Detention is fair enough but torturing with the pipes is barbaric.
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What had they done wrong?
Probably English…!
Can’t afford their council tax perhaps
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So, moving on before this goes off topic and gets political please. Where have you been in your MX-5 today?
I took mine to work again…
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Suns out, so a quick 20 around the local country roads.
Nice to see the dry fields and crops flourishing
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There is no finer sound then the silence that follows the playing of bagpipes.
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Dover and Dungeness.
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Just north of Peel, IOM. Standing in a field watching a stage of the Manx Rally.
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Visited a beautiful Japanese garden near Dollar a 40 minute drive away from where we’re staying in Creiff.
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My step son is marshaling at that.
Great weather. I’ve spent too much time with the top down and have got sunburnt - in the IoM!
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Love Edinburgh, we went there for our 30th anniversary…wonderful memories. 
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Nowhere exciting! Lovely sunny day but only 13º C with a cold southerly breeze. Headed down the coast for a coffee at a relatively new establishment we discovered recently.
Had to take a pic of the goodies before the coffee arrived as they were not going to be around by the time we got the coffee! The 5 is just visible in the line of Stupid Ugly Vehicles.
Then headed down to the beach and sat and watched the sea and the wildlife for a while. Came home via a garden centre which did not have what we wanted so came home for lunch. After lunch decided we had enjoyed the morning drive so much we should go out again so headed north to a garden centre which did have what we wanted. Pretty much a perfect day for open motoring.
Took a pic of the 5 at the Civic Theatre in Otaki. Built in 1938 to replace a building destroyed by fire this building was restored in 2021 and is a good example of NZ Art Deco.
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Stupid Ugly Vehicles… I like that a lot 
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We went skiing on Sunday (at Hemel) and as usual the 25AE was faultless, a joy to drive in the sun. And again on to the Plough for our ski-clubs end of season dinner.
But a hundred metres into the drive home the Tyre Pressure Warning Light came on. Bad words said because its 12 miles home in the dark.
I stopped under a street lamp and checked all four wheels, all 26psi. It was also close to freezing, thank goodness no puncture, just a bit to long since I checked them properly. Being warm from the garage (20C ish) the pressure was just enough the light didn’t show, but at 5C, oh yes.
So I drove it home, hoping they’d warm up a bit.
I checked them again at home all 28, and measured the tyre temps, all 20C-21C.
But this morning the light remains on. It had remembered and not been cleared by 29psi +.
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Our Up! has a convenient reset button next to the gear stick which you can press before the wife and her beady eye notices.
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Alas no button that I can find. It might be in the software on the radio, but I’ve not bothered to look for it.
I’m happy for it to work as it does. It’s actually useful!
I put 29 in them this morning (was 27 all round at 15.6C - garage temperature) and by the time I had fiddled about and driven out the drive the warning had cleared.
Sensors are in the tyres so I expect real results and not calculations from the ABS system. Direct sensing is probably more significant if the tyre is a 215 instead of an OEM 205, I guess it depends on how the ABS sensing sums might be worked out.
So the temp range from maybe 5C through 15.6C to 20-21C produces a pressure range of 26, 27, 28psi. (+/- about half a psi on my tyre gauge, which at 29 psi agrees with the Mazda inflator resting at 2 bar.
It’s so nice when everything works as one might expect.
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