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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 18:58:16 GMT
Don't forget The Clearances. Many Scots, of all heritages, ended up in Canada. Still a Gaelic community in New Brunswick. Flying to Texas last Spring our landfall to the American continent took us over places with Gaelic place names like Antigonish. Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland And we in dreams behold the Hebrides! The Scots are certainly realists, you just have to look how the grooms turn up at their weddings dressed for battle. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 15, 2017 8:22:47 GMT
What the hell are you lot on about. I'm going to see some top class music this weekend...... Warning.....more thread drift. A propos music, being bored last night I was browsing iPlayer, and came across the Deep Purple Radio 2 concert, and started watching it. Now that's what you want a late 60's/early 70's rock group to look like now. They looked like they'd just been dug up, injected with speed and embalming fluid and dropped on stage to play. At one point it looked like Ian Gillan was having a senior moment, stumbling over the words and gazing round at the rest of the group with a look on his face that said "what are all these people doing in my kitchen?"........ Performance and/or sound recording was crap as well, I had to turn it off..... |
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Post by WDB on Dec 15, 2017 10:59:51 GMT
Gillan has always stumbled over the words. Folklore has it that he made up most of them in the bus on the way to the studio; Dylanesque quasi-poetry they are not, so I don't suppose he lives and breathes them away from the stage.
He can still be quite good, though:
No-one came from miles around,
And said, "Who's he?"
Edit: had to have a quick look. First couple of 'numbers' (daddy-o) sound pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 12:47:08 GMT
I never really got the Brit bands of the late 70's/early 80's.
Deep Purple was a bit before my time and a bit hard to get while listening to faster, harder metal coming out of America around 83-86.
Some Deep Purple is quite listenable now as is some of the music produced by the former members but Gill(i)an would be pretty far down my playlist. Future Shock was the only album I bought, don't think I'll bother myself overly looking for it.
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Post by WDB on Dec 15, 2017 12:55:24 GMT
Meanwhile, in the future...  I may be geekily pleased with the things this car can do for quite some time. 🤓 I found an answer to my what-to-record question: there's really no need, because the car records all charging inputs and reports through this app. The only thing would be to keep a tally of petrol added; none so far. This partly offends my inner Excel geek - but he's far too busy being smug and delighted to notice. The car reports energy consumption so far at 19.2 kWh per 100km, or about 4.2p a mile. Given our extensive use of preconditioning in the cold weather, I'd expect that to improve over a full year. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 13:01:49 GMT
I get 4.9 miles per kwh reported in my Leaf. Which is too much information for me. Alls I know is it's staggeringly cheaper to run than a petrol or diesel vee-hickle.
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Post by WDB on Dec 15, 2017 13:14:19 GMT
At the rate we pay, that's about 2.8p a mile. The broader 'i3 community' reports - through the app - an average of about 3.6p (16.2 kWh per 100km).
I did go out in the big fossil car last night, though. Still the more cosseting place to be - as it ought to be at four times the unit cost!
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 15, 2017 16:02:57 GMT
I did go out in the big fossil car last night, though..........  |
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Post by Rob on Dec 15, 2017 18:47:11 GMT
I quite like the fact my Superb is sending fuel usage data etc. to central servers and I can see this info in a web page or in the Skoda Connect app.
I can also check it's locked, where it is, etc.
But will I pay for this service after the initial free 12 months? I actually don't know how much it is either.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 19:26:29 GMT
I quite like the fact my Superb is sending fuel usage data etc. to central servers and I can see this info in a web page or in the Skoda Connect app. My Focus does this through the old tried and trusted, belt and braces method. Watch the share price of the oil companies have a little tick every three to four days. 21.1mpg for the last tank. Can't wait until it's run in and the fuel consumption jumps like some people claim. I really doubt I will ever see an mpg figure that starts with a 3 unless it's 3.n mpg. |
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Post by lygonos on Dec 15, 2017 22:02:27 GMT
I quite like the fact my Superb is sending fuel usage data etc. to central servers and I can see this info in a web page or in the Skoda Connect app.
To what purpose?
Ooo look I managed 18.9p per mile on that last tank vs 19.6p per mile the tank before?
I like the fact I can plip my key fob while having breakfast and 10 minutes later get into a toasty warm car 
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 22:56:52 GMT
I quite like the fact my Superb is sending fuel usage data etc. to central servers and I can see this info in a web page or in the Skoda Connect app. My Focus does this through the old tried and trusted, belt and braces method. Watch the share price of the oil companies have a little tick every three to four days. 21.1mpg for the last tank. Can't wait until it's run in and the fuel consumption jumps like some people claim. I really doubt I will ever see an mpg figure that starts with a 3 unless it's 3.n mpg. I haven't owned a car that averaged better than mid-20s for more than 25 years. Fuel consumption is way down on the list when I'm choosing a car and other than an ocassional check if I'm doing a long run I'm not interested. Porsches, Chevy and V8 Jags don't exactly sip fuel. The Superb sounds like a good option for when I've reached the stage where I've started to forget where I've parked it or if I've locked the doors. Must try and remember that... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 6:17:05 GMT
I like the fact I can plip my key fob while having breakfast and 10 minutes later get into a toasty warm car Isn't that what a garage is for ? If you don't need to go outside to get from your house to the garage where your car is even better. Open the car door without having to rummage for keys, press the button on the sun visor to open the garage door(s), start the engine, drive out, press the button again to close the garage doors. With a modern car warm air will be blowing before you get half a mile down the road, hands toasty on the heated wheel if you must, heated seat underneath you. No waiting for windows to de-ice or running around in snow or rain or other weather related nonsense. Preconditioning is just another name for a parking heater isn't it? Very good, if you order as part of the factory build. I don't know about retrofits. |
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Post by WDB on Dec 16, 2017 7:45:57 GMT
I like the fact I can plip my key fob while having breakfast and 10 minutes later get into a toasty warm car Isn't that what a garage is for ? Maybe at home. We came back last night (an hour later than planned, and by taxi, thanks to whatever went wrong at Paddington) to Maidenhead station car park. We walked past a row of frosted-over cars until we got to ours, which was frosty on the roof but perfectly clear on the glass - and warm inside. Can your garage do that?😉 |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 16, 2017 8:31:37 GMT
...get a chemical toilet installed and it'll be almost as sophisticated as my motorhome motorcaravan campervan. (Though I'll also have the 'fridge for my beer).  |
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