, and then said, “And anyway, I’d be making a fool out of myself.”
“Everyone makes a fool out of themselves the first time around, even after a long time. But of course, we want you safe,” the blonde replied somberly, but a smile still ticked the corners of her mouth. When she shifted, Elliot could see that her name tag said Sylvia W. “Hey, you’re Honeysett’s kid, aren’t you?”
Ellliot stifled a groan. She had made it through precisely two interactions without someone bringing up her mother in the entire time that she’d been back in Weyfield, and she had been hoping to make this a third. Glancing over at Sylvia’s curious expression, Elliot managed out as politely as she could, “Yes, that’s me.”
“Your mama called,” Sylvia explained amusedly. “Wanted to make sure you got here without problems.”
I’m twenty-six. “Ugh.”
“It’s cute, but she’s...” Sylvia’s gaze flickered while she tried to come up with a word. And then: “Strong.”
A quick, sharp laugh billowed out of her, unexpected, because the idea of someone calling her mother strong was absurd—not because she wasn’t, but because so many other words came to mind before the word ‘strong’ did. Elliot stifled the second laugh that tried to bubble up out of her, and Sylvia grinned.
“Take it that’s not the first impression people get of your mama?”
“No, Sylvia, it certainly is not.”
“Via is fine,” the blonde corrected, not unkindly. After a second, of quiet introspection, she continued, “If you ever wanna get out of your house, my brother and I go to that bar in town—you know, the uh.... Wild Rose? They do trivia night every Thursday. Winner gets fifty bucks.”
“Wow,” Elliot said without thinking, “a whole fifty dollars? To split between the three of us, huh?”
Via flashed a grin. “I knew you had a sense of humor.”
The words caught something funny in her chest, hooking into her all of a sudden. Reminding her that once, she had been funny—once, she’d had friends. Once, she’d had this kind of rapport with—
Shut the fuck up, she thought to herself, viciously, if you wallow every time you think about that fuckface you’re never going to get anywhere.
“So?” Via prompted. “What do you think? Want to be our third?”
“I’m—that’s really nice of you,” Elliot managed out. “I think this week I’ll have to pass. If you think my mama’s strong over the phone, just imagine her in person and five drinks in.”
The blonde grimaced. “Fair enough. But, invite’s always extended, alright?”
“Thanks, Sy—Via.” Elliot corrected herself, earning a quick, playful wink from Sylvia before she disappeared down the hall to resume her duties. She finished brushing the old brute; on occasion he’d twist his head back to bump the dark velvet of his nose against her side, reminding her that he was there and appreciated her.
She finished up the last of the brushing and then dumped her things in the bucket before she carried it out. The last few times she had been here had passed in much the same way—and now that she thought about it, hadn’t Via offered the trivia night thing to her before? Or was she just imagining things?
“Need sleep,” she murmured to no one in particular, depositing her bucket and brushing her hands against her jeans before sliding her coat on. When she had signed herself out on the sheet and stepped out into the late afternoon, the sun had already gone down; it left the world terribly blue, the sky blue and the snow blue-tinted, like someone had slapped a dim neon light over the sun.
Elliot puffed a hot breath of air out, fishing around for her keys and unlocking the car. As her gaze swept absently over the landscape, she spotted a car parked at a pull-out just up the hill. From where she was, it was hard to see—perhaps nearly impossible—and she wouldn’t have noticed if—
If she wasn’t so concerned about seeing a face that was too familiar. Burke, even, would be an unwelcome addition to her life in Weyfield. She tried to stuff down her paranoia; someone was surely just parked while they were sending a text, or making a phone call, or...
Or, they’re watching you, something inside of her said. She ducked into the driver’s side of the car, cranking the heater, but no amount of hot air washed the voice away. Maybe they’re watching you and waiting to arrest you. Or, maybe it’s—
But it couldn’t be. Because the Seeds were in Federal custody, and that meant they weren’t her problem anymore.
Elliot pulled out of the yard, and then carefully onto the highway, checking her mirror every now and then as she drove the short distance home. Just to be sure. Just to be safe. Someone else pulled out of the stable yard, behind her, and then cresting over the hill came a car that might have been the same one that was parked, and maybe wasn’t, because she hadn’t been able to see the make and model, but if it was, then she would have to make some extra turns on her way home, and...
“No,” she said, firmly. “It’s no one. It’s nothing. Just traffic. Other people live here too, you idiot.”
The remainder of the drive was spent forcing herself to keep her eyes on the road and only checking her mirrors when polite driving protocol called for it. After all of that fussing she’d done, she was the only one pulling down the road to her house, and even when she waited in the driveway for a few minutes, nobody followed. No headlights. No strange, dark cars. No monsters to haunt the corners of her vision.
“You’re late,” her mother called from the kitchen when she stepped inside, shaking the snow out of her hair and shrugging out of her coat.
“Traffic,” Elliot lied without thinking. God, had she always been such a wretched liar? Surely not, right? “Smells good, mama.”
“I should hope so. I slaved over it.”
Elliotshot her mother a dry look, taking a bowl out of the cupboard and beginning to scoop the stew Scarlet had made into it. Boomer waited patiently in the doorway of the kitchen—no dogs allowed rule vehemently obeyed—and when Elliot picked two pieces of bread out of the basket on the counter, still warm, her mother said, “How were the horses?”
She paused in the doorway. The stairs to the second floor, and the subsequent peace and quiet, were just there. “Good,” she replied after a moment, inching toward the doorway. “Polite. I—made a friend.”
Scarlet looked up from the book she’d been reading, eyes narrowing. “A horse friend?”
“No, a—a person!”
“Mm.” Scarlet looked back at her book. “Just be careful who you associate with, Elli, you never know who has a reputation here.”
“But you do.” Elliot’s foot hit the first bottom stair. “I’m relying on you to watch my back. Thank you for dinner.”
Before her mother could ask her where she thought she was going—“Taking food up to your room, Elliot? What are you, nine?”—she had fled up them, Boomer trailing after her until she had the bedroom door safely closed and locked with a breath of relief sweeping out of her. Every interaction was like that; wondering if she was going to make a misstep, drag herself into an argument that she didn’t want to have and which she would only be able to escape if she acquiesced and admitted that her mother was right.
