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I've fallen foul of the left foot braking when using an automatic in this country, but don't think it have done when using a LHD automatic abroad. My first experience of an automatic was in the States, and whilst I can't remember the exact model, I'm pretty certain it had the parking brake...

And that applies especially to EVs, we were in a supermarket car park the other weekend when my wife & child were nearly hit by the front passenger side of an electric SUV that started to leave their space without looking and we, as pedestrians, were unaware that it was about to move due to no...

Try asking my colleague about EVs. Lives in a terraced house somewhere in Berkshire with no off street parking and can't always park outside their house. Has an EV Vauxhall (Grandland i think), charges it at home via a cable popped into a gully on the pavement and makes frequent trips to North...

Back when my older sister started secondary school, I remember my Dad driving us into the village where the school was and dropping her at the bus stop with 30p to get the bus back home to our town. I was just told to remember where the stop and what bus it was for when I started a couple of...

Don't get me started on the new electric delivery vans. We had an order delivered a few weeks back, where the driver had been struggling all day with the freezer section. When he got to us it was at -14C, but had started at something like +17C when he picked the van up, as the freezers don't...

So, that was £1.4bn spent by Sainsbury's back in 2016 on Home Retail Group and a recovery of £720m in 2024 after selling Argos Financial Services and now £120m for selling Argos. So that's a £0.56bn loss for them on the face of it. Do Sainsbury's still own Habitat, or is that part of the Argos...

I don't pop out to buy premium coffee drinks, so should I skip visiting petrol stations as "Wild Bean Cafe"? Similarly, should I not bother stopping at Leigh Delamere on my way to South Wales as I don't want to buy a drink, have a burger and buy over-priced tat from the WHSmith equivalent? The...

Why? I have always work colleague who frequently charges their EV in the local public car park, and nips back there to move it at lunchtime or whenever it is charged to avoid hogging the space. We have family who have an EV and no home charger. Doesn't seem to cause them a problem either...

We're veering slightly off-topic I feel, but we've got a mixture of cutlery sets, including a "best" set that we tend to use when family visit and then our "everyday" set which seems now to be a bit of a mish-mash, and I'm not entirely too sure why - some of it seems to have disappeared, so...

It's not that bad to be honest. I've driven across it a few times now, being fully aware of it's existence. It does make you slow down and think, which is a good thing in my opinion. The problem comes with people who think they know how they are driving is correct and are not paying any...

I saw that this morning and opted for Puffin, Woodpecker, Bumblebee, Frog, Hedgehog and Fox in my selection of 6 (2 from each category).

From experience, most of the banking apps have the ability to block/unblock cards in real time, so if the algorithm suspects fraud, then if it is a valid transaction, you should be able to use the app to confirm it as valid and then unfreeze the card. I'm also seeing more occasions in which I...

I'm currently working on a project to try and update a 10+ year old Excel workbook that, whilst it works fine, does rely on a fair bit of VBA code to apply protection and create different versions of the output document. Unfortunately, we now have a number of users who, for whatever reason...

I used to find M&S quite useful. I work in Apex, and it was quite handy for a spot of lunch - particularly if it was raining, and unlike the main store, offered a meal deal. Now, options are a little more limited, but the Sainsbury's in the old RBS site just round the corner is OK if the...