Another largely clear and cloudless night which was ideal for watching the planetary alignment. This morning it's decidedly nippy and there's a coating of thick frost on the car windscreen. The little BMW's battery can't cope with having the defrost mode turned on and responds by shutting everything down. Even the petrol engine - the safety net reason you buy a hybrid - refuses to kick into life. After painstakingly resetting the whole electrical system the cylinders fire up and we get under way after scraping the ice off the windows by hand. We like the size and handling of the little BMW. It is perfect for narrow Scottish parking spaces. We are less enamoured with the cheaply tacky hard plastics in the interior ( how is it we'd not seen them when ordering it - they're shiny enough ?) and an electrical system that seems to be clunky and dire an after thought. It is a mystery that Asian cars can cope with the cold and yet German ones can't. 25% tariffs are the least of their problems.
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Who'd have thought it ? : https://theconversation.com/alcohol-ingestion-by-animals-is-surprisingly-widespread-and-were-starting-to-understand-its-impact-246638
The radio has a segment on whether birds worry - ( they do ).This unusual but rather beautiful piece of music is played :https://youtu.be/ZSxxvjcDxAI
Baby boomers :https://ourworldindata.org/baby-boom-seven-charts
Puppy mountain :https://apnews.com/article/puppy-mountain-yangtze-river-china-photo-d5d59c2d787068c279cb99eff526827a?stream=top
6 comments:
Gorgeous photos this morning, Angus. Thank you
I am sorry for your problems with the new car, I guess I don't understand why BMW is marketing this model in Scotland. I agree that birds worry. Right now, the rest of my family is off in the UK. I am upstairs and the parrot is communicating continuously from downstairs to make sure I'm still here. She does whistling challenges, which become more and more complex until I can't keep up - and then she laughs hysterically. In the article about animals and alcohol, it was interesting to learn that the only Asian ape does not metabolize ethanol as efficiently as others. The same is true of many human Asians. When you visit Japan, you will see people turning red when they drink. This is a sign that they do not have the protective enzyme. It's actually dangerous and helps explain why the rate of stomach cancer is so high in Asia.
Hari OM
And again, I can highly recommend the Ford E-Transit all-electric ... but without being flippant, I am sorry you are having such a poor experience of what seems to me to be just a token effort by BMW to 'go green'. My sister has a 12 year old Peugeot hybrid from which she extracts maximum electric boost. Would you not consider an Audi E-Tron, or Merc EQS... or go Nordic with a Polestar? Or, bless it, a Ford Puma Gen-E, boasting over 700 mile range... YAM xx
700 miles!! From an electric car???
It was about 60(f) here yesterday, and we had the top down on my little car. When the top goes down I smile. Good cheese takes time and quality ingredients.
Thank you. I was oblivious to the fact that Asians do not metabolize alcohol efficiently. I shall now worry about fellow diners lacking the protective enzyme. I had always thought of the Japanese as being keen whisky drinkers.
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