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At one time London Zoo used to sell Lion and Tiger poo as fertiliser. Apparently the Regents Park area had some very worried cats.

No cats where injured in this saga. The cops sprayed the car with no cats present. The moggie jumped on the car the next morning, licked his paws and then rapidly disappeared.

A colleague of mine used to park his car on the road and the local moggies regularly scratched the paint. One night there was an incident outside and the police sprayed the guilty party and part of the car with pepper spray. He never saw a moggie on the car thereafter.

I was told that mine came from BBC World Service. I hear that a Chinese firm has made a clone, haven’t heard one, but a couple of friends have and say it sounds exactly the same.

By the time I got them the handles had gone, but the mounts for them where still there. I loved the sound they produced.

I used to own a pair of ex BBC LS7’s, which I’m sad I let go of. At the time we had a toddler and she kept trying to climb the heavy stands, it was too dangerous. The Monitor Audio’s would certainly sound great. I did once have a financial director that was certainly trying to 30kg! 😂 That guy ate non stop.

I’ve certainly seen this with newer Japanese built AV revivers, the 2019 Onkyo that I have has a lot less power than the 2009 model it replaced. It’s also not helped by their proprietary room equalisation system. It’s all over the place. Luckily you can store your own settings, so it’s measuring sound levels across various frequencies. Brings back fond memories of many years back doing similar in Fountain Studios in Wembley, they had the same acoustics as the average aircraft hanger 🤬😊

I wouldn’t like it if the car wouldn’t allow you to accelerate to avoid an accident. I’ve had two incidents in the past when being able to go above the speed limit saved me from an accident. One was a truck deciding to just swerve into my lane (I think the driver nodded off and I had to get clear) and one where one of the wheels came off a car in front.

They certainly dragged it out as long as possible before starting the farce of a couple of parade laps, before giving the half points based on qualifying positions. Shouldn’t the safety car got first place and fastest lap? 😊

We used to have a 2014 year UK Yeti with an Amudsen entertainment system and it had DAB.

On the three Kodiaq’s we have or had, I’ve had to turn the collision avoidance radar settings down on two of them in the entertainment system. One had a fear of a certain humpback bridge and always slammed the brakes on approaching it. After turning the settings down it’s been fine.

I’d agree on that, but unfortunately we often go off track exploring in areas with poor mobile coverage. Downloading all the areas Google maps is a bit too much for our phone’s memory

Cars delivered from November 2020 have the Skoda name on the back tailgate door replacing the Skoda logo. They also have MIB3 entertainment systems, which are a huge retrograde from the previous MIB2. The sat nav in particular is awful and the excellent POI interface search has been replaced by a useless sat nav add on. I won’t be buying any VAG vehicle with MIB3 ever again, it’s useless.

I wish broadcasters would agree a sound level standard. The BBC keeps reasonable sound levels, but ITV just screams at you with compressed sound, particularly daytime TV. 5.1 or now even 7.1 or 9.2 reductions on Sky can sound very odd. There also seems to be an issue with amp designers of 5.1 AV receivers sound tuning systems or room equalisation. Some amps are extremely loud others don’t seem to perform till turned up to 90%.

I believe the GB letters on plates and stickers are being replaced by UK. Don’t know if it’s allowed on the green strip though.