Cupra aren’t just EV’s, they are Seat, they just changed the name in 2018, and all Seat have been since 1986 is a mish mash of the VAG parts bin.

Doesn’t even need an old laptop, mines running on a Pi3

Depends on where you live, the two European countries that I’ve lived and worked in my employers would allow additional leave for funerals of aunts, uncles, cousins and some even allowed for the death of a pet.

Attending funerals, births etc aren’t really holidays

Gotta get them clicks!

Because you have excellent taste in music perhaps

999 - Emergency

I’ve watched 4 episodes, it sticks nicely to the theme and format of the original 4 panel cartoon. Me and my teen are thoroughly enjoying it, my wife on the other hand spends most of the episodes just looking confused.

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

No Such Thing as a Fish

The Bugle

Mid Flight Brawl

Are all currently keeping me entertained while soaking in the bath.

We’ll get info on changes on radio stations and streaming service ads here in Ireland, also updates to any changes on the annual roadworthiness test, I’ll let you look up “Irish road safety advert” on YouTube, they’re quite graphic.

Got a source for that figure?

Only 55,000 heat pumps were sold in the UK last year, compared with more than 620,000 in France. Twenty other European countries also had higher installation rates than the UK

That’s my “mowing the lawn music” sorted for the day !

The Human League - Being Boiled

Do you not have an equivalent of “the highway code” or “rules of the road” etc that’s regularly updated and distributed or frequently mentioned in the press to keep people informed of regulatory changes?

You’ll probably die while being t-boned by someone else sharing the same view as you, it’s strange that your country’s road safety record is far worse than any country that has been using roundabouts for decades.

I try to do as much as possible myself, saves a fortune, it’s really only anything on the cars that requires a lift that I farm out, but plumbing, electrical, carpentry, welding and fabricating etc I’ll do myself, usually as it’s a good excuse to hide in the workshop away from being found other things to do.

The NAS is an ancient Qnap TS-209 Pro II a friend gave me after the psu and cooling fan died, this is the first time it’s failed again in about 10 years, it’s only used for backing up photos and stuff from a car owners club I run, so nothing fancy.

I’m hoping to have a day off from having to fix broken things, so far this week

Monday and Tuesday - taking all the guttering, soffit trims and soffits down on the front of the house because a small furry thing nibbled the wires to the outside lights.

Wednesday - replacing a dead capacitor in the lawnmower.

Thursday - replacing the dead cooling fan in my NAS.

Friday - fitting two new glow plugs in one of the cars (I’ll be glad when it’s replaced with an EV).

Yesterday - stripping down the dishwasher and cleaning load of gunk out of it that was stopping water going in.

Quite a good cover version of that was done by Bruce Foxton , former bassist from The Jam, only made it as far as a B side though.

It’s just the Tories trying to cling onto the last voters they have, it won’t be long until the boomers that vote for them have shuffled off their mortal coil leaving just the 50% of GenX that vote for them and the small smattering of Millennials that lean right.

Wasn’t it supposed to be free from 2003 onwards?