Category Archives: Trains and boats and planes – and cars

It’s been, as they say, a ‘funny old year’ (so far). It started off miserable, cold and wet, became hot and dry for weeks and weeks, and now has turned back to more typically British summer weather (i.e. cool and damp). Once more, the threat of imposing a hosepipe ban… Continue reading →

So, Autumn is here – or, to be more precise, has come and largely gone. Trees are mainly bare of leaves as the Government is mainly bare of ideas. Instead, they stir the same old bullsh*t round the same old pot and try to convince us that something has changed. … Continue reading →

There’s a story circulating that Toyota’s unexpected acceleration problems may be caused by cosmic rays.  Seems like BS to me: Cosmic rays cause random problems with computers.  It would be extremely odd if any significant number of these caused a car to accelerate uncontrollably.  For this to happen, the hardware… Continue reading →