Content by Archev in February, 2026

Hi boy I’m in mid Berlingo / Bus misadventure today. This will be a tale to tell but for now let me just say it’s an ongoing and going and going nightmare 😱. The Berlingo is faultless, the busses have been exemplary, the bus people couldn’t be better. A taxi driver was a bit of a disappointment...

Off to market then ?

Yeah 😍

Flowers and chocolates my friend, flowers and chocolates, that’s all I’m saying 😉

License? What’s that?

Brilliant but I’ll need to translate it for my Granddaughter who plays softball for her school team. How about “ have you seen a soccer pitch? “ nah it works if you say football but they’ve no idea what that is over there. I’ll just send your fantastic one Salty but will they know what cricket...

I love all the targeted advertising these days don’t you ? Ali express are going at it hammer and tongs lately. Due to my history with them (despite the fact that I’ve never purchased anything from them) So the latest Thing I must have is a brand spanking new Perkins four cylinder diesel engine...

Very large cloud Raining here also

Heck it was

Then I confess I’m sunk.

Well, Korean noodles it is then. Actually they are lovely with the carrots and onions that are in the mince

Well, it was to be mince and tatties tonight. I made the mince last night and, for quickness I opened a pack of rice and it was good. Tonight my plans are all upside down. You see what happened was I had a jaunt over to Livingston today and decided to come home over the Bathgate hills. Half way...

Pitch perfect and beautifully sung sir 🎶

Oh double heck 😱

My belle ?

Suzi ?? 🤪

Yes but hill climbs for me. Not just because one of the oldest is right here a mile from me. Jackie Stewart and Jim Clarke raced here.

Yes! Dance result 😊

Range anxiety- can’t see him 😄

Jill aye - Cliff - not so much 😂

Spelling problem ! The tractor was the Ford Dexta 🤩

I knew farming came into it 😂

Old dogs - life 🤭

It’s called ageing It happens to the best of us. If we’re lucky 🤩 But jovial gits 🤩 Remember the song Lost the plot 😂 A Dexter was a tractor wasn’t it ?

As I approach 77 soon I look and laugh at those feats of strength and extreme prowess above and sit here wondering if I ever did stuff like that 🤔🙄??

What about Annette Mills with Muffin the Mule ?

May I have a lead lined sarcophagus like that Egyptian driver Mr Toot ‘n come on.

It appears to stammer a wee bit, but otherwise serviceable.

Every word is true ish I tell you.

Awesome is not a descriptive enough word.

I’d be happy to live in the past - my wife was in that adventure.

And the winner was Sainsbury’s in Kirkcaldy in the kingdom of Fife where most of the world’s linoleum was made many years ago. And my dinner tonight shall be chicken with bean sprouts and mixed veggies in hoisin sauce 👌. They only had large packs of the ingredients so I’m guessing dinner...

But what about the classic- take it or leave it 🤪

No idea but I wish I could saw a fiddle

I go four star every time 😍

Wouldn’t it be fine having that mounted on a trailer to take with you ?

I’ve seen reports that you’re allowing free use to forum members- much appreciated 👌

Just you enjoy a good procrast they do you good sometimes 😄

Thought provoking resume. And the only battery I work with is my Vtoman camping power pack which I use for cooking and some heating at home whilst I dream of a house battery 😂

Don’t fret 🤣 at least you seem to be looking at a plug in hybrid. My daughter in law has just traded in her Jaguar Ftype just before its service (to include over $1000 for new brakes all round - at 20,000 miles 😱) Thenew car is a Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid six seater to accommodate Mack. No plug...

Hmm, I’m spoilt for choice, there’s about 20 Sainsbury stores littered around my part of central Scotland. Some are far too close as I need to cream off some electrons after a 100 % charge from10% on my return last night (and that necessitated two and a half orbits of the locality with heater on...

Back to e Berlingo I’ve now had the car about 15 months and just over 14000 miles. I bought it from Arnold Clarke and still get discount 🤪 Yep, switched the phone on and there was a message from AC giving me a £10 gift voucher for a Sainsbury shop 👍 So today’s adventure, should I care to accept...

Done. (I fear I have been)

Will that be enough though- can we add a gratuity if we want to ?

Huh - I saw a bit of flat tarmac - neh.

Who spilt the sugar ?

Oh don’t you start 🤩

Aye I’ve just paid £195 for my electric Berlingo and my daughter is about to pay £20 to put her “new to her” nine year old diesel Berlingo on the road. The world is ill divided.

