Not an official reading but my local weather site is currently showing 22.8°

Took my car for a short drive and found that the engine was revving up far too much. Brought it back home, rang my local repair people, and drove it to them to investigate. Hasn't happened before and no warning lights. I know it's a warm day but not like it is in summer so that shouldn't affect the car.

@El Loro posted:

Took my car for a short drive and found that the engine was revving up far too much. Brought it back home, rang my local repair people, and drove it to them to investigate. Hasn't happened before and no warning lights. I know it's a warm day but not like it is in summer so that shouldn't affect the car.

Let’s hope it’s an easy fix El

@El Loro posted:

Not an official reading but my local weather site is currently showing 22.8°

It’s a mere 21° here El

@Moonie posted:

Let’s hope it’s an easy fix El

Thanks, I hope so

Evening all

I won’t be on later as it’s a BO night.

Happy to report a milder day, with some sunshine.

I hope everyone has had a good day

@El Loro posted:

Took my car for a short drive and found that the engine was revving up far too much. Brought it back home, rang my local repair people, and drove it to them to investigate. Hasn't happened before and no warning lights. I know it's a warm day but not like it is in summer so that shouldn't affect the car.

Hope they can trace the fault and it’s easy to fix

@Yogi19 posted:

Evening all

I won’t be on later as it’s a BO night.

Happy to report a milder day, with some sunshine.

I hope everyone has had a good day

Hi Yogi

Its been really hot here

My day has been good, I hope yours has too

@Yogi19 posted:

Hope they can trace the fault and it’s easy to fix

Thanks Yogi

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Rosss, Yogi and visitors

night yogi moonsie

Good morning everyone it should be a mix of cloud and sun today. That happened to my car once years ago EL I was driving a Mini, turned out it was the throttle cable. I hope they can sort it quickly.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Forecast to be nearly as warm here as yesterday but a bit more cloudy.

Thanks Squiggle re my car The mechanic did have a quick look under the bonnet and didn't see anything obviously wrong. I think he was looking at the cable so it may be something else.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone

It’s a sunny start to the day here. A high of 21° expected today

Squiggle, I hope you get some sunshine today

El, I hope your car is sorted soon

Have a lovely day everyone

Thanks Moonie

Oops
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56578544
A young child inadvertently sparked confusion over the weekend by posting an unintelligible tweet to the official account of US Strategic Command.

@El Loro posted:

Oops
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56578544
A young child inadvertently sparked confusion over the weekend by posting an unintelligible tweet to the official account of US Strategic Command.

  We nearly had WW3 then El?

@Moonie posted:

  We nearly had WW3 then El?

That was not a possibility as the concern was about the US Strategic Command Twitter account as to whether it had been hacked, which it hadn't

@El Loro posted:

That was not a possibility as the concern was about the US Strategic Command Twitter account as to whether it had been hacked, which it hadn't

Ah, right

@Moonie posted:

Ah, right

It wasn't a rehash of that 1983 film "War Games" which you might have been thinking of, Young man (Matthew Broderick) accidentally hacks into a top secret super-computer and unintentionally starts the countdown to WW3.

My car repair people rang to say they hadn't found any problem and was driving normally, I've collected it and the drive home was normal.
I had to park the car out in the road yesterday morning. Restarted the car a couple of times to get the car parked next to the pavement and not blocking the lowered kerb outside  the house 2 doors down. (I generally park on the left side of the road rather than the right and that lowered kerb is recent). The only thing I can think of is that restarting the car from cold in rapid succession confused the car system.

I'll see how the car goes to see if this happens again. My car repair people didn't make a charge.

@El Loro posted:

It wasn't a rehash of that 1983 film "War Games" which you might have been thinking of, Young man (Matthew Broderick) accidentally hacks into a top secret super-computer and unintentionally starts the countdown to WW3.

@El Loro posted:

My car repair people rang to say they hadn't found any problem and was driving normally, I've collected it and the drive home was normal.
I had to park the car out in the road yesterday morning. Restarted the car a couple of times to get the car parked next to the pavement and not blocking the lowered kerb outside  the house 2 doors down. (I generally park on the left side of the road rather than the right and that lowered kerb is recent). The only thing I can think of is that restarting the car from cold in rapid succession confused the car system.

I'll see how the car goes to see if this happens again. My car repair people didn't make a charge.

That’s good news at lest El

@Moonie posted:

That’s good news at lest El

True It may be that as they know me, they didn't charge

Good evening all.

Weather was dry and bright in the morning, then cold, showery and windy in the afternoon.

El, I’m glad the garage didn’t charge you as they couldn’t find a fault - good customer service for a regular customer

Moonie, were you at the park today?

It’s GBM at 8pm so I won’t be around later. Have a good evening, everyone

@Yogi19 posted:

Good evening all.

Weather was dry and bright in the morning, then cold, showery and windy in the afternoon.

El, I’m glad the garage didn’t charge you as they couldn’t find a fault - good customer service for a regular customer

Moonie, were you at the park today?

It’s GBM at 8pm so I won’t be around later. Have a good evening, everyone

Hi Yogi

At least you had good weather for part of the day

I have been up the park and guess what I saw?

The cygnet was on the island on what looked like a nest. The parks dept had put more straw on the island towards the middle  for the geese to nest on but the cygnet looks like it had commandeered it and built it into a nest

I hope you have a good evening too

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi, Rosss and visitors

night yogi moonsie

Good morning everyone it's another day of mild temperatures before they drop tomorrow but it is forecast to be a little windier today.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Forecast to be cooler here than the last couple of days. By Monday night time temperature down to zero and a high of 7°.

Thanks Yogi re my car repair people not charging

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone

It’s a much cooler today the start to the day here. The forecast is, overcast changing to sunny intervals by lunchtime. A possible high of 12°. About 10° lower than yesterday

I hope everyone has a lovely day

Moonie, slightly higher here forecast of 14°

Met Office clip on Youtube with their 10 day forecast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yAWjHYBcb8
It's longer than typical forecasts at 7 minutes.

The message is don't plant anything over the Easter weekend as there will be frosts each night. Next week is cold, should start getting a bit warmer the following weekend but not like the last couple of days.

@El Loro posted:

Moonie, slightly higher here forecast of 14°

El, I’ve just been outside and it’s bitter cold

Not nice at all after yesterday

@El Loro posted:

Met Office clip on Youtube with their 10 day forecast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yAWjHYBcb8
It's longer than typical forecasts at 7 minutes.

The message is don't plant anything over the Easter weekend as there will be frosts each night. Next week is cold, should start getting a bit warmer the following weekend but not like the last couple of days.

Just done some local shopping and my car was OK

@El Loro posted:

Just done some local shopping and my car was OK

That’s great news El

I didn't mention when I went shopping that it was noticeably cooler than the last couple of days with a breeze coming from the north-east. Back to wearing a pullover

Afternoon all

Cloudy and chilly in the morning but the sun has popped out.

El, I’m glad I’ve held off planting seeds. I think I’ll leave it another couple of weeks till the cold snap is over.

Moonie, lol at the cygnet taking the nesting materials

GBM again tonight so I won’t be around later. Have a good evening, all

@El Loro posted:

I didn't mention when I went shopping that it was noticeably cooler than the last couple of days with a breeze coming from the north-east. Back to wearing a pullover

When I went up the park yesterday I had a pullover and body warmer on, I needed the pocket storage

I haven’t been up today but if I had it would have required a top coat too