Content by Archev in January, 2026

I always like to reverse into a parking spot - get the awkward bit over with then I can jump in and serenely drive off 👌

They’re not too keen when a Berlingo shows them the way either 😏

I can feel the cruelty from here 🥴

Oh the joys of motoring - or mechanicing to be more precise 🤩

It wasn’t THAT long ago ! It was a Focus I was driving 🤣

I have a fear of Stilton cheese. The Inveraray Incident. Explanatory note. - A group of friends visited Crerae gardens then a restaurant for dinner. A drink followed and then cheese and oatcakes selected - the waiter, an English gentleman, served the cheese as a whole ten inch round by about...

Nearest I’ve managed was Düsseldorf but I didn’t reckon that as a good car 🥴

Always worth another look 😂

Remember, you gotta aim at the black bits 😉

Daffodils flowering soon

But if you only count every other one can you last longer?

Eight degrees tiday Heavy rain later Neither wind troublesome

Typical drive home in Aberdeenshire just now.

Tasty 👍

Yeah you’ve got to look on the bright side 🤣

They must be having their work cut out keeping the roads passable up your way.

Tonight’s dinner was stir fried chicken with protein noodles and assorted veggies. When almost ready I added a lemon and lime sauce and it was delicious. I now have a walnut yogurt and any minute now will activate the cafetière plunger and enjoy some rich Italian ground coffee before becoming...

It had to happen- MY school was at the top of a mountain under twenty feet of snow all year round and we had to take turns at janitoring for ourselves AND carry the teacher twenty miles in the middle of the night …….

Which part of the Kingdom is that in ?

I’m stuffed then. Where can one park a Berlingo?

It’s as clear as plasticky glass substitute 🙄

Happy birthday to you 🎂 🎁 Can’t go wrong with Haddock 👌

We had a black Labrador who was a tiny bit like that. His growl and bark came from near the tail and sounded quite intimidating. The brass “ beware of the dog” sign is still on the gate and there’s still the odd person asking if the dog’s about. His memory lingers on years after he passed...

No I don’t think I’ve ever stopped in Cupar for sustenance. I’ll need to rectify that omission soon. I’ll note them on Waze for a future jaunt. Is that Ceres Road ?

I’m trying to perfect a new revolutionary type of personalised transport based around deriving motive power based on scones. The whole concept is totallly based on currant technology 🤩

Stop trying to steal the credit. That domestic Goddess there deserves it all 😍

It was so much simpler in the horse drawn days. Vertical horse- moving- OK - not moving- add extra horse(s). Horizontal horse - replacement required.

It’s not a food front - it’s a rogue waistline 🤣

Chicken schnitzel, mash and peas in IKEA, Edinburgh. Don’t know if that’s late lunch or early dinner but it was delicious. Saves me kidding myself I can cook later 🤣

Nah he thinks it’s just a big golf course ⛳️

Gotta keep hydrated

Duck ?

I see what you mean. In winter, all gardens are equal 🤣

Dangerous things jobs.

Go back and check the recipe again it says Olive oil - not gun oil 🫣

My Avenger estate was probably differently balanced then. I did a similar exercise and connected with a kerb, bending a suspension arm and never steered correctly again. (Neither did the car 🤣)

You ought to grow pain killer bushes Terry. ‘Cos Parrots eat ‘em all.

As I think Terry Thomas used to say “ woof woof what?”

That looks grand.

I think my Ohme charger has worked correctly with my 1974 Citroen Berlingo. The coldest it’s been is perhaps -2°C. I tend to plug in most nights when I’m finished with the car. The Ohme app then announces that the car's connected and I tell it I need whatever to make up to around 80% generally...

So, let me catch up here, does that mean we’ll soon have a Cross Climate for Each wheel ? Woohoo. Who’s got that jacket today??

Went driving yesterday Guidance by Waze Every other instruction Opposite instruction taken Interesting route corrections Enjoyed my picnic Newly discovered road In Bathgate hills New Edinburgh perspective Gorgeous blue sky Snowless two degrees Walk then home Very tasty dinner...

The very man - and no Spitfires needed with lugs like that. 😉

I thought strainers were fencing accoutrements 😂

Just realised - perhaps that’s why I’m missing things if I’m using colander and the notes are falling through ? Jacket ??

Mimicking work harmony 😉

Fantastic dinner party

On rereading my rotten written wrightings - I cringed 🫣

I have one beautiful caring fourteen yo Granddaughter who knows exactly what I’m like and keeps me up to speed with all I need on a need to know basis with reminders built in as and when those need to knows crop up. I don’t have a wall big enough to carry a paper aide memoir capable of carrying...

