Car back together and fully working..

Also having been pulled apart and put back together seems to have fixed a few rattles that have turned up over the years.

1. Hump back whales circling the Statue of Liberty today for the first time in many decades!

2. I took a Calor cylinder back today and it was replaced FOC. The supply kept failing and in spite of 3 new regulators and a new pipe the pattern continued in the cold and damp conditions of the last few days. Another cylinder bought last week was fine. Nice for once to be treated right. Thanks to those involved.

https://youtu.be/uUEKtOGmpVI

Think the Ami is an interesting thing, if anything they've missed a trick by not adding fast charge yes 3 pin is only 45 mins but if it could you'd be looking at what 10-15 mins from flat to empty?

Obviously limited use...but small enough and cheap enough to have as well as a "proper" car for short trips.

Propane or Butane ?

StevenRB45 said:

https://youtu.be/uUEKtOGmpVI

Think the Ami is an interesting thing, if anything they've missed a trick by not adding fast charge yes 3 pin is only 45 mins but if it could you'd be looking at what 10-15 mins from flat to empty?

Obviously limited use...but small enough and cheap enough to have as well as a "proper" car for short trips.

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with all the sensors on cars nowadays why have they not added one that stops the car if the door opens

werdna said:

Propane or Butane ?

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map-x

Scotlands gritter tracker.



https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab

Some cracking names.

Plougher O' Scotland

Tip..
Dont waste 5 mins clicking on the 'links'

My phone took a 'wee' while to open the main('s') map on the link from StevenRB45

Quote from a pop.up 'news' item

Regarding Tesla big sales push in North America

'Electrek’s Take
Tesla’s end of quarters are always pretty crazy, but it looks like this one might be insane.

I was at Tesla Laval in Canada on Saturday to help a friend take delivery of a new Model 3. We were there for a few hours, and there were truckloads of new Tesla vehicles being delivered nonstop.'


There several hours..

Even with Covid..

The queue at Currys for
WHITE GOODS is usually quick moving

varesecrazy said:

Quote from a pop.up 'news' item

Regarding Tesla big sales push in North America

'Electrek’s Take
Tesla’s end of quarters are always pretty crazy, but it looks like this one might be insane.

I was at Tesla Laval in Canada on Saturday to help a friend take delivery of a new Model 3. We were there for a few hours, and there were truckloads of new Tesla vehicles being delivered nonstop.'


There several hours..

Even with Covid..

The queue at Currys for
WHITE GOODS is usually quick moving

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Isn’t that how car factories work? They ship truck loads of cars out otherwise its a very expensive business if people don’t buy them.

On the flip side I’ve been using the trading212 app a lot over the last few months a made quite a few tax free pounds trading tesla stocks

MOT pass for the Fabia, no advisories.
To be expected really, although now almost 6 years old, not quite 36k miles, and few learners.

Watched some Yes Minister episodes. 35 years old and as relevant today as they ever were.

Tuesday is shopping day for me, off I go to Inverness, the road right next to the Beauly Firth, it’s a scenic route that’s for sure. This morning however took on even a more picturesque sight as the Firth was like a mirror, this doesn’t happen very often, it’s a bit surreal, you find yourself transfixed staring at the water while you should be concentrating on the road.

werdna said:

Propane or Butane ?

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If it were mine to which you refer ... twas propane. Mumblings were something about nitrogen contamination.

The Panda Nut said:

If it were mine to which you refer ... twas propane. Mumblings were something about nitrogen contamination.

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It was. I asked because as a caravanner, I have changed to propane which still works at lower temperatures. I also have a shed heater that runs on propane as well. The butane cylinder was getting fractious as the weather got colder.

Local duck eggs and dry cured smoked bacon for breakfast, lovely. Simple pleasures.

My world consists of padded inserts for seats.. buggies..travel systems..cot beds etc. Whenever you buy anything that "grows with your child" that means you'll be taking out multiple inserts over years and then keeping them safe. Otherwise if you were to have another child you need to buy the whole item again.

Head rest on the childseat has been rattling like an absolute...MF ridiculous. Wasn't so bad when the fan was knackered and I had a dash full of rattles but it no longer is. Also replacing the fan has fixed the dash rattles as well so it's the most annoying thing in the car by margin. Was in the boot today...found another padded insert that's been floating around for at least a year.

In a moment of clarity I realised what it was for...goes down the back the head rest once you've extended it up to stop it rattling.

Small victories.

Looking back parenthood seemed a doddle for my wife and I. Our son special needs now 41 was a bit of a handful but in the early years it was so much more innocent and no internet to put up with ridiculous stories and fake news to contend with. I feel for young parents these days unnecessary interference from so called experts about bringing up a child etc. We are well past all that, my Grand daughter is 19, just hope I’m not going to be a Great Grand Father anytime soon.... Just my thoughts.

jimboy said:

Looking back parenthood seemed a doddle for my wife and I. Our son special needs now 41 was a bit of a handful but in the early years it was so much more innocent and no internet to put up with ridiculous stories and fake news to contend with. I feel for young parents these days unnecessary interference from so called experts about bringing up a child etc. We are well past all that, my Grand daughter is 19, just hope I’m not going to be a Great Grand Father anytime soon.... Just my thoughts.

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I think you're right jim. I went to tech college full time and Mrs J went to Uni but dropped out when her sister got her a job with BOAC at Heathrow. We got married and started a family. Mrs J stayed home to look after the children - her choice - and I made enough to just about keep our boat afloat. We bought a 3 bed end terrace for £5,730 early 70's - that terrified me, it seemed an unbelievably big sum of money!

However the jobs were there. If you had the ability and a few qualifications you were never out of work.

Mostly family advice came from relatives and close friends but you just carried on in blissful ignorance and it all worked out in the end.

As you say jim, there's probably too much "expert" advice around these days and as for the internet? I think life for the youngsters is much more difficult and confusing now than it was for us? In those days you could be quite certain about things most of the time. Now a days life is full of uncertainty and too much choice.

We have grandchildren, spread between all 3 of our children's families, ranging from one year old to early teens. I'd love to be a great grandad but, hopefully, that's going to be a good few years yet and will probably see me into my 80's - if I survive this damned virus!

Stay safe everyone
Jock

I've gotta say I stay well away from mumsnet..and parental WhatsApp groups and all that jazz.

My wife doesn't and as a result has been worried about him not walking (he does now) not talking (he's well on the way now and knows a lot of words). Among many other things along the way...my attitude to it has always been "Be reet". There's things you can control, things you can't if something happens deal with it then, if you can't make reasonable and meaningful preparations then don't worry about it. Absolutely drives her spare but the way I see it millions of people and alot of whom are probably less qualified have managed it...millions more will do it after me. As long as he's happy, fed, clean and not in danger then i'm doing OK.

Although will say certain things do drive me spare..biggest one is that people seem to assume as I'm out on my own with a child at the weekend that it's "my weekend" and I'm driving an old car not a leased Audi cos she took half. It's not "My weekend", I'm not baby sitting, we both work full-time, I work week days she works weekend nights that is all. That way we have no childcare costs at all..we also have two paid for cars..and a mortgage that is less than 300 quid pm. But clearly I just look the type

Will admit to having a laugh to myself when I was playing football with him on croquet lawn (sacrilege I know) and two ladies of a certain age struck up an oddly loud conversation regards "fathers for justice"