Yeah I think I could force a wee bit of that down 🤪

When’s harvest time 🙃🤪

Any evidence of thermal and rest assured I shall definitely runaway stage left sharpish.

Wasn’t his EV A Brown one?

Don’t get it 😂

Well done.

So it’s the good stuff ? 😵‍💫 and we sniff it backwards ? 🤩 OK I’ll bring the porridge of which I’ll share and the spoons carved from the white Stags antlers at midnight 😂 Now remember - don’t tell anyone else about it or they’ll all want some (unless they bring the high strength chocolate -...

Well as a onetime (now faded) ginger carrot top I think that’s terrible.

And a spade’s a shovel 👌

I’m only jealous 🤩. And I must confess I searched and searched Tesco’s shelves for dark chocolate and ginger this afternoon. (I was totally unsuccessful so I needn’t worry about my deceit slipping out to my daughter, my phlebotomist or my diabetic nurse 🥴)

Ooer the high life for some 👌

Sounds perfectly normal 🤩

Happy pup

I listened to a couple of tracks on the Berlingo’s built in gramophone emulator yesterday - a very unusual occurrence for me. I played - “Freedom come all ye” sung by Pumeza Matshikiza. Figure that one out. Beautiful voice with a thought provoking song.

Future ice parking

Calm down dear ☀️ You’ll still freeze 🥶

Vivaldi drove MG4?

No no no that trip was in my own electric Berlingo for a walk , some shopping and a haircut. The diesel is for Daughter- she’s going tomorrow to inspect it and then it’ll have the camper bits added.

Turned up 14,861 miles by the time I returned home today. Whilst I was heading over to Livingston I flicked the rear wiper on. It gave a clunk and half a wipe and sat at a quaint 45 degree angle on the rear screen. I kind of forgot about it until I got home and plugged the Ohme cable in. I...

Snowing here today

A friend used to drive a huge articulated tanker. We met him all over Scotland. Then he skipped back to his former type of work and he can be all over Europe fixing hydraulics mostly on fishing boats. Last time I enquired he was in Portugal somewhere and the previous time he had three weeks on...

Mostly “young” folk in hatchbacks with bean can exhausts here.

Oh no no no goodness no 🥴😂😂

Makes a change from our cars being blamed for silent assassinations sneaking up behind folks.

Shhhhhh

All of that could have been our itinerary but we spent the ensuing years holidaying here in Scotland and visiting Granddaughter in California. Our increasing health problems meant travel insurance cost was becoming crazy.

My wife and I had a stop over in Sydney for a couple of days en route to New Zealand. A highlight of the very brief visit was a trip to Katoomba and the Blue Mountains. We loved it and always promised to return to travel a bit (or preferably a lot). We never did.

Experienced these before 🤣

And here also 😟

Not at all it’s the standing spoon trick I referred to. No one should be allowed to have a blender near a pot of soup. Soup needs to be capable of maintaining a spoon in the vertical position to be worthy of the name soup !!

Nah that trick’s for soup 😂

Aus must be a strange, noisy, other worldly place indeed. I must pay a visit before the reaper rescinds my flight pass 🤣

It’s not for myself after all. And as for the Cat, Ruby hates them 😂😂😂

No

I must confess my sins. I’ve just been complicit in the purchase of a Citroen Berlingo powered by (say it quietly please) diesel. It’s automatic and about to be kitted out as a camper van. 🤩

Nowhere near but you’ll do for us mate. 😄

Well it certainly gives a Berlingo much more range 😉

Och I can’t be bothered with all that palaver. I fell asleep half way through. I shall continue enjoying my bumpy black without the coo juice artwork.

Up to 90% of the Sun covered in Scotland Nothing to write home about there then 🤩

Hang on I’m just having the old dilithiums topped up to do that sort of range

Your satnav’s goosed mate - that’s the M9

Who’d want to work there with that music piped through the place 😱

Come and have a wee lie down now - we’ll take you out for a walk later. These hallucinations aren’t good for you 😂

Hey I want wheels like that for the Berlingo 😍

He he he I did that

No I thought the curlers were right on track there. Shame.

I certainly visit the chemist once a month for all the multifarious potions and pills that keep me fired up each day. I’ve never yet had petroleum spirit supplied in the bag as far as I can tell 😂

Enjoy but keep the windows closed if you’re alongside me 😂

Keep them steps going 👍

AND they use cobalt etc in the “refining” process and can’t reclaim it apparently 😟

Ooh - never heard of a deal like that before 👌

Inspected diesel Berlingo Beautiful little camper Lunch at IKEA.

Is it always the two psi difference even if left unadjusted for a couple of days? (Continued loss would indicate a bit of leakage at the valve or tyre / rim interface) If it’s consistently dropping 2 psi on that same wheel try setting it 2 psi higher and see if it joins the other three at the...

I might try a drop of that 👍. I’m kind of addicted to tamarind paste for flavouring these days but a change is as restful as being good or something so they say.

Breakfast birdwatching, I like it.

Fun all the way 🤣

Obviously not the coffee god 🤣

Should have bought an e Berlingo - I liked the power pylon in the last frames - where’s the socket ? 🤣🤣

Sunday and Monday saw minimal car use. A total of 29.5 miles in fact. Berlingo was plugged in last night when I got home and drew 11.61 kWh of energy to return to 80% capacity. That has cost me eighty one of my best pension pennies. I wanted the top up as I might be called upon to go and check...

That’s easy for you to say 😄

Coffee’s just gotta be black to taste right - and none of your sugar and stuff - just black! 🤣

At about 1.8m and 75kg my BMI is fairly good apparently. I loosely adhere to that 5 - 2 diet by default. I love my food but some days laziness creeps in and I snack. That snacking has to be on veggies, fruit and nuts etc as that’ll be all that’s in the house as I manage quite successfully to...

It’s not as if ev drivers just sprouted as such recently. Remember the vast majority of them / us spent many years as ice vehicle owners and drivers. It seems to me there are very few who’d go back to how we were before. We loved (many of) our ice machines and grew accustomed to their sounds and...

Thrill baby thrill 😄

Berlingo’s not been recalled yet 🤔 is it cos I’s ‘lectric 🙄

Ageing is wonderful I want more

Nope, i have a black box for glass empties. I’ve not bothered to put the box out for a few weeks. Currently the only thing in it is a Vegemite jar so I’ll give it a few weeks and see if it’s worth carrying out to the roadside 🤩

That looks a lot better to my jaundiced Citroenised eyes. I really don’t like the MG4 rear end but must look out for a chance to see the Urban in the metal.

Just as well - can you imagine the anxiety if your rocket GOM cries enough as you go round the moon ??😱

I only have one vehicle, the eBerlingo with around 200 mile range. I’ll happily drive anywhere at the drop of a hat. Next week I’m off to Ayr to collect a friend and take her to Aberdeen for a flight to Norway. I might just drive home then or not. There’s some snow forecast so that might...

I think I’ll go for a walk while I decide what’s for tonight’s dinner. There’s a haggis in the fridge (beautiful MacSween’s veggie one ) There’s some diced chicken and mixed veg including bamboo shoots and edamame beans with egg noodles. And there’s a couple of frozen curries in the freezer...

That turkey lived its life in vain.

That reminds one. One’s Burgundy bin went out today. One must nip out and retrieve it

Black coffee’s best

Perhaps that’s why I haven’t had that problem - I never have the radio on 🤣

Impressive- it’s easier to keep weight down that way. I never could and I’m definitely not that disciplined.

You’re correct- it says unsweetened soya DRINK on the carton.

That’s what I thought. I had the same car over three years and didn’t see anything like that.

We’ll happily accept some of them cookies thanks 🙏 It all works for me. Porridge with crispy fried chopped onions was interesting in Singapore. A sprinkle of pinhead oats on boiled potatoes just as they’re served adds a wee bit of the old jinysaykwa 🤣

He’s just jealous 😂 All of the above if it’s what you fancy. I’m in my blueberry porridge period just now. A handful scattered on top and a wee splash of soy milk.

Yep good job. Weight’s easy to aquire but much harder to shed. Your job doesn’t help but keep up the exercise and staying off the alcohol helps. You don’t half cover the miles so can’t have a lot of free time so that makes it all the harder. Keep up the tales from behind the steering wheel and...

Why is his left knee redacted ?

Man, you have to try some prancing pleasure porridge 😵‍💫 Come on over to the grey side.

Happy half price drawers I nearly bought a pair o’ drawers Tae keep my bum fae freezin’ But saw the price an’ changed ma mind An’ resolved tae continue sneezin’ At fourteen pounds I nearly choked Ma’ bum’s no’ worth that price But today the tag was marked “half off” My posterior prospects are...

