Lady Elanore

Funnily enough the light shadow and seat belt just to the left of the Kiwi sticker looks a bit like.........a KIWI! At least to my eyes

Love the pictures, only way to make them better would be to add a baby Kiwi (fluffy type) in there somewhere

I think we might be about to enter into a world of car designers trying to outdo each other with shock value

I enjoyed the Tiff and Paul show, although I hope they don't start with too much lampooning about and staged scenarios. I guess they have to do a little play acting just to set the scene up, but it can so easily stray into that Top Gear thing of trying too hard to have a good time. Not watched the Worlds Greatest Cars thing yet. Was the latest one about old hot hatches or just the current crop?

I am of the opinion that most Briskodians will be more than accomplished enough, in their general erudition and education, to successfully endeavour in construing your verbiage correctly during a causal perusal Or put another way, we are not thick

Btw, anyone who thinks the next gen M3/4 is funny looking, I hope you are seated before viewing this next Mercedes masterpiece!!!!!

Do you ever wonder if you should have replaced the entire wiring loom and similar or at least have done it in one go instead of bit by bit as you are now

I expect the M3 to be easier to get out of in supermarkets as it's doors are shorter.

I think mini-led is still a few years away from us being able to afford them, but it would be the only way that OLED will be improved upon significantly imho. There is a hybrid system out there now that uses OLED and LCD to give better brightness than OLED alone and darker blacks than LCD/LED can manage, which might be a stop gap that's affordable? OLED seems to have stalled these days, max brightness is pretty much attained now, colour accuracy and spacing is as good as a telly needs to be and the latency is excellent. Unless they can sort out the brightness limitations of OLED (which I gather they currently can't) I guess we won't see any signifiant improvement in OLED again :(

I went to OLED as it was the only way to improve the picture. But even though my telly is only around 4 years old it's already becoming obsolete owing to the lack of 4k/60fps HDMI inputs :( I offered it free to my brother as he has an old Panny plasma that's just about hanging on and he said "nah, I like my telly just fine"! He's getting a bottle of beer for Christmas instead

Should be awesome

Plasma tvs were always heavy compared to LCD and the one I mentioned has a glass screen which I assume has the polariser for the 3D. That no doubt mean the chassis and stand had to be beefed up. It took two big blokes to carry it in, the giant box it came in had carry handles all around it and even then they tore when the telly was brought in. Mind you it had a stellar picture and I don't think I have seen an LCD/LED picture that beats it for black levels and all around 'watchablity' unless you go to the top end of the 4K UHD market. It also helped to keep my room warm alongside my old AV receiver (big toroid transformer model )

I didn't think he looked that short when he did his piece on the Leaf.

Penny Malory and Jason Dawe were really good presenters. Never see them nowadays :(

Nope I know who Paul Woodman is as I've watched him and Tiff on my 'pooter, the young bloke that did the electric feature is Sid North. Found this on Yuutoob, he looks a handy driver too

I've just recently started to watch his channel and enjoy the interviews. I hope he does one with Steve Sutcliffe (C Harris mentions his driving prowess) as I rate him very very highly as a talented driver. It was also refreshing to hear that Mr Harris reckons his mum was the quick 'peddler' of the family

I had a beautiful end of the line Panasonic Plasma that blew an internal PSU. I knew this because an led on the front flashed a certain number of times to inform me. I thought I'd ring a few local repair places as I figured a decent sparky would find an easy fix. But not one repair shop would touch it. They all said their repair shop was upstairs and the tv was way too heavy to safely get up and down the stairs :( It was extremely heavy! Just under 40kgs I seem to recall and no carry handles built in

I've set my SKY planner to record the 'On the road' series I like the new presenter too, Sid North I think is his name? The show is a bit like Fifth Gear with all the nonsense removed, or at least most of it removed They just need to sort their video out

Just watched 'On the road' with Mr Noodles. Quite enjoyed it. it didn't have anyone pretending they had converted a bread van into an intercontinental ballistic missile that could herd sheep. Only Tiff's rather fake laugh grates a little, but he has always done that, so I forgive him It seems a car show about....er, cars very like their YouToob shows I did notice that some of the show was rather jerky in places as it looked like it was suffering from dropped frames. Perhaps some of the shots were recorded in an incompatible frame rate? Surprised it got through quality control though to be honest.

I found this on 'tinerweb. You can see roughly what my old thermostat backplate looked like, although this one is couple up to another device as you can see by the double wired connectors. You can also see the red link wire to feed a 'live' voltage to the traveller on connector'1' has been added and you can also see the call for heat on connector '3' Simply snap the receiver over the top of this backplate and it's done. No more wiring needed.

The receiver is nothing but a switch and as I have said, I only have a single switch requirement as I have a combi boiler so no need for preheating of water. My boiler no longer uses a timer and is left permanently on. The timer function of the programmer is taken over by Hive in the cyberspacewebthingumygig. So the switch (receiver) only has to receive a signal to tell it to turn the boiler on or off. Our systems have been fitted differently. I assume you have either an immersion tank or had a different sort of thermostat to the old school one I've mentioned

This is similar to mine (apart from mine was the other way up). It's the backplate for the original thermostat. You can see someone has added the live link to the traveller. Can't swear that the connections are exactly the same without opening mine up again

No it's the receiver. It purely switches the 'live' call for heat

The reason I put the receiver where the Thermostat had been, was because it is a simple plug and play option. If I removed the old thermostat completely I would need to get a decorator to hide the square hole on the wall. By simply plugging the receiver onto the backplate of the old thermostat you overcome this and save on the slightly fiddly wiring directly into the boilers' programmer-wiring at the boiler end. The only thing that needs to be done is a live feed needs to be added to the traveller in the receiver, so it can switch the 'call for heat' to the boiler. It also only takes a couple of minutes once you realise that it all uses the same backplate as a standard old school British Thermostat for the fitting (you are supplied with a new backplate if you wish to use that, but it only adds a couple of minutes to swap over anyway ) British gas chap serviced my boiler (not a euphemism) a few months ago and I asked them to check everything over, he said it was fine and that he probably would have done what I did if his house was configured similarly to mine