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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,078 Forumite
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Way to make me go spend £70 when I'm broke fc...
    talking sense & all that!
    I'm also thinking the lampshade would look cracking at christmas!:D


    I agree. If it hangs around in your mind as special for a week then it's probably worth purchasing and feeling good about.
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I never asked you for money .... :(
    Ok, I'll let you off.:)

    Chewy, you owe me £20 :D
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    edited 20 August 2014 at 11:14PM
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    A man with a van, perhaps, or just a cheaper door.

    That is a lot of money for a door. I'm sure it's lovely but I would keep the door over spending that much. If it was a special doorway that needed bespoke doors, then okay, but we're talking about a fairly common front door on a fairly common house that isn't worth seven figures (quite yet ;))

    I'm very lucky with cousin although he costs a fortune in food and beer. :o

    In fairness, that was also for a frame and top window too, but it's definitely not happening at that price! No specific door picked, so nothing I've fallen in love with :)

    Edit: current door definitely not a keeper, not really up for men with vans etc at the mo, too much on my plate as it is.
  • Generali
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    Passed mine 8th (?) August 1988.

    September 1990 I was living and working on a Breton campsite.

    We get snow in Aus. There are even ski resorts here! Ever heard of The Man from Snowy River?
  • PasturesNew
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    Generali wrote: »

    We get snow in Aus. There are even ski resorts here! Ever heard of The Man from Snowy River?

    I was watching some programme on the telly last night - a Liverpool comedian, John (?) Bishop, had cycled from Sydney to Cairns when he was 25.... and now he's 47 he went back. But he realised that when he was 25 he just got on his bike and cycled.... so this time he stopped and looked at some places.

    He went to the Blue Mountains - and there was some old fella with an 1800s US-style "old timer" beard.... is that him?
  • chewmylegoff
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    As maggie correctly identifies:

    thus by following others logic, PN & chewy both owe me £10.

    I'll send you £10 when you send me £10.50 and a stamped addressed envelope!
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,466 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Passed mine 8th (?) August 1988.

    September 1990 I was living and working on a Breton campsite.

    We get snow in Aus. There are even ski resorts here! Ever heard of The Man from Snowy River?

    OH claims to have ruptured her ACL and destroyed a load of cartilage skiing in Australia. If you're going to do that you should at least do it falling down a slope that someone has heard of, IMO.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    michaels wrote: »
    No cufflinks for me though, part of consultancy skills when going for long term 'part of the team' placements is not to dress more expensive than your colleagues.

    Cufflinks aren't necessarily particularly expensive.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • chewmylegoff
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    I had a blow out on Saturday. The nice tyre man gave me a shiny newish part worn Bridgestone for £25 which made me happy as tthe one that blew was on the way out anyway and they're over £150 each.

    My car needs all pads and discs changing. MINI wanted £750. Cousin did the fronts today and painted my brake callipers red, girl racer stylee. Back ones tommorrow. Net saving of £350 and he gets a shiny set of tools. Still expensive!

    Your insurance will go up £350 because of the non standard brake modifications. :)

    I've been given an ultimatum to get rid of my mini by January at the latest and buy something more practical that we can fit things in. I am not pleased.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,078 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    Your insurance will go up £350 because of the non standard brake modifications. :)

    I've been given an ultimatum to get rid of my mini by January at the latest and buy something more practical that we can fit things in. I am not pleased.

    They're not going to know about the £5 tin of enamel paint that puts the premium up by the GDP of a small country.

    You can get a king size mattress and a chest of drawers in a MINI. This is fact. It's either big enough or you have somewhere to sleep and put your clothes if your other half still thinks it's too small.

    Win/win.

    How old is your MINI? If I downsize, it will be in January.
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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