Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Cheery_Daff

Aha, good point :rotfl: Forgot yours was petrol, our diesel is £1.22 I think? Maybe? Engine 1.9?? Goodness knows. I work on the assumption that our old van did about 320 miles to a tank (about £40, very technical), and this one must do some more than that just because it's not fair if it doesn't :rotfl: :rotfl: Should just work it out properly really, but somehow we never quite get round to filling it up fully Guess we will do for our holidays! :j :j :j

Karmacat

Oh my word - I'm really glad I miss out on some things through not having a car I mean, I'd love one for the ease of transport and all that, but really .... it sounds very tough to know what to do for the best.

Lemon_Tree

KC i often wish i lived close enough to work to walk or cycle there, especially when my hands are frozen whilst filling up the tank weekly and paying over in excess of £40. It's one of my larger monthly bills and it's a job i hate having to do.

Pippilongstocking

Cars are a necessary evil for some folk - no avoiding it.

I'm finishing off an experiment chapter - or trying to - got to get it sorted for OH to have a read of it for me (proof reading) - and getting a bit of a wee review done on another bit of work which I have to give in tomorrow - I like the invigilating you have no distractions for 3 hours to review and write stuff. I'm now ensconsed in the utility room, radio 2 - away from anything comfy or cosy!

Off to give another half hour blast..........................:)

Lemon_Tree

that's great that invigilating is working really well for you. Gives you no other options but to work on your PhD.

I've not left the house all day, this bloomin sore throat and cough are driving me nuts. Don't know what to do about tomorrow, guess i'll see how i feel when the alarm goes off in the morning. I want to go in as i feel terrible being off even for one day but i'm trying to learn lessons about going back to early. argh!

Cheery_Daff

(((((LT)))))))) you look after yourself, and if you need another day off, then take it - you're right, it causes more trouble than it's worth to go back early.

I'm well impressed with your writing Pippi! Well done! I'm just about to stop 'work' work and do an hour of PhD along with you :T

KC - I'd happily not have a car, and didn't even learn to drive til about 6 years ago, and managed perfectly well without. Mr Daffs does like to have one, although he too would manage if he had to. I often don't use ours - certainly don't go to work in it (although I could justify that as a 'need' if I wanted to - 120 miles round trip that takes 2.5 hours each way on train/bike/walk), shopping mostly done locally, friends mostly within walking distance etc. It does come in handy for visiting family etc, although to be perfectly honest the last one was so unreliable that I often ended up going on the train anyway cos I could never guarantee I'd get there otherwise! :rotfl:

My long term aim is to be as fit as Josie Dew and think nothing of cycling 75 miles to visit my mum :rotfl: (that's a very long way off!) :rotfl:

EssexHebridean

Another one here agreeing about not going back to work too soon if you're not right LT. Quite apart from anything else, if you give it to any of your colleagues now they will get it and pass it to their families just in time for christmas to be ruined, THEN you won't be popular!

Pippi hope you managed to get some more writing done today. I thought of you earlier on when I popped into our little Tesco in town and found bags of posh potatoes reduced to 30p a bag (bought 2) and punnets of plums at 25p (bought 1!) Not quite so good as your 10p lady but not bad for here nonetheless!

Diesel here currently at 124.9 p/l

Karmacat

A car certainly means you can do more things, and cover more ground, there's no getting away from it - tho it has to be reliable enough to do it, of course

I was looking for yellow stickers in our Sainsbo tonight - how about a little pack of sushi or soemthing , reduced to £1.50? No thanks :rotfl:

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

A car certainly means you can do more things, and cover more ground, there's no getting away from it - tho it has to be reliable enough to do it, of course

And it has to be the right kind of snow.

Karmacat wrote: »

I was looking for yellow stickers in our Sainsbo tonight - how about a little pack of sushi or soemthing , reduced to £1.50? No thanks :rotfl:

Raw fish? Past its sell-by date? What could possibly go wrong..?

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

(((((LT)))))))) you look after yourself, and if you need another day off, then take it - you're right, it causes more trouble than it's worth to go back early.

I'm well impressed with your writing Pippi! Well done! I'm just about to stop 'work' work and do an hour of PhD along with you :T

KC - I'd happily not have a car, and didn't even learn to drive til about 6 years ago, and managed perfectly well without. Mr Daffs does like to have one, although he too would manage if he had to. I often don't use ours - certainly don't go to work in it (although I could justify that as a 'need' if I wanted to - 120 miles round trip that takes 2.5 hours each way on train/bike/walk), shopping mostly done locally, friends mostly within walking distance etc. It does come in handy for visiting family etc, although to be perfectly honest the last one was so unreliable that I often ended up going on the train anyway cos I could never guarantee I'd get there otherwise! :rotfl:

My long term aim is to be as fit as Josie Dew and think nothing of cycling 75 miles to visit my mum :rotfl: (that's a very long way off!) :rotfl:

Can't comment on being that fit - um biking here - not really very viable - only 10 days a year without wind of any sort and an average wind speed of 20 km/ph - gusting at 37 on average.

You can tell I'm writing up the meterological data eh?:rotfl:

I am still going - really need ot get this written up.

Glad I've a write up companion!

Lt (())

EH well impressed by the reduced bargains I've run out of tatties - I had to go into the co-op at a 'normal' time the other day (out of milk finally) and not a jot of a thing reduced, well it was reduced but not by normal 10p standards.

Hello Z! dodgy fish - why ever not?? lol, KC me think best avoided - well unless you could get the sushi open a bit and have a good nose................:j I've been in that shop :j!!