Lady Elanore

Well, things are going super dooper for the new car... https://www.carscoops.com/2021/02/2021-bmw-m3-and-m4-recalled-over-improper-welding-leading-to-braking-issues/

This is in a similar vein. I have no ability in anything remotely like this and marvel at these men's skill and beautiful work. It's one of the reasons that I will miss Ant Anstead from wheeler Dealers, I have discovered, rather late in life, that I love watching men fettle bodywork!! Who knew? (waits for innuendo posts to follow... )

I watched that night and was gutted. Left a comment on the site saying I wanted to hug the car and tell her it will be alright in the end

I need to start to drink white wine. This will sort out the packaging problem. Sometimes the most obvious answers are just staring you in the face I guess

That works whilst I have enough bottles, but once they are depleted I'm back to a Newtons Cradle of bottles

I've had my Samsung fridge/freezer for a couple of weeks now and it's really quite impressive for the money. It's really quiet and makes an interesting noise which is softer in tone than regular compressors I have a small digital thermometer which goes down to something like -30C so I can check my fridge is performing ok and although it took the freezer over 10 hours to get down to -18C and the Fridge to around 3C it's held temperature very accurately so far, or at least without much variation in temp. I like the freezer super boost thing, as it has coped with my batch cooking very well, to bring many litres of soup down from warmer than ideal (for putting in a freezer) to rock solid frozen lump in a few hours. Frost free is of course a boon The fridge has useful little wheels on the back too, so you can scoot it around the kitchen to its final resting place (not as serious as that sounds :D) It does have one shelf in the fridge that slides out, so you can access stuff from the back of it, completely pointless exercise as far as I can see and the door bin for big bottles is possibly a bit too deep as anything smaller than a 1 litre bottle of milk rattles about in it and if you open the door in an over exuberant manner - who hasn't - then things can fall over like standing passengers on a bus that's performing an emergency stop.

The designer of the next gen 4 series has said he felt that the car had to split opinions. They wanted to do something different. I suspect the fact that the Chinese love big grills had more to do with the styling than they would like to admit

On a personal level, I have no objections to occasional posts that are purely links, most do it including myself, but endless link posting kills threads and shows a lack of commitment and effort to the forum. I've posted in the past that I would prefer that 'link posters' refrained from any thread I start, but it falls on deaf ears... or eyes... or something like that. How hard is it to actually put your fingers on a keyboard and bother to put a tiny bit of effort into constructing a 'real' post occasionally? Maybe we are dealing with a form of 'bot'??? Even in his own threads I checked one and the last 8 post where pure links, not a single words of text.

I don't know why I bother sometimes. I don't normally see certain posts, but against better judgement thought I'd read a couple. I already posted an actual description of my link (not a 'cant be ar$ed to bother writing any actual content myself) and in it described my link as part of a series. But to have a 'mere' link posted from the series that I had already gone to the trouble to describe, is salt in the wound. Looks like back to the ignore list...

This is part of a series of explanations of the new M3/4 I think they might have a lot of explaining to do I still like the styling, love the engine and expect it to be seriously quick, but IT'S TOO BIG AND HEAVY!!!! Anyhoo if anyone is bored

I watched that recently (I'm obviously subscribed to the lovely Harry) and he has got to return the car to its natural colour. So much better than black.

Btw did you follow his beautiful Espada series? Utterly gorgeous. Although I am still not sure about his roof mod.

Harry has become a firm favourite for me. Harry, Steve Sutcliffe (probably my favourite road tester) and Chris Harris are a class above the rest in my book. Harris is a slightly younger version of Steve Sutcliffe, but I don't think there is anyone comparable to Harry. He doesn't just spout the press junket, he is first and foremost a car fan and gives snippet of info that are fascinating. His depth of knowledge is astounding. Perhaps it's a voice thing? I do like a man with a calm voice, rather than the usual histrionics that car reviewers have these days and that ruddy forced laughter they all eschew!!!! Don't get me started Mat Watson (I do like the Car Wow 'stick of truth' however)

