Insulation. Mattress from Ikea. Insulation. Plastic tubs for storage which can also be used as a bed base. Insulation. Probably some form of ceiling/flooring (thin ply should do this). Probably be a good idea to get some insulation as well.

For the past however long it’s been ‘We don’t talk about **** Bruno’. It feels like forever.

Another for Sainsbury’s here. Mainly because I abhor clothes shopping like nature abhors a vacuum so being able to buy a pair of jeans while I buy beer/bacon/bread is the most convenient solution.

Also, they are cheap.

The massive anti-climax cost millions of pounds, takes dozens of boffins to operate and months and months of their time (which by now will have run into £millions too) and has failed the deliver almost everything it was supposed to

Is it Boris Johnson?

When I was at uni it was a cup of tea and a ‘herbal’ cigarette.

Got older/sensible so it changed to coffee and a cig.

Now it’s whatevers left after the kids and wife have hoovered up all the good stuff.

Buy a frame, they aren’t that expensive and the geberit ones often come bundled with a cistern and flushplate. They also have the studs for mounting the wall hung pan in the exact right spot.

Do you mean the Chrome plugin? Not had any issues with that. I haven’t seen a proper standalone windows one.

Twice now we’ve done this with no clear plan, other than doing our first night stopover at the municipal site in Arques (40min from Calais). Spend that first night checking the weather and looking on pitchup.com for sites where the sun is. Wake up the next morning and get on the road.

First time we ended up on a site in the countryside near Auxerre. Play area, great facilities, pool, dead cheap.it was also near Guedelon which was awesome.

Second time round it we had planned on going to Lake Geneva area but it looked grim. Ended up at Le Mans for 3 nights then it cleared up so we did a cross France jaunt and pitched up a stone’s throw from the lakeside for a few more nights. Weather changed again so we packed up and spent 4 nights in the Black Forest before heading back through Belgium on the way to Calais.

Anyway that’s loads of superfluous detail. As mentioned campsite facilities in France are generally a step or two above what you get here. I think you’ll struggle to find somewhere that isn’t glamping/eurocamp that has kitchen facilities though.

Opening PCP deals look okay if you aren’t doing too many miles.

£299 a month/700 miles a month over 40 months. I’d assume that’s base price before options, dealer add ons etc.

I’ll fourth the above. Select All > Mark as Read, did it last week after two and a half weeks off. If they don’t understand the Out of Office the first time round they deserve it.

Shackletons are in Dewsbury. You could get a high seat chair you know, maybe have your niece buy it.

After spending months looking at secondhand cars I just decided to order a new one and wait it out. While I was there the sales guy mentioned someone had just bought an ex-demo and paid around £1000 over list price for a new one.

Anything post 1993 has to have a cat by law. As above, assume you mean DPF due to asking the re-gen question.

Professional Services Consultant – which looking at it in isolation means absolutely nothing. I implement ERP software for a company that sells ERP software among other things.

Dear Fascist Bully Boy,

I quit, you bastard.

Love Peter

I don’t think there is a spot from Durham to Berwick along the coast that isn’t beautiful

Clearly you’ve never been to Hendon Beach.

Someone further up mentioned the Eifel region in Germany. Went there when I was 11, really nice area and I can’t remember being stuck with nothing to do while we were there.

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@reluctantjumper – has Jon set a date to go to this place yet? I might need to remember what my bike looks like before committing to coming with you

Got the older shape Berlingo and never had that, usually get around 20-25k from a set of tyres. As everyone has said it’ll be something to do with alignment.

I’ve found that the tyres wear pretty evenly front and back. Something to do with weight distribution compared to when the are setup as a van.

What’s that, new Batmobile?! 🤣

It’s a £170k posing pouch with a Ford Galaxy engine. I’d still have one though!

Do the manufacturer of the balloons not supply this information? Or can you not just use something like this?

I’m not a clever science person hence going for the easiest option.

I’ve ordered one.

Spent days on AutoTrader trying to find something similar to the Berlingo that it’s going to replace (other than a new Berlingo obviously) but the only results were endless Zafiras, C4 Grand Picasso’s, and the odd BMW 218 thing, all with at least 50k miles, all out of warranty.

It’s not going to do a huge amount of miles. I have another plan for my car for work so the slightly lower than expected MPG is a trade-off I’m willing to take. Went for the Extreme SE model because heated seats. Expected 6 month wait but the sales guy did say that could be as short as 3 but won’t know for certain until the build slot is confirmed.

In addition to most of the above I usually waste half an hour watching some Tim Traveller videos.

This, I bloody love this song. Simple lyrics but filled with meaning.

@TheFlyingOx came here to see if anyone had posted that. Never finish the second drink.

