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Well whatever it is Spacie is very absorbed in it :-)

It's a VW Golf!
(impressive huh...)
;>)

Yup! V6 3 litre 155mph (electronically limited to that speed)

Can't hide anything from us Spacie ;>)
Have a good weekend all :>)

Yep its a VW Golf but a very nice one... Just back from a couple of hours of fun....

Opto, no its not 3 Litre its 3.2 Litre 250 HP approx, very nice to drive. ;-)

I was slightly concerned about the eco friendlyness of it so we are getting rid of both of our cars and replacing them both, I got the R32, Mrs S got a Toyta Aygo black, when you average them out it doesnt seem so bad ;-)

Not splitting hairs Spacie, enjoy it.....watch for the cameras :-)

Hello all, Socco is back! Socco maintenance now completed, but it didn't work. It was Socco that was being maintained by forcing him onto a holiday in Tuscany, that's foreign for anyone who is unsure. Since I am now totally "cream crackered" I shall have to return to work for a rest, but not till Tuesday, thus I have a free day to recover a little.

My itinerary was France, Switzerland, Italy, France and then home What with dodging cars, cyclists and buses in Florence I am a nervous wreck, and that was just on the pavements!

Must have a look at my protofilo now as I have a letter from NIS, something in the wind. possibly.

Back soon.

Hope you enjoyed your hols Socco, Saga was it?

Just back myself from 5 days in Mallorca, or Majorca to us old uns.

Start new job tomorrow, based in Paris / Brussels Monday to Friday, will get to know Eurostar very well.

Welcome back socs.

Good luck with the new job Jeff, sounds interesting !?

Hi Jeffers, I hope you know which is which, Paris / Brussels? Season ticket on Eurostar is it then?

Oh, no-one here, I'll get the kettle and coffee-maker on. Brought some nice, fresh genuine French croissants back from Calais yesterday so I'll warm a few, the smell might attract some snail eaters!

Large coffee and scrambled egg on toast please over here on table 9, plenty of brown sauce as well.

OK, so I've had a look at my portfolio and actually made some money whilst I was away! I think I'll go away again. On the strength of that I'll have a FEB, with extra bacon (and no snails).

Brown sauce on table is a bit on the messy side, isn't it K?

Table cleared, found the sauce.

Eggs nice and fluffy please.

Fluffy eggs coming up, nice and hot too. Not like in my hotel in Lyon, their fluffy eggs were luke warm at best, and that's a 5* hotel too, Just goes to show...........

Good traffic jams in Lyon, 1H20 to go less than a mile (should that be in kilometres)?

Lyon's a permanent traffic nightmare imo, Old Socs. We give it a wide berth.

If we're going to the Alps, we turn left at Macon (it's also about the best place to stop and load up with Chablis) nowadays. Towards Bourg-en-Bresse, then Annecy and Albertville. If we're going to the Med, we go straight down the middle to Clermont-Ferrand. It's a much quieter road.

Morning from a pleasant Norwich no rain but no sun either at the moment.

Socs, I have also found my trading improves greatly when I am not involved in it, having realised this I stopped completely expecting the money to flood into my bank account, but it didnt!

I am not sure what fluffy eggs are but I use scrambled egg as a standard test for the quality of hotels, I like them to be fairly solid and yellowish, i hate the stuff thats white and creamy and also the stuff with a green tinge (what causes that).

Maybe we could get Delia into the Coffee shop to do a scrambled egg masterclass for us.

Socs, by the way did you translate from Kms to Miles? or was it just a guess ;-) sounjds like you should have walked.

Spacie
Miles taken from the speedo. Walked it later, in a few minutes. The French don't have a clue about traffic management, but the cars can move surprisingly quickly when there is a tram bearing down on them.

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