Simple living in the country - back to basics

KajiKita

Excellent news on the MOT!!   

And I'm glad you had a good time in Blackpool. I grew up in Lancaster and I remember being taken to see the Illuminations for a birthday treat (end of October) when I was about 8 or 9 and thinking that they were absolutely magical   

KK

beanielou

Hurrah 

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That's terrific about your MOT, and a rarity (at least in my experience). Mine is due next month and my car has informed me for a while it has no intention of passing, via a light on the dashboard. Who knew being a grown up would be so expensive?!

badmemory

You know to take Martin's advice & take your car to an MOT place only - not to a repairing garage?

beanielou

It's a year since my car finally passes it's MOT after all the malarky. 
Came up on my FB memories.

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, was that really a year ago Beanie?! Crikey!! 

I do keep forgetting about taking it to just a testing place 🙄 However, since we moved we just take it to a little place a couple of miles up the road - it's the only place I can walk to if I need to, and also only takes 10 mins if we end up running in with both cars to drop one off then come home, like we did today. Would be a massive palaver to go any further.

LadyWithAPlan

That cafe was basically day light robbery. Those prices are Mandarin Oriental ones and at least there is a waiter and a gorgeous surroundings! I would put a review online about it as I think they deliberately overcharged you. 

Good car!! 

Cheery_Daff

Daylight robbery indeed! I just looked at the reviews (bit late now 😂😂)  and they're definitely styling themselves as a posh beachfront bistro 🙄 Lots of reviews basically saying if your face doesn't fit, you don't get to sit in the posh bit, and service isn't great 🙄😂😂 Clearly our faces didn't fit! 

Didn't win anything on the premium bonds 🙄 I did look at the list of big winners though, and someone who bought £35 in 1966 has won £10k (or maybe £5k) so that's cheerful - hope they know they've got them! 

Working at home today. No meetings, and hoping to have a slightly more productive day than yesterday!

earthgirl2

Glad you had a great trip, and a wedding trip to look forward to as well!

EssexHebridean

badmemory said:

You know to take Martin's advice & take your car to an MOT place only - not to a repairing garage?

That advice CAN be very good unless you either know already that the car is likely to fail, or want a service done before the MOT so that anything it might fail the MOT on can be picked up on in advance, or have a friendly garage that discounts the MOT cost and who you already trust...  

Ugh to your cafe experience Cheery - I confess that after something similar some years ago we now heartily adhere to the idea that if we need to ask the price we probably can't afford it - so no menu = no custom from us!   Glad the trip was OK aside from that though, and hurrah for getting the carpet situation sorted too!