I thought it was a wee dog he had 😂

Hard frost here Severe ground heave Gate opens halfway Imminent nose danger 😱

I actually find it’s just exactly the same as previously. I can completely forget things and miss appointments just as reliably as before 😂

Shame - were you ready with you’re bucket of cure all sawdust ?🤣

I think she’d rather be out cycling with Hilda 🤩

Wee bit of snow Aberdeenshire near Insch Happy bewildered Collies

Smart lassie there Buy her flowers buy her crocs 🤞she keeps you🤣

Sounds like a good trip for this time of year.

Yep 🤩 clannish lot here 🤣🤣

No sorry sumfin wrong there.

Munros flattened today Many parked cars Many heavy boots Terrific walking day.

Snowy Ben More Short on range Never get home ‘Course I did Nine spare miles Berlingo tells porkies Always gets home 🤩

They’ll be busy.

Well I’m glad I just set out. It’s been a fine run. Snowed a wee bit between Callander and Strathyre. Beautiful snow coated hills and loads of climbers' cars adorning every lay-by. Four new Tesla chargers installed but awaiting final works. They’ll be handy on future quests 👍 The temperature has...

I’m listening intently and trying hard to dispel the lethargy and go and unplug the horses.

Aye Tyndrum is showing a heady minus eight until 09:00 tomorrow then climbing as high as zero through the rest of the day.

My thoughts exactly

Now that sounds sensible 👍 try hard to make it look like you’re enjoying the trip 🤩

The road to Cullen Skink looks clear and I’m strongly tempted to head off - I may be gone for some time - or I might have bread and olives with balsamic and oil, then a curry tonight and check the Tyndrum road again tomorrow morning.

It’s minus one centipede here just now but the thermometer will rush up around midday to plus one before having a wee plummet to minus six tonight 😍. How many thermals can one safely wear and still reach a Berlingo steering wheel heater switchbeneath the aforesaid wheel ?

I love cabbage, red or green , boiled, stir fried, pickled as sauerkraut or even raw Not much sun Plenty of wind 😉

None around here

Late lunch yesterday was a wonderfully simple repast. Freshly made ciabatta bread liberally sprinkled throughout with many toasted seeds. I spread two slices with olive margarine. Beef paste was liberally spread on one slice. The other received a goodly dollop of pickle and the two were firmly...

Have a great safe trip 👍

I had Cross Climates on my previous diesel Citroens (two Berlingos and my Wife’s C3 ) Then I had CCs on my MG 5 for one season. They are superb tyres in all conditions especially snow. I’m still trying to decide about them on the e Berlingo as it handles perfectly well (comensurate with its...

Well no because my opinion is more akin to his bladder contents than his charging knowledge / attitude

Used to transport Scouts to Glencoe around this time of year for their “brass monkey camp”. Wife, myself and a couple of other parents tagged along but pitched our tents upwind in the fart free zone.

Oh I do love a nice kerching

I’m thinking of heading off to lunch somewhere today. I just received a secret communication from Bond, mr Premium Bond, who says he’ll foot the bill 🤩 Now, I only need to check the weather app to decide where the worst of the snow isn’t ’cos Berlingo is still on standard shoes. It sits out...

One can dream 👍

Ahh you’d gloat on the other side of your face if they could leave a funnel in their fuel tank filler and fill with rainwater. Mind you the way some go on I think they’re sure that’ll be a “thing” when technology catches up.

No they had prebooked overflight permits with me last week as required 🤣🤣 Actually heard the racket from the engines as it banked fairly steeply to head over towards Norway. I looked it up on the Flightradar 24 app and found the info there.

Doesn’t matter what the subject - someone always twists it round to food 🤣

Left overs or pre orders ??🤣

Wow - an Airbus A330-343 just flew over my house having taken off from Edinburgh on its way to Beijing. It’ll be there in 9 hours. Didn’t know that was possible, I haven’t seen that flight before. I’m assuming it’s some folks going right up to the MG factory to collect their new car??

Snow gates allegedly now closed on the Cairn o’ Mount, Cockbridge - Tomintoul and the A93 at Braemar. Up to 300 mm of snow 😱

First flurry here

I didn’t get far on the final day of ‘25 but plugged the Ohme in to the Berlingo out of sheer habit once I reversed it in to the driveway. I was sitting digging in to my lazy dinner of tinned chicken curry and boil in the bag type spicy rice and a mini coriander naan bread when it dawned on me...

Maybe twice ? Please?

Apologies to neighbour 🫢

I get even more annoyed with the twits who park on “my” side of the road to run in to a shop or post seasonal complimentary cards, leaving headlights pointing straight at me 🤬😡🤬 worse still if they augment them with fogs burning eyeballs as well 😡🤯😡

Pointy ears? Tail?

Had a zoom around and dismayed not to see any ev charging infrastructure visible 😉

Coo choo choo, love it.

I’ve been using the Arnold Clarke Charge set up recently and find them generally very good. They were, and some are still, reserved for folks who book them ahead. I tried that and found it totally useless unless you knew almost to the minute when you’d arrive. Apparently I wasn’t the only one...

Eating premier porridge First of 2026 364 to enjoy