The Amazon Echo 3 is still available. I've a mixture of Amazon and Google devices and I find Amazon devices perform slightly slicker and integrate very easily with other smart things, but Google is much more able overall as you don't have to use key phrases. I guess this comes down to it's super advanced speech AI stuff. The Amazon stuff sounds a little better than the Google stuff overall I think (although not a huge amount in it), but in a busy and noisy kitchen, smart speakers are quite useful when you ask them to perform"louder" to overcome extractor fan noise and your hands are full/wet and you don't want to touch the speaker. There are other options like the Google Home Hub, which is a small tablet with built-in speaker. It doesn't sound great, but you could Bluetooth link it to a Bluetooth speaker of your choice and control the audio with voice commands from the google device. That way you get the best of both worlds and a handy voice controlled tablet to boot. https://www.amazon.co.uk/amazon-echo-3rd-generation-smart-speaker-with-alexa/dp/B07V1KH27C?th=1

I think Hoover do some 70cm wide American style fridges, which aren’t quite so big, they might even be called 'Slim American Style FF'

It's 20+ years old and I couldn't in all consciousness give it to someone else in case it did something awful. The compressor is a bit noisy these days. Would need a PAT certificate if I sold it.

Funnily enough I have just moved frozen goods from my old 2 draw freezer (part of old fridge freezer) and put them into the new 3 draw freezer. New freezer is barely any bigger in capacity thanks to it being Frost Free and the increased gubbins that go with it, as well as better insulation of course. Looking forward to getting the Samsung. Should give me around 170 litres of combined freeze capacity. Great for bulky things like bread, which I eat a lot of nowadays, as it's hard to find food on site anymore while I am working outdoors (I used to love fish and chips from next to the footie grounds. I'm actually quite excite at the thoughts of having separate draws for frozen veg, bread, meat etc. Who said I don't have a life? A bonus of having the freezer first is I can do a proper defrost for fridge collection, as I don't have to worry about spoiling frozen goods and as it's cold enough outside, I can hang up a bin bag with my fridge contents during the defrost (it will be a big job I fear )

I've just had a mini freezer delivered from Appliance World, they have been excellent. Ordered it on Wednesday and even though they don't do specific times for delivery, they roughly accommodated my wishes. Would have loved a bigger fridge freezer but space and shape of kitchen means the Samsung fridge freezer plus this mini freezer should be perfect. I don't know why I didn't do it earlier, as my job means often getting back from working away and nothing to eat when I get in. Or if I do some batch cooking, I can't freeze things like bread due to lack of space. Beko is humming away at the moment busy chilling down. I was a bit alarmed that it didn't simply go into freeze mode and the compressor solidly for a few hours. It seems to be doing it in steps and having a think about things as it goes - at least I hope that's what it is doing. Hopefully the Samsung will land in 10 days or there abouts

What fridge did you buy in the end? (I posted in your fridge thread earlier)

You had me at the quad screen spilt

I probably could have worded that better ^^^

the control panel that looks like a mini tablet looks like it might be fun

Which system did you go for?

Hmm, I had a look at that and I was a little surprised. I had a look at the Argos site and for £12.50 they can give me an evening slot for delivery on a Samsung FF. As it happens I had a little over a £100 on my Nectar card so that was a nice unexpected discount! I think you can guess I've bought the Samsung, unfortunately it's black, so no doubt it will be covered in the usual dinks, just more visible in fingerprint black I don't mind as long as they are not on the doors or damaging the rear radiator.

Bit of a thread revival. I'm looking at a new fridge freezer as my current one is not only a little too small but the compressor pump is starting to sound a bit 'tired'. It is 20+ years old, so it's not done too badly. I've looked at a Samsung and can fit this model in the alcove in my kitchen (I have a height restriction of 179 cm). Trouble is I need a timed delivery and only Currys can do this (the fridge is out of stock at local suppliers). I am trying to avoid Currys as they gave rotten service the last two times I tried to order anything from them. They screwed up a paid delivery on both orders and I ended up cancelling both items subsequently ....grrrr The other option I have is Liebherr fridge which fits even better and has all the features I require. The only thing is they are a bit pricey and I wonder if you get what you pay for in this instance. I have several Samsung bits of kit (phones, tvs, tablets, washing machine etc) and they have all been exemplary in service, but as I am struggling to find the Samsung fridge I want and also be able to set a delivery time, the Liebherr is a better option as it is physically a better fit, I can set a delivery time and it is allegedly a decent fridge. Anyone know if Leibherr are as good as they claim? Are they worth the extra outlay?