Rubbish.

Do you ever go shopping? Do it then.

Buy a coffee? Sit in and charge it.

Fast food? Pick one with a charger. Go on a trip? Fill on the way there or back.

If you don’t want one, that’s perfectly fine but to say it just won’t work is patently cobblers.

Verstappen probably has it written into his contract to have a team mate who is no-where near him.

He’d be fine with Stroll jr

when I can just drive into any available filling station and fill my car in five minutes.

Or you can plug it in when you get home and never visit a filling station again. It happens while you sleep. For pennies.

One thing I hear a lot is that the public charging infrastructure isn’t there yet, making longer trips a nightmare. 

You just have to get your mind right.

My first trip in my EV (the day after I got it) was from Manchester to Leven – a 500 mile round trip. Started with 100%, charged at Abingdon on their new Gridserve chargers for 20 mins, went to my appointment in Leven, did  the same thing in reverse. Two 20 minute rest stops in 500 miles isn’t unreasonable.

48 hours later – Manchester to Sidcup – 550 miles. Same deal – top up at a loo break on the way down, top up again with a late lunch on the way back. My previous car (320d) could do the round trip on a full tank, but only just. And I would need to fill it anyway rather than just plug it in when I got home.

Currently with Octopus so imagine we will be moving to the overnight tariff – I can’t see any reason not to? 

Why wouldn’t you? My usage for Sept so far is 156kW that cost £11.27. Saving £26 over standard tariff according to the Ohme app.

The car was better at finding empty chargers than Zapmap, the inaccuracy of the app undermines confidence.

Poor wee fella, he looks knackered.

Dog seems full of life though :)

We need an update once Kiwi gets the fluff back – before and after.

And how’s Roxie? Still gorgeous I see.

Go for the newer one. Your (low) mileage will soak up the extra 30k over a few years and towbars are weirdly expensive.

My 71 plate car has just gone back with 95,000 miles on it so you should be golden.

But if you are in the Bury NW area, Hart Electrical will do you a great job!

we got a quote for installing an Ohme and accepted it, but the electrician has not got back to us for a week.   We did go through the Ohme process of getting a custom quote, but never got one.

I  had two historical quotes through Octopus and in July they decided they were going to take the payment for both via Direct Debit – about £2000. It took over a week of daily phone calls before they acknowledged an error. No apology for the bother.

I got in touch with 3 local electricians and the only guy who got back to me got the job. He did a lovely job on a tricky install and it all works perfectly. Ohme and Octo Intel Go.

I charged my car up last night and it’s reporting a cost of£2.30, saving £4.50. So why wouldn’t you?

Also get tethered, it’s less bother. Get at least 8m as it’s always further than you think.

its really basic stuff

What is basic is that hospitals exist to help people get better. Given that, it’s surprising how often they make people get a whole lot worse/dead.

The Bristol scandal might have looked a whole lot different if one doctor, or one nurse could be shown to have been on shift for 50% of the deaths.

It may have been ‘The Butcher Of Bristol’ and the rest of the failings could have been quietly dealt with.

What about the other 50%? They’ll just be ignored as outliers, like in this case.

as someone who has been in an ITU with a patient going off there is no way at all that can be so.  Its simply not credible to not notice or not take any action

So coz it’s against training and your experience, the only other explanation is baby murder? That’s a bit of a leap.

It’s rigid thinking like that, that can scapegoat someone for the failings of an entire department rather than looking further. Maybe that’s the NHS way.

You’ve listed the two options – pick your fave.

I wondered why this thread had popped back up and I’m pleased I looked back in just for Mr Cookes post.

A measured, masterful dismantling of internet bollocks disguised as first hand facts.  Crazy’s post looks just like it was put up for public consumption without considering anybody at all might actually read it, including the principal subject.

Maybe he’ll be back to either counter punch or apologise, but after that calm shredding he might want to keep his head down lest he make the man cross.

I too have ordered the book. It sounds very insightful.

Sponsors would pay a lot to have a multiple world champion in the car

But Zak would like to hang on to sponsor money, and not spaff it and more on a stroppy dutchman.

You could get 10 Piastris for Max money; which is more value when Lando is faster than both?

I’m 10 years younger than you :)

Probably. But I still ain’t wearing slippers!

I’d say that Zak is a brutally pragmatic businessman who would swap Piastri for Verstappen in a second

Not on the face of this qualy. It looks like both Lando and Pastry are wringing everything from that car, Lando a bit more.

Pay £30million to improve a 1-2 to what?

#visits thread for Roxie update#

Leaves happy.

Slippers and Crocs?

Turn on Cash in the Attic and wait for death to claim you.

there is just no way on earth that is not malicious

Unless she’s stood there thinking “oh no, how can this be happening again”

I dunno, I wasn’t there. Neither was anyone else.

There were other excess baby deaths when she was not on shift that were batted away as irrelevant. It looks dodgy.

I assumed she was a monster, having read the PE series it’s not so clear cut.

I made the transition up to manager and it was great.

I still get to do the things I’m most interested in, but can delegate a lot of the stuff that doesn’t light me up.  There’s additional crap like holidays, expenses and monthly reports but it’s not too onerous. Stress is generally not being organised, or like tj, out of the zone of comfort. You likely struggle at first, the adapt.

Plus you’ll be in a position to make things better for people who report to you; you’ll know their experience and can make a case to change things.

Er…OK.

