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Tim, I am not at all up to date on motorbikes. Is the 1250 preferable to the 1300? I assume new bikes don't yet have speed limit bongs and attention assist and so on like new cars. Yet.

Love that. 'Working' implies actual water though

I have discovered a new tactic to deal with AI in my job. I produced a fairly robust form of overage deed (one of my specialisms) and we received 5 pages of comments back which looked like the product of AI - which was indeed confirmed by the other party to my client directly.

My response was ...

Over 1000 miles on a tank of fuel. I'll probably fill up this evening.

I see James Orr is associate professor of ethics (!) at Cambridge University. I wonder if he'll be sacked by the university like Jason Arday? This behaviour seems entirely incompatible with that role.

Explosive Newt have you considered moving to Oxford instead to get away from these political ...

I'm happy to go to Bewdley. What is parking like - do we just use the big car park in front of the new medical centre?
Gavin and I talked about another curry and when we organised it last year there was a suggestion of a place on the Bromsgrove-Kidderminster road - the Chennai Lounge I think?
I've ...

Both our chargers are under cover so don't get hit by direct sunlight. So you might find some sort of shade solves the issue.

Blimey, makes my 7 weeks for air-con warranty repair seem short.

I do really like the Wallace and Gromit one and will probably get it. Though I have heard this type of larger scale more detailed model described as 'display slop' - on the basis that it deviates quite a long way from what Lego was really all about, no play features etc. And I can see that. I've ...

We have both Ohme Home Pro and Andersen Quartz chargers. Both have been solidly reliable, the only glitch being that an R5 doesn’t like the combination of an Ohme and Octopus smart charging but that was fairly easy to solve by turning off smart charging. The car’s fault I believe - we didn’t have ...

Just fed my stepdaughter’s cats while she’s away this weekend. The youngest has just turned 1 and is still very kittenish. Enjoy the kitten time, it seems to disappear very quickly.

Sunny is very cute

Cool post, we’ve been doing European road trips as family holidays for the last few years too. we were in Belgium last easter and I saw that zoo but we’d already been to an amazing one in Loire valley so didn’t think it would match it - it looks incredible!


Was that the zoo at Doue La ...

It might sell for half that. I suspect it simply won’t sell at all. Even at £45k you’d have to be mental because registering it is either not possible or going to cost a fortune.

Cool post, we’ve been doing European road trips as family holidays for the last few years too. we were in Belgium last easter and I saw that zoo but we’d already been to an amazing one in Loire valley so didn’t think it would match it - it looks incredible!


Was that the zoo at Doue La Fontaine ...

That was after I’d turned it off 😂

Based on 3.3 miles/kWh and 6p/unit on our tariff, that’s about £15 in electricity; add 48l of Tesco 99 at 171.9 which works out as £82. Total £97 for 843 miles. Other than making sure I use electricity as much as possible (so I get home in the evening with only a ...

Will I manage to make it to September before I fill up with petrol?

Thanks Gav. I am indeed a cat person but the two dachshunds came with my wife when I met her, so I've had them for 9 years. It's weird him not being around. I thought Colin would miss him more but he was always the more derpy of the two and he seems to have got used to his brother's absence sooner ...

Not mine, but SiL's 17 plate Passat GTE has lunched its Mechatronic unit on the way home from holiday. Cost to repair is in excess of £5k :shock:


I had to google which gearbox that is - it appears to have the 6-sp DSG. They are sufficiently mainstream that I bet she can find a specialist to get ...

Bad sellers? There was quite a waiting list for the ND3 for a while. And they hold their value pretty well so there seems to be demand.

I did get a £2k discount on mine which was one of the first ND3s in customer hands in June 2024 but I think that's simply the nature of a mainstream marque with a ...

Nefarious wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 8:00 am My daughter's comment on hearing Jolene aged c.8yo - "That doesn't sound like Jolene's problem"

Wise beyond her years.