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Its that time of year again, where one of my cars goes for the dreaded MOT. Naturally, it fails (well bound to), but I’ve checked the status online and this is a very interesting thing about the car. For the record, its a Renault Espace MK3, at last look, around one of 374 left on the road.. well, the variant I have anyway (Renault Espace Mk3 Privilege 2.2 DCi – and yes its a diesel.), I have another which is different (Renault Espace Mk3 Privilege V6 Auto – Petrol) but this blog post talks about some of the oddities which…

TECHIE WARNING: This article uses a lot of jargon, so if you aren’t sure, ask questions or if you aren’t interested, read on. And it comes with a little pitfall if you don’t know computers that well. Mine was a slight issue which the operating system I was using, which is called Ubuntu Mate. I went from an AMD computer to a Raspberry Pi as I thought my AMD system which is by the way, an AMD A4-5000 based system, with 2 2.5″ hard drives, an ATI Radeon 240 graphics card and 16GB of ram, shoved in a case that…

One of my facebook buddies posted his typical Southern commute which is pretty much like mine. First your train gets delayed for no reason, then cancelled, then the next service does a platform dance, so you don’t know where its going with the Customer Information System (known as DARWIN for some reason). One really interesting one that might interest anyone is when I was at Guildford on the 9th June 2016, heavy rain and thunderstorms were forecast and while going through one train, I heard this: “We are sorry to announce that the 18:13 Southern service from London Victoria has…

Its that time of year and now I’m upgrading my phone (again) to a newer model which makes me wonder what can I do with it? The purpose of this blog is to think of the unusual and more obvious ways to dispose of your old phone. iPhones are slightly different due to their limitations, but no doubt you might find this blog useful. I use Android phones so lets look at them. The obvious! Flog it! – So you got your shiny new phone for way over the odds you should of paid for it, your old one is…

NO ITS NOT. I’ll explain in detail about my take on it and I’ll give my responses and some better and I believe more cost effective ideas. (Awaiting image) I got this through sometime this week, where I live (Fishbourne Village – on the outskirts of Chichester) are planning a 20mph zone which sounds like a good idea. Now, I’m a pedestrian, train user (I LOVE to use my free travel pass), cyclist and car driver and I’m apposing to the 20mph scheme. Now the very nature  of having traffic suddenly slow down to 20mph sounds appealing you would think,…