Splitting one of the pieces of bread in half, she tossed it to Boomer and kicked her shoes off. He chomped happily, tail brushing against the floor. Elliot ate her dinner with the dim, low volume of the TV playing in the background, until half of her soup was gone and she had curled up under the blankets. It wasn’t until the Heeler burrowed into the blankets next to her, pressed against her side, that she finally felt the dredges of exhaustion begin to pull at her.
The sleeping pills her mother had given to her sat on her bedside table, still untouched. I don’t need them, she thought, shutting the tv off and the lights with it. I don’t need them to sleep.
I’m just fine.
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Night fell heavy, quiet and cold. By the time the late hours had passed and early morning was beginning to roll around—the kind of early where the world still slept—Elliot found herself standing in the hallway.
She blinked tiredly. She was still in her jeans; she’d neglected to change. Her hands were on the banister, and below her the living room stretched, long and only dimly lit, effused by the glow of the night lights peppered throughout the house. How did she get here? Had she slept walk? What had woken her?
Slowly, and then all at once, the sound of static drifting from the cracked door of her bedroom registered in her brain. The television was on; that must have been what had woken her. Elliot stood for a minute longer, trying to collect herself, trying to see if she was still dreaming, and then pushed the door to her bedroom open.
Boomer was snoozing quietly on the bed still. The telvision’s channel flickered static once, twice, and when Elliot reached for the remote, the static flipped again and the screen went black.
Not powered-off black. Just—a black screen, still backlit, empty.
White text blinked onto the screen.
HAVE YOU BEEN HAVING STRANGE DREAMS?
Elliot felt her stomach flip. The text blinked out, and then blinked back on, and then stayed. Her heart thudded aggressively against her rib cage, demanding—out out out, it said, desperate for a reprieve from this sudden chill spilling down her spine. She reached blindly, no longer sure where the remote was, when the text blinked again.
HAVE YOU BEEN HAVING STRANGE DREAMS?
No, she thought furiously, even though she knew it wasn’t true and that it didn’t matter. Whatever kind of strange late-night programming this was—and that’s what it had to be—wasn’t going to give her a response and certainly wasn’t waiting for one. She would just need to—
HAVE YOU BEEN HAVING STRANGE DREAMS?
Elliot’s fingers gripped the remote and she pressed her finger feverishly, missing the power button once, twice, and then a third time before she finally hit it and the television clicked off. Her hands were shaking; her whole body was shaking, and she quickly crawled back under the covers until Boomer was whuffling, tired and inquisitive, against her face. Her fingers knotted in his fur and she closed her eyes tight.
Even when they were closed, she saw the words, burned behind her eyelids. The inner strength to stay like that only lasted for another few minutes before she grabbed the bottle of sleeping pills and took one, swallowing it down dry and then dropping the container back on to her nightstand.
She would sleep. She would sleep, and forget about the strange commercial, and she would get her fucking life together.
In the morning. After sleep.
No strange dreams, she thought, not for me.
Not anymore.
#fic: witching hour#my writing#far cry 5 fic#john seed/f!deputy#fc5 fic#john seed x f!deputy#ch: elliot honeysett#ch: john seed#i really do be out here dropping the first chap a week ahead of schedule#i'm sorry#my posting is unreliable#i can never stick to a schedule#pls forgive me#otp: death keep off; i am your enemy
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Semaine Sainte et autres survivances des jours heureux...
On a beau dire, beau faire, beau ressasser, et les petits maîtres plus ou moins francs-maçons qui se croient tout puissants ont beau se démener et se répandre en gestes hostiles, humiliants et liberticides, il y a dans les 1 milliard et demi d'humains en expansion rapide qui s'apprêtent à célébrer Pâques, après la Semaine Sainte. Et pourtant --comme beaucoup de ''Mystères''-- c'est une fête qui a du mal à être comprise : qu'est-ce que c'est que cette histoire de ''Résurrection'' ? Et puis quoi, encore ? Quand on est mort, on est mort, tout le monde sait ça, et il faut être ''sacrément'' naïf pour croire autre chose. Les fantômes, c'est chez Harry Potter !
Pour les chrétiens et ''les hommes de bonne volonté'' (je veux dire : les gens que la foi de ceux qui ne pensent pas comme eux n'empêche pas de dormir), le Dimanche des Rameaux marque le début de la ''Semaine Sainte'' qui nous invite à revivre symboliquement l'histoire de la Passion et de la mort du Christ, et qui se termine, bien sûr, par la grande Fête de Pâques, la Résurrection. Sous des dehors qui peuvent paraître aux non-croyants quelque peu racoleurs et théâtraux, ces cérémonies tendent à faire revivre rituellement un élément fondateur du message christique : il y a une vie après notre vie terrestre, la mort n'est qu'une des limites de notre ''être-humains'', et une éternité s'ouvre devant celui ou celle qui vient de quitter les siens le plus souvent dans le chagrin, parfois le désespoir.
C'est évidemment là que tout peut se gâter : seul ce phénomène indescriptible et intangible qu'on a pris l'habitude d'appeler ''la Foi'' peut permettre de suivre ce raisonnement --mais en est-ce un ?-- aux apparences si déraisonnables. Avant même de commencer à adhérer, il faut croire à l'existence d'une âme... et ça, ''c'est pas gagné''. J'ai plein d'amis qui tiquent sur ce seul mot et affirment : ''Je ne crois pas à l'existence d'une âme''... Libre à eux de le penser... et libre à moi d'y croire. Mais là, tout se complique, comme à plaisir, car non seulement il y aurait une ''vie éternelle'' après la mort terrestre, mais elle se déroulerait ''à l'intérieur d'un corps glorieux'', qui serait, en quelque sorte, une sublimation de ce que nous avons été... Dur, dur à avaler, dans un monde qui se rêve rationnel, qui se pique de rationalité... ou qui croit s'en servir pour juger de ce qui serait ''vrai'' de ce qui serait ''irrationnel''.
