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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie
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Maybe they're magnetic plates, purely for being able to park where they fancy and never receive the ticketslostinrates wrote: »horrid, horrid, horrid.
How do they get away with this. Presumably cloned also means not correctly taxed and insured and motd? wouldn't it get picked up on dvla checks otherwise that things were being done twice? yet innocent people buy these clones I understand.
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That's just like people had in abundance in the 60s/70s in various guises.lostinrates wrote: »0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Check out my "where's hamish" thread for a quality headline!;)
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3287222
Link doesn't work any more. What was this about, please?It is a real loss not having access to the bicycles (it is no longer possible to get from the back to the front without going through the house - I am thinking maybe we could just chain them up at the front but need to install some sort of metal loop to chain them to. any suggestions of a suitable fixing - some sort of hasp? It would need to be done in a way that it could not just be unscrewed and stolen along with the bikes?
If you possibly can, try to sort out some kind of under cover place for bikes, or they will go rusty.Mrs Hedhehog also has her baby with her now and I see them late at night.
On Friday night I was driving a friend home from the pub and saw a hedgehog wandering about in the middle of the road - a busy urban road during the day, and still quite a bit of traffic at that time of night. I stopped and put my hazard lights on, and flashed at the taxi coming the other way, who stopped too. Then it took me several minutes of "encouraging" it with my foot to persuade it back onto the pavement. It didn't roll into a ball as I was expecting it to, but for a while it seemed absolutely determined to stay suicidally in the middle of the road. However, eventually it went scuttling off along the angle between the pavement and the wall.
Totally agree with the people who spend their time under the duvet. It's freezing here. I have the heating on AND am under a duvet - but that's partly because I'm tired and have a headache. My kids have got some friends to play - under strict instructions to be quiet and stay downstairs. When their dad dropped them off we had a little chat. He asked if I was happy to have them despite my headache. I said "Two kids playing quietly downstairs, four kids playing quietly downstairs - doesn't make any difference. I'll be upstairs under a duvet catching up on some internet forums"
He looked very shocked and surprised. It turned out he thought I'd said "catching up on some internet !!!!!!" and thought that wouldn't really be my sort of thing. :rotfl:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »That's just like people had in abundance in the 60s/70s in various guises.
urgh, here they didn't.....shades of brown and green and pink. The sitting room carpet has grown on me (it was pink and over time has faded to cream, but patchily, so you can see where furniture was). I feel sort of sorry for it, for having such a tough life.
Our stairs hall carpet is two subtley different ones, both resemling something that grows sludgily on the mesh pot of a water lilly in a very unloved garden pond. One is a little more towards brown-yellow, the other a little more green. (both end of rolls of the same pattern of carpet in similar colour ways I guess)0 -
On Friday night I was driving a friend home from the pub and saw a hedgehog wandering about in the middle of the road - a busy urban road during the day, and still quite a bit of traffic at that time of night. I stopped and put my hazard lights on, and flashed at the taxi coming the other way, who stopped too. Then it took me several minutes of "encouraging" it with my foot to persuade it back onto the pavement. It didn't roll into a ball as I was expecting it to, but for a while it seemed absolutely determined to stay suicidally in the middle of the road. However, eventually it went scuttling off along the angle between the pavement and the wall.
Why didn't you just pick it up? Hedgehogs don't bite AFAIK at least the ones I've picked up haven't.0 -
It linked to this.Link doesn't work any more. What was this about, please?
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lostinrates wrote: »horrid, horrid, horrid.
How do they get away with this. Presumably cloned also means not correctly taxed and insured and motd? wouldn't it get picked up on dvla checks otherwise that things were being done twice? yet innocent people buy these clones I understand.
They see a car and note its numberplate, then steal a similar car, put copies of the cloned numberplate on it then sell it. That way when someone comes along to buy it, it won't show as stolen on any database. It will also show as insured, taxed and MOT'd.
Or more worrying they steal a car to use in a robbery and stick plates of a similar car on it.
they weren't that accurate, colour and make model is correct but the badge bits on the back are wrong.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
Why didn't you just pick it up? Hedgehogs don't bite AFAIK at least the ones I've picked up haven't.lostinrates wrote: »but they do have fleas.
I LOVE hedgehogs. First thing we caught in the live cat trap here was a HUGE hedgehog. I was so excited, poor little thing.
Got it in one, lir. I knew they have fleas, and wasn't sure whether they were the sort of fleas that like switching to humans or not.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
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