Recent content by EVsince2016

I read that 5 million American kids are being home "educated". I'm sure that doesn't help reading how they are treated!

Immigration has always happened; culture has always changed. Who in the UK could actually say they are pure from millennia ago?

So pre 1980s

That's very politically incorrect. Young people now have dogs, or sometimes a "partner", never a boyfriend!

I booked flexi-plus and that has a priority EES lane, so that helps!

Just finished booking my summer adventures accommodation, just Le Shuttle to go! I have a Le Shuttle T shirt, bit small for me though. Counting down to my spring trip too, so keeping an eye on those errant tractors!

I read an article on this more than a decade ago on the BBC, when they did good in-depth articles. It said pretty much the same, with better deeper references to the empires of Rome, Egypt and earlier. It was more focused on the European Empire and drive for Brexit before it happened. It noted...

My sons doing DoE. My wife asks, "who is the Duke of Edinburgh, not Andrew, I hope?" I said "no, he was the Dick of York." My son responded, "he had his dick taken away and he's just Andrew now. My wife said, "probably for the best"

Very expensive per hour to run though . . .

Smaller schools lack the staff and have no caretaker to grit the site and make it safe. Bigger schools with a caretaker tend to stay open, even if just for key workers & SEN kids. Teachers also can live far away in areas of high housing costs so cannot get in. Not many teachers can afford to...

If there is no signal down there, you need a hard wire to the charger and/or have our car up top on a lead.

Home charger, a Zappi. The car actually refused the charge. It was an early model and a software issue.

Our MG4 would never charge below freezing until it got the software update and since then its been fine.

January 1987, 30" of powder snow and minus 10. All the trains broke down due to the wrong kind of snow getting into the traction motors. The doors also froze over so you couldn't get on either! February 1991 we had 4 feet of snow, again powder snow and minus 15-20 for a week. My office was used...

On a cold morning, especially with very frosted or Snow covered windows, the pre-heat doesn't respond. The car in general doesn't respond.