Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

I only went to 2 open days, and my recollection is that it was an absolute waste of time. Basically, you stroll around the area, looking at architecture. By the time you have been there a week, you blank out the architecture anyway. The 2 important questions are a) what is the tuition like, and b) what is the food/accommodation like? You might get an idea of the food/accommodation, I suppose, but the chances are quite high that it will not be WYSIWYG. Your chances of finding out anything meaningful about the tuition at an open day are very low.

James wants to go so he can compare to his first choice (although he is not been there yet anyway!) and to get a feel of the place, the surroundings, whether the buildings are suitable for him etc.

Although we tend not to think of his disabilities too much, we do have to take them into consideration, so a place with lots of stairs and no lift available for example, would make things just that little bit more eek for him when he is having a bad dislocation day.

Anyway, it will be a nice day out to a city I have only driven past on the way back from a speedway meeting to my parent's caravan...and without the other two boys, so a bonus!

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Hmm, sort opf. Some of the poshest people i know have a cheap ford hatchback as well as a landrover. Posh is also most definitely not burning money.

There is also a geographical element to this i think. I relaised this talking to my father. E.g. Out here the sort of 'executive' saloon is decidedly unposh....they are usually ex company cars and sold at car auctions, where as in London the same cars would be quite 'posh'. Here old fords are quite posh. I had a ford for years, bought because it was kinda pretty, not steal worthy, little to park and covered motor way miles very well and even though i loved it i would not cry when people scraped it in london streets.

Tbh, the only thing that matters is choosing things suitable, affordable and pleasurable for ourselves. Anything else is neither posh nor unposh but silly,

I've got a '61' plate S-Max, which I don't think is that posh. I'll probably keep it for 2-3 years (I order a new one at 150,000 miles, currently at 62000 in 9.5 months, last one had 174,000) and go from there.

I don't think they're posh, I just think, at S-Max no.3 now, they're bloomin' good cars!

CK

SingleSue

Anything newer than an 06 plate is posh to me......I'm still on the old reg's!

lostinrates

Btw, i am with those who think open days are not a waste of time,but also that he might be better going with a friendor even alone if he is confident.

CKhalvashi

SingleSue wrote: »

Anything newer than an 06 plate is posh to me......I'm still on the old reg's!

I had an '06' plate Audi.....Even though my number plate is '6' and my initials (currently on OH's car)

vivatifosi

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I had an '06' plate Audi.....Even though my number plate is '6' and my initials (currently on OH's car)

I have an old one of that make of car (as in the end of the old type of numberplate). I've driven it from new, it still works, rarely breaks, so I don't see any reason to replace it. The worst bit is it has a cassette player. If there's no decent radio station, I have to revert to either a talking book from the library or my 1980s mix tape.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

I have an old one of that make of car (as in the end of the old type of numberplate). I've driven it from new, it still works, rarely breaks, so I don't see any reason to replace it. The worst bit is it has a cassette player. If there's no decent radio station, I have to revert to either a talking book from the library or my 1980s mix tape.

It was a good little car. It's currently being used by my mother (and has about 280,000 miles on it now, as she does 1k/week).

It was an A6 Estate with the same 2.0 diesel that's in a Skoda taxi year you! Great little car!

CK

lostinrates

We bought our current car coz it were cheap. After dh broke the last one, which was made when we were at primary school.

We still have the ast ine in a barn for 'one day'. I have almost shifted it twice but dh wasn't willing. Now i rhink he would be.

lostinrates

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It was a good little car. It's currently being used by my mother (and has about 280,000 miles on it now, as she does 1k/week).

It was an A6 Estate with the same 2.0 diesel that's in a Skoda taxi year you! Great little car!

CK

My dad's unreliable audi has really put me off them. Not only could you se a clock by the time it was in at the garage on monday mornings but the after setvice was imo not obsequious enough considering how bloody unrelable it was.

That said, i would not buy another of what we have.

misskool

c'mon greece. hold on.

it would amuse me greatly to watch greece v germany