Great day out with your MG? Post up a picture ?

[Archev]

I’ve taken a wrong turn someplace today

 

[siteguru]

If you're sure about that, then it's not me.

Certainly looks left foot forward to me anyway.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

I’ve taken a wrong turn someplace today

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Wow! that is some range, sure that's not an extra battery up top.

 

[Archev]

Wow! that is some range, sure that's not an extra battery up top.

I’ll tell you what battery lasts well - It was exceedingly cold in Aviemore last night. I slept fine at first but awoke cold at around 01:30. I fitted a wee battery pack to my heated waistcoat and Laid it out as an over blanket within the sleeping bag. I set it to the highest of the three settings and a couple of minutes later I was warm like what toast becomes. It lasted right through until just after 07:00 when I got up - or more correctly down - from the roof tent. My wild venison roll was lovely with onions and a squirt of cranberry jam. Next I’m off to have a coffee then check out the wild cats and wolves. Rumour has it that I might return home today via the Tesla chargers at Perth.

 

[decrep]

Not with our MG in NZ.
I had a romantic idea of trying a snow board, but beginner slopes are bare, snow all gone from them.
This was the last day of skiing this season at Mt Ruapehu. We wanted to ride the ski lift up to the restaurant today, but it's cold rainy and windy. The whole place has closed until Winter.

 

[decrep]

Couple more from scenic NZ.

 

[decrep]

We had a drive to a thermal area today, this was in the carpark topping up when we arrived, still there when we left 2hrs later.

There's plenty of Teslas around, but this is the first non Tesla BEV I've identified. I saw 2 MGs going the other way as we drove along, but I only had a chance to identify the badge, no idea what they were.
Took plenty of pics of the thermal stuff, but none good enough to post, sorry.

 

[Archev]

Couple more from scenic NZ.

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We had a drive to a thermal area today, this was in the carpark topping up when we arrived, still there when we left 2hrs later.
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There's plenty of Teslas around, but this is the first non Tesla BEV I've identified. I saw 2 MGs going the other way as we drove along, but I only had a chance to identify the badge, no idea what they were.
Took plenty of pics of the thermal stuff, but none good enough to post, sorry.

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Glorious, brings back a million happy memories , the wonderful scent of the sulphur, corn cob boiled in seconds in a boiling pool ( interestingly served, by a lovely old indigenous lady, with individual portions of Kerrygold Irish butter)

 

[Archev]

I’ll tell you what battery lasts well - It was exceedingly cold in Aviemore last night. I slept fine at first but awoke cold at around 01:30. I fitted a wee battery pack to my heated waistcoat and Laid it out as an over blanket within the sleeping bag. I set it to the highest of the three settings and a couple of minutes later I was warm like what toast becomes. It lasted right through until just after 07:00 when I got up - or more correctly down - from the roof tent. My wild venison roll was lovely with onions and a squirt of cranberry jam. Next I’m off to have a coffee then check out the wild cats and wolves. Rumour has it that I might return home today via the Tesla chargers at Perth.

Couldn’t get a picture of the wildcats, they’re pretty elusive. The wolves had just been fed and were still arguing over the scraps

Then this guy wandered over

 

[decrep]

Probably not the place for it, but I have a question.
It's a very long time since I've seen buttercups and daisies, but the original British settlers to NZ brought flora with them, so is this them?

 

[Archev]

Probably not the place for it, but I have a question.
It's a very long time since I've seen buttercups and daisies, but the original British settlers to NZ brought flora with them, so is this them?
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Looks really like them to me

 

[Ian Key]

Probably not the place for it, but I have a question.
It's a very long time since I've seen buttercups and daisies, but the original British settlers to NZ brought flora with them, so is this them?
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Yes, they are buttercups with one or two daisies at the bottom.

 

[decrep]

Thanks Archev and Ian. curiosity satisfied.

 

[Archev]

Engineering with my leek and I potato soup, superb coffee and scone today.
Wandering around the fascinating Falkirk Wheel.
I even had to wait until the pedestrian swing bridge was opened to allow a canal cruiser to move through.

 

[Susanna]

@Archev
I enjoyed a trip on the Falkirk Wheel in the summer of 2023, but I still don’t understand how it works! Ingenious and fascinating, nevertheless.

 

[siteguru]

It's essentially a rotating lock, to allow boats to transition between the high canal and low canal.

 

[Archev]

@Archev
I enjoyed a trip on the Falkirk Wheel in the summer of 2023, but I still don’t understand how it works! Ingenious and fascinating, nevertheless.

Aye it’s a clever bit of engineering. I go there occasionally for a walk and/or lunch or a coffee. They have an excellent cafe and I can leave my car for service at the supplying dealer Frasers of Falkirk and walk or cycle up to the wheel. It was a fine day for a bit of a walk today.
Last time I was there they had the mechanical gubbins all apart for a major service and the whole basin beneath the structure was drained for cleaning.
The next phase of the work is to install a Cyberster motor to spin the whole thing up a bit faster so that they can launch stuff into the Martian canals ahead of Elon.

 

[decrep]

A few months ago our bookclub challenge was to listen to a podcast. Somehow I came up with the Falkirk wheel, I've been fascinated by it ever since. Especially the impact it had on the town, it seems a masterclass in how to do things right.

 

[Archev]

A few months ago our bookclub challenge was to listen to a podcast. Somehow I came up with the Falkirk wheel, I've been fascinated by it ever since. Especially the impact it had on the town, it seems a masterclass in how to do things right.

It’s very interesting and if you follow one of the canals towards the river Forth you find the Kelpie guarding the entrance. Massive stainless steel horse heads rearing up out of the ground. They’re right by the M9 motorway and change colour at night unless you forget the sugar lumps.

 

[Rolfe]

A few years ago I was at a music workshop in Dollar, and one of the other participants, who was a music student, had flown up from London on the red-eye because she particularly wanted a session with the tutors involved. At the end of the afternoon a call went out for someone to give this lady a lift to the airport, as she had to get back to London. Obviously I volunteered as I pass the airport on the way home.

So there she is in my passenger seat, absolutely spark out, and we're approaching the Kelpies (in the dark) and I'm shaking her awake with one hand shouting, you have got to see this, quick, you can go right back to sleep but you can't pass here and not see it!