My Sisters house in Virginia Water

michaels

Ohh - I knew we could get this back on topic. Did anyone else notice how much quieter the roads were when petrol was 1.20 a litre and the 'recession' was in full swing. I wonder if vehicle miles is a good coincident indicator for both GDP and consumer sentiment?!

lostinrates

geoffky, you could have popped in for tea!

mewbie_2

geoffky wrote: »

the trip down the road to bournmoth was hellish.

bournmoth sounds beautiful, I've never been there.

lostinrates

GettingMoreBearish wrote: »

Think I might have read somewhere earlier in this thread that someone would prefer having root canal work, i will just add to this without any anaesthetic.

Well, my coffee is a bit hit and miss but actually, I make a rather nice pot of tea

carolt

The_Plush_Doormat wrote: »

A swallow just flew by. Hoorah. Summer is here just in time for the August Bank Holiday. What? One swallow doesn't make a Summer? Silly old doormat. :rolleyes:

Doormat, what's your secret for upping your thanks count?

That's go to be the most impressive thanks count I've ever seen for so few posts.

You must write incredibly useful/witty posts.

Or know how to fiddle the figures.;)

lostinrates

GettingMoreBearish wrote: »

Honey I love you,

How sweet! Should I remember you from somewhere? (Its hard enough to remember all the boys names, worse when they change them and still expect you to remember them the next morning)

I was referring to having geoffky round for elevenses

As was I

The_Plush_Doormat

carolt wrote: »

Doormat, what's your secret for upping your thanks count?

That's go to be the most impressive thanks count I've ever seen for so few posts.

You must write incredibly useful/witty posts.

Or know how to fiddle the figures.;)

I post up comps. My post count is miniscule compared to the other compers. A couple of them have over 1m thanks. Fiddling? Pah! Only fiddling going on that I know of is that bloke, Old King Cole, a rather merry old soul

Edit: Most of the compers stay in the one board, I, on the other hand, wander about. As I have gone up and down the Ladder of Life more times than a window cleaner, I feel I can venture out

Jonbvn

michaels wrote: »

Ohh - I knew we could get this back on topic. Did anyone else notice how much quieter the roads were when petrol was 1.20 a litre and the 'recession' was in full swing. I wonder if vehicle miles is a good coincident indicator for both GDP and consumer sentiment?!

I would agree the car mileage is probably a good indicator of the economic conditions of the country. I remember travelling on the M4 to/from Heathrow in March and it was definitely much quieter than expected.

I recent Fridays around the M3/M25 I have nearly lost the will to live.....;)

Jim_B_3

As I understand it, and I'm by no means any kind of expert, the current crop of reported rises tend to be in the upper echelons of the market where the wealthy play (and, at 20 or so times average salary, this is such a house).

carolt

The_Plush_Doormat wrote: »

I post up comps. My post count is miniscule compared to the other compers. A couple of them have over 1m thanks. Fiddling? Pah! Only fiddling going on that I know of is that bloke, Old King Cole, a rather merry old soul

Edit: Most of the compers stay in the one board, I, on the other hand, wander about. As I have gone up and down the Ladder of Life more times than a window cleaner, I feel I can venture out

What a lot of happy compers you must be!

I think I ventured there once, for about a week, in a state of high excitement, wasted some time, won precisely nothing, got cynical and disillusioned, never went back and came down here instead.

Or something like that.

So have you won a lot?