Re: MPG on 2.5
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:02 pm
Ciaran, yes I agree we're well off topic, but here's a couple of members getting to know each other... that's not all bad, is it?
Peter. You seem a lot like me, we like peace and quiet and solitude.
Fresh from college I had a high flying career in London which almost drove me mad. I made an awful lot of money for those days, but I gave up five years of my young life to do it. Left in my middle twenties and became a farm worker. I think now I found my level then, and, in various incarnations since, have been a contemplative rather than a doer. Enjoyed being a part time freelance writer, and many church/chapel activities. Lived in remote places most of my life since London, Upper Swaledale, the North York Moors near Muker, and several places in Eire.
Now, the nearest shop to us now is six miles away, the nearest pub which I've been into once, is three miles away, and the nearest major town is twenty nine miles away. Halleluyah! Even then, it's a little too close for me. I deeply enjoy my three Border Collies, my vegetable garden, my wife and step families.
This last weekend I took my wife's two young grandchildren back to the village I was born into, in West Norfolk. They had a whale of a time, but me, at fifty eight years old, realised I have been trying all my life to return to the life and values I grew up with. I've nearly succeeded.
I guess I'm just the same with cars. Sophistication just doesn't appeal to me. That's why I liked the GS, GSA and BX so much. The XM is a complicated motor, without a doubt, but it is repairable, which can't be said for so many computer controlled cars on the road now. My wife's XM is a step up for me, an acknowledgement that I must make concessions to the twenty first century, albeit reluctantly.
I give in with as much grace as I can muster - I'l get an XM to replace my ailing BX
Peter. You seem a lot like me, we like peace and quiet and solitude.
Fresh from college I had a high flying career in London which almost drove me mad. I made an awful lot of money for those days, but I gave up five years of my young life to do it. Left in my middle twenties and became a farm worker. I think now I found my level then, and, in various incarnations since, have been a contemplative rather than a doer. Enjoyed being a part time freelance writer, and many church/chapel activities. Lived in remote places most of my life since London, Upper Swaledale, the North York Moors near Muker, and several places in Eire.
Now, the nearest shop to us now is six miles away, the nearest pub which I've been into once, is three miles away, and the nearest major town is twenty nine miles away. Halleluyah! Even then, it's a little too close for me. I deeply enjoy my three Border Collies, my vegetable garden, my wife and step families.
This last weekend I took my wife's two young grandchildren back to the village I was born into, in West Norfolk. They had a whale of a time, but me, at fifty eight years old, realised I have been trying all my life to return to the life and values I grew up with. I've nearly succeeded.
I guess I'm just the same with cars. Sophistication just doesn't appeal to me. That's why I liked the GS, GSA and BX so much. The XM is a complicated motor, without a doubt, but it is repairable, which can't be said for so many computer controlled cars on the road now. My wife's XM is a step up for me, an acknowledgement that I must make concessions to the twenty first century, albeit reluctantly.
I give in with as much grace as I can muster - I'l get an XM to replace my ailing BX