Carlton Boyce

Wednesday night starts with @themotoringpost.bsky.social though - even if Bobbie the Labradoodle shakes her head when she hears the intro and says "they're going to bang on about bloody JLR again, aren't they?"

As an insomniac, Audible has been a bit of a lifesaver; averaging four hours a night currently, alternating between Stephen Fry reading The Collected Works of Sherlock Holmes and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

It baffles me that Labour isn't taking a different stance on Brexit and immigration; doing so doesn't seem particularly contentious given the issues we face.

Ditto keeping the NHS public, taxing corporations/the wealthy more equitably, tackling fascism and racism, sticking up for the BBC etc. etc.

I tried to learn Norwegian but whenever I asked a Norwegian to speak to me in their mother tongue they all asked "why?"

YouTube video by NMP Live – Speaker Bureau & Celebrity Booking Agency Martin Bayfield - Former England Rugby Player, Actor & TV Presenter

Seven joyous minutes of Martin Bayfield.

Exactly how I feel about my R100GS.

Sounds fair 😂

A snow-capped Ben Rinnes in the background and heather, with the odd patch of snow, in the foreground. In the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.

Another magnificent day in the hills, although I suspect I was a few feet outside the Cairngorms National Park at this point.

Christ alive, what a hateful country we've become.

DWR Cobra replica built for Sebring and coming soon to CarsOnline|Bonhams

Isn't our photographer a talented chap?

And airing down tyres in Iceland using two valves to speed things up. We generally removed the cores completely when we went down to 3-5psi and it still took ages for them to drop!

High praise indeed given what you do for a living!

I still refer to this from time to time.

Very well written article, really couldn't have put it better. It's amazing how small a difference you can feel, especially on a bike, but also in a car.

This is comprehensive and very well written - and it applies to 4x4s, motorcycles, cars, and bicycles.

After being little more than a trickle for months, it's great to see the burn roaring again.

No.

Next question. 😉

(But then the standard one isn't worth the £25k you'll have to pay to buy a secondhand one either - and I say that as someone who loves them and has been trying to buy a new one for seven years...)

Current irrational, meaningless "I want to send 50kV of low-current energy to the trackpad of whoever does this"

Listing upcoming car auctions as classified ads on eBay. Manor Park, Evoke, Brightwells and more, they all do it, and I am so very tired of them. Stop. Or make eBay introduce a category.

Aye

Movies that take place where you're from.

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

A black and white photo of a black Labrador and a blue merle Labradoodle play-fighting on a grey sheepskin rug.

Ever wondered what a Labrador and a Labradoodle look like play-fighting on a sheepskin rug?

Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky

Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.

We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

YouTube video by The Iron Snail The Only Wool Sweaters I’d Buy.*

This is far more interesting than you might think, but then his stuff usually is.

(ICYMBI, my preference is for a Devold.)

Like proper old people we've saved half for us tea.

Triple-decker Victorian sponge with vanilla, chocolate and toffee layers.

Now that's a piece of cake.

The Cairngorm mountain range from the Old Military Road between Tomintoul and Grantown-on-Spey.

Oh yes, never even tried to park outside the Co-op!

Grantown-on-Spey has the worst parking I've ever seen.

So bad, in fact, that it's rather charming.

Follow a car to a junction and it's 50/50 whether he'll stop and leave it there or make the turn.

Who says I wasn't? 😂