Oh - I've had a further thought... ... ...

I've spent my entire working life trailing around the boots of whatever cars I've been driving, changing shoes into wellies and vice versa, perhaps up to 20 times a day on busy days. I reckon that should qualify me as a bit of a know-it-all smart-ass about the access to a cars nether regions.

Over the years I have perfected the contortions and delicate balance procedures required to roll down over-trousers onto wellies, remove one leg from the boot and insert foot into shoe, and then repeat with t'other leg/foot. The over-trousers mean that your feet are pinned together as you do it.

A bog standard tailgate like the Yeti is the best as it offers best access to the whole of the storage space, and keeps you dry in the rain and snow. You do need some sort of receptacle for dirty or wet boots and I found a plain washing up bowl did the trick. A device to lay over the back bumper to help in keeping you clean was also useful - usually an old fertiliser bag would do.

One irritation with many cars was the lack of decent illumination provided in that area and invariably we had to devise our own Heath Robinson (top gear?) bodge-ups.

The best boot ever, ever ever was in an old Ford Granny estate. It just had acres upon acres of room, and all the kit could be stowed in a single layer and be accessible, albeit with a bit of stretching. Next best - probably a Renault 20 hatch.

Freshacre - Thank you for the description of why a fold down lip gave you back ache. I personally will not be chasing sheep around the back of my Yeti but I understand the mechanics of why leaning over the lip is bad for your back. Not something I had thought about and a good point.

I have also changed many a shoe in a car park, golf ones generally as well as walking boots, so I too have a pretty good changeover balanced on one foot. I thought the folding lip would be a bonus but I am happy to accept from the replies people have made that whilst it would be better for shoe changing it would create other problems elsewhere. I am not getting the false floor on my Yeti so I will get a deepish lip on my boot. I will have to put a bit of thought into how I can improve the set up for me for the occasions when I need it, probably a towel folded over the lip and bumper will be as good as anything.

I will have to put a bit of thought into how I can improve the set up for me for the occasions when I need it, probably a towel folded over the lip and bumper will be as good as anything.

Harvey,

Are you having a spare wheel? I ask as we don't have the spare wheel and I will get "Parker" to take a photo so you can see how big the drop is... if this would be helpful? :yes:

Ideas for comfort... an old bolster to sit on... or a bench padded cushion? might be more comfy than just a towel

Best wishes

Lady Penelope

Lady P. - We are not getting the spare. I want as much boot space as I can get, the boot is the big compromise for me and so I need to squeeze as much out of it as I can, and whilst I know there is a feisty thread going on at the moment about having full spares etc. I am happy to take the risk. Twenty years of driving and I have been okay so far with just a foot pump/compressor in the boot. If you could post some pics that would be great and I can then get my brain working. I am going from a saloon opening, bad, to a the wide open Yeti hatchback so that should give me more scope for a better platform. What I have to avoid though is filling the extra space I have gained with a comfy cushion to sit on. An outdoor seat cushion is a thought though as you have suggested.

Thanks

Lady P. - We are not getting the spare. . What I have to avoid though is filling the extra space I have gained with a comfy cushion to sit on. An outdoor seat cushion is a thought though as you have suggested.

Thanks

Blow up cushion? You will have the tyre inflator!!!

Terfyn, Are you thinking of a Whopee cushion.? Be careful or those moderators will descend

Terfyn, Are you thinking of a Whopee cushion.? Be careful or those moderators will descend

This was a perfectly serious suggestion. LOL

Blow up cushion? You will have the tyre inflator!!!

Actually Terfyn that is an absolutely brilliant idea- genius

You can get all sorts of blow up cushions :yes:

and even furniture... armchairs, footstools and to top it off a table... (to put the Pimms on :cocktail: )

Yeti owners could have the entire contents of their drawing rooms in blow up furniture lurking in all that boot space to be brought to life by that otherwise useless tyre inflator...by the butler of course.

I can visualize it now at Cheltenham on Friday 19th March - Gold Cup Day!

http://www.cheltenham.co.uk/

Roll on the Point to Points

April 11th next Bitterley Nr Ludlow

April 17th Chaddesley Corbett between Bromsgrove and Kidderminster

http://www.jumping4fun.co.uk/pointingwestmidlands/meetings-worcestershire.pdf

:clap:

Edited 9 March, 201016 yr by Lady Penelope

I can visualize it now!

The scary thing is I have just sat at work now picturing a blow up living room coming out of the Yeti boot and being laid out on the ground. Lady P is a very bad influence with her frivolity.

Well if all you Pimm's drinkers would like to come up to Ludlow Racecourse instead of the Point to Point, and I'm on shift, I call wave to you from my signal box.

and even furniture... armchairs, footstools and to top it off a table...

You mean like this:

(to put the Pimms on :cocktail: )

or G&T!

The scary thing is I have just sat at work now picturing a blow up living room coming out of the Yeti boot and being laid out on the ground. Lady P is a very bad influence with her frivolity.

Harvey -I try my best!... BUT Harvey what will your boss say if they see you dreaming and not with your nose to the grindstone- I don't want to get you into any trouble

Checking out Frivolity on Google this came up and at the bottom is an ad for used Skodas- spooky!!!!

