QPod 350

Not in work today so went and picked Deece up from work for lunch. I parked to wait for her and noticed a QPod 350 parked opposite. QPod is the English name for Secma a small French manufacturer, whose products are not currently being imported into the UK.

Deece said the QPod was cute, and looked fun. May be true, but, alas, not as good as the Myvi for comfort, taking her mum and dad places, putting in loads of camping equipment, reliability......







PS Just found out that there is indeed one Secma dealer in the UK.

Not The Worlds Greatest Blogger

My favorite blogger manages to put together a sensible, well written blog every day. Life with a Myvi is intended just that, a tale of living with a Myvi, major events, funny stories, places visited, etc. Alas, I am not a very attentive blogger, life is so busy that bloging items get overlooked. So far this year we have been on three holidays in FTP, but not one has been mentioned. Perhaps I had better show some photos of FTP on his various holidays.

1. Peebles:

In Febuary we traveled to Peebles a small Scotish border town on the River Tweed just below Edinburgh. FTP took four adults the 338 miles there almost non-stop, and we emerged without much discomfort. We stayed in a holiday apartment on the main street. FTPs Peebles holiday snaps ~



FTP in Edinburgh.


FTP on forest road near Peebles

Ping and Lewis in FTP on forest road near Peebles.

Forest road near Peebles.

Driving home from Peebles it starts snowing.

The snow gets worse.

But FTP caries on carefully.

2. Romney Marsh:

Deece and myself went down to Romney Marsh in April and camped at Romney Farm. We were keen to see Dungeness.


FTP at Dungeness Old Lighthouse.


FTP at Dungeness Power Station.


FTP at Romney Farm Campsite.


3. Runswick Bay ~

At the begining of July Deece and myself visited Runswick Bay in North Yorkshire and stayed at Runswick Bay Caravan & Camping Park We had a relaxing time walking, and enjoying being outdoors.

FTP in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.



FTP at Ravenscar.

New Perodua UK Website - At Last.

The UK Perodua website was to say the least poor. If the website was my first contact with Perodua, I would more than likely have never got past the first page!

Fortunately, Perodua now has a new UK website, its just so much better than the old one. Hopefully, the inquisitive will get past the website and visit the dealer now.

With the new website comes a useful new page, for people like us who have our car serviced by a non-Perodua dealer. Currently our garage gets photocopies of any information they need from our Perodua dealer; but the new page allows garages to obtain workshop manual details for the Myvi by e-mailing Perodua. Hopefully, this will reassure more people who do not live close to a dealer that a Myvi is a viable car to own.

Found a Fungus!

Whilst cycling through our local woods a couple of evenings ago I found a large fungus growing on the base of a tree (lime?) near the edge of the woods.

Stopped to show Deece when we drove past yesterday, she was impressed too (1. with its size - Deece uses her foot to give an idea of scale in the second photo, and 2. that it had not been damaged by kids). We belive it to be a Dryads Saddle (Polyporus squamosus).

Superman Kenari Advert

A Perodua Kenari advert - think I know where Superman is coming from, its just so big inside!

Fell Onto My Left Wrist Last Week

Force caused damage at the elbow. Nothing broken, and as the picture shows the swelling has gone now. Have not been driving much! Steve.

FTP is a Year (and a bit) Old

I was driving along last night when I had to pull over to the side to mark FTP reaching 20,000 miles. Alas, it was safer to pull over at 19,999 miles to take the mileage photo than wait till around the corner! That reminded me that I would have to check when FTP had his first birthday; upon checking I found we had missed it - registered 8th of April, collected on the 9th.

I think that a year and 20,000 miles fault free is quite an achievement - well done FTP.

Footnote: for a car FTPs size the avaerage annual milage is only 8,500 miles if included with smaller cars such as the Renaut Clio, or 11,200 if grouped with the Ford Focus/Vauxhall Astra. Unfortunately, work is a long way from home.