Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I or one of us at least has to stay in and wait for a parcel to be collected, it's going off to Italy. It's such a faf sending things abroad.

 

[Illaveago]

Why is it that modern things are more complicated? I want to scan some pictures into my computer and my wife says that it is not straight forward. I remember my old Black Widow would scan a picture and ask if you just wanted to make a print or a file, simple!

 

[Illaveago]

I am living on the wild side here, I'm eating burnt toast with salted butter. Now where's the jam?

 

[EltonFrog]

I am living on the wild side here, I'm eating burnt toast with salted butter. Now where's the jam?

I've just done that too, toast burnt to a crisp and homemade jam with lashings of salted butter. You and me are going to hell in a handcart.

 

[Smithbat]

I've just done that too, toast burnt to a crisp and homemade jam with lashings of salted butter. You and me are going to hell in a handcart.

Can I join? I burnt my crumpets this morning and put marmite on them

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It is a shame. It is repairable, but not at garage hourly rates .

Its a shame, mechanically its still strong, the engines good and it goes well, but I don't have the skills to do the repairs myself, and Its not viable to get someone to do it

 

[Fab Foodie]

Can I join? I burnt my crumpets this morning and put marmite on them

There are other ways to eat them?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It looks as though they really went to town on it. It is sad if it has done many years of loyal service.

I've had it three years its served us well and never let us down.I've not put a huge mileage on it, about 15000 in total, but its done everything asked of it, from shopping trips to exploring places near by and holidays, 2 Welsh holidays and one in Skegness.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

(I thought everyone did about 80)

Reminds me of a time when Pam (my ex) and I were going up the M1 in her Peugeot 205 and went through some roadworks with heavy traffic that slowed everyone down to around 25mph then slowly sped up after the contraflow bit until we cleared the works and went back up to an 80 odd cruise as usual. After a bit she said to me " Is the car making a bit of a funny noise" now I'd serviced the car in the week before as we were going on holiday up to Scotland for a fortnights 'touring/camping so I was a bit worried. I turned the cassette down for a bit to listen then turned it back up again and told her "You might be better putting it back into top (5th) gear instead of 3rd".

Years ago, before Volkswagen brought Seat, I had a Seat hire car out for a trip down to Kent. The gear pattern wasn't marked on the gear stick and I was down the London end of the M1 before I realised it had got a five speed box.

 

[Illaveago]

There are other ways to eat them?

Do you have other recipes that include burning?

 

[tyred]

(I thought everyone did about 80)

Reminds me of a time when Pam (my ex) and I were going up the M1 in her Peugeot 205 and went through some roadworks with heavy traffic that slowed everyone down to around 25mph then slowly sped up after the contraflow bit until we cleared the works and went back up to an 80 odd cruise as usual. After a bit she said to me " Is the car making a bit of a funny noise" now I'd serviced the car in the week before as we were going on holiday up to Scotland for a fortnights 'touring/camping so I was a bit worried. I turned the cassette down for a bit to listen then turned it back up again and told her "You might be better putting it back into top (5th) gear instead of 3rd".

I used to know someone who was a mechanic for one of the car hire firms and he always liked to tell the story of an American girl who collected an almost new Peugeot 205 with only 3000 miles on it at the airport but not understanding the concept of a “stick shift” the American drove down the motorway foot to the floor in first gear until the connecting rods made a bid for freedom.

Never buy an ex hire car!

 

[Illaveago]

Its a shame, mechanically its still strong, the engines good and it goes well, but I don't have the skills to do the repairs myself, and Its not viable to get someone to do it

I do sympathise, my old V12 rusted away faster than I could weld it up and I have skills.

 

[potsy]

Nice lie in this morning, managed to get myself out of bed for 10am

 

[Illaveago]

I've had it three years its served us well and never let us down.I've not put a huge mileage on it, about 15000 in total, but its done everything asked of it, from shopping trips to exploring places near by and holidays, 2 Welsh holidays and one in Skegness.

Your car made me remember my Vauxhall Vectra. We had had it for some years and we bought as a high milage car and hadn't had any real problems until the cam belt went, 8 valves bent and a bill of £600. My friend and I did the mechanicals, an engineering firm did the head. A couple of months later the gearbox went, £ 800 a gearbox company did that and to cap it all at the end of the year I had a minor heart attack. I don't think it was my year.

 

[tyred]

The government claim to have improved the road network, CIE wax lyrical about their brilliant new fleet of buses which are apparently faster and more comfortable yet this journey is just as slow and tedious as it ever was! Progress...