Diamond Hell

I have history with this infrastructure.... and oh boy, it's a thing

I used to live about a mile from the Bristol office. It was such a godsend for weird stuff like importing old VWs and changing tax from disabled etc

I'm gradually deploying online booking, so the website is a bit of a work in progress at the moment. Needs more cowbell, TBH

Change vehicle details on a V5C registration certificate (log book) Updating your V5C registration certificate (log book) if you make changes to your vehicle

So, DVLA, what should I do if I change the gearbox on a car from automatic to manual?

www.gov.uk/change-vehic...

But DVLA, what if I change the gearbox from auto to manual?

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

What a mess.

No one ever said 'go east, young man'

Pricing is at

campwight.co.uk/pricing/

We have a lot of single night stays for cyclists and walkers and offer 25% off pitch fees for those who walk, or cycle in.

Sounds like you're speaking from basically in Nottingham.

A hand written note containing Smith & Sniff podcast references

I'm not confirming @sniffpetrol.com s concerns #smithandsniff is a cult, but on that side of things I ordered a stereo loom for the Bob-Golf and this note from @pmozzy.bsky.social was in the packaging

CMTMB Phil!

Please, make it not inevitable.

This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.

I assure you it was a mindful erection and I was present within it.

We're Camp Wight. I would say we're decent, but I'm biased, so here's a link to our Google reviews

maps.app.goo.gl/Zh2fxgJySGqY...

Listening to @marcusbrig.bsky.social and @rachelparris.bsky.social on #howwasitforyoupod reviewing camping whilst putting up a rent-a-tent on our woodland campsite on the #isleofwight

Feels appropriate!

Own the prejudice

and unless you're going to 'fix' how supermarkets behave AND 'fix' low payments for basic raw materials, getting this sector with very high suicide rates into a better place is a huge challenge.

But there you are, with your 'f*ck farmers' attitude.

Why don't you just post 'f*ck farmers'?

It's OK to hate a generalised sector of society - the populist right are encouraging such behaviour from you, daily.

Flip side to this is that most (right leaning) farmers will knee-jerk 'we don't need this'. The problem is many of them genuinely do.

That's the difference between those who get what community means and is and those who are just trousering the money.

The most worrying thing about this - next May people might put a cross in the 'Reform' box as a 'protest vote' against the Tory, instead of voting for the guy already doing the work

Tories gonna tory

In related news, I was chatting with a local Green (unpaid) Town councillor about an issue yesterday and asked whether the Tory unitary (paid) councillor for his area did much "nothing, I seem to be doing his case work now"

Harry Enfield masquerading as a train spotter

I would just like to flag how much more difficult it has been to grab my go-to image to illustrate train-spotter tendencies, since the emergence of bloody 'Francis Bourgeois' on to the internet.

This remains the go-to image of venal trainspotterism.

See also VW's 'sealed for life' Haldex units and gearboxes, with no service kits available, where identical units are used in Volvo vehicles, with defined service intervals and available service kits.

Can't believe they will make you work all night after dropping off the car!

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings

“This is Brexit Britain. We voted to take back control of our borders,” says Nigel Farage

Imagine his shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings

youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...

They do indeed use powered rollers, for 2WD cars.

Anything modern will have a bit of a fit when having its wheels spun up, to test brakes.

Interesting fact - brake test rollers are a great way of getting a live vehicle axle weights - they're very accurate and tested and calibrated annually.

You should hop across the water for a night on our campsite 😊

Fancy a night in a hammock, or a tree tent?

I should point out this is not the first EV I've presented at this station, to this tester.

The previous was a Leaf, but that has a lot more familiar, conventional controls, so was an easier flex for the tester.

The tester said 'I've got no time for EVs' and when I asked him to clarify, it quickly became obvious he has no time for Teslas.

I have spent time with Ralph. Lovely guy and one hell of a thinker!

and there it is, appended to the original post. Food for thought and enough to make me consider (again) whether I should get trained up as a tester!

and being capable of navigating the systems in EVs is going to mean we will need a 'different shape' of tester in the future.

Let's hope they're being trained and appropriately remunerated for the job and that, where assistants are needed, that is factored in to the cost of tests for those vehicles

This is an issue that is only going to mushroom with the increasing number of aging EVs on the road.

I know 'there's a solution on vehicle x, you just....' but that knowledge should be available to testers and it doesn't seem it is.

Challenging times ahead - AI cannot test vehicles like a human