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Hi. Thought you may enjoy some pics of my new daily. Having covered a minuscule 13,500 miles in the last 3 years I returned my lease car to Audi last month. Then decided that with such low annual mileage now was a good time for a silly daily car. It’s a 718 Cayman T300 PDK. Only had it since Monday but loving it so far!

This thread was begun with a remit to be open and reach as many people as possible, members and none members included. It, wasn't the OP's intention to "force" anyone in to discussing anything they don't want to, or feel comfortable doing. To limit this specific threads reach would go against its fundamental intent. However, there is absolutely nothing to stop anyone posting their own more personal thread in the members only section. However, I would consider carefully before doing so. With the greatest respect to us all, members are potentially just someone who stumped up a minimum of £10 for sixty days. So that includes folks here solely to buy and sell cars or parts or do some Westfield related research. If you don't feel comfortable posting certain details in the full public areas, do make sure that you consider whether it would be wise posting them in open members only areas, too. I'm certainly not saying you shouldn't, but please do consider the possible implications. If (anyone) feels they need to share something, but within a more closed circle, don't forget you can invite multiple people to a PM, who will then all be able to see and comment on your post. But only those you invite.

I’ll be at Ilminster services ready to leave at 07.45. Shell garage as usual I assume?

I'm a cyclical insomniac, I swap between sleeping well and not-sleeping. Cycles can last between a few weeks and a few months. I've done it since forever, so I'm kind of used to it.... Once I'm in one phase or the other I can handle it, it's the changeovers that hurt!! Proper zombie time until I get established. It does have occasional upsides, my son spent a couple of months in hospital some years ago and I ran on 2hrs sleep per day for that time, I was used to the lack of sleep. It's also useful if you travel and have to deal with Jetlag. Coping - meditate. When you can't sleep, meditate, it's a way of killing long periods of time with minimal physical or mental effort. It also stops the stressing about not sleeping. If you're lucky you'll drop off to sleep, if not, the time passes uneventfully. How to meditate - can't help there, it's something I've been doing for a long time and have myself fairly well trained into. Find someone you like who teaches relaxation classes. Find the wrong teacher and you'll be so busy mentally listing why they p**s you off, you'll never relax. It doesn't always work... there are some nights I'll get up and read or even work (I work from home...). If I do sleep during the day, which is rare, I set an alarm and never allow myself more than an hour's sleep.

I am aware of two other posts on the subject, but are there any Welsh folks on here who can report directly on how it's affecting you or otherwise, for those outside the borders what do you think?. Been reading the latest UK news and I see that over 450K folks have signed a petition to get this concept scrapped, I would have thought having 20mph in places like outside schools or hospitals or any other place that is pedestrian heavy is fair, but a blanket ban on every previously 30 mph road is just overkill and (to me at least) seems to be an abuse of the Welsh Gov's power to its citizens. Having said all that, my own street is 20 mph, but no one, I mean no one sticks to that. It's not policed or enforced in the slightest, and has been in place for years, seems to me just a token nod in the fitting of road signs to appease the more strident out there, show common sense folks ... I'll get my coat and jump from my soapbox now....

@Richard (OldStager) - Food, happens at regular times. Child sees to that, gets real grumpy (hangry) if food isn't on time!! BUT I don't go to sleep hungry and eat one or two Fruseli bars just before I go to sleep. I keep a supply of them by the bed in case I wake up hungry as there's no way to get back to sleep or relax if you're hungry. My wife says it like being woken up by a giant rodent....! Thanks, I think.... Meditating - find someone that suits your belief system or lack thereof. No point in having someone trying to push a load of secondary stuff at you that you don't care about.... it's a mental training thing, spirituality has nothing to do with it, but lots of people like to blend the two.

No problem at all Richard!

It might just be my cynical take on things as I’m getting older, but I firmly believe that a lot of the 20mph schemes are more related to potential income sources for the police/local authorities than for genuine safety reasons. There are a lot of really important ones that I agree with, but a lot of the 20mph zones near me are badly designed and the Wales blanket coverage thing seems like a bit of an expensive sledgehammer to crack a nut. There is a long 20mph road very close to me. There are schools and community facilities at one end, and nobody speeds there, and most people would be struggling to go more than 20mph there. However, at the other end of the long road (which is very straight) there is nothing really there and no safety reason whatsoever to continue the 20mph zone that far up the road. But of course, that’s where the police sit every few weeks to catch people speeding, and they have NEVER gone up the other end where there is actually a genuine reason to set the speed limit lower around the schools etc.

No worries

Sorry to hear that, what a bummer. Next time…..

Thank you, not really but improving as the weeks go by. Hope to be up to speed soon.

Cool, I’m up for about 7.45 ish if you chaps are? I’ll try to stay on the grey bit, between the two green bits this time 🤪

Well done @John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison cracking run to get your first run off win, nice to see that the smaller engine cars can stick it to the big boys every now and then, fingers crossed for the remainder of the season and you end up with that top 5 finish.

That’s great many thanks for your help

Nothing really to add, just a reminder as we head towards the darker evenings of Autumn, that this thread is here, as is the whole WSCC family. Remember, you never know what other people are going through, so be kind and look out for each other. Mental illness is an illness just like any other, its time we loose the stigma, its 2023 not 1893!

Looks like I'm out , car is not running and I now have to go into work .... gutted to not be able to make it ! Sorry chaps , have a great time and see ya at the next one

forgot to mention that the first minister intends to ignore the petition (normally 10k signatures gets it discussed in the assembly) as he and his car hating transport minister are always right. his transport minister has admitted t onever using public transport but wants everyone else to have their cars taken from them .