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beanielou

That is a fab deal

redofromstart

Always think those deals look good by my OH doesn't like pork or gammon so I struggle to make them work for us.

ZTD

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Eh-up Z -

Eee by gum lass...

EssexHebridean wrote: »

thanks for popping by! Yes - a lot of the MoT Test stuff is to do with the DPF's - mine has one and MrEH's hasn't (Well we don't think so - trying to find a definite on this is not proving easy!)

Next time you get an MOT, ask the garage. If you have one, they'll even be able to prod it with a screw driver to show.

EssexHebridean wrote: »

but anything we'd look to replace his with now will be our "long distance and Islands" car so we'll not be buying anything ancient.

I wasn't suggesting buying anything ancient as such, just an older Mercedes Benz is likely to be more reliable than a newer "Great Wall"...

I must admit, if buying a new car is going to be banned, I'll be buying something simple with a huge lump of iron connected to the wheels. It isn't going to be efficient, but will last for centuries.

EssexHebridean wrote: »

VERY glad you mentioned the thing about the National Grid's concerns in relation to all this electric car stuff too - then you have the fact that in London (And I suspect a lot of other cities too!) you can't charge the things outside home as you're not allowed to run cables over the pavement... :mad:

Don't worry. The Government will release a series of adverts showing how just looking at a charge meter will automatically charge your car with no user input, just like having a smart meter saves you money automatically...

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Greying In fairness if someone offered YOU a bit of toast with a smear of something brown and sticky looking on it, would your first reaction be to eat it?! Thought not! :rotfl::rotfl:

And then Nutella happens...

EssexHebridean

LOL Z I now have visions of electric cars charging rather like the wireless charging on the newest Apple phones - you drive them over a pad and they just charge magically! :rotfl: Actually maybe that's not so far-fetched...hmmm!

We need to do some proper thinking on the subject of cars for sure.

Prolific money has arrived and been transferred to the 0% card - this month's DD will take that to under £400 to pay off which I'm quite chuffed with.

ZTD

EssexHebridean wrote: »

LOL Z I now have visions of electric chars charging

I read that as "chairs"... :eek:

Shocking, I know.

EssexHebridean wrote: »

rather like the wireless charging on the newest Apple phones

When senior managers talk about wireless anything, we invite them to go up on the roof during a thunderstorm to harvest the free wireless electricity on offer.

And of course we offer them a free umbrella to hold...

EssexHebridean wrote: »

- you drive them over a pad and they just charge magically! :rotfl: Actually maybe that's not so far-fetched...hmmm!

Wireless charging is about 50% efficient (in comparison to wire), and that's with things in close (flat) contact. Electric toothbrushes are more efficient, but that's due to the little nubbin (made of ferrite) which goes up the toothbrush's bum (which is where the coil is).

So you will need twice the power for pads than if you just provided a socket.

EssexHebridean wrote: »

We need to do some proper thinking on the subject of cars for sure.

And somebody had to mention the 'T' word... :eek:

Why instead, don't we do anything and just virtue signal for a couple of decades? Then when the chickens come home to roost (frozen and from orbit) we just spend stupid amounts of money we don't have on stupid knee-jerk reactions?

Mentioning no names (Hinkley Point).

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Prolific money has arrived and been transferred to the 0% card - this month's DD will take that to under £400 to pay off which I'm quite chuffed with.

How long before it's gone?

beanielou

Great news on the card

EssexHebridean

ZTD wrote: »

I read that as "chairs"... :eek: I've corrected it now...and given myself a kick up the derrière for not reading back and spellchecking!


Shocking, I know.
It would have been! :rotfl:


When senior managers talk about wireless anything, we invite them to go up on the roof during a thunderstorm to harvest the free wireless electricity on offer.

And of course we offer them a free umbrella to hold...

By "offer" you mean "superglue to their hands" I assume?


Wireless charging is about 50% efficient (in comparison to wire), and that's with things in close (flat) contact. Electric toothbrushes are more efficient, but that's due to the little nubbin (made of ferrite) which goes up the toothbrush's bum (which is where the coil is).

So you will need twice the power for pads than if you just provided a socket.
I knew there was a reason I didn't want a wirelessly charging phone. (Other than the MSE one of being perfectly happy with the bargain basement version of the iPhone I have!)



And somebody had to mention the 'T' word... :eek:
Well I was meaning on a personal level rather than a global one...but I take your point!

Why instead, don't we do anything and just virtue signal for a couple of decades? Then when the chickens come home to roost (frozen and from orbit) we just spend stupid amounts of money we don't have on stupid knee-jerk reactions?
Precisely what I expect to happen - well aside form the chickens possibly...

Mentioning no names (Hinkley Point).
:eek: Don;t talk about....Oh....you did....



How long before it's gone?

Card stops being 0% by the end of October so I want it gone ahead of that. If things start getting tight I still have all the money I had saved for the items that got BT'd to it stashed into savings though - well aside from about £70 so it's definitely not going to go to interest charging. At that stage if there is anything photographic I have my eye on I'll wait for either a further 0% BT offer or a 0% on purchases one - but if there's nothing I'm in the market for at that stage I'll just close the card. No, we're not starting a book on the unlikeliness of me having anything new on my camera kit wish-list by that stage... :rotfl:

EssexHebridean

Parkrun this morning - our other fairly local one but without the hills of our very local one - it did however have large icy puddles which made life "interesting" - I was expecting that they might have gone by the time we came round for the second lap but no, still lurking threateningly. Thank goodness for grass verges. :T Harder work than it should have been because the furthest I've run in a few weeks has been about a mile and a half - but not actually desperately tough which I guess is good - stepped up the pace for about the last half mile (aside the icy puddled bit) and now need to decide whether I'd have been better leaving my speed turn a bit later and having enough left in me for a sprint finish...hmmm. There was tea & cake afterwards - MrEH's treat bless him.

Only other plan for the day is to head to the rugby club later for some beers once the lads get back from their away match - England -v- Wales will be on so that should be entertaining. Well, hopefully it will be entertaining for England...we'll see.

WannabeFree

Well done on the park run! Our most local was cancelled because of the ice ... Not that I planned on participating :rotfl: Maybe in the tea and cake

Hope you've had a good afternoon

EssexHebridean

Haha WF I suspect if they'd realised how bad that first bit was before everyone arrived they might have cancelled our one too! :rotfl:

Very nice weekend - the result of the England rugby match on Saturday helped - several celebratory beverages were consumed and I *might* have fallen straight asleep when we got home at 9pm... :o Yesterday we headed up to the RSPB reserve at their headquarters in Bedfordshire - we've spent years saying we must visit one day and are now kicking ourselves we didn't go sooner as it's a glorious place! We'll definitely be going back!

So spendiness to declare:
- Shopping on Friday: £3.97 in Aldi, £13.41 in ThaT supermarkeT = £17.38 total
- Tea & cake at parkrun was MrEH's treat - admittedly mostly because I'd not taken a purse with me! :rotfl: It was donations to MIND charity though so we felt that was a good cause! :T
- I handed £10 to MrEH on Saturday so he could buy my round of drinks at the club (he gets membership discount)
Think that's about it - the parking/reserve admission was free yesterday as we're RSPB members. :T

The TCB money has arrived and been transferred to the card - signature updated.