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After replacing the fuel filter, you have to pump diesel into it with a hand pump!
As soon as you said it wouldn't start, after changing the fuel filter, the first thought that came to mind was "jk0's car is a diesel".
It's for this reason, you should never run a diesel with the fuel light on.
If they run out of of fuel, they're a total PITA to get going again.0 -
MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »but I've lived in Europe and know that people are just people, just like us.
I've nothing against European people, or indeed European countries.
Berlin is the most amazing place I've ever visited, and the people are some of the friendliest I've ever met.
What I am against, is the EU.0 -
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Thanks Nuatha. It's always been done at main dealers because I like to have genuine parts fitted. I guess no-one looks at your service book to see what's been done previously. I didn't myself until a couple of weeks ago.
Still, you live & learn, eh?
Take a clear bin liner, insist that used parts are put in the bag or you won't be paying for them.
If the dealer isn't checking your service book then they are committing fraud - they are charging you for competency that they are failing to provide.
I don't know about live and learn - they may well have significantly shortened the life of your car, they've certainly extracted money from you under false pretences.Bedsit_Bob wrote: »As soon as you said it wouldn't start, after changing the fuel filter, the first thought that came to mind was "jk0's car is a diesel".
It's for this reason, you should never run a diesel with the fuel light on.
If they run out of of fuel, they're a total PITA to get going again.0 -
Remember it isn't over until we slam the door behind us... I'm half expecting a sudden "Oh you know what- let's not leave after all. We have re-negotiated the terms and got a great new deal and blah blah blah"0
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Remember it isn't over until we slam the door behind us... I'm half expecting a sudden "Oh you know what- let's not leave after all. We have re-negotiated the terms and got a great new deal and blah blah blah"
I really don't think they'd dare, Mar. And the EU apparently wants us out asap.
Moving onto the important stuff of life, I was attempting to track down the place where jellybabies were born, so's I could reassure you that the supply was safe. What I found was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Babies
Gosh, Mar, the individual colours of jellybabies are named. How can you possibly go on eating them after you've learned this?! Pass me a 'baby bonny' will ya?:rotfl:Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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I think I am a bit odd. That statement requires no comment from anyone, right?
The more people tell me that life is going to get tougher, disaster is on the horizon, we will all be poorer (difficult in my case), all kinds of nameless horrors are awaiting us now we don't having the comforting arms of the EU around us, (sic), the more the excitement bubbles in my being.
I think that those of us born before the war - oh. come on, I can't be the only one, - grew up with coping with tough times and disaster managing mechanisms bred into us. Hearing that belts will have to be tightened, luxuries will be in short supply and the future is uncertain gives us a sort comfortable familiarity. I told you I was strange.
Ever since the unexpected brexit vote, followed by dire warnings, there has been a sense of anticipation growing in me. Austerity, deprivation, make do and mend, all pulling together? Bring it on!
I can't wait to roll up my sleeves, beat the odds, snatch success from the jaws of difficulties and take life by the throat.
At least this time we are unlikely to have rationing, clothing coupons, gas masks and not knowing when we go to bed if we are still going to be alive in the morning. I did say unlikely, I'm not ruling it out.;)
I confess to a soupcon of smug satisfaction when young people weep and wail at the prospect of having their easy lives disturbed. And before anyone tells me that the young today live under extreme stress perhaps they should try a bit of 1940's living.
You see? I'm not only strange but unsympathetic as well.
Anyway, let an old lady have her moment of anticipation and enjoy her new rush of energy.
Probably nothing very much is going to change, at least in the short term and we will all rub along much as before.
I can't stop grinning.
xI believe that friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet when our wings
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You are not alone MONNA............0
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Well here's a first. Just been up to the mini supermarket to look for YS and to buy a small libation to mark the momentous day.
There are actually people in several parts of the supermarket talking to strangers about the referendum. Some were even having not-very-heated arguments for remain or brexit whilst the rest of the city was getting its dancin' shoes on and starting to tank up for the weekend.
Fascinating.
As to fearmongering politicos, a lot of people don't have an awful lot to lose. Job losses? Err, that horse bolted already. No prospects? Check. No hope in hell of ever owning a modest home? Been there, done that, had to leave the tee-shirt behind as it was made in a sweatshop and we couldn't afford it anyway.
If business prospers, it somehow doesn't seem to filter down to the proles in the form of a reasonable wage and decent T & C. So, why should the same people sweat it if business suffers? Not going to worry about the price decline of the house you haven't got, or the share-price loss of the portfolio you didn't own, are you?Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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