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@fm5782 @jblairreid Skoda Enyaq 85X. Noise and vibration when turning at low speed. “A characteristic of the dual motor” apparently.

@jblairreid Vw quality is shocking of late the manual gearbox on my golf sounded like a bag of spanner’s …. In there words …. That’s just how they are now😳 there other Achilles heel is there Evap failure on all there 1.5tsi engines

3rd replacement wheel fitted today and it’s exactly the fuckin same!!! 😕 pointed it out to service manager and he said ‘that’s just how they are now’… except the wheel I felt in a golf gti in the showroom was defo not the same…

The government has announced a £120m package to support the UK ceramics sector. bbc.in/3RpEiJ8

@eV_Newt @ctrlaltrefuel Friends daughter has one. Winter range is a shocker.

Puma Jenny eV. First impressions: It’s pretty good/v alright. Lot of car for £139 a month! The compromise of being an ICe car with EV bits nailed on? Well, the battery pack is very exposed and low slung. 👀 I’ll do a little review on it over the weekend.

A good day for our part of the world stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-…

@benn_elisbenn @sainsburys What are your thoughts as a wheelchair user regarding public Ev charging. I’ve never seen a charging station that could easily be used by a disabled person. My wife has Parkinson’s & can’t manage heavy cables due to poor balance & weakness. One to discuss @ctrlaltrefuel ?

@sainsburys I am an wheelchair user/ disabled driver. I have been getting assistance from Sainsbury Petrol stations to fill my car with fuel for c 30yrs, paying by CC. To day I was told I had to pay by cash. Why? You could have easily left me without the means to refuel.

@ctrlaltrefuel @eV_Newt @RoyalMail We’ve had these in our area for a few years. Mrs H gets quite excited when she spots one.

I bet there’s a queue for these in the mornings 😆 Good to see and an ‘interesting’ solution by the @RoyalMail (From Microcar World FB Group) facebook.com/share/p/1DY6xY…

HMO’s, coming to a street near you, maybe even your street, or even next door.

@LeadworkSW Someone forgot to tap down the tabs. See, I’ve been paying attention 😇

@BarryCurzon @JoshReynoldsSL6 Did the free parking come after they died? Agree internet, retail parks, ASB all contribute too.

@LookingBack22 @JoshReynoldsSL6 The internet killed town centres. There are plenty of dead town centres with free parking.

You get home from work, go to park your car & you can’t as the Government has decided you’re not allowed a driveway & instead have an ‘unallocated car parking’ space…. The people making these decisions just don’t live in the real world!

@titanflux @JoshReynoldsSL6 Check out Newcastle-under-Lyme. Just a few drop in spaces. Multi storey central car park with street level disabled access closed, converting to flats, and new one built on the edge of town. No one “nips into town” now. Defensive ring road with subway access doesn’t help either.

@LookingBack22 @JoshReynoldsSL6 Where and when did convenient parking get removed? Towns and cities are full of half empty car parks 🤷

@WillRinehart I did this twice, once after Mums death then again a few months ago as we prepared to downsize. I now have just two small boxes marked “memories”. We also were very brutal in sorting our own memories so hopefully our children won’t have such an ordeal.

This was by far the most emotionally taxing part of settling my parent’s estate. My parents died months apart, both at the age of 71, two years ago, and what made it difficult was coming to terms with all of the life planned to live. What really got me were the empty baby books my Mom got for the grandbabies yet to be. I have a feeling a lot of Millennials, when they are faced with this decision, are just going to junk it all. While I understand that path, I just couldn't do it. I went through every last item as a last act of service to my parents who gave me so much. I went through every piece of paper, every picture, every drawer, organizing the stuff that is important while throwing away all the junk. I filled two 30-yard roll offs with trash, gave away furniture and kitchenware to my young cousins starting their own life, and still have a full storage unit of stuff. My parents always talked about cleaning out the house, and for a while, I was frustrated that I did what they never could. But dealing with it all resulted in a form of self-revelation. I found my Mom's poetry, clippings from my grandfather's political campaigns, and long lost letters from my great grandmother. I found my uncle's hand carved box that I had never seen before, and the knives they took away from me as a kid. I found my old boombox that would lull me to sleep that I now use in our second bedroom for audio. At the time, I saw the task as one of stewardship. Now it I understand it as something much more. I was coming to terms with two lives that have passed, one psychically loaded item at a time. I sorted every item with care rather than avoidance, recovered aspects of myself I thought were lost or didn't even know, and have emerged with a richer, more continuous sense of my place in the world. I am forever indebted to my wife @CharDreizen for giving me the space and the time to deal with all of it. I know others don't have such understanding spouses or partners. But when I underline passages in a book using a Paper Mate #2 that I know was my Dad's or look up from my desk to see my Mom's conch shell collection mixed with my own sperm whale trinkets, I feel this deep connection with them. But that connection is not imbued with nostalgia for childhood. It reminds me that my childhood has long since passed, that my home is the one I've built with my wife, and that I am the keeper of what they left behind. They are not behind me. They are with me, moving forward.

The life of an introvert really just boils down to working up the energy to act like an extrovert, until you can go home and be comfortably introverted

@benfromsuffolk We used to comment about some homes in our previous cul de sac having more vehicles than people. Parked on pavements, junctions, corners, even the front lawn in one case 😬 It’s modern life, developers need to account for that.

There are currently 1.2 cars per average UK household - a trend that’s only gone up since 1980 You can already see it when you drive through any housing estate that doesn’t have sufficient driveway space It doesn’t encourage people to own less cars - it just creates more cluttered and narrow roads + paths as everyone fights over the available space Stop mandating everything from the top-down, let the developers build what people actually need + want

Important report on future of ceramics industry from our neighbours in SoT. An age old industry, that empowered communities like mine - local people making the highest quality product right here in 🇬🇧. It’s vital that Govt steps up and fast. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #LoveNuL

@InspGadgetBlogs Don’t you find this very convenient? Just as Lammy announces his jury plans this happen? There’s clearly something amiss here for the justice system to fail so badly. The sabotage of the UK continues..

Jury trials. Maybe David Lammy knew what he was talking about after all.

@VictorMeldrew17 My Uncle Bill had a delivery from “the pop man” every week. My favourites were American Cream Soda and Dandelion & Burdock. He was always happy to share. 🍷 🫧

Anybody remember getting bottles of dandelion and burdock years ago?

@ctrlaltrefuel @eV_Newt Seeing @croft_garry getting V2L for his Smart Brabus is certainly worth discussing. How many other ev’s have this superpower?

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