Je crois que je vais céder à la tentation de faire un ''retour sur images'' ne serait-ce que pour tester ma propre foi aux jugements du monde moderne, dans ce ''point d'étape'', ce moment de l'histoire où nous sommes perdus, et où le nombre cumulé d'échecs, de cassages de gueule, de cafouillages, de bérézinas, de ratages, de ''plantaisons'' et de méga-catastrophes... devrait tout de même nous inciter à nous regarder avec plus de modestie... et nous faire nous demander si nous n'avons pas, en fin de compte, complètement perdu cette raison que nous invoquons si souvent... alors que, en gros, elle ne nous a joué que des mauvais tours ! Car le monde semble être entré dans une période comme il en surgit ''une fois tous les de temps en temps'', où vont s'affronter deux, trois, voire quatre civilisations dont les nouvelles venues (Chine, Inde, Islam et même Turquie) ne veulent que la mort de la première, chrétienne, grâce à qui elles sont pourtant revenues ''dans la course'.
L'Europe est depuis peu la cible de toutes les haines du reste du monde, elle qui avait été ''la'' civilisation-type depuis le règne des Ptolémées sur l'Egypte et la fin de l'immense civilisation pharaonique et qui s'était, de fait, imposée comme référence unique depuis la fin du XVème siècle. Elle avait parfois été comme ‘’en compétition’’ avec d'autres, et on pense par exemple au souffle artistique majeur de la période moghole, qui fait vraiment regretter ce qu'aurait pu être l'Islam sans la défaite des mutazilites devant l'asharisme réducteur (NDLR : pour mémoire, les mutazilites réfutaient l'aspect incréé du Coran, mettaient en avant le libre arbitre, et acceptaient l'usage des outils rationnels de la philosophie. La théologie mutazilite reposait sur la logique et le rationalisme inspirés de la philosophie grecque et aussi sur la raison (logos), que Wassil Ibn Ata combinait harmonieusement avec la foi islamique).
Avec la fin de la prédominance de notre civilisation occidentale, parfois dite ''judéo-chrétienne, c'est la fin de la primauté du christianisme sur le déroulement de la suite de l'histoire de l'humanité qu'il faut oser envisager (et redouter : on ouvre là un gouffre insondable). Cette perte énorme amène la fin d'une forme de croyance dans un ''Paradis'' où finiraient par se retrouver tous les hommes ayant vécu, sous la forme jamais définie ni expliquée de ''corps glorieux''. Ce concept est un de ceux qui sont les plus difficiles à ''avaler'', sa définition (indéfinie) laissant une place plus que large à l'interprétation : lorsque, dans le ''Credo'', les chrétiens disent ''je crois à la résurrection de la chair'', on peut penser qu'ils hésitent entre ''Leur corps animal ressuscitera en un corps spirituel'' (Cor. 15,44)... ''Et ils seront purs comme les anges de Dieu dans le ciel'' (Mat. 22,30)... ou ''Le Christ transfigurera notre corps pour le rendre semblable à son corps de gloire'' (Ph 3, 21). Combien de croyants ont perdu un petit bout de leur foi devant ces concepts si ésotériques. Et pourtant...
Il y a soixante-cinq ans seulement (le 25 avril 1953) que J.Watson et F.Crick ont découvert que la base réelle de notre être ressemblait à une hélice double qu'ils ont baptisée ''DNA’’ (ADN, en français). Une particularité de cet ''ADN-DNA'' est qu'il est normalement éternel (certains savants rêvent même de recréer et faire revivre des mammouths, des aurochs ou d'autres bestioles aussi sympathiques, simplement (?) en réactivant des bouts d'ADN retrouvés). Je me suis amusé à bâtir une théorie selon laquelle cet ADN éternel pourrait bien être ce que la Bible appelait ''corps glorieux'', puisqu'il serait nous, tout nous, rien que nous... sous une forme ''jamais vue''... Ce ne serait pas la première fois (les lecteurs de ce blog le savent bien !) que la Bible n'a qu’une poignée de millénaires d'avance sur notre science et nos connaissances. Mais là, au prix de quelques petites ''adaptations gymniques'', tout s'explique, tout s'éclaire et tout devient possible... C'est une ''idée à approfondir'' que je vous offre avant l'heure. C’est le cadeau que vous fait une grosse cloche de Pâques de 78 kg et 177 cm de haut, en espérant vous intéresser, un moment.
Dans une semaine, avec la fête de Pâques, en commémorant la ''Résurrection'' du Christ, les chrétiens de 2021 vont simplement montrer que leur Foi se rattache à, et est dans la lignée directe de ces ''derniers cris'' de la science la plus moderne. Je mentirais si je disais que je ne trouve pas ces retrouvailles entre Science et Foi extrêmement réjouissantes : on peut les lire comme la preuve, en quelque sorte, que ce qui fait le fondement de notre civilisation n'avait que quelques millénaires d’avance sur ce que la raison raisonnante peut comprendre... et permet donc de redevenir optimiste (au moins un peu plus, en tous cas !) que ne le laisse redouter l'avalanche des mauvaises nouvelles qui découlent de l'observation de ce que l'Homme a fait du ''projet'' de Dieu. Pâques serait donc une porte qui s'ouvre sur l'espoir, après les longues attentes parfois désespérantes de l'hiver... Bonne semaine Sainte à tous, à ceux qui croient et à ceux qui s'en fichent : c'est toujours ''sympa'' de formuler des vœux sincères à ceux qu'on aime... et aux autres !
H-Cl.
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J'ai essayé de me développer un hobby inhabituel (j'estime que n'importe qui sur Terre a ça), et c'est la dactylographie. Je connaissais le site TypeRacer depuis un moment, c'est un site au design très bas de gamme qui propose d'écrire un texte le plus vite possible, sous la forme d'une course où des petites voitures atteignent une ligne d'arrivée. Par la suite, j'ai découvert d'autres sites.
Monkeytype sert à calculer votre vitesse d'écriture (avec un webdesign que je trouve impeccable)
Keybr génère des mots inexistants qui vous aident juste à bien enchaîner les touches du clavier, vous entraînant à savoir écrire les mots les plus compliqués.
10fastfingers est un autre site pour tester sa vitesse d'écriture. Le web design est ignoble, mais étrangement, j'arrive à faire d'excellents scores sur ce site.
Z-Type est un jeu où on tire sur des vaisseaux spatiaux en écrivant des mots.
Et à propos de jeu, je me souviens de la première fois où je me suis plongé dans la dactylo, c'était en jouant à Typing of The Dead: Overkill. C'était durant une phase où je jouais à n'importe quel jeu où on peut tirer sur des zombies. Sauf que là il fallait taper des mots pour flinguer les zombies, donc j'avais droit à l'expérience vidéo-ludique la plus éducative depuis un bon bout de temps.
