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No phone plugged into the landline here. Just another way for people to pester me! I keep my phone on silent, it's nice and easy to miss/ ignore.0
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Dodgy hug for lir,
Good vibes going out to you ukmaggie45
Had to google some of that. the Giants look fascinating!ukmaggie45 wrote: »Roads round Liverpool will be seriously compromised over the next few days with the Giants coming back, so I'm glad we got our visit to MiL in today. OH is going to visit again on Monday, and take MiL's friend Pat too.
OH now gone out clubbing to Free Rock & Roll with The Stop Outs at Mello Mello.
I like the look of Liverpool, it's a city which I wish I'd seen more of.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
No phone plugged into the landline here. Just another way for people to pester me! I keep my phone on silent, it's nice and easy to miss/ ignore.
I like to be able to give the landline number to people I do not want to bother me when I'm not at home - and especially when I'm at work. Also, the kids' friends ring them on the landline.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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I like to be able to give the landline number to people I do not want to bother me when I'm not at home - and especially when I'm at work. Also, the kids' friends ring them on the landline.
A landline used to be better for getting credit/ singing up for utility contracts, as it showed stability like living in the same place for a while or having a bank account long term, or being on the electoral register, or being in a job for a while.
When we bought our second house we wanted internet and our cable company gave us a phone line dedicated for the internet, but it had a number which we gave out when needed to. It was great because if that phone rang we just ignored it as it would be cold callers. In fact we switched off the ringer .:)There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Short. I fell asleep for a lot of it and woke up intermittently when there were loud noises. Apparently I woke up for the firework.
The firework? The opening ceremony was even worse than previously described! Was it Samond standing in the long jump pit with a sparkler?0 -
All I know about caravan towing can be written on something really quite small. In a large size font.
The impression I have is that the size of the car used for towing matters. Big seems to be good. Also, 4wd. Driving a car like that all year round seems a bit OTT if you only want to tow a caravan once a year.
As a practical suggestion, why not contact the caravan club? You can't be the first person who needs a tow for one reason or another.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I've towed a trailer a few times. It's reversing that's hard.0
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I'm told that my car (Ford C-max) would be adequate to tow my (merely medium sized) caravan, provided that anything remotely heavy about the luggage went in the car not the caravan.
Mind you, if this hiring a driver thing works out easily, I may just do that each summer. Could be a lot more straightforward than learning to tow, and cheaper than hiring a caravan as well as keeping DS and DD happy.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Er .. yeah ... 1GB RAM
Or, as ccleaner tells me: MS Windows XP Home SP3. Intel Celeron CPU 2.80GHz, 759MB RAM, Intel 82865G Graphics Controller
£200 in 2006
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1. Intel core i3-2330M CPU @2.20GHz, 6.0GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics family.
Don't know what any of that means, it was a recommendation from the techy board.
Had a lovely BBQ tonight with DS2, DS1 joining us tomorrow night.:T
He came home with an "interesting" African table piece. I politely said how nice it was. Oops, it wasn't for me. My emotions went in quick succession: Phew, sad, amused, neglected.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
I'd probably look for a friend, or a family member to help out. There's usually one or the other about. I know loads of people who'd do it for a free holiday!Question for the NP. Suppose you needed to get a caravan from somewhere to somewhere else about 60-70 miles away, and then back again a week later. Suppose you had no tow-bar on your car, and wouldn't trust yourself to drive competently while towing anyway, but had plenty of money to hire somebody. How would you go about finding someone to hire for the job? Phone "man with a van" type people? Any other suggestions?
My response to the bold bit would usually be "so what?"If only. Sadly, garden not big enough, and neighbours get snotty if I keep it on the drive.
It was an excellent suggestion, though. It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0
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