You’ve gone wild

No it’s economy figure remains at 3.2 mpk in the current cold weather and up to 3.7 later. Three times in the last couple of months I’ve carried ten sacks of (different 🤣) logs for a friend. They’re a wee bit of a squeeze when the two electric bikes are no board but we gave another person a lift...

Well I have it all ways of course, driving as I do the inimitable e-Berlingo XTR. It’s the car everyone aspires to even when they don’t admit it. Sheer perfection in every way. Go on, try to find a fault, it’s the best thing out on the roads. Just watch the next one fly by during your next drive...

How dare you question whether an eBerlingo is quick sir. You don’t even know me enough to know what numbs my mind 😵‍💫

Absolutely nothing. The day included lunch at the first charge stop. Waiting for and enjoying the ferry crossing. A walk and coffee stop during the second charge. A visit to Eilan Donnan castle for over two hours and a walk and dinner while the car topped up to return home. And many stops in...

I just refer back to my fantastic day trip in my MG5 - 425 miles / eleven hours / three “outside” top ups and a ferry journey to go to the Isle of Skye and back.

In a word - yuk ! What’s the point ? Having to still visit filling stations en route and working out the remaining available quantities of TWO fuels to facilitate progress to your destination.

Can’t miss the Berlingo in a car park. It’s taller than most. I changed the radio antenna for a bright red bee sting. And when I press unlock on the key the whole car does a Christmas tree impression it’s so grateful I’ve returned to cherish it once more.

I had the very early ZS (one of the first 200 available) then changed to the MG5 estate car when that came out. Brilliant car loved it. Then looked at the MG 4, hated the shape, especially the crinkled rear end, and went back to Citroen eBerlingo (not for sleek, svelte looks obvs 🤣)

Only difference is the badge really. They were all made on the same lines I believe. The Toyota versions were only available as vans not combos and not nearly so prevalent. Yeah I was really envisioning a petrol / ev hybrid when I said that which might have suited my daughter. But personally I...

Doesn’t sound like any time soon. More power to your elbow - and all the other windy surfing bits 👍

Sounds perfectly normal 👌

Four weather days ☀️🌧️🌬️⛄️

As above except Oatcakes and Brie Camping show Glasgow Tomorrow and Sunday

So - eh - together does that constitute your five a day ???

Await induction instruction

No go snow Lawn gawn Shawn

A bit more Ooomfier

Frying tonight!

Clever girl 👌

Emphatically YES. I used to go to school in the smog in Edinburgh where I almost couldn’t see my hand in front of my face and my hanky or scarf would be black with the coal dust I was trying to filter out to breath.

Oh I can’t convince her about the propev version sadly. The diesels, especially the semi automatic ones are really excellent and very economical- - I had two of them and they returned 60 to 65 mpg regularly. Shame there’s not hybrid version.

Still trying to find a good one for daughter - Citroen/ Peugeot/ Toyota/ Fiat/ Vauxhall. They’re as common as hens teeth for a good one.

2 me 2U

Finest vehicle ever

My brain hurts

Hang on - I’m working on that list 🤣

Curiouser and curiouser 😵‍💫

Well done Pike I wondered if anyone would spot that.

Ten spotless dots 😄 Don’t need scrubbing

Aye it is better quality trash after all 🤩

Gosh we’ve to pay and only get the service once a month.

Triple fun though 🤭

Strewth ! Salty won’t know what to drive off in 🤩

That’s just how we all like it - we could have had an ev currython 😂

Bet the mizzu curriers good then.

Aye but what colour - oh wait a min - volcano orange to blend in there 🤣

Monthly alternating with the green bin. This whole thread is rubbish from start to finish. 🙄

Currently £45 a year

I’ve got five and three quarter bins. 🤩 Green for general waste Blue for metal tins and plastics Burgundy for paper Brown for garden (paid for) Black box for glass Small Grey food recycle with smaller grey caddy for indoors.

Meh

Two in Berlingo 😂

THA TSV ERY TRU

It still beats my cop out last night 😱😱 I had a wonderful lunch with my Daughter and my Granddog in the Taste delicatessen in Linlithgow. A rather tasty home made burger with Brie, salad and coleslaw. So, after having a great but all too infrequent meet up, I didn’t need much of a dinner last...

Wrongplant grewin wrongplace

I always deconstruct mine personally.

Nice line in peas though 😂