Recent content by Shrink Proof

In your position, I'd get the Long Range. Two reasons:- 1. The more crucial it is that you use them, the more likely public chargers are to be broken. 2. Winter will decimate your range - as a former North Yorkshire resident whose work frequently took me around the North York Moors, I know...

Crossing the vast Nowhere in Particular that is Caithness, last month. Taken from a special train from Wick to Inverness - 161 miles, the entire length of the Far North LIne, steam hauled throughout.

Can't say I've had problems with CPS's maintainance. OTOH, the CPS smartphone app, which used to be OK, was changed 1-2 years ago and is now the absolute worst piece of software I have ever used for any purpose whatsoever. By a country mile...

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In today's piercing sunshine Liathach and Beinn Eighe were looking good (from a viewpoint high above Loch Clair). Another great day out...

People who rent a motorhome to "do" the NC500 who've never previously driven anything larger than a Fiesta and also have no idea how to drive on single lane roads:- No, really, the passing places can be used to let other vehicles overtake (the police have even had to put signs up to announce...

"Anyone wash their car today? ?" No, it wasn't raining.

Glenfinnan Viaduct on the Fort William to Mallaig railway line. Quite possibly on the Jacobite train judging by the assembled sightseers and photographers gathered below (is it still steam hauled, given the fire risks here in the Highlands at the moment?).

Hello, Inverness resident here.... Which way round you do it really doesn't matter; I've driven the whole of it both ways piecemeal over years and it's equally good either way IMO. The important thing is to take it slowly and savour the scenery. Too many folk do the NC500 for the 500 rather...

They seem to be designed for burning large numbers of fivers with dry clothing as a rather incidental by-product.

Nonsense! I've had personal experience of dozens of companies spending hours telling me over and over again that my call is important to them.

Drumrunie, Scotland. Taken 6 days ago.

IMHO, you MUST get a ChargeplaceScotland RFID card. There are three reasons for this. First, some of the remoter areas have patchy or nonexistent mobile coverage here in Scotland where the app doesn't connect and it can be impossible to phone the helpline (who are generally sympathetic...

Not sure about that - this one IS a new charger. The old one was a Chargeplace Scotland machine, this is a spanking new one, courtesy of ForEV. It was blinking away quite happily, obviously powered up, and had a panel for contactless payment too. Frustratingly it even had two extra long cables...