Literary Frivolity

Here is a very helpful and balanced perspective on literature and aesthetics from a paper by C. S. Lewis published the book Christian Reflections (Eerdmans, 1967) page 10:

“The Christian will take literature a little less seriously than the cultured Pagan: he will feel less uneasy with a purely hedonistic standard for at least many kinds of work. The unbeliever is always apt to make a kind of religion of his aesthetic experiences; he feels ethically irresponsible, perhaps, but he braces his strength to receive responsibilities of another kind which seem to the Christian quite illusory. He has to be ‘creative’; he has to obey a mystical amoral law called his artistic conscience; and he commonly wishes to maintain his superiority to the great mass of mankind who turn to books for mere recreation. But the Christian knows from the outset that the salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world …

It thus may come about that Christian views on literature will strike the world as shallow and flippant; but the world must not misunderstand. When Christian work is done on a serious subject there is no gravity and no sublimity it cannot attain. But they will belong to the theme. That is why they will be real and lasting—mighty nouns with which literature, an adjectival thing, is here united, far over-topping the fussy and ridiculous claims of literature that tries to be important simply as literature.

And a posteriori it is not hard to argue that all the greatest poems have been made by men who valued something else much more than poetry… The real frivolity, the solemn vacuity, is all with those who make literature a self-existent thing to be valued for its own sake.”

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March 5, 2010 - Posted by spurgeon | Art, C.S. Lewis, Literature |

Edited 9 March, 201016 yr by Lady Penelope

Well if all you Pimm's drinkers would like to come up to Ludlow Racecourse instead of the Point to Point, and I'm on shift, I call wave to you from my signal box.

Llanigraham,

Intrigued- Are you a starter on the course or on the railway?!! and when are you there?

Fantastic Jlwah

- Those look like we could get sets to match our Yetis!!! :yes:

Edited 9 March, 201016 yr by Lady Penelope

Lady P - Thankfully I am my own boss so within reason I can day dream away. Of course if I do that too much then I do not earn enough money to pay for my nice new Yeti so the incentive is there to work. Every so often you need a bit of quiet time though.

Great mock up of the blow up living room. For some reason I also pictured a light stand but that is very old fashioned so i am pleased that was left out. I think those armchairs would be excellent for sitting in and changing my muddy shoes. Problem solved.

Edited 9 March, 201016 yr by Harvey1512

Actually Terfyn that is an absolutely brilliant idea- genius

You can get all sorts of blow up cushions :yes:

and even furniture... armchairs, footstools and to top it off a table... (to put the Pimms on :cocktail: )

Yeti owners could have the entire contents of their drawing rooms in blow up furniture lurking in all that boot space to be brought to life by that otherwise useless tyre inflator...by the butler of course.

I can visualize it now at Cheltenham on Friday 19th March - Gold Cup Day!

http://www.cheltenham.co.uk/

Roll on the Point to Points

April 11th next Bitterley Nr Ludlow

April 17th Chaddesley Corbett between Bromsgrove and Kidderminster

http://www.jumping4fun.co.uk/pointingwestmidlands/meetings-worcestershire.pdf

:clap:

Being serious, these are good value:

The site page is:

http://www.putnams.co.uk/travel.htm about half way down.

tom

Lady P, I'm a proper signalman on the nice 12" to the foot model railway, so I can play with trains all day!!

When am I there? All sorts of funny times, we have a very strange shift pattern!!

Oh and look out for a dirty red Freelander with "4x4 Response Wales" badges on it in Worcester this weekend, the other half is coming to spend it with our daughter in the Arboretum. Unfortunately I've got to stay behind and mind the shop, otherwise I would be over in Powick pestering the dealer.

...For some reason I also pictured a light stand but that is very old fashioned so i am pleased that was left out.

I believe you can get a 6 arm cut glass crystal chandelier that will plug into the 12v socket in the boot to illuminate your picnic...

Lady P, I'm a proper signalman on the nice 12" to the foot model railway, so I can play with trains all day!!

Sounds like fun Llanigraham! Not sure on my railway sizes whether this is a watch or sit on size??

Oh and look out for a dirty red Freelander with "4x4 Response Wales" badges on it in Worcester this weekend...Will do!

It means I'm a proper signalman on the proper railway!

Think about it......how many inches are there in a foot?

Being serious, these are good value:

The site page is:

http://www.putnams.co.uk/travel.htm about half way down.

tom

That is a great shout actually. I may well go down that route as it looks a good product. If I asked nicely do you think they would send the lady in the advert as well? Maybe not..............

Harvey,

As promised... some photos of the boot without the spare tyre- put the petrol can in so you get an idea of height!

Lady P - Great pics, thank you. The boot ones in particular are useful for people, like me, who have not gone for the spare wheel. Would you please ask Parker to take a picture with the boot up so that I can see how far the lid goes, what angle it is at? Someone advised it would keep you dry if it was raining. I remember it being more vertical than that but I may well be wrong. Very cheeky of me but it is appreciated.

Nice looking house by the way. I like the style of that era of house.

Would you please ask Parker to take a picture with the boot up so that I can see how far the lid goes, what angle it is at? Someone advised it would keep you dry if it was raining. I remember it being more vertical than that but I may well be wrong. Very cheeky of me but it is appreciated.

No problem -will do!

Harvey,

As promised... some photos of the boot without the spare tyre- put the petrol can in so you get an idea of height!

Lady P- SLIGHTLY-----off topic............Are the leather covers hanging down in the pictures the Skoda accessory "Boot Cover" (DMK630001)? Iwas looking to purchase these for my Yeti (when it eventually arrives).

My dealer gave me the impression they were velcro fixings but it appears to be clips on your photo. I also did not realise they hung down quite so much into the boot area.

How do you find them, worth fitting?

Regards,

Del