Je ne sais pourquoi je m'y mets. C'est peut-être dû à mon expérience avec les claviers. Après plus de 16 ans à scruter le net, il fallait bien que je gagne de l'expérience. Il y a aussi un avantage cérébral à faire de la dactylo donc tant mieux. Et avec un intérêt pour la dactylo vient aussi l'envie de collectionner les claviers. Mais finalement, il n'y a pas de clavier miracle pour taper efficacement. Tout dépend de la disposition des touches (J'ai grandi avec AZERTY et je mourrai certainement avec AZERTY).
C'est en me mettant sérieusement à ça que j'ai eu envie de créer une fiction liée à ça. Et quand j'ai lu le manga Ping Pong (un manga qui arrive à rendre passionant un sport que je trouve pas passionant), j'ai eu encore plus envie. J'imagine différents personnages avec différents profils, différents claviers qu'ils utilisent, etc. Et je me suis rapidement rendu compte du nombre microscopique de fictions abordant la dactylo. Le seul exemple marquant me venant en tête est Populaire, un film dont je garde de bons souvenirs quand je l'ai vu au cinéma (j'aurai peut-être du mal à le revoir étant donné que Nicolas Bedos fait partie du casting)
Mais maintenant je me fais souvent des crampes de main. Heureusement, c'est toujours la main gauche et pas celle avec laquelle je dessine. Et malgré la crampe d'aujourd'hui (qui est plus forte que d'habitude), j'ai quand même écrit ce texte sur mon Logitech K380.
P. S. Mon ratio de mots par minute varie entre 75 et 100, ça varie selon l'humeur.
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[ PANDORA ] : “I left a pretty mark on your neck.” “What I said at the beach … that was a lie.” “So, did you kiss her ? Because I’ll kill you if you kissed her.” “What happened ?” (pt. 1 héhé)
“I left a pretty mark on your neck.”
Les yeux de Isaak sont encore presque fermés quand il entend les paroles de la jolie blonde. Sa petite sieste se termine à peine, mais un sourire rempli d’affection se lit déjà sur ses lèvres. Le regard de Pandora en face de lui oscille entre son visage et la marque qu’elle a visiblement laissée sur son cou. Elle a l’air d’en être très fière. Pour sa part, il n’est pas forcement fan des suçons mais il se garde de faire la remarque. Elle est assez imprévisible, elle pourrait se mettre à lui donner des coups pour répliquer. Alors à la place, il passe plutôt sa main sous la taille de la jeune femme pour pouvoir la poser dans son dos et la ramener à lui. Il a déjà l’impression d’avoir passé beaucoup trop de temps sans avoir senti son corps contre le sien. “C’est bon, t’as fini de marquer ton troupeau ?” Sa blague a le mérite de faire naître un nouveau sourire chez Pandora. Il aime vraiment beaucoup ce sourire. Même si à cet instant il a surtout envie de venir l’embrasser quitte à le cacher. La jolie blonde finit cependant par répondre, empêchant ses plans de câlins. “Il te reste plus qu’à faire /meuh/ et tu seras officiellement ma vache.” Isaak plisse les yeux pendant quelques secondes histoire de lui faire comprendre ce qu’il pense de cette idée mais ça n’a pas l’air d’avoir un quelconque effet sur la jeune femme. Elle relève même un sourcil, en attente. Comme seule réponse il finit par se relever, basculant Pandora sous lui, sa tête entre ses coudes. Sa bouche part directement à la recherche de celle de sa petite amie, se perdant vite dans cet échange qui lui procure encore une fois un vent de sensations toutes plus agréables les unes que les autres. C’est comme si il découvrait quelque chose de nouveau à chaque fois qu’il l’embrassait. Et Isaak a toujours aimé explorer et découvrir. “La vache va bientôt t’écraser sous son poids si tu la respectes pas un peu plus.” La manière presque murmurée dont il fait sa menace la fait instantanément perdre en crédibilité comme en témoigne le rire qui s’échappe de la gorge de la suédoise. Bon, pour voir un aussi beau sourire il peut peut être se plier à sa demande.
“What I said at the beach … that was a lie.”
Isaak a le nez plongé dans son casier, dans une tentative assez vaine d’organiser un peu tous les manuels et les affaires qui s’y entassent. Son humeur est massacrante et il en vient réellement à se demander à quel moment est-ce-qu’il a pu penser qu’un peu de rangement allait participer à l’améliorer. Pour couronner le tout, il fait un temps magnifique dehors et lui est coincé dans ce lycée pour la journée. Il devrait sortir, ça l’aiderait beaucoup plus à se changer les idées. Mais le sort semble vouloir s’abattre sur lui alors qu’il entend la voix de Pandora émaner de derrière la porte de son casier. Génial. Que demander de mieux, être enfermé dans un lycée pour la seule journée ensoleillée du mois avec en bonus, une bonne conversation avec la fille qui vous a mis un beau râteau il y a quelques jours. Le joueur ne relève pas la tête tout de suite, clairement occupé à s’apitoyer sur son sort. Ce n’est que lorsque la suédoise prononce son prénom en venant fermer son casier qu’il se retrouve bien obligé de la regarder. Vraiment, est-ce-qu’elle est obligée d’être aussi belle ? La dernière fois qu’il s’était perdu dans ses yeux ne lui avait pas vraiment réussi alors aujourd’hui le jeune homme voudrait bien s’en passer. Aussi son attention se reporte rapidement sur son cadenas, brouillant machinalement les chiffres. “Ça semblait assez vrai quand tu l’as dis.” Merde. Il s’était juré de ne pas être si affecté par les mots qu’elle avait pu avoir à son égard lors de leur dernière rencontre. Mais la tension dans son corps vient lui rappeler toute la déception ressentie. Il entend une nouvelle fois son prénom et il a l’impression qu’elle vient écraser un peu plus sa poitrine sous un lingot de plomb. La sensation n’est pas plus agréable qu’il y a quelques jours, quand elle lui avait brutalement fait comprendre qu’elle n’était nullement intéressée par lui. “Te fatigue pas, Pandora. J’suis un grand garçon, mon ego devrait survivre.” Il s’autorise cette fois un regard en sa direction, s’apercevant alors l’énervement qui commence à déformer les traits de la jolie blonde. Quoi ? C’est plutôt lui qui devrait être agacé, elle n’a quand même pas le droit de lui piquer cette émotion aujourd’hui. “Est-ce-que tu voudrais bien arrêter de faire l’idiot deux minutes ? Je viens de te dire que j’avais menti !” Un silence étrange s’installe pendant quelques secondes, chacun assimilant le sens de ce qui venait d’être dit. La poitrine de Pandora se soulève pendant de longues secondes alors qu’elle prend une grande inspiration. “Je n’aurais pas du te dire ce que je t’ai dis. Tu… Tu me plais, Isaak. Et j’ai pas l’habitude.” Elle doit probablement le trouver particulièrement idiot alors qu’il reste planter devant elle sans rien dire, les sourcils plissés comme s’il attendait qu’elle retire tout ce qu’elle venait de dire. “Tu as plutôt intérêt à dire quelque chose rapidement sinon je te rends muet à tout jamais.” Mais sa nervosité se trahit dans sa voix et dans sa façon de croiser les bras sur sa poitrine. Et Isaak ne pourrait pas être plus heureux à cet instant. Un sourire vient finalement s’étaler sur ses lèvres tandis qu’il accroche délicatement les mains de Pandora aux siennes. “Tu viens faire un tour avec moi ?” Non pas qu’il attende vraiment son approbation pour les diriger vers la sortie du lycée.
