Fuelled up at Regina Cabs @86.9, glad it's cheap because I took 88.5L.

About a $40 dollar savings over what it would cost you in Vancouver...

Canada’s best and worst cities for driving | Driving

No surprise really as to what city's are best and which are worst.

You've got to wonder how anybody discovers that they have that talent. Same format as AGT and BGT but if that was BGT Piers would have buzzed them in a nano-second.

Because he already fills the dick quota?

The music teacher asked them to play a piece pianissimo and they misunderstood.

Piers is a person who really makes my blood boil. A scrote/twunt of the highest order.

I forgive him, though, whenever I remember him on TV with NRA gunrunners nutters.

I’ve been in Italy where I hired a Citroen Mehari, a great vehicle, not encumbered with too many electric gimmicks. Now I’m in England where I have a rented minivan, a Nissan Qashqai. It fits the bill “something suitable for a little old lady with a wheelchair”. It is not going to set anyone giggling nor their heart pounding. It has lots of electric gadgets including one of those troublesome electric handbrakes. Today I came back to it in the car park and the electric doors wouldn’t open. I looked around, there were a great number of people clicking frenziedly at their cars. Those with proper door locks as well as electric ones opened them and set off the alarms. It was cacophonous.

I called Hertz where the technician was unflustered, oh yes, random appliances use the same frequencies and they interfere with the electrics, if it’s the whole car park it’s probably someone using a jammer for a laugh. At that point the car sprang back to life with everything flashing at once like a mobile phone that’s been dropped down the toilet. I’ve been a bit scared of the Qashqai since and I shan’t be getting in any self-driving vehicle.

Oh wow yeh, imagine some one re programmes your self driving Skoda and locks the doors setting the destination to Iraq

I rented a Qashqai in Nice @ Christmas time and it fit the bill for us. We had the 6 speed diesel version and I managed to get a speeding ticket in it (sent in the post a month or so later) in either France or Italy. I did find the fact that the power went off at traffic lights to be annoying and the electric hand brake was off putting at first.

We have one on our car. It takes me about six or seven goes to get it to turn off.

I think all diesels turn themselves off and on again, I had a Vauxhall Something Ludicrous diesel last time I was here that did that. I don't care for diesels, all that clanking and smelling. Today I saw an Audi A4 convertible, a nice enough car, but it was a diesel and rattled like an old Transit.

The Qashqai has location sensing, which is useless in England, you're always too close to something so it bings incessantly. Still, good for hauling the ancient.

Radio 1 at 50, but where is it? - BBC News

The youth of today.

This is unbelievable...people say they've never tuned a radio/found a station. I know younger people don't listen to the radio much these days as there are so many other options (and every time I've been back in the UK, Radio 1 is just auto tuned aural wallpaper) but what next...people who don't know how to dial a phone #?