DavecUK I am now officially a curmudgeonly old git

What makes you one “officially”? (I mean, what makes “one” one, not you specifically - does ability to officially get a pension qualify? If so, I’ll join the club)

I do understand the annoyance, at both. EV infrastructure in the UK actually annoys me in general - I live in a town of 12,000 people, with 6 public charging points (and my house front is right out on the street, with double yellows so there is no way I can install a private one).

FWIW, the first article assumes an “average charge of 50 minutes”. A Tesla supercharger will provide ~80% of an 85 kWh battery in 40 minutes, but the public chargers installed are normally far lower capacity than a supercharger… and a 50 minute charge doesn’t sound unreasonable as an average charge duration:

I took the stats of 127 chargers in Leeds from Google Maps - average capacity among those is 23.1 kW. 50 minutes is just a shade under 20 kWh - ~50% of a “smaller” EV battery, and ~25% of a “large” one.

Only reason for mentioning this, is that I think that complaints are always more effective if they cannot be dismissed on trivial grounds (“presumably requiring a full charge” - well, that is not what one gets with 50 minutes, but how many people actually time their vehicle’s “regular” recharge on that basis? More likely to be the average time in the shopping mall…)

      DavecUK Well done, as another “curmudgeon” of remorselessly advancing years, I have found “news” sites becoming steadily more like free-to-view tv …. poorly done, lowest common denominator crap dedicated to the stupid and gullible. And advertising sales.

      I don’t hold any hope for improvement, it seems that we’re in a bit of a downward spiral with smarts these days.

      But maybe that’s just the curmudgeon taking, lol

        I had a problem with the downstairs toilet…27 year old ball valve for quite a few years now has been causing vibration banging, really loud, to the point I was worried about my pipes. Finally I got fed up with it and the 1lmost 90s plus of noise that accompanied a flush.

        Got meeself the old Skylo bottom entry float valve.. Looked good, compact, no more float arm and ball and just enough space to miss the jetflow (Ideal standard flush unit), another pile of dog do, but that’s another story, waiting to happen when the membrane finally fails..

        So far so good, drained cistern, removed old ball valve, put a new little fibre washer in the service valve…slung it in and screwed it up from underneath nice and tight. It used a rubbery cone shaped bung to fit in the hole of my cistern….good idea I thought, much better than the flat rubber washer that I had previously. Had taken the grand total of 10 minutes to get to this point.

        Now the nightmare begins, opened service valve filled cistern a bit, leaks from bottom of fill valve, tightened nut, still leaked, I kept tightening this plastic nut until it stopped leaking and it was a toss up whether the nut fractured or the leak would stop. Lesson, not all holes in ceramic cisterns are made equal….

        Massive ball ache that made the job take ages…..works nice though, delayed fill, almost silent and quick as well….just hope that plastic nut stays OK.

        Delayed fill = prevents it filling whilst the toiler is flushing to save water.

        Why oh why are the simplest DIY jobs sometimes such a PITA

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        Something else that really really gets on my tits.

        When you want to buy an honest to goodness genuine product, are willing to pay good money because a fake product is just so much hassle.

        Kitchen gloves (marigold) on Amazon, they have sizes types and packaging that marigold themselves don’t even have. My limited experience with kitchen gloves has been that they either develop holes in a few days…or become like sticky chewing gum after a few weeks.

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          There a con to with covid. We used to pay £3.50 per box of 100 for the good ones, they went up to £18 a box and the ones we used are still £12.99+vat

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          Only ten seats in the GP surgery???? Our surgery used to be heaving but you could get an appointment in a reasonable time. Now the place is literally dead and you have to wait at least 6 weeks for an appointment whilst A & E is like a battle field.
          The irony I found is that when you have a planned operation or visit A & E, no masks are required and no Covid testing is carried out and yet the other half of the country is still in first gear and “??working” from home because of ?? Covid.
          Someone seems to have pressed the snooze button.

            When you make 3 espressos for work later and leave in fridge for couple hours before work and then realise half way to work that, the coffee is, indeed still in the fridge😫

              What makes me particularly angry is when I see a dictator full of warped ideologies and misplaced nostalgic, thoughtless Putinism ideals, that is lost in an opaque vision of totalitarianism that is about as opposite and contrasting as can be ,to the bravery of Ukrainian people whose spirit and determination can only but inspire. Got that one off my chest.

                DavecUK JahLaza I hope they are in a covered jar.

                Sealed, in the fridge, she will have it for breakfast, thou shalt not waste, I will be just finished night shift!

                  5 days later

                  DPD sends a 1-hour delivery window. Sitting at home waiting, I suddenly get a “Sorry I missed you” email (no nock on the door or note - just the email saying come and collect your parcel tomorrow from a shop 20 minute drive from you).

                  Phone call to DPD, they check and confirm: the driver never bothered to even come near me.

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