Cricket dude turned car presenter guy

You don’t need to broaden your mind when you already know everything.

Michael Hutchinson’s Hello Sailor is fun

He was better in INXS

There’s a shocking tale on the Rest Is Politics US about Trump phoning Netanyahu and trying to get him to hold off on any peace deal as it would be ‘bad for his campaign’

I’ve seen little about it on this side of the atlantic; surely it can’t have any truth in it or it would be another illegal act, not to mention morally repugnant;.

But a lot of what we eat that is fibrous cannot be digested. It ends up in your colon acting like an abrasive on your insides. Meat however does not. It just turns to liquid, with all the nutrients being absorbed by the body

Of all the things I might read on the internet today, this could be just about the wrongest

Where is it actually a real-world advantage to be able to accelerate that quickly?

It isn’t. It never was. It’s a bizarre trend started by Tesla as a way to convince petrolheads that electricity is ‘better’

It always makes more sense to have a single motor and bigger battery (range). It irritates me when makers have a big battery EV, and it’s only for the dual motor model.

Polestar have got this right (long range, single motor) and Volvo missed it (XC40 – Single motor, smaller battery) despite being the same company. I think they are waking up to it on the new models though.

A proper 500mile range EV at a sensible price point will be a game changer. BMW are promising it on the next gen EV, but we’ll see.

They will just convince Ben Ainslie to come back. They don’t innovate, they go back to what worked and repeat. They’d be better looking at how/why USA always come out with a wheelbarrow full of medals.

And don’t bother with the closing ceremony, it was dreary nonsense.

It’s generally a party atmosphere – but not this time.

Lewis said it was racing accident

Max said it was moving under braking.

Nice to be shown who is the bigger man.

I was OK with Octopus, but this week they have sent me notification that they will take £1950 off me next week.

This is because I got a charger quote off them twice in the preceding 3 months.

I can make it go away, I just need to send them a copy of the receipt. I asked if they could supply a copy of the orders and they claim ‘that’s not their area’

They can dress it up, but they are just as shite as the others.

The claim is that it’s some sort of key person insurance clause.. 

Very popular in the US and is known as ‘dead peasants insurance’  – which sets the tone for corporate US. It’s an insurance to compensate a company for the inconvenience of an employee dying. It is not payable to the family of the deceased, it’s to help the company manage.

A pension is a closely regulated, legally bound savings scheme that will be maintained for the benefit of the employee.  It is very different, and is protected (thanks to Bob Maxwell)

Once these are clarified the way forward will be clear.

Brief case/mitigation for the defence, having been a hospital pharmacist for many years

I don’t doubt your experience, nor that there is a massive demand most of the time.

But for the majority of  discharges just send the scrip directly to the local pharmacy for later pickup. Gets the bed back and saves the pharmacy capacity for those who really need it.

It doesn’t seem that complex a solution but the NHS does seem to run on a massive teetering bureaucracy.

(Wife a lifer in the NHS)

My experience is the opposite of this.

Ready to go home the morning after a procedure and cleared for take off at 9.30, just have to wait for a prescription.

Still stuck in the place at 4.30.

After one of my kids was born we were ready to leave at 10am, not finally cleared to leave until 6pm and only then because we were just going to walk out unless they signed us off.

Co-incidentally both in the same hospital – Fairfield. It must be a culture there.

Opinion polls in the past have placed Sanders as the best Democrat candidate to beat Trump.

No doubt there were some polls that said Corbyn would beat Johnson, but there’s a difference between ‘correct’ and ‘electable’

Since the debate Biden has gone up in some polls … any ideas?

Although I agree with their policy on raising tax threshold to £20K

Everyone does.

It’s fair and balanced and brings min wages and basic pensioners out of the tax scheme. Everyone should get behind it. Same with the Bank of England QE interest payments that are made to banks. Both solid ideas.

They’re used to hide some pretty nasty stuff, though.

But it’s OK, it’s not a manifesto…

The Barbarians match with Fiji was a good watch. Lots of flair and sharp passing even though the squad was a real bunch of oddballs.

And my takeaway from the England match was that Ewels should have got 2 red cards for trying to cripple Leach. That was so very nearly a career ending tackle.

In practice mine has blocked me on all channels, and doesn’t reply to emails…

Your MP is Jake Berry too?

Starmers overall policy of “we can’t really do anything” then I disagree with that and good luck to you and your next 5 years of nothing

What’s wrong with not spooking the wavering Tory voter, not suggesting privatising air and gently getting into power and trying to sort the mess out?

There’s always the Reform “Smash Everything” platform that will appeal to some, but you need to get as many on board with vanilla policies to get behind the wheel of the country.

mention that you want to limit immigration, and you are branded a racist

Not so,

Blaming everything that ails the country on brown people, like Farage did on Sky a couple of Sundays ago, you probably are a little bit racist.

Can’t get a GP appointment? Foreigners.

Traffic jam? Immigrants.

If that resonates then maybe – a teeny tiny bit?

the statement does not say a GP it says “a senior member of the team”

It does. In the next sentence.

I did take Megane  TDi …

On the other hand, the £5k Zafira 1.9tdi…

Neither of these is a tdi.

Tdi is a VW trade mark and not permitted on anything other than a VAG product.

Except the original Ford Galaxy, as it had a tdi motor.

I d be really miffed at a late notice cancellation as short notice hotel prices have risen

The issue is availability. It’s for a national sporting event for my daughter and now everything is booked up.