Recent content by GaryMG4

I retired at 60, 10 years ago now. I didn't plan to retire at 60 but as an IT contractor my contract finished and I was asked if I wanted to go back when next year's budget was available, I said give me a call. I was used to odd 2-3 months gaps between contracts and made the most of them. This...

Year 3 service £197, this one included brake fluid flush, otherwise just an inspection, listed battery state of health as 98%. Not sure how they tested it, but the car needed a infotainment reset plus stop/lock/unlock to get all the gizmos up and running again.

Well he did it with his yo-yo tariffs, now oil, what next?

I blocked him some time ago so I don't see his dross any more.

Yes, I couldn't help pointing out to a couple of friends at the weekend that my EV had just had its first MOT and miraculously it still had the same brakes, tyres and battery, it hadn't fallen through any multi-storey floor or caught fire. They were fans of Mac-the-****!

IIRC my 2023 Trophy had a wltp of 265 miles with the SE LR around 10 miles more due to the lack of a drag inducing spoiler. I have seen just over 300 miles on the GOM but drops off as soon as you start driving. I'd say 220 miles was marginal in the winter even in the fens, summer no problem. 3...

And Panama in the late 80s, although the Google AI categorises them both as undeclared small scale invasions. Prior to that the only Mexico and Spain in the 19th century and of course the native Americans and their civil war, but beating yourself doesn't really count.

Probably just trying to find someone they can beat, not that it worked out last time.

Or 6s 8d for the rest of us. Funny how 80d looks totally wrong to those of us old enough to have grown pre decimalisation, but 33p seems ok.

I certainly am, probably wouldn't be if they hadn't frozen the tax bands though.

If true then it really puts a spoke in Trumps plans to MAGA, otherwise known as 'get the rest of the world to pay for our lifestyle'. Plan A tariffs - that didn't work out, plan B WW3 - hopefully that won't happen, what's next?

I thought I'd give it try this month (charging from my solar not tracking your charging!). So far this month I've added 87 kWh of which 83 had been solar the rest from 70% setting on ECO+ on the Zappi.

I have a 4Kw array (on FiT) and no battery, on Intelligent Octopus Go (48p standing, 29.2p peak and 7p off peak) my average unit cost over the last 12 months was around 15p so much less than the 25p(?) capped rate.

Not really, I think we were complicit to it going on, so long as it didn't affect us too much. That allowed the politicians to get quite brazen about it to the point where we are seeing their actions coming home to roost. Sadly it is the tax payer that will ultimately pick up the bill, despite...

I think there are two issues here, the first being we all hoped the taxation incentives would have lasted a little longer having bought arguably more expensive cars with the benefit of lower ongoing costs. The second bigger issue how our taxes are spent. Our infrastructure is creaking, the power...