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I remember when cars used to have "air vents" in the floor, so you could see the road and, still be damp enough for mushrooms to grow in the floor carpet.
Yeah, I do remember them. I've also owned a few Fred Flintstone cars in my youth with holes in the floor under the mat 🙂 Bit of a bu**er if you drove through a deep ford🙂
 
I remember when cars used to have "air vents" in the floor, so you could see the road and, still be damp enough for mushrooms to grow in the floor carpet.
One of my favourite cars ended up being like that. A MK1 Astra in metallic green, I loved it but I spent a fortune trying to cure a leak in the end there was daylight between the door sills and the floor pan both sides of the car.
 
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I've deleted my bad review of them - one of the slats has warped, but it's not an issue of how it was installed. Still deeply peeved with Hygge though. We'll see where it goes.
After much to-ing and fro-ing (and a couple of threats about going to trading standards), they've agreed to supply and fit - as they should have done in the first place. When I've made sure everything has been done properly and that the same issue doesn't recur, I'll be posting a straightforward, factual review.
 
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I got a little spooked when I woke up this morning, I noticed the IKEA external wardrobe lighting was on, I was mulling over who could have switched it on (my wife is abroad)? Nelly the ghost? Was it the cats? Did Zoya or Flynn jump up behind the door and switch it on, I can almost hear them say, “Hello Jason wake up”. No that’s really daft.

Went over to the study room and I noticed, the amp, the DAC receiver were switched on and downstairs in the dining room, the TV and HiFi were all switched on. Yes Sherlock, it must have been a power outage middle of the night. We do get quite a few of those where I live, the local grid really needs to be upgraded.
Anyway mystery resolved, yep I’ll put the pipe away. One last puff.
 
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I live in a freezer most of the time, so knew something strange had happened when I awoke to a warm house.

Their reconnection of power cuts is not always a clean affair.
In my case the boiler timeswitch had been toggled from off, into 'constant on' mode.
And I wasn't too keen when once watching 2 or 3 mains reconnection attempts on my 'smart' amp.

All electronics are now isolated from the mains in my house when not in use.
And I mean all, including the washing machine (don't even have a router, now that I'm tethered to mobile data).

Of course that's totally impractical and undesirable in most houses - and I know that most people couldn't / wouldn't care less about such things....even if they came back off holiday to find the heating and their old 500 watt garden auto floodlight had been on for 2 weeks.
 
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I live in a freezer most of the time, so knew something strange had happened when I awoke to a warm house.

Their reconnection of power cuts is not always a clean affair.
In my case the boiler timeswitch had been toggled from off, into 'constant on' mode.
And I wasn't too keen when once watching 2 or 3 mains reconnection attempts on my 'smart' amp.

All electronics are now isolated from the mains in my house when not in use.
And I mean all, including the washing machine (don't even have a router, now that I'm tethered to mobile data).

Of course that's totally impractical and undesirable in most houses - and I know that most people couldn't / wouldn't care less about such things....even if they came back off holiday to find the heating and their old 500 watt garden auto floodlight had been on for 2 weeks.
Can you imaged the crazy cost of the utility billing they would have raked up, while they were away.
Kudo's to you Gray, you have it all thought out! 😉 👍
 
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Anus in a Golf today. Sat at the lights as there were roadworks on one side of a single carriageway, must have been five or six of us stopped, and this chimp stormed past us all and straight through the light - which must have been on red for ten seconds plus.

You could also tell that the self-important coming the other way had come through on red, as the lights changed for us whilst they were still coming.

I absolutely loathe the selfish...
 
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Anus in a Golf today. Sat at the lights as there were roadworks on one side of a single carriageway, must have been five or six of us stopped, and this chimp stormed past us all and straight through the light - which must have been on red for ten seconds plus.

You could also tell that the self-important coming the other way had come through no red, as the lights changed for us whilst they were still coming.

I absolutely loathe the selfish...
I had a double decker school bus overtake about 5 of us sat waiting for the lights at road works. Worst of it was we were on a hill. I should have downloaded the video from my dash cam and sent it to the bus company. One of the many bus companies under the Blazefield, Transdev umbrella.
 
Go on, do it!
Unfortunately too late. The SD card has been wiped. I had a glitch with the dash cam and contacted Next Base. First suggestion was format the SD card and reinstall the firmware using the SD card. Then it was you need to use one of our branded SD cards. Even though the card I had was rated a higher class than theirs and probably came out of the same factory. That's cutting a long story short fair play to next base the dash cam was out of warranty and they continued with suggestions to cure the glitch. In the end I had to forget ever using it with Alexa and my phone.
 
What do you do when you have an itch.........We're heading for Venus,...Venus...😉

Lyrics

We're leavin' together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To Earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground (leaving ground)
Will things ever be the same again?
It's the final countdown
The final countdown
Oh
We're headin' for Venus (Venus)
And still we stand tall
'Cause maybe they've seen us
And welcome us all, yeah
With so many light years to go
And things to be found (to be found)
I'm sure that we all miss her so
It's the final countdown
The final countdown
The final countdown (final countdown)
(Oh)
Oh
The final countdown, oh
It's the final countdown
The final countdown
The final countdown (final countdown)
(Oh)
It's the final countdown
We're leavin' together
(The final countdown)
We'll all miss her so
It's the final countdown (final countdown)
(Oh)
It's the final countdown
Yeah
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Joey Tempest
The Final Countdown lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
 
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