I was going to mention Withernsea then remembered I’ve only been once and it was like a ghost town.

It’s not the sea, it’s a big muddy river. The sea is about 15 miles away. No idea on chippies tbh there not much along the sides of the river.

Love horizon 5, hate the online experience. I’ve actually done very little racing in this one, spent more time cruising round doing challenges

From what I’ve read this is the same for a lot of people, me included. I haven’t touched the Trial or any other online racing bar a couple of games of Eliminator.

The game desperately needs some more cars though. There’s a few that are new to 5 but the vast majority are just copied from 4.

I play when the telly is free. Gamer tag is PieShuffler.

All the above, I like Bulleit. I’ve just finished my bottle of Woodford Reserve. I’ve heard good things about Monkey Shoulder but never tried it.

I’ll bet that drivetrain is going to be coming from the current Clio hybrid so it won’t exactly be bleeding edge technology. The Clio lists at just under £24k so I imagine the equivalent Jogger would be around £20k.

Still, this says the Clio doesn’t get anywhere near its claimed mpg so I can’t imagine the Jogger would improve much.

Test drove one today. For reference it was the billy big bollocks Extreme SE version. Test drive route was 9 miles on fastish roads with roundabouts. This is only about the driving not all the other crap i.e. boot openings and lips.

Drives as per a normal car, you can tell there’s more of it back there but it’s not obvious. Seating position is good, decent amount of adjustment on the seat and the wheel. Gearchange is good, not notchy, not vague, somewhere in between. Radio/Nav system seemed alright for the built in stuff but I guess most people would use Android Auto/iCarPlaything.

Bad bits – as Rory says up there on his video it’s a bit noisy. Engine makes a bit of a racket under acceleration but once cruising it’s okay. Some wind noise at 70mph but not deafening.
Fuel consumption, while not as bad as the second worst Top Gear presenter ever makes out, isn’t as good as claimed. All I can assume is that he’d spent his day booting it from one stop light to another. I did have a moment of ‘making progress’ but other than that cruised along and it sat at 38mpg after the 9 miles. This is a bit crap.

In all its a decent car but I’m put off by the fuel economy. I’m in two minds whether to give it a swerve entirely and get something else, or to sit it out and wait for the hybrid next year.

In addition to @StuE – people that let their dogs shit on the pavement outside of schools and then don’t pick it up so you have dodge from side to side so you don’t inadvertently step in a shirehorse worthy mountain of cack.

That and Tories, all of them.

What the **** is a Greggs outlet?!

There’s one in South Shields. I assume they backhaul all the shit that hasn’t sold/is short-dated and they sell it off cheap. 4 doughnuts for a quid – the proper ones like the caramel banana thing none of this ring doughnut shite here.

Anyway, no-one has mentioned chocolate brownie Hobnobs which are possible the best biscuit ever. One packet = one portion.

Wee down his…..er….caravan?

Hammer frozen sausages into his….caravan?

I suppose you could just put a dogshit in a paper bag then set fire to it bang on the door and run away.

* What has changed for you?
This time two years go I was 4 days into redundancy. Managed to pick up a lead on a job the same day and started in May 20 and which is what I’m doing now. Whether I’ll still be doing it by the end of the year is doubtful, it’s become increasingly stressful and is playing merry hell with my brain. That’s about it, everything else is much the same.

* What hasn’t changed?
Everything else. Same car, same house, same bike.

* Do you miss anything from the lockdowns?
I know it’s been said but the quiet was amazing. Those couple of months where I wasn’t working through the first lockdown we had great weather and I rode the bike a lot (for me). Baking, I did a lot of baking, it was very cathartic.

* Is there anything you’ve learned from all of this and will take forward with you?
Don’t just go jumping into the first job you get offered without thinking it through.

@p7eaven no idea on yours but at a wild guess I’d say East Midlands. Maybe Leicester.

This perspective makes no sense to me, especially on a thread about a 7 seater Dacia!

Yep, thought the same on a thread about a Dacia that repeatedly mentions the Berlingo. We’re very much in Vauxhall territory here!

It’s me mentioning the Berlingo because I have one. I don’t have anything against family cars I just have a pathological hatred of anything with a Vauxhall badge. A company that had made a business producing mediocre cars.

Combo is also now EV only as it’s the same van as the Berlingo/Partner.

I’ve driven a few new Vauxhall’s, despite now being based on PSA/Stellantis platforms they are still terrible cars. Example, a 1.2 Corsa with an 8 speed auto gearbox that could never decide what gear to be in.

You can get a “bigger” boiler without increasing the physical dimensions. You’ll probably find that your 25kw model has 30 & 35 equivalents, they just have bigger heat exchangers inside.