Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

Presumably you have the other £6.8M that would have been required to equal the last market price of your childhood home in your sock drawer.

Sadly my parents sold it for considerably less than our current semi is worth and happily they are busy enjoying their lives off the reinvested proceeds.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Sadly my parents sold it for considerably less than our current semi is worth and happily they are busy enjoying their lives off the reinvested proceeds.

They are skiers!

(Spend the kids' inheritance.)

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Winner!
Grey/overcast here ... so not the best sofa in the world to be sitting on

Hmm, you're not in Cornwall and it's grey/overcast?
It's grey/overcast here - sure you're not 2 doors down from me?
:rotfl:

CKhalvashi

ivyleaf wrote: »

Maybe completion has been delayed?

We handed over the keys at 12pm, and got the keys at 12pm.

If I remember, I stayed at the London house while OH drove up to the new house about 10am with the fridge in my car, did a Tesco shop for what was needed over the next few days (we'd run the fridge/freezer down to nothing over the previous weeks), and had a coffee before meeting the previous occupiers at about 11:55.

Lorry with the main stuff from the house arrived soon after

ukmaggie45

Just been out on a pleasant little drive to Ford in Speke, where we test drove an S-Max. It seems to me that the suspension is rather better than my Renault - hardly felt the speed humps! :j Also had a sit in the Kuga, and may test drive that before we make any final decision. Any of you driven a Kuga? Any thoughts on it?

We were very clear that order date won't be for a while, as my current contract with Motability runs till early October. So guess we'll be ordering from the next price list that comes out in July. Always assuming that when the Brown Envelope of Doom arrives I can make a good enough case to get PIP. I'm really dreading that... I know that I "should" be eligible but have heard so many horror stories of lying assessors :eek: that I'm not going to count any chickens.

OH is happy, he loves to drive a different car, plus he gets to talk cars with somebody who actually knows about them! :rotfl:

ivyleaf

So sorry Pastures New, I forgot that when I was replying I have now deleted both yours and mine. (The quote from yours, I mean.)

Maggie We looked at the Kuga, and OH was quite keen, but I found I couldn't climb into the back because the sill was higher than at the front. The Motability man said another customer had decided against the Kuga for the same reason just the day before. I could just about get into the front, but it really was a bit high; my hips weren't impressed!
We test-drove a Grand C-Max, which was apparently a smooth ride over the speed bumps for OH and the Motability man in the front seats, but I found it very bumpy in the back - but I suspect it was because no one had sat in the back before so the foam wasn't "worn-in" IYSWIM.

We also tried the Skoda Yeti and that was an extremely smooth ride.

CKhalvashi

ivyleaf wrote: »

So sorry Pastures New, I forgot that when I was replying I have now deleted both yours and mine. (The quote from yours, I mean.)

Maggie We looked at the Kuga and OH was quite keen, but I found I couldn't climb into the back because the sill was higher than at the front. The Motability man said another customer had decided against the Kuga for the same reason the day before. I could just about get into the front, but it really was a bit high.

Ivy, I had 2 S-Maxes, but would the C-Max be suitable for you? I say that, because I'm assuming that you don't need the 7 seats.

chris_m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kuga or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cougar

Hmm, choices, choices

Why on earth Ford opted to give their compact SUV a name that sounds just like an earlier, and rather poorly-selling, sports coupe beats me.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't quote, will delete.

Really understand what you said in your unquoteable post. Please accept some cyber hugs from someone far away from you who cares about you and how you're doing.

I'll remove this if you'd rather I did of course.

ivyleaf

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Ivy, I had 2 S-Maxes, but would the C-Max be suitable for you? I say that, because I'm assuming that you don't need the 7 seats.

Thank you CK We actually picked our new one up last week; went for the Citroen C4 Picasso in the end. The five-seater version, which of course is not as roomy in the back as the dealer insisted it would be, but although we liked the C-Max a lot, there was virtually NO knee-room behind OH by the time he got the driving seat into the position he needs.

He does need to move his seat forward a bit) when he has DGD sitting behind him, but once she's grown out of needing a booster seat it won't be a problem.
We had a Vauxhall Antara (SUV) before, and OH finds the new one much easier to drive