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Me neither.

Well, as it's 2 bases, maybe the Cypriots should hold out for £200bn....

Good point!    He'd still happily pay it!     

Well, as it's 2 bases, maybe the Cypriots should hold out for £200bn....

I think it comes to around 3% of land mass.

I'm sure that the Republic of Cyprus would love to gain sovereignty of those two nice chunks of real estate and lease the bases back to Britain for a nice bit of wedge! Shall we say £110 million a year? 

I'm also sure that Starmer would think this is perfectly reasonable and would happily agree to pony up! 

I couldn't log in at about 0935 this morning.

An unexpected email from Octopus Energy last week....

Your fixed tariff from April 1st:

Electricity tariff (Intelligent Octopus Go 12M Fixed):
Peak unit rate: 27.41 p / kWh
Off-peak unit rate: 3.49 p / kWh
Standing charge: 43.82 p / day

So to fully charge from empty (not that I've ever come close) as I tend to top up from between 40-55% depending on my driving that day, it costs me a grand total of £2.82. + maybe a little for drop off in charge. They even offer the "off peak" rate to my car, any time of the day, if there is a dip in demand. I just leave it plugged in and set the charge level I want by a certain time the next day.

It means my return trip to work in London and back to Surrey costs around 60 pence and the i4 is far from the most efficient EV on the road.   

That's a great rate! How many hours off peak do you get per day? Also, does this tariff interface with your smart charger? Mine's come down too, but definitely not as low as that!
 

Currently unlimited but talk of some limits coming in, you get it cheap during the night time but the car also gets the cheap rate during the day if low demand. Octopus sort it all, their app controls charge to the car and if the demand is low locally then you get some time at the cheap rate.

Well I hope you all have a power cut. 

Only kidding.

Join us. You know you want to. I'm very happy with the i4 M60 as my daily, very fast, very comfortable, very quiet at any speed. Everything feels well made, easy to disable all the EU warning rubbish.

I’d say if the Middle East war continues for any time, it Will be another nail  in the coffin for traditional fueled cars. A boost for Chinese Ev’s ,not so good for European manufacturers. Israel says it is halfway through its war objectives…..

Trump says today to UK” get your own oil as US won’t be there to help anymore”.

Not got a copy of TIS loaded anywhere currently, but those codes are not ODBII, thus not cat related.

Took the ML for a fresh MoT ready to sell it.

Failed on the parking brake efficiency with advisories for the cables, smoke and a CV boot.

Smoke was because it sat idling for over half an hour... No smoke when you boot it.
CV boot is a nonsense, basically it was missing the clamp to the hub when I bought it and whilst it is now resecured, it doesn't seat perfectly on the hub so there's a ring of grease around the lip. It's not an active leak as there's no trace on the wheel etc.
Handbrake cables are rough as and I suspect the only reason it failed on efficiency was because he didn't push the pedal far enough. I had already ordered new cables so that should be both items addressed in one hit.

Managed to snap the release cable for the towbar because the locking mechanism in the pivot it a bit tight from lack of use  Fortunately it locked in the towing position and snapped when I went to restow it.

Don't think the cable is a service item unless I can find an Oris dealer to ask

We are also with Octopussy.

No cheap electricity for the milk float but a flat rate of 20p a unit.


I suppose it depends how many miles the MF is driven.