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Thanks Jack. A mechanic friend impressed on me at a young age that cars run much more efficiently when they are warm on the highway. Seems that was truer in the 1990s than the 2000s, too.…

Adrian Cooke, 2010-03-09 on How fuel efficient is the Honda Fit?

i found this post because I have a 2000 Pontiac Bonneville (full size) car with the 3800 v6 engine and just got 32 mpg on a trip from Boston to NYC, all highway, with cruise engaged at 65 mph, no traffic, with one person in the car. Fantastic mileage I'd say for a ten year old car with 82,000 miles. I keep very accurate records using an iphone app, GasBuddy, and only fill up with full tanks. If I use 87 octane, I average 17.4 mpg in my combined highway/suburban roads commute, and if I step it…

Jack Quinn, 2010-02-08 on How fuel efficient is the Honda Fit?

Tasmania is all those things, but I live here so it lacks of mystery and exoticism of north-Eastern U.S. in the winter time. On wolfishness: our labradoodle gets much the same look, but given he was described last Thursday as 'that tubby dog with the perm and the goatee', it can be hard to recognise. But I know a wild heart beats beneath his over-fed suburban belly.…

kris, 2010-01-24 on On the Mattabesset trail with Genie

It’s wolf-dog, a super-alertness as she feels the wild blood of her wolf ancestors rises in response to the forest — I love this! Funny, I have always imagined Tasmania in a similar way: faraway, cold, beautiful, countrified :)…

Adrian Cooke, 2010-01-19 on On the Mattabesset trail with Genie

I can't believe you lived in Brisbane and now you live here. It seems like a storybook to someone for whom a cold day is -2 deg. cent. and a heavy frost on the rhubarb. I like the look on Genie's face: it's wolf-dog, a super-alertness as she feels the wild blood of her wolf ancestors rises in response to the forest.…

kris, 2010-01-18 on On the Mattabesset trail with Genie

That was exactly how I felt when I saw Lockie’s shots. I don’t like the Brisbane summer heat either, really don’t miss it at all, but storms like that are pretty great.…

Adrian Cooke, 2010-01-05 on Suburban lightning

Oh. It's summer here but a different summer - not a Brisbane summer. I hate Brisbane summers with a sweaty, grouchy, take-the-heat personally passion, but nothing kicks the nostalgia up a notch as photos of a summer storm.…

kris, 2010-01-04 on Suburban lightning

Yes ma’am, header images sans frontiers… done. Much obliged :)…

Adrian Cooke, 2010-01-01 on New, new, new, all-new

#header a img { border:none;} Throw that in the style, eh? Thanks. Otherwise, nice work!…

lyds, 2010-01-01 on New, new, new, all-new

I can't wait to get home and read about me on your blog.…

Doctor Doolittle, 2010-01-01 on Elena and the carousel