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lindisfel said:
So he should.
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I shall give the surplus of mine to the North Lakes food bank and possibly a hide for RSPB North Plain


D. will get some of his early. i am buying M a brand new car soon, that I can drive, but keeping my old one for a hobby. Big enough to carry most things we might need.
I shall see if someone at church wants the old Fabia.
Alan will suggest someone to give it.

Marjorie had it from new, it's as smooth as a really young car.

I shall carry my stuff in the Octavia M doesn't like driving it,
it is too big for Wigton

M. will have a similar strategy in an almost mirror will.
D.
 
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Yes, I completely agree @jjraak. Long may it last.
 
alf_Josiah said:
Well that’s you @dunelm and me on @ianpspurs ’s bad boy list, as of course first a value must be assigned to diddly squat. According to Jeremy Clarkson it’s approximately zero.
Don’t you just love the numerate?
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I think the human race has the responsibility to treat all people the same.
It would be very sad if any Christian fails that trust that marks them as not like humanity, it also applies to the Earth ecosystems and the stewardship of all life.
D.
 
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Great planning on your and Marjorie’s part. Mrs Miggins and myself have mirror wills. We took care of the children by sorting out their mortgages when I was fortunate enough to sell my business. They did have to keep me alive for a number of years (now time passed) as the sword of the taxman hung over them. Surplus will go to Cystic Firbrosis, the local food bank and a bit to the British Legion.
 
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ianpspurs said:
What a gorgeous looking property. Obvious why you both fell in love with it and equally obvious how much hard work and love there has been. Keep warm and rest up until properly better.
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This is a photo of my own personal retreat. The old potting shed. Here it is before it's upgrade.
 
Interesting art bit...
 
A completely new alert came up n the car display today.
Most disconcerting.
A picture of a yacht on water, and the word "SAILING".
I look out of the car window and check I am still driving on a solid tarmac road. My eyes tell me I am.
Then the yacht disappears...
Then it comes back on....with the word SAILING again
The car felt it was driving differently....
This has never happened before.

It kept happening...it happened a lot today.

I am trying to make sense of it..

All I could describe it as, was that the car was coasting. It was happening (my car is an automatic) when I lifted my foot up, but not entirely off, the accelerator pedal.

I Google when I get back home.
Google tells me "It’s your car coasting in neutral to save fuel. A tap of the accelerator will wake the engine up again." And that it happens when your car is in eco mode (which mine is), and it is activated when the car goes over 40 mph and you lift your foot off the accelerator pedal. But I am not taking my foot entirely off the pedal unless I am going over to the brake function.

All I can think of is when the RAC man replaced the 12v battery, he somehow activated this SAILING function, because it didn't happen before this. Actually quite a few things on my car display changed with this 12v battery change.

Prior to this 12volt battery change, the engine was still engaged when I lifted my foot up the accelerator to not pressing down while driving.

The last time I coasted was in a manual car was well over half a century ago when I was a learner being taught to drive, the person who taught me to drive in 1966 told me do that when I was coming down a hill to save fuel, but I didn't think coasting was safe, you weren't in full control of a car, so I stopped doing it.

Now, over half a century later coasting is incorporated as SAILING on a Hyundai automatic car....

EDIT: further research tells me "This (sailing) mode is not dependent on being set and is an automatic function of the system." So, my car was never set right in the first place....it is apparently to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

Wildlife nighttime video
They nearly all turned up this busy night...
1min 9secs


Sorry, too knackered to do a painting today, so a kaleidoscope of a wall hanging in my bedroom.

Going to sleep now...

You have a good night...




 
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Kinda makes sense .

Cars nowadays are almost obliged to make the most of the earths finite resources.

So it's up to us to adapt as best we can ...as I'm sure you will .

It does sound like the new battery has 'reset' your cars system.

And as your googling suggests a 'tap' on the pedal, will just like it's alter ego "cruise control", put YOU back in full control

So use as YOU see fit.

Pedal to stop it, or glide & cruise it.

Sure you will find a happy medium that works for YOU.
 
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Ah @jjraak Thanks for your reply
It took me by surprise today.

Yes, the new battery has reset the system.
Twice this week, since the new battery, I had to stop/park for a few minutes and google something that was different on my car display, and reset one display back to the way I wanted it.

I'll be more prepared next time I am SAILING.....

It is very economical on petrol anyway, despite the amount of 20mph town driving...
 
Good to hear.

And by way of a gratuitous link, here's an old favourite of mine. Your post brought to mind .

 
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I'm sure it did , @gennepher .
But good to hear, even if it's causing you a few annoying issues right know, that you car is back to it's proper specification standards once more

I say that, not to worry you , but I was thinking about it.
And if that poor choice of original battery & it's replacement by a better quality one, can cause all those 'features' to suddenly appear.

It's a worry if any of its safety features (as originally intended to save & preserve passengers in an accident ) might also have been affected while such cars are being driven on the original poor spec battery...?

How many others, driving hybrids, are also unsuspectingly having features, and particularly possibly safety features switching off due to charge or discharge issues with what is clearly a sub standard OE part ?
 
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