“So, did you kiss her ? Because I’ll kill you if you kissed her.”
Le temps semble peiner à s’écouler alors que la suédoise ne lâche pas Isaak du regard, comme prête à analyse la moindre des expressions qui pourrait venir le trahir. Mais à cet instant la seule chose à décrypter sur son visage est le degré de son incompréhension, poussée à son maximum alors qu’il remet en place tous les derniers événements dans son cerveau. Cette fille au bar, qui ne le lâchait pas. Ce baiser qu’elle a essayé de lui voler. Et maintenant Pandora, qui a l’air d’en savoir beaucoup plus sur la situation que lui. Le résultat est d’un désastre à en faire pâlir de jalousie les plus grandes catastrophes naturelles. Le joueur ferme les yeux quelques secondes, rapidement partagé entre la colère et tout un tas d’émotions pas vraiment plus gaies. “Tu connais cette fille ?” Il demande comme s’il voulait qu’elle lui réponde autre chose que ce qu’il se doute être vrai. “Je t’ai posé une question d’abord.” Sa voix tressaille et un morceau dans la poitrine du garçon se brise en même temps. La criante vérité reste coincée dans sa gorge, manquant de l’étouffer. Alors c’est ça, leur histoire est gâchée. Leur couple est mort le jour de leur première rupture et cela ressemble à une évidence quand il comprend qu’elle est allée jusqu’à demander à une autre fille de l’embrasser pour le tester. Il est si minable que ça à ses yeux maintenant ? L’idée l’empêche de tenir en place. “Putain !” Ses pieds s’agitent tous seuls, traçant des cercles sur le sol alors que ses mains fendent l’air en signe d’impuissance. “Je l’ai pas embrassé. Je veux embrasser personne d’autre que toi, Pandora !” Ses mots viennent se coincer dans sa gorge alors qu’il constate le peu de confiance qu’elle doit placer en lui. Des larmes semblent border les yeux pâles de sa petite amie, lui offrant le pire des tableaux. Il déteste la voir comme ça. Et c’est d’autant plus déchirant qu’il sait qu’il est responsable de sa douleur. “Je voulais juste être sûre, Isaak. C’est tout.” Ses mots sont murmurés comme si elle ne les pensait pas assez pour les dire à voix haute. Cela a au moins le mérite de calmer l’emportement du garçon qui n’ose même plus la regarder, empli de honte. Des regrets, il en a par centaine. “Je suis désolé que t’arrives pas à me faire confiance. Je sais que c’est ma faute et je ferai tout pour me rattraper, j’te le promet. Mais pas comme ça.” La jeune femme fait un pas en sa direction et instinctivement il recule, la tête baissée, les muscles tendus et le cœur retourné. “Pas comme ça.” Il répète comme un jouet cassé. Il sait qu’il ne peut pas passer le reste de leur relation à s’excuser et dans le même temps il sait aussi qu’il ne peut pas lui en vouloir de ne pas réussir à faire table rase du passé. Ils semblent être face à une impasse. Mais le bonheur de ces dernières semaines passées ensemble avait du lui faire un peu trop croire que les pièces de leur amour pouvaient se remboîter naturellement. Et sur l’instant la vague brutale de réalité est un peu dure à avaler.
“What happened ?”
Le visage du garçon se tourne vers Pandora qui apparaît dans l’encadrement de sa porte. Son regard semble passer des affaires étalées sur le sol de la chambre aux marques rouges sur le visage du brun avec cet air d’incompréhension qui lui fait plisser les sourcils. C’est presque mignon. Isaak lui retourne un léger sourire, soulagé de la voir après la tornade qui a eu lieu dans la pièce. Il saisit une lampe qui avait fini sa course au pied de son bureau et la repose à sa place initiale. “Salut mon cœur.” Retournant à sa tentative de rangement il ouvre son ordinateur, vérifiant que l’écran n’ait pas été touché. C’est pas comme si il était assez prévoyant pour enregistrer ses données ailleurs alors il espère vraiment que l’appareil a été épargné. Enfin l’ordinateur s’allume, laissant apparaître une jolie photo avec Connor, témoignage d’un des quelques rares moments de complicité qu’ils peuvent avoir. Quelle ironie. Il referme l’écran alors que sa petite amie s’est avancée dans la pièce et le fait se tourner vers elle. L’expression sur son visage lui montre bien qu’elle attend une réponse à sa question. Il soupire. Parce qu’il sait d’avance ce qu’elle va penser de la situation. Mais il crochète quand même sa main à la sienne tandis qu’il va s’asseoir sur son lit, gardant la jolie blonde près de lui. Sa main dans son dos part se balader sur quelques centimètres pour profiter un peu du contact. “J’ai eu une discussion pacifique avec Connor.” Il finit par lâcher avec à peu près autant de sarcasme qu’il y a de désordre dans la pièce. Il n’est même plus en colère. L’émotion étant retombé depuis le départ de son frère. Il est simplement fatigué d’en revenir toujours à ce stade de leur relation en ce moment. Le stade où ils n’arrivent plus à discuter sans finir par vouloir en mettre une à l’autre. Pandora vient enrouler ses bras autour de son cou, affichant une moue compatissante bien qu’un peu agacée. “Si c’est ça votre manière d’être pacifique j’ose même pas imaginer ce qui arrive quand vous vous disputez.” En réalité elle sait très bien ce qui arrive dans ces cas là, le résultat est juste devant ses yeux, la peau de son amoureux étant plus rouge à certains endroits que d’autres. “Tu as essayé de lui parler de votre père ?” Isaak ferme doucement les yeux à cette question, presque las qu’elle soit si juste. Oui, forcément. Les deux frères sont assez forts pour se disputer mais les sujets pour lesquels ils peuvent en venir aux poings se comptent sur les doigts d’une main. Et bingo, leur père a une place de roi dans ce domaine. Ses paupières ne se relèvent pas alors qu’il profite de la sensation des doigts de Pandora qui se promènent doucement dans ses cheveux. “J’ai pas envie d’en parler pour l’instant. Viens t’allonger avec moi.” Il pousse rapidement les quelques vestiges de la dispute qui siégeaient sur le lit pour pouvoir s’y installer plus confortablement, bientôt rejoint par la jolie blonde et sa tête contre son torse qui a le pouvoir de le soulager presque instantanément. Ils parleront du reste plus tard.
