Wingman

Interestingly OFCOM have fined BT - BT fined £17.5m for 999 call-handling failures We have fined BT £17.5 million for being ill-prepared to respond to a catastrophic failure of its emergency call-handling service last summer. Since the phone service began it had been a legal requirement for the the service - GPO then BT - to provide the 999 service to all phones regardless and for that reason the service was powered from huge banks of batteries all over the country at 48 volts - that requirement has obviously been binned in the name of progress. We had about a 2 hour power outage here last year and the mobile phone system fell over so obviously that doesn't have a backup power supply (nobody knows how to maintain lead acid batteries anymore) - nothing was ever said about that.

Trains huh! Was booked on no-change train from Aberdeen to Penzance today - got a notification from their app at 02.30 to say train was cancelled - bye bye holiday - not a joke🙄

I've dropped the wife on the floor several times.......................

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I'll try again just the link this time🤨. https://youtube.com/shorts/UhLcYku4FEY?si=ci4oFySIID

Found this on YT thought it might be useful for indoor flyers although I'd be careful which end I picked up😝 Please accept cookies to access this content

The starting credits of "the Repair Shop" used to show Jay Blades sweeping the floor and was the butt of non-PC jokes between me and the wife😄. He's now shown doing more important stuff - he's an MBE now dontcha know also he has touched the shoulder of the King. Don't watch it any more 'cos it's more about the sob stories now.

Just thought Ken would like to know that they no longer issue Yellow Snow warnings 😁

One last hurrah for Lewis before he retires - good luck to him. Not sure that parliamo Bedfordia will cut it with the prancing horsies!

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Yes, but you do get the choice of black or white at no extra cost😁

Tim, you'll get approved for his ignore list as well if you're not careful😄

Some people have an awfully complicated life😄

YOU WANT WIFE WANTS

My insurance company recently supplied a rental Subaru XV e-Boxer while my car was in for repair. I have no experience of EVs so I was curious as to the "e-Boxer" badging. It only seemed to flash up "EV" on the dash at odd low speed occasions so got the user manual online and checked it out. Firstly EV only operates at speeds below 40kph (eh!) OK so I tried it out - on the flat I could get it to run EV as long as I didn't accelerate (eh!) and as soon as the car started up the slightest of gradient, and the engine torqued up, the EV dropped out and the petrol engine restarted. So I dug out the specs as below. You can see that the battery will supply 568 watts (118.4 x 4.8) for an hour. The motor is rated at 12.3kW. So how long will the battery run the car for? - 568/12300 x 60 = 2.77 minutes at a max torque of 6.7 kg/m ( not very far up the rice pudding skin scale😄) All this extra juice has, of course, to drag the battery pack around, a pack which,incidentally, takes up half the boot space.