Hey you.
Yes, you, reading this.
Keep putting off that call or visit to a friend or relative that you haven't spoken to or seen in a while?
Go call or see them, today.
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Virtual cat pilot, IRL engineer & 🏈 OL. Who said real life needed to be boring?
Admittedly, most of the drive was done at 65mph (on dual carriageways) or less (circa 5mph below the limit for the road), but it was surprising how much battery% you can claw back even in cold conditions by changing your speed/driving style/hvac use etc.
I know it's not a huge trip done, but it's certainly allayed any underlying range anxiety that I may not have been conciously thinking about.
Thankyou for coming to my "Self-justifying my EV purchase" TED Talk :P
So even on a more expensive charging cost at home* than is available (until we switch providers), it's costing me less to run the car than it was with the Civic, plus the VED is (currently) £0.
* (I'm well aware that public rapid chargers can and do cost more than home charging, aren't as prevalent as petrol stations, and occasionally have technical issues, but like fuel forecourts many, many years ago they're increasing in number and reliability quickly)
Yesterday I drove down to the parents, took dad up to hospital and back for an outpatient procedure, and then drove home, all without charging the car at any of the stops. A 173mile trip that would have used a 1/3 of a tank of diesel took my battery from 100% to 16%.
However!
The 59kWh that the home charger put back into the car overnight while I slept cost me £15.34 (We're not on a flexible overnight tariff *yet*). A full tank of diesel from almost empty used to cost me nearly £70, so that's nearly £23 for a third of a tank.
Tryst 🏴 🇮🇪 
Remembrance has become a performative act here in the UK, a means by which people demonstrate their patriotism to each other and pay lip service to the dead, all while ignoring the human cost of conflict.
If poppy disease makes you feel sick, give a couple of quid to SSAFA instead. SSAFA is the Armed Forces charity. They've successfully managed to avoid being politicised and have stayed true to their mission.
Oh.
OH!
So that's what an unbroken night of sleep is! I'd genuinely forgotten what that felt like!
Off to hospital later to have a rather large needle jabbed into my shoulder joint.
Should be fun! ^^;
Joaquín BaldwinA generous anonymous donor asked me to hand out 15 ebook copies of Wolf of Withervale. Instead of a complicated raffle, if you'd like one of these free copies, reply with a bear and I’ll pick the first I see (I’ll do five in Bsky, Mastodon, and Twitter).
I need to do some artsy/night-time shots of the Polestar, plain "sat on the driveway" is boring. Needs a clean too.
Stopped off at the Oxford Fastned charger for a quick top-up as I've done 80 miles today and I'm off down to the parents tomorrow, so figured I'd see how well it worked & top up to 80% at the same time to save using the 3-pin charger. And what better way to spend the 20 mins it took getting from just under 40% up to 80%, than watching a bit of Drivetribe with Mike Fernie & a very special Scooby?