Recent content by GaryMG4

Yes not a bad day, 12 in car, but I didn't get back home until 1:45.

Isn't hindsight wonderful.

According to my price increase email this will be coming to the App in early May, or at least the option to stop the charge once the 6 hours of smart charge have been used. It doesn't explain how they would bill it if you don't set it. I wonder what it would do for my last calibration charge...

Agreed, more incentive for me to max out my solar(fit) usage.

Email from Octopus at 17:00 today. It also mentioned the 6 hour cap coming soon (early May) plus another 1p on the standing charge.

So its going up to 6.9p/30.26p, wish I'd fixed like @Rolfe

Groundhogs Thank Christ for the bomb was another fave from that era.

My 1st classical Cd was probably Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky (courtesy of listening to Emerson Lake and Palmer version), Rachmaninov 2 on vinyl prior to that.

Astronomy Domine was my introduction to Floyd, courtesy of an English teacher although first purchase was Dark Side of the Moon.

I'd forgotten about those, my first job after school had one. My contribution was A night at the Opera by Queen, and I still have the vinyl disk to this day. No idea of first CD, possibly something by Fleetwood Mac. First vinyl album was Dark Side of the Moon but prior to that my cousin and I...

Well you should see the portrait in the loft!

I'm happy to say I've moved up a category since last year, better than the alternative!

A couple of years back Halfords had a try an E-bike for a day for free. So I duly paid my £100 deposit. It was supposed to have a range of around 60 miles. I rode it around our normal circuit, took it to the next village to pick up a prescription, rode our larger circuit and it ran out of juice...

I decided to wash the Honda today, normally I just put it through the auto car wash (it is almost 20 years old and basically our tip car!) . Wheels were grubby but I'd used up the fallout remover so used Surfex and a round brush in a drill, worked a treat. Rinsed the whole car then snow foam...

They were the same people who cold called about double glazing in the 70/80s. We had a 1920s end of terrace in the late 1970s, at the time only one company advertised double glazed sash windows which would have been a nice option. I sent for a brochure, needless to say a few weeks later on a...