#prompts#prompts:pandora#ooc: soyons honnêtes#je ne sais pas ce que j'ai écris ?#mais ça m'a fait du bien
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The Effective Approach to Choose and Join in a VTAA Course
MOT Training Experts is one of the most successful MOT Training providers in Manchester with a dedication to provide the cost-effective, high-quality and professional training. This institution has very good transport links as it is based in the vibrant city and located in the Northern powerhouse of Manchester. Many residents contact here and explore the Vtaa assessment course in detail. They like to join in this cheap and best course to get a good improvement in their way to achieve the career goal.
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Why MOT Training is the Key to Becoming a Certified MOT Tester
To become a certified MOT tester in the UK, one must complete MOT training. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) sets regulations, and this training guarantees that individuals meet those standards and provides them with the requisite skills and knowledge. This post will discuss the value of MOT training, how to become a MOT tester and the continuing requirements for keeping your certification current.

The Significance of MOT Training
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MOT training contributes to the industry's continued high standards by ensuring that testers are knowledgeable about these rules.
2. Skill Development MOT training provides Comprehensive instruction on safe working procedures in vehicle testing facilities.
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This practical expertise is essential to guaranteeing that testers can precisely evaluate vehicle safety and compliance with legal criteria.
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Make sure you have no outstanding criminal convictions by passing a background check.
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After successfully finishing the qualification course, candidates must pass the demonstration test (VT8), which is watched by a DVSA examiner. This exam evaluates their proficiency in accurately and safely performing an MOT test.
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Participating in yearly training and exams is crucial for maintaining certification. According to the DVSA, all MOT testers must pass an annual assessment and undergo at least three hours of annual training to keep their accreditation status.
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MOT training addresses several crucial topics necessary for efficient testing, including:
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MOT Test Classes - To become an MOT Tester for Classes 4 and 7, you’ll need to have an accepted Level 3 qualification or accreditation (please see VTAA for further details). MOT Training Experts specialise in delivering the Level 2 Award in MOT Testing for Classes 4 and 7 through a comprehensive four-day training course. Once you’ve successfully completed this award, you can attend your VT8 practical course (Demonstration Test) and, upon passing, be signed off as a qualified MOT Tester.
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Le handicap par Valérie : “la vie est belle même avec qu'une seule jambe !”

Depuis maintenant 2 ans, nous suivons avec toujours autant de plaisir Valérie. Dynamique, généreuse, et la tête toujours pleine de projets, Valérie nous épate par son énergie insatiable. Grande sportive, elle se lance chaque année dans de nouveaux défis, au profit d’associations. Après plusieurs participations à des courses de stand-up paddle avec sa prothèse, elle participe en ce moment à des Tower Run, des ascensions d’immeubles, en béquilles. Le prochain ? La Verticale de la Tour Eiffel, 1665 marches le 13 mars prochain.
Bonjour Valérie, pouvez-vous vous présenter, vous et votre parcours, en quelques mots pour ceux qui ne vous connaissent pas ?
Donc pour un peu me présenter : j'ai 54 ans, je vis dans le sud de la France mais j'ai passé toute mon enfance, adolescence et une partie de ma vie adulte en Afrique du sud. J'ai 3 grands garçons.
J'ai été amputée de ma jambe gauche il y a bientôt 14 ans. Ça ne m’a pas empêché d'avoir une vie bien remplie sur le plan sportif. Après mon amputation, j'ai voulu d'abord reprendre un peu ma vie de maman avant de rentrer en centre de rééducation pour me faire appareiller. Je me suis habituée à me déplacer sur ma jambe valide avec des béquilles, et ceci a duré un peu plus de 10 ans.

Passionnée de sport, vous avez déclaré dans votre dernier témoignage "avoir repris votre vie en main à travers le sport". Pouvez-vous nous en dire plus ?
Pendant ce temps, j'ai quand même joué au tennis fauteuil (4 a 6 heures par semaine), je faisais de la musculation et de l'escalade, je nageais aussi.

Un jour, j'ai voulu apprendre la planche à voile mais on m’a conseillé d'abord d'apprendre le stand up paddle. J’ai donc appris à me mettre debout et tenir en équilibre sur une planche de paddle. Et puis, il y a eu un événement aux Pays Bas qui m’intéressait, la 11 City Sup Tour = faire 220km en stand up paddle sur les canaux dans le nord des Pays Bas. Un événement fabuleux ! De belles rencontres avec des athlètes venus du monde entier. Je me suis inscrite, la première personne à faire partie de cet événement. C’était en septembre 2015, donc il fallait que je me fasse appareiller pour y participer car la distance était d'un marathon par jour, pendant 5 jours. Je venais de recevoir ma prothèse (et je n'avais même pas fait de rééducation avec ma prothèse) au mois de juillet et en septembre j'avais ce défi énorme qui m'attendait, en plus une météo horrible - je n'ai pas réussi à faire les 220km mais ce n’était que partie remise car en septembre 2016, j'ai fait tout le parcours de 220km !

