The Bankrupt Inn (part 4) New and Improved

alastairq

thanks, confused...sadly, I've enquired, and all the pigs-in-blankets around these parts are fully booked, so I guess I'll have to make my own dinner...............

alastairq

oh, BTW....mending cars is really quite a simple task...easier than making cakes....basic tools [for the above, I needed 2 small spanners, pliers and a screwdriver]......a good manual like Haynes [book-of-lies]....available for £1 from Helptheaged....plus, a willingness to learn from mistakes.


oh..and a willingness to 'get stuck in''......oily fingers for a few days too....


first bit of advice I have is, to only buy simple cars...not today's mess of complications.

confused76

alastairq wrote: »

thanks, confused...sadly, I've enquired, and all the pigs-in-blankets around these parts are fully booked, so I guess I'll have to make my own dinner...............

:rotfl:

thankfully we know a mechanic who likes to fix cars for fun, and just at the cost of parts you make it sound so easy..surely not? are you quite practical?

hope everyone is well today?

we need to face the supermarket...but we appear to be stalling! oh crikey i can't face it...but we'll starve otherwise :rotfl:best make a list

alastairq

you make it sound so easy..surely not? are you quite practical?

Practical? apparently not as much as I should be....[BR, for example?}


For me, being 'practical' isn't the issue, it's motivation.

I can repair pretty much anything on a vehicle, yet fall into a dizzy soup over debt!
I can drive any road or off-road vehicle [pretty much]..even pilot a super tanker.....yet cannot think of a suitable birthday present for my latest ex?


so I have more failings than successes.


and Monday nights are good for shopping...

confused76

alastairq wrote: »

Practical? apparently not as much as I should be....[BR, for example?}


For me, being 'practical' isn't the issue, it's motivation.

I can repair pretty much anything on a vehicle, yet fall into a dizzy soup over debt!
I can drive any road or off-road vehicle [pretty much]..even pilot a super tanker.....yet cannot think of a suitable birthday present for my latest ex?


so I have more failings than successes.


and Monday nights are good for shopping...

i guess we all have our strengths eh!

nervousmother

luckily we still have no more, phoned family and roads clear where they live... so im setting off in 10 mins.. iv just had a cold shower as we have lost hot water! the heating is on, it says the water is on.. but its all cold! could do without a plumber bill....

MicheH

Looks like there's many of us being hit with unexpected bills for things going kaput.. s*ds law eh, at least we can wake up when all this 'expense' is done with and think 'phew that was a rough month, had to pull my belt in well and truelly there' rather than 'how am i going to pay all this off.. despair despair'

Keep chipper mateys. We're all doing fine

alastairq

oh yes..chipper it is....talking of chippers, we have what is purported to be Yorkshire's best fish 'n chip shop in the village.

but at over a fiver for [very nice] one-of-each, it's a bit pricey for me.

MicheH

How much! I mean lets face it - it's all in the oil they're cooked in.. what they throwing in those fryers.. jojoba oil!!

alastairq

very big haddocks.....