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I now understand why I was feeling sluggish all day
I now understand why I was feeling sluggish all day
I now understand why I was feeling sluggish all day
I just found out today that the Indonesian Archipelago contains over 17'500 islands. I didn't think there were over 10'000 islands on the planet, let alone in 1 particular part.
Still find it baffling. Quite Remarkable.
Not for the blackbird that picked it up after it went outside
Just wet wet wet here, no frosts for at least a couple of weeks...
Do I look like a bloody charity
In case you aren't aware I'm a pest controller, and pests just don't dare come near me, this one however was taking the right royal urine!
I can only assume that due to the wet environment I was working in, the day before, the slimy little sucker had crawled up the inside of my work clothes and fell out
when I got home.
Most certainly notclearly, neither did Mr/Mrs Slug..
Most certainly not
Btw slugs are hermaphrodites, both Mr and Mrs
Most certainly not
Btw slugs are hermaphrodites, both Mr and Mrs
You may call me anything ...There you go,again Mr F..or Mr P...lol.
Happy to err, well you knowYou are now my ’go-to’ man if there’s something I don’t know.
That sounds rather topical...
Leasing via Private Contract Purchase(PCP) or Private Contract Hire (PCH) over 1-2 years means you can often get an 'expensive' car for a relatively modest up front deposit and payments with a 'balloon' payment at the end of the lease if you want to keep the car or you can just hand it back & walk away. Dealers are often offered new car sales incentives by manufacturers, this can mainfest itself as generous discounts & lower rates of finance (sometimes 0%) on new cars.How people get to “own” some of these cars. A friend of my brother in law earns about half what I do but drives around in a new 7-series. Payments are probably £800pcm that I can see. Unless he’s got some amazing deal.
Don't get me wrong. I'd love to have a brand new car. I couldn't however justify £800pcm for a car unless I was taking home at least 6x that amount.What I glean is that some people ...have very different priorities in life to me.
Maybe that's how my BIL's friend started too.I know a lady that spent a significant inheritance on a 50% deposit on a £60k+ car to keep the monthly payments low. She then trades it in every 12 months to move the equity along.
I bought my current car through PCP. I've had it 11 years so I've long paid it off. But back then, a Golf GTi was £20k. I paid £300pcm. A new one now costs closer to £40k, and for the same deposit I gave, the payments are £400-500pcm. For a Golf GTI. The balloon payment is also 50% more. Has PCP pushed the price of cars up?Leasing via Private Contract Purchase(PCP) or Private Contract Hire (PCH) over 1-2 years means you can often get an 'expensive' car for a relatively modest up front deposit and payments with a 'balloon' payment at the end of the lease if you want to keep the car or you can just hand it back & walk away.
Her equity is going to get smaller with each new car . A car on average loses 30% of it's value in a year. Unless she keeps topping up the deposit each year, the money will be gone in a few years.I know a lady that spent a significant inheritance on a 50% deposit on a £60k+ car to keep the monthly payments low. She then trades it in every 12 months to move the equity along.
( She and her partner choose to live in a mobile home, and drive the fast car...their money their choice).
Bonnie and Clyde?Bank of Mum and Dad?
Its not that long been professionally re-furbed. though.sellers had a coat or 2 slapped on to tidy the place up
What's the betting Chocolate Chip Muffin is a euphemism.IIRC, there was an old version of Android codenamed Cupcake.
I don't think they've done Chocolate Chip Muffin (yet).
Phone biting is not recommended.
HOLY s***!Phone biting is not recommended.
Have you tried it on Orange?Why did I try and plug my Chocolate chip muffin in to the phone charger when the phone was the thing that needed charging?
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At least I never took a bite out of my phone
Have you tried it on Orange?
Phone biting is not recommended.
The same sort of people who ignore the warnings on the tidal crossing to Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast. Every year some one gets caught out.The story in this article about a car submerged by the sea at Blackpool - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-51117465
Driving on to a beach can have an unfortunate result at any time but it is beyond me why anyone would drive on to a beach when the forecast was for gale force winds, high tides and torrential rain.
At least the people and their dog were unharmed .
Dave
25 cars last year. They don't seem to realise that they're driving into the North Sea. RNLI should invoice them.The same sort of people who ignore the warnings on the tidal crossing to Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast. Every year some one gets caught out.
An amazingly large number of city people have no idea as to what a tide actually is. The Lindesfarne causeway looks very safe right up until it isn't.The same sort of people who ignore the warnings on the tidal crossing to Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast. Every year some one gets caught out.
Reminds me of the Mike Harding (comedian and folk singer) line about being an inner city kid and visiting the countryside for the first time "I'd never seen a cow before, I thought it was a bus with no windows!".Public ignorance of some of the more basic fundamentals of life can be staggering;
I can remember children at a school where I worked as IT manager being totally amazed at the fact that peas grew in long green fibrous pods..... not plastic bags
At the school where my wife worked as a science technician, in a biology lesson the kids were similarly amazed at the fact that steak & kidney pies had 'real' kidneys in them.
Isn't that Bullocks?I grew up with a dairy farm over the river from my house. I remember seeing a group of visiting kids (don't remember their accent, but it wasn't local) look across the river at a cow that'd come down to drink, and say "Fukinell! Cows have got four willies!", followed by an excited debate about which one they thought it would wee out of.