J'ai aussi fait un peu de surf avec la prothèse, mais j'avais déjà fait du surf debout sans prothèse il y a de nombreuses années. Je fais aussi de la planche à voile depuis 2 ans, et j'aime beaucoup même si pour moi mon sport favori reste le tennis. En parlant de tennis, j'ai pu en faire aussi debout avec ma prothèse, et là j'ai retrouvé d'autres sensations. J'ai aussi pu tester le snowboard il y a 2 ans et j'ai bien aimé - c’était une première pour moi, je ne connaissais pas la neige.
Cette année j'aimerais également essayer le Kite surf.
Qu'est ce que le sport vous apporte ?
Le sport m'apporte beaucoup, et je ne peux pas m'imaginer ne rien faire du tout. Mais comme tout le monde, j'ai des journées où j'ai envie de rester tranquille, mais après je me sens un peu fautive et je m'en veux un peu alors pour éviter ça, je fais du sport tout les jours.
Vous participez à bon nombre d'évènements sportifs, les derniers en date étant des ascensions : la Tower run de la Tour Montparnasse en septembre 2018. Pouvez-vous nous raconter ce nouvel exploit sportif ? Le 13 mars prochain, vous allez participez à la verticale de la Tour Eiffel... Pouvez-vous nous en dire plus ?
En 2017, j'ai fait ma première Tower run sur Marseille pour l'association Ela, parrainée par Zidane. Il fallait monter les marches d'un bâtiment de 25 étages. Arrivée en haut, je décide de redescendre et de les remonter encore une fois. Au total 50 étages avec de bons amies/amis !
Du coup je me suis dit qu'on pourrait faire la tour Montparnasse qui a 60 étages/1000 marches, donc 10 de plus qu'à Marseille. Alors en septembre 2018, avec un ami, Jean Laurent, nous avons fait la Tower run de Montparnasse (pour la fondation Gustave Roussy, pour la recherche des cancers pédiatriques).
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Puis j'ai grimpé 784 marches du plan de Ronquieres en Belgique - invitée par les pompiers de Belgique que j'avais rencontré lors de la Tower run de la Tour Montparnasse. J'ai grimpé les marches, toujours 2 par 2, toujours sans prothèse - et j'ai mis 19 minutes pour faire 784 marches.
Finalement, j'ai envoyé ma candidature pour faire la Verticale de la Tour Eiffel le 13 mars. J'ai eu la réponse au mois de janvier - je suis trop contente de pouvoir la faire ! 1665 marches jusqu'au 3ème et dernier étage.
J'ai bien sûr une autre tour, la Tour First à la Défense de prévue au mois de mai et j’enchaîne avec un autre événement la No finish line. J'en serai à ma 4ème participation de la No finish line. On tourne sur un circuit de 1km, pendant tout le temps qu'on a envie, et on fait le nombre de km qu'on veut - pour chaque km parcouru 1 euro est reversé. J'ai fait la dernière à Monaco en novembre, et j'ai marché à peu près 30km.

Comment vous y préparez-vous ?
Je ne m’entraîne pas spécialement pour les Tower run, car je bouge déjà pas mal. Les escaliers je les monte avec mes béquilles et j'ai les épaules et les bras solides. De plus, je fais de la musculation et le tennis fauteuil qui m'entretient bien aussi.
Vous avez créé l'année dernière l'association Renaissance pour initier au sport les personnes en situation de handicap. Comment se porte votre association ?
En ce qui concerne mon association Renaissance, j’espère pouvoir organiser une ou deux journées sportives cette année, en étant encadrée par un moniteur, et pour faire découvrir à des amputés un sport que ce soit planche à voile ou autre.

Pour finir, un message à faire passer ?
Mon message est toujours le même, la vie est belle même avec qu'une seule jambe ! Malgré les difficultés et les douleurs parfois - les gens sont toujours étonnés le jour où je dis que je ne vais pas très bien ou que je suis fatiguée ou que j'ai des douleurs, car ils me voient toujours en forme et du coup j'ai l'impression que lorsque ça ne va pas, j'ai des drôles de regards et même des commentaires... et ça me rend presque fautive de ne pas aller bien mais bon, je ne suis pas un robot non plus.
Je voudrais surtout remercier Victories de me suivre depuis un moment maintenant, et de faire un article de temps en temps - ça me fait vraiment très plaisir [à nous également Valérie ! - ndlr].
Retrouvez Valérie sur :
Sa page facebook : https://www.facebook.com/val.hirschfield/?pnref=lhc
Victories : @Valerie_Hirschfield
Instagram : @val_hirschfield
Twitter : @valhirschfield
Son premier témoignage sur le blog : http://blog.myvictories.me/post/141203037925/le-handicap-par-val%C3%A9rie-la-vie-reste-belle-il
Son 2ème témoignage : http://blog.myvictories.me/post/170642574670/le-handicap-par-val%C3%A9rie-jai-repris-ma-vie-en
Son association Renaissance : https://www.helloasso.com/associations/association-renaissance/collectes/sports-pour-personnes-ayant-subi-une-amputation et sur twitter @Renaissance835
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24 MAI 2023
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1°) Échauffement blasphématoire (5 minutes) : Aujourd’hui, c’est la St Portable. Selon mon almanach 2023-2024, du moins. On écrira donc une petite prière à ce nouveau Saint du calendrier, sous forme rythmée, quelque chose qu’on pourrait psalmodier facilement.
Mon ancien portable M’a laissé tomber. C’était un jetable, Et je l’ai snobé… *** Mon nouvel haïphone Sonnera bientôt. Mais s’il est aphone Je prends un marteau.
À la Saint Portable, Le marchand de sable Peut passer à table. J'écrirai sa fable Si j'en suis capable, Ou je pète un câble.

2°) Embrayage par citation (10 minutes) : Se défouler ? Une citation est proposée, prise dans un dictionnaire, et on l’intègre dans un court texte. « Je voudrais voir un jour analyser l'automobile en tant qu'instrument à défouler les citadins emprisonnés » (Elle, 31 mars 1958). Dictionnaire Robert.
Je voudrais savoir si un jour quelqu’un saura analyser avec justesse le comportement des automobilistes. En gros, un sur deux juge que celui qui le précède sur la route conduit mal, et un sur deux pense que celui qui le suit est un chauffard. Et en réalité deux sur deux utilisent leur automobile comme un instrument grâce auquel ils se défoulent. Se défoulent de quoi ? De la vie citadine, des contraintes sociales, de la famille, des autres, plus généralement. L’automobile est leur antidépresseur, une arme, et le paradoxe est que pour se libérer de toutes les entraves et de leurs angoisses, ils s’y enferment. Finalement, c’est une prison agréable car mobile, et beaucoup plus efficace que celles de la Justice, et de temps en temps, on passe facilement de l’une à l’autre. On s’est bien défoulé ? Les matons vous foulent.

3°) Écriture longue (10-15 minutes) : Haïr. Les autres, c’est rien que des sales types, selon Jacques A. Bertrand, Julliard, 2009. Écrire un court texte dans lequel on exprime sa haine d’un genre d’individu particulier. Aujourd’hui : le médaillé.

Le médaillé est une espèce qui mérite notre attention, et notre haine. Et elle n’est pas en voie d’extinction. Le médaillé est un individu qui arbore à son revers de veste, et parfois sur toute la largeur de son buste large et puissant, une ou plusieurs breloques pendouillantes qu’on lui a épinglées au bout d’une cérémonie pesante et verbeuse au cours de laquelle un cravaté ventripotent et décoré a rappelés devant un auditoire pressé d’aller au buffet se gave de petits fours et de crémant tiède, des exploits dont le récipiendaire lui-même ne se souvient plus : avions ennemis abattus, copies d’examen corrigées sans frémir, courses de haies ou lancer de divers objets contondants ou piquants, carrière commencée là et en voie d’achèvement ici, le tout avec trémolos dans la voix et la promesse d’autres récompenses à venir, cérémonie clôturée par des hymnes sauvages, patriotiques ou syndicaux, des applaudissements et quelques larmes à l’œil. Rien que pour ces motifs, on devrait déjà souhaiter l’abolition des médailles. Mais qui plus est, le médaillé est un individu fier et imbu de sa personne, il mérite donc sur terre le châtiment que l’enfer lui réserve pour ce péché capital : la dégradation ! Comme Dreyfus ! Sus aux médaillés ! Coupons-leur leurs rubans, arrachons-leur leurs rosettes, faisons-leur manger leurs décorations, avec les épingles !
4°) 10 mots et un pitch pour une histoire (10-15 minutes) : Sonnette de nuit. Voici dix mots à placer, dans l’ordre que l’on veut, à l’intérieur d’une petite histoire. Résumé de l’histoire : Un individu tente une expérience afin de tester son voisinage : il sonne chez eux, la nuit, et leur dit qu’il fait un sondage sur la convivialité. Mots obligatoires : affecter, chance, domicile, enquêter, gain, glisser, imprudence, marche, mégère, plate.
– Chéri, ça a sonné ! Réveille-toi ! – Mmmhhh ? Quelle heure est-il ? – C’est minuit et demi ! Tu vas voir ? J’ai peur, moi ! Vas-y, mais ne fais pas d’imprudence ! – Bon, je passe un pantalon et j’y vais. Mais tout de même, qui peut venir à notre domicile à cette heure ? J’espère que ce n’est pas une mauvaise nouvelle. – Tu fais attention en descendant. Ne glisse pas sur les marches ! *** Le mari alla ouvrir et se trouva face à un individu souriant, qui lui expliqua d’une voix plate et lasse : *** – Monsieur, j’enquête dans le voisinage, et vous avez eu la chance d’être choisis pour répondre à ce sondage. – Mais, à cette heure-ci ? – Oui, justement. C’est exprès, et si la surprise est grande, le gain que vous en retirerez ne le sera pas moins. J’ai été affecté à cette tâche afin de récompenser les meilleurs voisins, ceux dont la convivialité naturelle et spontanée présentera le meilleur indice de tolérance à l’intrusion. La première question est celle-ci : Que pensez-vous de cette initiative ? – Bon, ce sera vite répondu ! Ma femme est déjà en train d’appeler la police, et si vous ne dégagez pas d’ici tout de suite, ça va être convivial, au commissariat, ça c’est sûr ! – Quoi ? Votre femme ? Mais quelle mégère ! Ah, je vous plains, mon vieux. Au revoir ! *** Et l’homme disparut dans la nuit, laissant un couple totalement désemparé. Ils eurent beaucoup de mal à se rendormir.
5°) Fragment pour l’inspiration libre (15-20 minutes) : Une écriture longue à partir d’une bribe déposée sur Internet par Étienne Candel. « L’étrangeté de ces spectacles, alors que tout s’effondrerait. » Sans chercher à savoir ce que son auteur a voulu dire, on se laissera aller à l’exploitation de ces quelques mots, de manière qu’un sens se dégage du résultat : soit une histoire, soit un dialogue, pourvu que la phrase se retrouve quelque part intégralement.

Tout n’est que spectacle, dès qu’il y a quelque part des yeux pour voir. La vie, la mort, la guerre, le passage des trains ou d’un chat errant. Mais voyons-nous vraiment tout cela ? Il faudrait savoir regarder, d’abord, prendre du temps pour observer ce qui nous entoure, la beauté comme la laideur ; mais le monde va trop vite. Comme les horloges. Et l’être humain a la fâcheuse tendance de vouloir aller plus vite que le chronomètre ou le calendrier, alors que la vie est si courte. À quoi bon regarder une société se déliter, des gens se battre ou sombrer dans la misère ou la maladie ? et à quoi bon en parler ensuite. Y aurait-il quelqu’un pour écouter, ou pour lire la description qu’en ferait un journaliste ou un sociologue ? et qu’est-ce qui vaudrait la peine de dépeindre l’étrangeté de ces spectacles, alors que tout s’effondrerait ? Serait-ce pour la gloire d’avoir été l’observateur majuscule, le peintre de l’extinction en route, le prophète des malheurs prochains ? Ne vaut-il pas mieux fermer les yeux et attendre tranquillement le bruit que ne manquera pas de produire la catastrophe finale, et le long silence qui suivra ?
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