That was one of the first great things I noticed driving roof down.
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Mind you guys, you won’t hear the birds singing if you’ve got a “Sporty?!” exhaust. 
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A gentle meander through leafy summer lanes can still allow sounds to be heard over the exhaust. It’s just that if one fancies turning the wick up, it’s all there. 
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Not just sounds but smells too…freshly mown grass
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My new ND is my 10th convertible car - it makes any journey nicer when you are not fully enclosed in a tin box. However there are many that have a convertible that do not use it as intended (ie folded away). You see more and you get (hopefully) plenty of fresh air, which I need after sitting inside for so long - it was in an office, now at the home office…
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Lovely Scottish run out.
It’s traditional.
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Wow thats terrible - did it stay out of the house? and was your car ok?
Don’t like the look of that at all…as said…flooded out?
Oh my goodness… Was that last night? Really hoping your not flooded out up there…!
This was the period 28/30th January. It hasn’t come into the house yet, but it gets under the floors through the air-bricks. At the front gate it’s about 30 cm deep, and in the garage about 10 cm. It’s an increasingly regular occurance due to changes of weather patterns; lots of rain in a short period when it used to be steady rain over a long period, bad/non-existent maintenance of ditches and streams by land-owners and councils, increasing fly-tipping into said streams/ditches, and gradual problems of rising sea levels. When there’s been a lot of rain and there’s a high tide on the Thames, which is only a few miles away. the sluices on the streams in to the Thames are shut and the water backs-up. We are only 7 metres above sea level here so it’s not going to improve. There’s an area nearby, which is “fen” and is the floodplain for the main drainage stream: guess where there’s going to be a new housing estate!
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Back on thread.
I suppose one of the most memorable moments was 27th August 2015 when I was driving my brand spanking new, pre-ordered ND SE-L Nav home after collecting it (The official release date was 1st September). Lovely sunny day, top down, not much traffic on a single carriageway “A” road. Then on a long empty straight coming towards me was a huge container truck, it’s front covered in lamps which suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree and started flashing and it’s horns blaring, for a moment I thought the car was on fire or something, but as we closed I could see the truck driver was grinning like a Cheshire Cat 
, both hands on his steering wheel with the thumbs up 
and I realised that he had recognised a brand new model car from a great distance and was VERY enthusiastic about it. That made my day! I still wonder if he was a “5” owner and maybe even a club member?
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Great story about a wonderful day 
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Sorry to hear of your troubles, it must feel like it’s never-ending!! On a positive note, what a wonderful memory Bet you must have thought the boy was a right loon at first before you remembered what you were driving 
What a fantastic community, eh?
Am at the vaccine centre in Dunfermline and we just pulled up to a beautiful new ND in ceramic- looked loverly.
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