OV9

Matty wrote: ↑Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:08 pm Aaaaand it's gone:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j445g5qw7o

Amazing what can spontaneously fall over in the right circumstances...

What sort of time are you thinking? I'm at a course in Regents Park until about 2.30.

Also it's my 40th very very very uncomfortably soon.

All I can say is that the owner had a laminated bit of A4 in the windscreen proclaiming it thus. I would imagine the Jag owners club would police this aggressively.

That said, I don't think the vents at the top of the front bumper were there on the early XKR-S.

Weird that the bonnet vents differ. Different eras I think. 2007 on the left vs 2014 on the right. And that confused me, so I just went to check. The XKR-S wasn't released until 2012, so looks like the black car is modificated. No, there were two generations of XKR-S. 4.2L (which, further reading t...

I was also suprised to find a pair of XKR-S cars right next to each other which came as a bit of a suprise as I think there are only quite a small number (200?) in the UK. https://gallery.ov9.co.uk/images/2025/06/23/jag-4.jpg Weird that the bonnet vents differ. Different eras I think. 2007 on the l...

You're all being a bit harsh, It's OV9 not Agatha Christie.

Wandered to the shops yesterday morning and stumbled across a Jaguar Owners Club meetup happening on the cathedral green. https://gallery.ov9.co.uk/images/2025/06/23/Jag-1.jpg https://gallery.ov9.co.uk/images/2025/06/23/Jag-2.jpg I was also suprised to find a pair of XKR-S cars right next to each ot...

Mrs Newt likes tea at a temperature which is near thermonuclear whereas I prefer my beverage to have cooled a little prior to drinking. This is a shame as my fave mug is a nice thick one which feels good in the hand but takes ages to cool. At work, they went on a drive to eliminate disposable cup wa...

Went to work specifically to work in air con.

Yesterday I made the mistake of wearing a pink shirt and my face was the exact same colour.

mik wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:42 pm In saying that - your situation sounds like you might just have inadvertently magnetised it - in which case I'd buy a cheapo demagnetiser first and see if that does the job. Something like this thing.

Exposing it to 30,000 gauss may well do that!
I will look into it...

So earlier this week I had to hammer in some round fence posts. Top tip - tighten a jubilee clip around the tops to stop them splitting when you smack them. 8-) I’m right handed, but was steadying each post with my left. Which is the wrist I wear my watch on. I’d done about 6 posts before I realise...

GG. wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:04 pm Senior Facilities Agreement. I often get dumped with one of those on a variety of important occasions.

A facilities agreement which does not take in recent detail and is liable to fall?

Agreed on the wine gums situation. Maynards for life.

I too have a case of the Beanies and keep looking back at it. Rhodium Silver metallic really suits it I think 8-) They are lovely things. I very much miss mine. The pre facelift is a bit frumpy but your generation is sleek and imposing. And bloody long, I remember it overhanging most parking bays!

Not my fleet but a friend has just taken delivery of a 2-year old Cayman GTS and is very pleased with it, other than finding it too noisy. He is apparently going to remove the door cards and put some form of sound deadening inside.

I'm skeptical but it's his motor.

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 10:43 pm

OV9 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 6:53 pmCHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG.

As I explained offline to Gavster about an hour and a half ago, I'd had three glasses of wine, and if this still seems like a good idea tomorrow I will email them

It is now tomorrow, today.

Also 100% yes to what Dave said about creatine, there's basically no downside to taking it, and possibly more upsides than simply building muscle, they think it could be linked to helping your brain too. There is cool science on this - magnetic resonance spectroscopy allows you to detect the concen...

One recent anecdote I forgot to mention was interviewing students. We're trying to move back to in person interviews but we still do a lot of interviewing over Teams (student travel being a widening access concern for the most part). I interviewed someone who, whenever you asked a question, they wou...

Is it Tim's Mondeo?

Edit: oh.

Owned one, loved it. That diesel V6 is really tremendous, I know it’s a cliche but you forget it’s a diesel. Sips fuel cruising along the motorway in 8th but gives you shove when you need it. Happy wafting!

Okay, I'm not mad, but... I'm going to visit all 10 of the service stations on the Which? list this weekend, with an overnight stay at Norton Canes on Saturday and Tebay on Sunday. Basically a "what's the best food at UK service stations" type video, combined with a hook of "I SPENT ...