Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Why would anyone visit the petrol station more often than they needed to?

If they need the fuel to get to work, then it's no good them finding their garage closed on a Monday morning when they need a week's fuel....

What they are really trying to say is to make sure you probably have enough to get you through a week or so, in case it all kicks off.

My sibling's to/from weekly mileage is 750 miles, with no other way to get to work. What they'd do though is find a way to get to the office then say "I've got no car - provide me with a pool car so I can do my job - and make sure the pool car has fuel in it".

Being out of fuel affects people without access to public transport, or affordable public transport, more than those in cities.... except without fuel the cities won't get food delivered

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Difficult to see how it couldn't work: Dig hole, put seed in, cover hole. Wait.
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In a word, mice.

I grow a mangetout that's 6"-7" long, inappropriately named 'Bijou.' This year, I'm growing them from peas I saved, so they're free.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Your poor wife! :eek::eek:

Who said anything about Her Outdoors?

Actually, I originally typed "petrol vibrator," and then, realising it was the NPT, changed it.

PasturesNew

I googled those pea shoots some more - and found you can grow them in 2-3 weeks, in a yoghurt pot, using cheap old dried peas

http://www.dietgirl.org/dietgirl/2010/06/how-to-grow-pea-shoots.html

Davesnave

We had the architect here today. He said we can do an upstairs within budget :beer:, although he's amazed about recent quotes for work he's involved with. One recent job received quotes between £29k and £70k.

There will probably be some opposition when we submit plans. Having an upstairs will make us the highest property in the hamlet, so we'll look down on everyone else, though not directly upon anyone less than about 80m away.

Let's face it, if we could upset someone by selling tomatoes just after we arrived here, this has huge potential for a divisive row. :rotfl:

SingleSue

zagubov wrote: »

Me too. In fact whern I googled how much petrol is left when my car's warning light comes on I was shocked to find there's 10litres/2 gallons left. I used to panic when the light comes on (DW and the Zagettes still do) but now I carry on blissfully untilI find a cheap petrol station about 50 miles after the light's on.

Not just why waste time visiting the petrol station, why burn petrol carrying amostly-full petrol tanks around.

Mind you in the old days the light used to come on when you had a half-gallon left so you had to get to a petrol station within 15 miles, and also there was a risk of stirring up dirt in the bottom of the tank.:(

My car is still old days......I have to start thinking quickly when the light comes on.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

If they need the fuel to get to work, then it's no good them finding their garage closed on a Monday morning when they need a week's fuel....

What they are really trying to say is to make sure you probably have enough to get you through a week or so, in case it all kicks off.

My sibling's to/from weekly mileage is 750 miles, with no other way to get to work. What they'd do though is find a way to get to the office then say "I've got no car - provide me with a pool car so I can do my job - and make sure the pool car has fuel in it".

Being out of fuel affects people without access to public transport, or affordable public transport, more than those in cities.... except without fuel the cities won't get food delivered

I would be beggered really if the strike happened, I just don't have the finances to put enough for a whole week in my car at once, my putting in has to be staggered over the week to fit in with the money coming in (I usually visit the garage twice a week - Monday and Friday although it can be more often depending on what appointments we have had).

If the worse comes to the worse, mum and dad filled their car up at the beginning of the week, I'll just nick their car :rotfl:

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Being out of fuel affects people without access to public transport, or affordable public transport, more than those in cities.... except without fuel the cities won't get food delivered

Saw a staggering statistic recently about how much travel Germans do in a decade. It wasn't far off a trillion passenger-miles. And they've got some good public transport, so their carbon footprint can't be as bad as ours.

Couldn't help but wonder how travel in this county's so awful.
There's the obvious point that our country's linear so there are big distances between the conurbations.

The motorway system's mad.

There's a continuous motorway between London and Cambridge but not between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

As for trains, there's only an ultrafast train between London and Kent. :mad:

There's still only two cities with underground systems.

Trams have been scrapped for so long that when they're reintroduced they're seen as a weird experimental novelty (holds head in hands in despair).:o

My parents visited a city in Brazil that's a byword in sustainability - Curitiba. Sort of think it should be a compulsory part of any Geography syllabus in the world.

Pah! Rant over!

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

I would be beggered really if the strike happened, I just don't have the finances to put enough for a whole week in my car at once, my putting in has to be staggered over the week to fit in with the money coming in (I usually visit the garage twice a week - Monday and Friday although it can be more often depending on what appointments we have had).

If the worse comes to the worse, mum and dad filled their car up at the beginning of the week, I'll just nick their car :rotfl:

Don't you budget .. and therefore have future money you can rob? e.g. if Xmas costs £240, then by now you'd have saved £60 in a pot.

I thought that's how budgetting worked... money in ... divided between the pots .... what's left. And the pots can be robbed.... and then you've made a loan to yourself that needs repaying.

My biggest month is always April. It used to be: council tax, buildings insurance, contents insurance, car tax, car insurance, car MoT. So I needed about £2k every April.... so would put £170 into those pots every month .... which could be robbed on demand, so long as it was back in the pot by April.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Couldn't help but wonder how travel in this county's so awful.
There's the obvious point that our country's linear so there are big distances between the conurbations.

It's also very London-centric. And buses in towns are town-centric. So you can only ever go into/out of a town. You can't go round.

London's transport would be better if they stuck a major train hub and airport on the edge of the M25 somewhere.... most traffic/people probably don't want to go into London at all.... but the transport system makes them.

Same for buses in towns - you can't work in the next village as you have to go into the town, change buses and go out again.

So, generally, it's cheaper to run a car and you also gain by having more access to more services/goods and jobs by having one. Even in a straight line cars are faster than trains. Years ago I had to go to London. The earliest I could arrive was a train scheduled to arrive at 10am - to do this I had to get up at 4:20 or so and drive 20 miles. My alternative was to stay in bed at least an extra hour and drive 90 miles and pick up the same train.