spending £50 max on each other and she had the idea of filling christmas stockings with the gifts.

its not about us , the 2 1/2 year old takes all the limelight.

white pepper, and loads of it.

or deck over the offending area like i did.

well watched the first two episodes of season 3 and i think just those two were better than th ewhole of seaosn 2.

FINALLY……. Rick turns to the dark side and has become ‘dont give a sh*T man’, killing off the lead prisoner guy was a great scene!

all we need now is for his mrs to be killed off in the next episode and its looking sweet.

were crap (and skint) so we just tell each other what we want and then end up going out shopping together.

its not about us anymore its about the 28month old nutter! 😉

i’d rather kill myself than go to our local shopping centre on christmas eve!

Quite sad actually and makes me feel old, reading that brought a tear to my eye…!

i can remember trying to scrabble down the details of a holiday bargain or reading up on the computer games page.

well season 3 first episode beat 90% of season 2

the bit where they went into the main prison using hand to hand was brilliant.

also please can we kill off the girl who was in prison break…. she is sooooooooooooooooo annoying!!

im just glad JS never responded to numerous letters i sent in.

yes it is wrong and HSBC are a shower of *&^&$*$*£&&£ers hence why we moved to lovely barclays

its not the shock horror ones for me but the psychological ones…

wolf creek for me aswell, bit of a classic if you ask me.

Eden lake was freaky especially towards the end

i thought blair witch was sh*t first time round as it was hyped up beyond belief, watched it years later on my own and a little bit of poo came out.

The ring when she climbs out of the tv freaked me out.

and sad to say paranormal activity 2 when the baby gets dragged out of the the cot, that was just wrong!

as above lets hope its better than season 2 (kept all the budget for the finale), looks like its going to turn into prison break though 😉

Thought it was a bit upper middle class fool engages in impractical tasks to appear like an eco warrior.

PMSL could not have put it better myself, i didnt realise he was that mental

jaysus, we had a new boiler and had it moved to another wall for £1700 all in.

that has to be fake…..

right…?

just come back from a week in spain with our 2 year old (against my better judgement) was only a 2 hr 30min flight…. that was bad enough!

you must be insane to take a child that young long haul 😉

oh by the way we got a protable dvd player which helped loads!

mine – 52reg 1.4tdci fiesta
wife- 56 reg 1.6tdci fiesta

she has the better one with more toys, they are both waaay to small with our 2 year old but we get by, we have to as we have debt and cant budge ‘yet’.

some of you lot must be stupid, mad or loaded! 😉

i dream of the day when i have a tidy car 😉

the short journey will kill a diesel engine urban myth is bolox imo. I’ve run a 1.4 tdci fiesta for 7 years rarely sees a dual carriage way or motorway and just hit 93k on 52 plate, hasnt missed a beat. may be different for bigger engines though?

cheers all, i’ll try and get at the phone later

cheers is it an acutal setting, as in a checkbox on the phone?

if you ask me the whole diesels and short journeys are bad is an urban myth.

i have a diesel fiesta and the wife which both do 90% short journeys and they are fine.

mind you neither have DPF

as above from bitter experience the buyer ALWAYS wins.

we sold a pram to a total idiot few years back, they didnt want it and we said no returns. she wanted her money back and was getting all hot and bothered, i stood my ground as the pram was in fine working order.

anyway i opened an online ebay complaint form, cut a long story short ebay could see all the emails and in the end ebay gave the cash back to buyer and then came hunting for me to pay them.

i complained and the girl at ebay actually said “the buyer always wins”

if your not getting anywhere contact ebay

its been going on for years…. as the older ones amongst us will remember…

I wouldnt worry mate, i have been through this and the buyer always wins.

i’d advise you to open communications with ebay, they will have copies of all correspondence if you have gone via ebay.

we sold a pram few years ago it was in very good condition, the buyer changed her mind when she saw it and wanted her money back.

i fought it via ebay and opened a complaint, she won in the end, ebay paid her back then came to me for the money.

you b*stard!!!! my cousin made me watch this when he was about 16 i was 12! took me years to get over it!!

thats me fecked tonight when i go to bed!!!

anyway my story , years ago my uncle built a new huge bungalow in a small local village. they had a dog monty and there was one room in ,a bedroom in the back corner monty never ever went into this room, if they tried to push or drag him in there he would go fekin mental.

it used ot be the spare/play room and it had a piano in there, my cousin used to play.

