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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,612 Ambassador
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    Happy birthday Louise to your DS :grin:
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  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    Happy birthday Louise to your DS :grin:

    Thanks Beanie, I have another Birthday on Monday, DS1's 18th:eek: then the dreaded A-level results on Thursday which sickens me if I think about it:o Until the actual results come out we cant make any plans for uni.
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    DS2's 16th Birthday today, been to Newcastle already this morning (having a major panic attack in one way system as I went:eek:)

    Never worry about one way systems. The only thing that happens is you have to go round again. Take plenty petrol.

    Of course I can be blase as I learned to drive in Sunderland. Round the *old* one-way system.
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    I had sat nav, recently updated around 3 weeks ago and it still tried to send me down a pedestrian and delivery area!

    Avoid using sat navs in the middle of city centres. The tall buildings confuse them. When I was in Glasgow, mine tried to send me through a scrap yard...
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    Thanks Beanie, I have another Birthday on Monday, DS1's 18th:eek: then the dreaded A-level results on Thursday which sickens me if I think about it:o Until the actual results come out we cant make any plans for uni.

    Happy birthdays... :bdaycake:
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  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    To be honest Z it has been a very reliable Satnav in built up areas as I have used it for walking routes in Newcastle and other city centres with no trouble at all........until I forgot to set it back to car route and it tried to send me around a roundabout the wrong way. :eek:

    You would think I should have noticed as the time to destination was 7 hours:rotfl:
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    To be honest Z it has been a very reliable Satnav in built up areas as I have used it for walking routes in Newcastle and other city centres with no trouble at all........

    You use a sat nav for walking?! What speed do you walk?!

    "In one mile - or half an hour - turn right..."
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    ZTD wrote: »
    You use a sat nav for walking?! What speed do you walk?!

    "In one mile - or half an hour - turn right..."


    Only when trying to find somewhere in a city I am not familiar with, usually to find restaurants/shops.

    It sort of gives you a route to walk with all the street names displayed......quite cool really.
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    Only when trying to find somewhere in a city I am not familiar with, usually to find restaurants/shops.

    It sort of gives you a route to walk with all the street names displayed......quite cool really.

    A bit like a map does? ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • LouiseJ
    LouiseJ Posts: 11,156 Forumite
    ZTD wrote: »
    A bit like a map does? ;)

    But with a map you cant search for Nandos on it:D
    But these things take time, I know that I'm, the most inept that ever stepped.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,612 Ambassador
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    Love it Louise :rotfl:
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    LouiseJ wrote: »
    But with a map you cant search for Nandos on it:D

    The tourist ones have all the shops on.. :p;)

    Besides I thought women loved wandering endlessly past shops putting little smudgy nose marks on the windows... ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
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