Elantan's enjoying her excellent adventure

elantan

well your certainly in the right place (the dfw board) for help on that subject welcome

skint_spice

have pmed you, hope you don't mind!

elantan

course i dont mind thanks spice brilliant idea by the way will deff be looking into it ..have pmd you back ...we'll need to get a meet for coffee sometime rich and jinky live close by as well so we could all meet up one day ...if your up to it

elantan

well the curry was lovely hypno how did you go with yours

skint_spice

elantan wrote: »

course i dont mind thanks spice brilliant idea by the way will deff be looking into it ..have pmd you back ...we'll need to get a meet for coffee sometime rich and jinky live close by as well so we could all meet up one day ...if your up to it

no problem, coffee sounds good - maybe once the schools have gone back...only 3 weeks and counting!

elantan

ooo i remember those days lol mine has now left thankfully ...yes thats great just let me know when you are free

elantan

right well back fromt he night shift and have spent a wee while looking at diesel prices and food prices...hubby is taking the car away to get fixed agin (hopefully this will be it done this time) now i was reading the paper and i think it was martin that was talking about ways to save money (he was in the paper but i aint sure if this bit i am going to tell you about was him or not) and it said that if you drive 60 instead of 80 on the motorway you could save up to £519 (or something like that) a year on diesel ...so i decided to put this to the test so on the way home i did what it advised ...brake as little as possible stay in a high gear dont drive over 60 and i saw my mpg gauge go up by over 1.5 miles now that was impressive to me so i came home and checked petrol prices.com and the cheapest is on my way home so tomorrow morning i will put another £20 in the car (it needs it already)

Karmacat

Hi El

Yes, I think he wrote a piece in his blog about when he was on holiday with the MSF, he motored for one week in the normal way, and for another week thinking really carefully about driving to save money - it made about a third difference, it was quite striking - hunt back through recent blogs and you should find it - good luck to you!

boredofbeingathome

Mr.B has been driving at a lower speed as well..so he tells me, but just thankful the prices have gons down a bit..i have not filled up my car yet..am hoping for a further reduction, Am also sorry to hear about the repairs as wel..there are some robbing gits out there..

Catch up with you later EL x

mizmir

Those are amazing savings - not sure if I can manage to drive at 60 on motorways though - will have to retrain my "girl racer" tendencies!!