Mincey

That's almost what my cousin said when she found out that I had one. She spelled "poseur" "w****r".

Good! I've been WFH in 36 degree heat today. It's approaching 40 degrees outside. I've been wishing that I shared the ability of Prince Andrew not to sweat. In case anyone is wondering if they'll get a thunderstorm tonight, here's a map: https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;ts=1;z=6;y=54.2973;x=-3.5925;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;src=6

Unless you're Sinead O'Connor

It'll soon be back down to £1.20 a litre, I have no doubt. Oh hang on a minute...

Some good news - unleaded was down 3p/litre at my local BP last night. Long may this trend continue!

Someone else who has gone from an IS300h F Sport to ES300h F Sport 👍 I hope you'll enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine.

Opening post - Deal or No Deal! Do keep up at the back 😁

And F Sports

A little known fact - I met Noel Edmonds at the Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy at Donington Park in June 1979. I did have his autographed photo but in the intervening 43 years, it appears to have gone walkies.

This gives me the perfect excuse to repost this wonderful footage:

Quite a few Forces have a "Shop someone driving like a tw*t" website. I've seen videos from such on Twitter showing dashcam footage followed by the penalty which the offender received.

As Betsy has a dark rear screen, the rear dash cam is not that obvious, so following wise advice from @royoftherovers, I added this discreet warning sticker:

I was only saying to a friend the other day that the country is in the state it's in due to the lack of mutton chops.

19 plate F Sport:

I went to the effort of parking in the furthest, most remote place of the car park and someone still parked next to me even though there were plenty of other spaces nearer the exit/doors!

I guess not, but perhaps the fact that most of the spaces in the car park were unoccupied when I checked out implies that they made a deliberate effort to park there and not in one of the many other empty spaces. Try this. Park somewhere at the back of a supermarket car park and see if someone sticks their car right next to yours, even though there are plenty of other spaces to park in, the vast majority of which are closer to the supermarket entrance.

I was attending a course in Uxbridge yesterday and today which required an overnight stay. I was booked in to the Slough Holiday Inn. Not one of the most salubrious establishments I have had the pleasure or good fortune of staying in but I digress. The parking looked a bit iffy - narrow spaces filled with various Scheissewagens and those awful electric Telsa things, and frankly I did not want to run the risk of Betsy incurring any dings, dents or scrapes. By luck, there was an underground car park. I hatched a plan. I would park Betsy in the furthest corner of the underground car park. She would be safe there, surely. Nobody would park next to her, would they? This is the sight which greeted me this morning after I checked out: There were plenty of other unoccupied spaces in the car park but no, they chose to park RIGHT NEXT TO BETSY. They didn't even have the courtesy to park over more towards their right hand line did they? I was parked as close to the wall as I dare to reduce the risk of unwanted damage. Had I had the time, I would have waited for the owner of that 똥 더미 to return (Google Translate is your friend) so I could question him (or her) on why they parked right next to me, and depending upon the size and build of the driver, possibly given them a bunch of fives too for good measure. I was barely able to get in. Were I an unkinder type, the rivets in my jeans might have "brushed up" against the other car's paintwork. However I am not a bad man. I didn't even leave a note underneath their wiper blade doubting their intelligence and parentage.

The rattliest of rattly paper @LenT 😄

Betsy developed an annoying noise this week. I thought it was the passenger seat belt rattling between the seat and door (a common occurrence with my IS300H) but no, it wasn't that. I eventually discovered that it was a receipt which had fallen into the passenger seat crumb catcher area. Receipt was removed and Betsy's cabin returned to its former serene silence.

Cracking idea! Thank you

Cheers for that - I'll give it a go!

Is there a Lexus which he actually likes?

Sure did!

I'm worried now...

I'm running my JCB Honda powered petrol mower on E5 to be safe. I've heard horror stories about petrol mowers, E10 and fuel lines (the scripts might be different and more accurate, but they're still horror stories about petrol mowers and E10...). I'm now doubting myself - is it a JCB mower? It's yellow, but it hasn't got a front or back scoop. Where did I get "JCB" from?