Dogconker

It's the car rather than me, just very economical on a long run 65mph on cruise and you'll get 55-60mpg. I've had 79mpg out I of it be hypermiling, but that's really hard work and tedious on a long run. Got 102mpg over 200miles once out of a 1.6D Civic when Honda asked me to for promotion made the national Honda magazine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Taking my camera with me, even though I'm working, might try and get done arty shots of the XV if I get chance. 2 tanks is a conservative estimate, if u drive steady I could possibly get 800 per tank. You'l probably find that even less funny [emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gearing the XV up for the big excursion. 1200miles around Scotland in 3 days. I reckon this should take about 2 tanks of fuel. She'll be getting a clean inside and out this weekend so it's a nice place to sit for the drive. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lol, I'm just pulling your chain. Not fair to compare a diesel against a petrol [emoji6] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd be gutted if I only got that! I was hacked off I only got 49 yesterday because of being stuck in traffic [emoji38] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Took 6.5 hrs to drive back from Hull after getting stuck on M1 yesterday. Crash closed it between J30 and J29a took 2 hours to cover 3 miles, pulled into services and then couldn't get out so had tea and a kip. All in all a pretty crappy day. Next week 3 days all over Scotland, prestwick, Turriff and Forfar. Looking forward to the scenery even if I am there for work Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Halfrauds Own branded XV blades were £49. We paid 36 for Bosch ones (at Halfords) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, not the cheapest upgrade Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'll try get a look later, always liked the sagaris. Used to have a really good DeWalt paint scheme for one Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think you can chose how to play it from what I've read, either full mmo kill or be killed etc, or others can't kill you but can help you kill big things or basically solo play. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Game do a straight trade in on the same day so there's no sending it off and waiting for weeks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And I bet it doesn't solve the problem and I have to get yet another box Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Had problems with my Kinect, spoke to help desk and have ended up doing a full factory reset on my console, that means I've got to go through the whole set up and uploading all my games again, uughh [emoji30] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Went to Halfrauds, bought some meguiars bits as they're still 3 for 2. Bought some wiper blades for the wife's XV as she couldn't see a darn thing but said they'd be ok for a bit. Used my owners club discount card which caused the usual shenanigans. Got there in the end [emoji39] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The cvt doesn't have clutch shudder so that wouldn't be an issue, it's only on the manual. The bigger car would probably be the better choice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Get out!!!!! only joking, no I don't tow a caravan, petrol or diesel? I imagine the diesel will have more low end grunt. Only thing I would say is with Subarus tendency towards their cars having clutch shudder I'm not sure how or if that would affect it. certainly never seen an XV towing anything but imagine it could, it has kerb weights in the manual.

Dammit! I've accidentally ordered it from Game and just realised I'm off the week after its released. Darn, what am I going to do [emoji6] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope so, I'll be on it. Love Skyrim. Gaulson is it good? I don't think it's going to be free to buy but may be its free in terms of they were going to charge a monthly fee to play online. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sounds a bit like GTA, never got enough money so end up grinding missions to get that next sports car or chopper. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Result [emoji38] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just keep the windows shut, no one will notice. Mine's covered in Sahara sand which I need to wash off. Bl@@dy immigrant sand coming over here taking over our cars, costing me money and using up my car washing resources. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pretty sure others will be up for a bit of a blast Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anyone up for some sort of online session, GTA or Firza Horizon 2 something like? Maybe Sunday evening as the weather is looking a bit crap Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

These look good for a first attempt, well done on the shooting stars. what you can do to help improve things is watch the settings. astrophotography (as that is what you're doing) is about exposure. it looks like you've used a high ISO which has made the pictures a little grainy. I'd suggest not going above 400ISO, set the camera to an exposure of about 5-8 seconds so that the tracking of the stars doesn't show. manually focus on infinity if you can or on a bright star and then try to set the aperture to 7.1 or slightly higher, this will improve your chances of a crisp shot. in lightroom which i recall you said you had. remove much of the colour saturation, this will reduce the amber flare from streetlights. slide the shadows slider to the right and highlights slider to the left this will show more stars and with a little playing you'll get more defined shooting stars. if you can set the camera on a timer or use a remote so you don't have to touch it that would help too as even on a tripod it'll move which will soften the stars. as for the moon shot, it looks like you've over exposed this as you can see the dark side of the moon, what you want to get is the light visible with features and the dark side just black. id set your camera up as you would for stars but use a much faster shutter speed, you'll have to play about with it to get it right, also you can use the lowest ISO as the moon is a bright light source. then as before, you can use Lightroom to bring out the definition and remove the sodium light glare. I'd use the moon as your training target as this is the easiest subject in the sky to photograph. these are good photos and you've picked one of the hardest subjects to photograph because they're so far away. Lightroom will save you a lot of effort and its worth using it on astrophotograhs, might be worth trying another process of your shooting stars pics to see if you can brighten the shooting star trail, as that would be good. Also you can photograph the ISS as it passes over, even with a bridge camera, if you download a free programme called Stellarium it will tell you what is where in the night sky and also when and where satellites including the ISS are passing over, if its passing over just after dark its clearly visible and you can get a slow shutter pic of its track (like your shooting star pick. if you look on flickr you'll see a lot of people do this, its a very rewarding subject to get and relatively easy once you lens to set up your camera. If i can help let me know, I've done some astro photography in the past though I'm many a wildlife man.

That's what I'll be doing in 6months. But trying to get my Sky box replaced for free at the minute, if they won't fix then I'll be using the cancel threat Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk