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.

A major purchase ie: property, super yacht etc.

Yes, well worth the effort, but for holiday walking around money...use credit card.

When the chicken comes out!

max - when on holiday, i nearly always use cash ..... in any case, i do not have a personal credit card of any kind
for biz i have one charge card and one credit card

Without plastic, how do you get by c?

last night we had a club meeting and we have finally decide we must keep
the lunatics out of power ed is a nutter anti business anti workers
so we are all going to vote conservative we would love to vote ukip
but we must keep the nutter out at all costs

One for Fred (nicked from across the road)

max - very easily ..... i use one of my biz cards in restaurants and hotels or for other "heavy" bills, and then settle with the company each month ..... quite often, i'll use my direct debit card

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oh MrT, you really do brighten my day and make me chuckle sometimes :-)

cynic the labour party is a party for the idle and against the working person trying to get on . they would destroy the will to both to work to make their lives better it would be pointless under a lab gov

you don't need to convince me not to vote for wallace, nor even fred, for he won't vote at all :-)

my wife was interesting this morning ..... she reckons she'll turn off as soon as we start getting the pre-election mud-slinging and propaganda ...... she'll vote for sure (as will my children), but i think the general public finds all this electioneering a meaningless bore and i fear a low turn-out

Max,

The same as has been said of "here to-day gone to-morrow tub-thumpers".

Being able to point out the problems and getting others to shout with you doesn't solve problems.

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This election so far has been a poorly managed PR event.

I suppose you have to spend £50 million of ill-got gains somehow or other!

Must have filled a few back pockets!

fred - i trust that is a non-partisan x-party comment

Of course!

I was to young to be a partisan.

Terrorist is a different matter.

so you're more like aged parmesan then? :-)

Not quite as hard!

the good stuff is quite crumbly and good with a decent red wine - rather like you i'ld have thought

If you mean crumbling, at this moment in time you are quite right, but many a good dish contains crumbs.

If you are thinking of buying a new car and are wondering if you could make a saving by buying 'an import' from somewhere in the EU, then these are the guys to talk to:

http://www.bob-gerard.co.uk/vehicle-imports

Give them a ring, tell them what it is you are looking for and leave the rest to them.

THe last time I dealt with them I bought a brand new Toyota Landcruiser, importing it into the UK out of Cyprus and saving myself a little over £6,000.

They paid for my flight and hotel accommodation out there for a 3-day stay, so that I qualified to be able to export the vehicle out of Cyprus over to the UK.

I saved £6,000+ on my purchase of a totally UK specification vehicle (Cyprus is RH Drive)
The Leicester dealers obviously made a profit.
The agent they dealt with in Cyprus (and who took my wife and I and the two Leicester guys out for a very nice lunch in Nicosia) also made a profit.
The Cyprus Toyota dealer (who was also the Cyprus Toyota distributor - ie. two businesses at the same location) also must have made a double profit.

The result was, that everyone involved was very happy.

(Just one slight regret, though. When we went for the very nice lunch at, what was a top notch restaurant in Nicosia, my wife and I were dressed in 'very casual holiday clothes'. The other three guys were dressed in extremely smart suits, shirts and ties - so we did feel very 'underdressed')

this isn't anything i have tried myself, but i think you are quite right that a great deal of money can be saved by buying in europe, sometimes even direct from the factory
however, it is equally certain that a great deal of care needs to be taken if you are not to be mugged

similarly, there can be a serious discrepancy with long haul flights on very reputable airlines
admittedly several years ago, it was very much worth my while for our NL office to buy my (return!) flights from A'dam to S'pore with S'pore Airlines ..... I then spent a very small sum for flights to/from A'dam with minimal downtime

It's no good buying those Japanese pussy wagons, you should have bought a land rover...just think of all the garage visits you have missed.

don't know about land rover, but range rovers, that favourite on-the-kerb vehicle of the yummy mummies, is not only massive but hugely overpriced ....... a bit like some of those (ex) yummy mummies!