my auntie used to swear she used to hear it playing by itself only when she was in the house.

the room was always cold even though the rad in the room was scalding hot to the touch.

i used to stay in this room on holidays when they used to look after me when mum and dad went away, always used to have nightmares and was always ill, sickness etc.

still with me…sorry ….

anyway uncle and auntie moved about 10 years ago…. my cousin started casually doing the family tree it turns out ‘apparenlty’ 😉 part of the bungalow was built on a very, very old part of the church grounds!! you never would have guessed because the wall of the actual church is about 100m away!

makes you wonder…..

cheers, I know sky is hard to beat in terms of usability but the humax does seem a bit fiddly.

5 series touring – up to two years old – let someone else take the biggest hit on depreciation

Pick a spec / engine to suit driving style and budget.

Bob’s your aunties live in lover

+1 i never really like beemers, but had a go in a mates 5 series 525d and the engine is lovely.

*stupid quesiton, do beemers havd DPF/EGR thingies?

as said above get a 2/3 year old, let someone else take the hit.

i just put this on when our 2 year old plays up….

it gets amazing results…. she doesnt sleep well at night but hey ho

joking aside…

our 2 1/2 year old is getting to the mental stage now, were finding it hard . picking up habits like spitting from nursery which is nice.

clio 197 cup

“As I’ve never found a pump hose which won’t stretch across the back of a car, I’ve never worried about which pump I use / where the petrol cap is. “

I agree 100000%, i wish 99% of the t*ats at our local tesco would realise this!! does my fekin head in!

if we didnt have as much debt and put down as many roots as we have we’d be on the first plane to NZ, looks like it will be retirement now 😉

lived there for a year back in 2003, worked and lived with kiwi’s but got about to see pretty much all the main places.

much more laid back life style than UK, far less populated think it hit 4million when i was there and from memory the two island together have a slightly bigger land mass than uk so that give you an idea.

i loved the fact you could drive out of a town/city within minutes you could be in the middle of knowhere.

the weather pretty much th esame as uk, but i guess winters can be more extreme in parts.

NZ does feel like it is stuck in time, hard to explain. but i loved it.

oh the beer is utter sh*te!

but the main point as said above, can you and your gang leave family, friends behind?

overshoes are a must aswell!

best thing i ever bought, not this one but theres a fleece type one from endura bit of a faff to get on and off but when you out in the howling wind it protects your lower back.

love these threads…. ive had sh*t cars all my life and will come into a bit of money in my late 40’s, im holding back so much now not to go out and buy something stupid though….

the question asked above…

When do you get to drive a flash car to it’s full potential so you can really appreciate it and stay within the law?

i plan to buy something like a lotus exige keep it as a track day car then get a trailer and use my everyday battered car to take it to the track a few times a month.

i really dont see the point in having a high performance every day car when you cant really let it rip (it would frustrate me)…

then again ive never done regular track days and i asusme its expensive!?

as above wii for kids defo,

PS3 is free online

PS3 controllers are better, smaller in hand (IMO) but the actual buttons on xbox are more ergonomic.

Get what his mates have.

(i have all of them aswell :wink:)

the 60 year old bloke opposite us has a brand new white zetec s fiesta, it just looks wrong when he’s driving it.

girls colour IMO 😉

only mum left dead died 5 years ago.

to be honest im basically mums butler and chauffer, she is old school and doesn’t show affection, however she is great with my 2 year old daughter and that is the only thing that keeps her going!

When I do work for her the wife says I should get paid an ‘inheritance wage’, bit of an in joke.

I do lots of jobs for her and most of the time I am her ‘psychological punchbag’, she is all about image and what other people think of her.

For example she can be on top of the world talking to her mates then when I turn up the ‘real her’ appears and she’s in the doldrums again.

My god im going off on one here, what also pushes me to the edge is the fact my older brother does **** all, which doesn’t help.

But it’s all karma man….. the oldman is looking down on me 😉

(was father was a great dad, but to be honest i never really knew him, he was a bit of a closed book, but gaian i put this down to age and his upbringing)

great book

wallop, your contract is still with 02 even though you go through phones for you, well mine is.

i agree O2 have been crap with my upgrades hence going with phones4u

go into your nearest phones4u shop first…

i did and got way better deals than anything O2 could provide, its bonkers.

amazing game!

that is all

whatever the cheapest shampoo/shower gel is when we go shopping