Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Nikkster

misskool wrote: »

me too.

picking up the fiesta later today

I hope the two of you have many happy miles of motoring together missk

BertieUK

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I thought you were much younger, too.

Your daughter is 11 years younger than me, as with some other NP's, and I think mine and Lydias are the youngest?!

Maybe its just that I have never really grown up as such as I have always enjoyed life to the best of my abilities and done all of my DIY, well almost, to stay within the law regarding Gas and Electrics reasy really I just would rather do the jobs myself and enjoy doing them.

Life is what you make it I suppose but we all need to have good health as well.:)

zagubov

BertieUK wrote: »

You are so kind with your comments, I have been retired now for six years and we are prepairing to put our house on the market and downsize.

Our only daughter was born in 1991 when I was fifty and my wife thirty nine so she is our princess and is attending University at the moment studying psychology.

Welcome to the thread :beer:(if nobody's said that yet),
I thought you sounded younger too.

Masomnia wrote: »

My mum had a Toyota Starlet for over 10 years and nothing went wrong with it, at all, in that time. Then it failed its emissions test in an MOT, but I'm pretty sure she was done by the garage on that one.
She's had a Yaris since and nothing has gone wrong with that!

There's a page somewhere about MOTs and how to avoid getting your bill padded with unnecessary work.


I hadn't spotted you live in Sheffield. Have you read much Danny Dorling, as in "So You Think You know the UK?". Sings its praises to the heavens;)

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Very many thanks Gen. Really appreciate this. They aren't in Gympie - about an hour further north - Maryborough and Hervey Bay. However through your link I was able to get specific info for the area which they are in: Wide Bay.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20032.html
So that was really helpful.

The people in charge have already abandoned Fraser Island and brought everyone over to the mainland. I'm sure they will be ok. My cousin's place is more at risk because it is very flat and at risk one way from run-off and the other way from coastal surges that cause inland flooding. My uncle lives up a hill from the Mary River, in a Queenslander which stands him in good stead in situations like this. My cousin's house is different, I can only describe it as being on something like a high cinder block plinth.

Only problem is that the road closes between her and him, and as my cousin is a nurse in A&E and her husband a paramedic, they have to stay on the Fraser Coast to deal with emergencies there. They had 86mm yesterday in the run up to this, not much would be very good!

I hope your family were ok when the cyclone went through (cyclone = hurricane, it's a different word for the same thing). From what I've seen the waters rose quickly but washed through pretty quickly too as the ground wasn't saturated like in 2011.

BOM are now putting out tornado forecasts for the region:

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20032.html

Those things bother me as they just spring up and go away again. There's not necessarily anything for the emergency services to come looking for immediately. At least they can track cyclones.

CKhalvashi

misskool wrote: »

just rang local car breakers and they can pick up the old ax for £100 on Monday. Didn't realise it was going to be that easy....

Try and get him to £150, and if necessary, settle at £125.

We've just scrapped an old Austin Metro that was bought to do a video shoot with, and that was worth £150 with no straight body panels.

CK

BertieUK

zagubov wrote: »

Welcome to the thread :beer:(if nobody's said that yet),
I thought you sounded younger too.

Thank you very much for the warm welcome it is appretiated.

You have all really made my day..:A

misskool

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Try and get him to £150, and if necessary, settle at £125.

We've just scrapped an old Austin Metro that was bought to do a video shoot with, and that was worth £150 with no straight body panels.

CK

someone is coming round today to buy it off me so won't have to miss work on monday. that's worth £25 of not hanging around.

Can't find the original MOT certificate so he will have to make do with the directgov printout

BertieUK

michaels wrote: »

I hope that is them paying you and not the other way around.

Also AX - wow anything is going to feel like a huge step into the 21st (20th?) century after that.

A good few years ago when my wife was driving to collect our daughter from school our Ford had a problem with its main harness which had shorted out and nearly caught fire, Ford Dealership said that it would require a full harness but seeing that it was eleven years old they could not trace a harness that would fit as Ford only carried stock for ten years.

We had to scrap the car and as we lived in the country no garage wanted to take the car off our hands so we had to pay the Council £60 to remove it, this was in the middle of winter with deep snow all around. Sad to see her go this way.:sad:

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always think of getting some (free) software to keep my accounts. Anybody know of one that copes with several currencies? I think 11-12 I was paid in: GBP, USD, EUR and AUD. Sometimes I think I get Canadian too... although all currencies that arrive by Paypal can be converted to £s before transferring into my bank.

Excel? It's not free as such but it's very flexible and it can cope with as many currencies as you want.

The accounting norm (AIUI and I'm not an accountant) is that you pick a currency to do your accounting in and then you do your accounts in that currency. For you I guess that would be GBP as that's the currency you pay your expenses in, especially taxes.

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

someone is coming round today to buy it off me so won't have to miss work on monday. that's worth £25 of not hanging around.

Can't find the original MOT certificate so he will have to make do with the directgov printout

What's the deal? Is it going to be crushed/ put to auction?
If so, have you and yours saved anything you can salvage from it first (has it a newer battery/tyres etc.) road tax, mats, radio, ariel, wipers, mirrors, breakdown kit etc.

This must sound foolish as you'rve probably thought through every item already but I'd be searching the seats for money and keys!:rotfl: