Simple living in the country - back to basics

Bluegreen143

Cheery, I’ve been reading your first diary because you posted the links! Such a lovely read and I cannot get over your extreme levels of frugality at the time and how well you got by on a small income 😯 

Suffolk_lass

I also have a light on my car. I checked the book. Apparently it is because it is so dirty that the parking sensor knows it can't see. I just suppress it each time but the car will need a wash as the number plate must be readable

fannyadams

Suffolk_lass said:

I also have a light on my car. I checked the book. Apparently it is because it is so dirty that the parking sensor knows it can't see. I just suppress it each time but the car will need a wash as the number plate must be readable

LOL. My reversing sensor kept alarming that someone/thing is right behind me. When I asked my friendly local mechanic to look at it, he said it was becuse I don't keep my car clean on the outside and that I was quite capapble of know if someone/thing was right behind me as I could look over my shoulder through the rear windscreen to check! We had a laugh about this. So now I just go out with a bit of damp tissue and wipe the sensors once i'm parked. LOL.

Baileys_Babe

In the interim @Suffolk_lass could you not just give the number plates and parking sensors a quick wipe?

Suffolk_lass

fannyadams said:

Suffolk_lass said:

I also have a light on my car. I checked the book. Apparently it is because it is so dirty that the parking sensor knows it can't see. I just suppress it each time but the car will need a wash as the number plate must be readable

LOL. My reversing sensor kept alarming that someone/thing is right behind me. When I asked my friendly local mechanic to look at it, he said it was becuse I don't keep my car clean on the outside and that I was quite capapble of know if someone/thing was right behind me as I could look over my shoulder through the rear windscreen to check! We had a laugh about this. So now I just go out with a bit of damp tissue and wipe the sensors once i'm parked. LOL.

Baileys_Babe said:

In the interim @Suffolk_lass could you not just give the number plates and parking sensors a quick wipe?

DH has tried but apparently it is ingrained. That or he just doesn't clean things that well with his pirate one eye at the moment (post 3 eye surgery episodes in three months) I really should...

badmemory

I'd love a parking sensor - even if it did mean I might have to wash the car, other than just leaving it out in the rain.  Although to be fair it does get washed once a year by my friend before he takes it for its MOT.  He's in the trade & 5 MOTs on & 8 with my previous car & they have never needed any work we didn't already know about.

EssexHebridean

I refuse to accept that parking sensors get so dirty they can no longer "see" - as if I do then MrEH will start using that as a new measure of when his car "needs" cleaning...! Mine stays mostly fairly clean these days thanks to the garage - and I am pretty good at giving it a wash every now and then too. MrEH's is currently clean as he washed it before the funeral (at my insistence!) 

And yes to fannyadams comment - I do make sure that every now and then I park each car without relying on the sensors at al - I've always been pretty decent at parallel parking and that's not a skill I want to lose! 

Hopefully the beaky ladies are all now starting to get on better together Cheery - it'll make life much easier for you once they are, won't it! 

Ouch to expensive months on things as well - August is ours - two lots of car insurance, MrEH's MoT and service due, and the home contents as well! 

badmemory

I don't have a problem with parallel parking, with my narrow garage it would be a little dangerous, but I do with how far back I can go.  Not that it would make a difference in the garage as I know exactly how far back I need to go to make the automatic garage door actually close, it is parking in public spaces.  I am so glad I got that, it makes what used to get difficult because my back often used to "go".  Also no chance now of dropping my keys into the massive drop grid just outside it.  My keys have been on a floating key ring, courtesy of the RNLI, for a lot of years now, but if they go in the grid it is over 4 ft drop to the water and I have no idea how much after that.

redofromstart

We used to have a cork on a string that hit the windscreen when I needed to stop reversing in the garage. It worked really well. 

 

Probably shouldn't mention that the company car prior to that had bumps in 3 out of the 4 corners...

redofromstart

I really like reversing beepy cameras, my cats like to appear out of nowhere behind the reversing car shouting MUMMY and waving whilst you nearly reverse over them. 'Mummy, you squished me!' Isn't a conversation I want to have/not have.