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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.

« on: 28 November 2025, 19:18:47 »

We keep a few grand in ISAs as an emergency fund instant access if we need it,  the rest is all in premium bonds had them since 2021 and no word of a lie we've won a few quid every month since we've had them,  don't know anything about stocks & shares and certainly at this stage in our lives don't see the point.

You don't need to know anything about stocks and shares, Mick. You just hand over your dosh to a fund manager and they invest it for you, according to chosen risk level. Then they take a cut every year now matter how the fund performs. 

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That would mean putting trust in somebody with our cash , what could possibly go wrong ?

That's what we thought about 30 yrs ago ..... the name of the advisor should have been a clue .... he was called Grantham Fidler!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.

« on: 28 November 2025, 19:16:36 »

Think of the poor unmarried mothers with half a dozen kids or more, each one with a different father.

Got to be looked after by the state.

I can think of a few of them, all from the same family & have never worked a day in their life .... 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 18 November 2025, 17:26:28 »

So, turns out it was bent as well.  So the bill for welding and straightening was 160 notes. Ouch.

I discovered a cracked rim on my ML the other year .... I reckoned it was more cost effective to buy a used rim than repair the cracked one. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 18 November 2025, 14:05:18 »

Yet another puncture.  I'd had a good run for a few months, but thats now 2 in a week.

I'd not had a puncture for years

..... I replaced all 4 tyres on the ML & then got a puncture within a couple of weeks!!!! 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 17 November 2025, 16:48:01 »

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Turns out I had 0.6l left in the tank

I never believe my cars when it tells me I have so much fuel or so many miles left. The Smart will tell me I have 4.0 litres left which should mean there's room for another 31 litres ..... in reality there's room for another 25/26

I used to take the Omega down to zero miles or not much more 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 17 November 2025, 16:39:42 »

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£110 later....

I see your £110 & raise it to the £116 it cost to fill my ML ..... and just to add to the kick in the wallet I then filled the Smart with another £40(?) 

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General Car Chat / Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag

« on: 12 November 2025, 11:59:54 »

Harry has a fantastic collection of vehicles, I watched about an hour of his stroll round his warehouse collection on YouTube last week £140,000 must be like pocket change to him.

He does have a great selection of both cars and bikes.....including a 'widowmaker' 750 2 stroke Kawasaki triple and 6 cylinder Honda CBX.

they have one of them at The Lakeland motor museum 

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General Car Chat / Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag

« on: 10 November 2025, 16:24:24 »

https://youtu.be/qBNl32_eu6M?si=PWldkslkBAfVKBh2

@ 6min 50sec
'over hundred thousand gone into this car' ..... 

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General Car Chat / Harry Metcalfe's Jag

« on: 10 November 2025, 10:17:18 »

Don't know if anyone has followed this Jag XJC V12

Harry bought it for something like £5000 or £6000, spent a shed load on it £70odd thousand IIRC & then when sold went for silly money.

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1978-jaguar-xjc-rec16093-2-nec-1125

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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias

« on: 06 November 2025, 12:02:37 »

And important, current, news stories are pushed back to 1 liners, with their concentration on whatever is happening at Stockport.  Don't get me wrong, that was a very sad attack for the local community, but it doesn't need a 10 minute delay update every single day.

Stockport? I must have missed that one 

He'll have meant Southport ....  It's all the same up Norf for a Suvverner 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Staggering Incompetence

« on: 05 November 2025, 13:42:57 »

and incredibly they've done it again .... but it's taken them a week this time to realise!!!!!!! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5ylvz217ept

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 04 November 2025, 15:16:50 »

Anglia Car Auctions via UK Barn Finds ....

I loved mine, but not sure I loved enough to spend so much on it! 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQmGECFiWIK/?igsh=MTd1dTl0MTlzc3loaw%3D%3D

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 03 November 2025, 12:27:17 »

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.... and they don't scratch the doors around the handles with their rings.

that's my gripe too 

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General Car Chat / Re: In Autocar magazine letters this week.

« on: 31 October 2025, 21:52:32 »

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Mine has staggered wheels anyway for reasons I never understood, so a full sized would be problematic I guess.

and where would you stop if you had directional tyres on staggered rims? You'd need to carry 4 spare wheels... just in case.

Mine is a space saver .... no idea if the the full sized (265mm?) tyre would even fit in the spare wheel well 

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General Car Chat / Re: In Autocar magazine letters this week.

« on: 31 October 2025, 19:46:09 »

I noticed on YouTube there was a ML for sale & during the walk round it showed under the boot floor  ..... this car did NOT have a spare but mine does, despite there being an air tank in there for its suspension.