Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

see you in 2 weeks off on a cruise .

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Tanker, If that cruise is on a large ship then I'm afraid you will have to cancel.

He is too busy shouting elsewhere!

Too busy? wait till I get hold of him.

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GM was a delightful chap and often amused us all pottering about on his motor scooter + crash-helmet

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I have just had a call from the police. Our car was stolen a couple of months ago. The driver was drunk and involved in a high speed car chase in London in the middle of the night. Luckily, there was minor damage to the car. He went to court today and received 17 months in prison and was disqualified for four years. He got a harsh penalty as he was already disqualified.

OSBOURNE on BBC news channel NOW telling us why he was right about austerity and his planning.

Total balderdash and making it up as he goes along.

WHAT A WALLY.

Excellent speech by Osborne. History is showing that his policy has been right all along. It will be interesting to what sort of pathetic response Ed Balls can manage.

It is a nightmare scenario for Labour. An improving economy, falling unemployment and an election looming.

findus - you were bound to say that, but like it or not, the economy is most certainly on an upswing and why should not Osbourne take the credit that it was due to "his" austerity measures ...... for sure, you would have been very happy indeed to make hay had things worked the other way

H/S, Did the police say how he gained entry into your Car? (assuming it is quite a modern model) which I have heard are harder to steel.

Of course we could have had Ed Balls Plan B where we would have increased borrowing and indulged in Labour's usual spend, spend, spend.

not if they're made from aluminium!
actually, i don't believe the security on most run-of-the-mill cars is much better than it was, VW being an exception for sure

Stan, he broke the window. It wasn't a newish car. My father in law died at Xmas and we inherited his car, which had been immaculately looked after. Due to sentimental reasons, we have to keep it running (I won't comment further on that subject).

H/S, Yes I quite understand, I had my car stolen years ago and the police said that the bloke had made a copy from the door lock which was the same key as the ignition lock (would you believe) and just opened the door started up and was off!

Ever since then I have used a steering wheel lock even on our (also inherited modern car). Live and learn as they say.

I used to have a Porsche 944 Turbo and it had a Thatcham level 1 alarm. It was a pain. When you unlocked the car with the remote you had about 20 seconds to start the car or else it would re-alarm itself passively. To leave the car unalarmed with the door unlocked was quite a performance. When I first bought it, it drove me mad. I left it unlocked with the windows down on a hot day. I went in doors to get something. While I was away, it put the windows up and re-alarmed itself.