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Dean
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 17:56 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
I thought this was going to be more of a competition but you, dear sir, are right. 
I've seen very few in France and I supposed there are even less in Britain. The Easterner's Volkswagen 
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NoAlex, Skoda's are very common in the UK - even our police use them:
...oh and around were I live, they use them as unmarked police cars.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 17:50 |
 I thought this was going to be more of a competition but you, dear sir, are right.  I've seen very few in France and I supposed there are even less in Britain. The Easterner's Volkswagen
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Dean
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 17:40 |
^ hmmm, it's not being used to store fruit and vegetables, so it's not a Lada, it must be a Skoda Flabia.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 17:33 |
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 06:58 |
In case you don't see my post in the Peter Gabriel thread, he is apparently on The One Show at 7pm tonight. Presumably the new album will be the main topic of conversation, unless he's also had an affair with Wayne Bridge's ex.
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 06:35 |
mystic fred wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
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i could make some up then, how about PROG 1.....i bet some rich prog muso has already got that one
i got it - SHED1 
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or GAZ 3B0
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 02:43 |
^ i never was a good parker - the yellow man on the ground marks an earlier incident
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Jim Garten
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Posted: February 03 2010 at 01:59 |
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Posted: February 02 2010 at 04:17 |
mystic fred wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
You do know that's not legal without valid plates... |
i could make some up then, how about PROG 1.....i bet some rich prog muso has already got that one
i got it - SHED1 
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Or you could go for FRED-1 (although Bernard Cribbins might have used that one already).
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Posted: February 02 2010 at 04:10 |
Jim Garten wrote:
You do know that's not legal without valid plates... |
i could make some up then, how about PROG 1.....i bet some rich prog muso has already got that one
i got it - SHED1 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: February 02 2010 at 03:00 |
You do know that's not legal without valid plates...
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mystic fred
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Posted: February 02 2010 at 02:49 |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: February 02 2010 at 02:14 |
Our C-Max is a good all rounder - plenty of room for everything you need + all that stuff you don't but may come in handy - capacious boot (which if you can be arsed turns cavernous if you take the rear seats out); Also, it's never really caught on, so they're pretty cheap 2nd hand - stupid really, as they're effectively just a fat Ford Focus, so have all the Focus's grip in the wet, great brakes & suspension & (apparently, according ot one of our more petrol minded friends) one of the best chassis on the market...
...still won't clean itself though!
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 16:37 |
mystic fred wrote:
Decided to pass on a Ferrari as there is not much room for gardening tools, black bags of rubbish, breakdown tools, triangles, tow rope, jump leads, blankets, work jacket, porn mags, old paint tins, boxes that might come in handy, discarded first aid and health and safety folders, and decided on an Omega Estate....much more practical for the shedder...
...and it's green 
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My clapped out Peugeot 206 needs its handbrake sorting out - yet another in an ever increasing list of minor repairs that the piece of  has needed since about 30 seconds after the warranty ran out. Steve, I for one am jealous of that snazzy green Omega estate!
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mystic fred
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 12:27 |
Decided to pass on a Ferrari as there is not much room for gardening tools, black bags of rubbish, breakdown tools, triangles, tow rope, jump leads, blankets, work jacket, porn mags, old paint tins, boxes that might come in handy, discarded first aid and health and safety folders, and decided on an Omega Estate....much more practical for the shedder...
...and it's green 
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 07:07 |
mystic fred wrote:
Anybody remember to do Birdwatch this weekend? my count was well down on last year, but it was so excruciatingly cold for the little b**gers to perform properly this time
Went to pick up my "new " car from Cambridgeshire on Saturday - she's a beauty 
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Ferrari or Lambo?
Our "new" car (the hire car which took so long to get to temorarily replace our car whilst being repaired) finally arrived last Wednesday and the engine blew this morning when my wife started it up. Back to the drawing board...
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mystic fred
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 06:35 |
Anybody remember to do Birdwatch this weekend? my count was well down on last year, but it was so excruciatingly cold for the little b**gers to perform properly this time
Went to pick up my "new " car from Cambridgeshire on Saturday - she's a beauty 
Will be revealed soon ...
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Dean
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 03:48 |
Our cats are very wary of the two buzzards that share their hunting ground in the fields that back on to our garden - and quite rightly so as two of our cats are small enough to look like lunch.
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 02:52 |
yes our tabby was curious but mostly stays away from hawks, he's keen to chase the neighborhood skunks (though he got sprayed last year  )
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Jim Garten
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Posted: February 01 2010 at 02:39 |
We had a similar incident in our garden a couple of years ago - glanced out of our back window & it looked like it was snowing feathers; looked in the garden & a sparrowhawk had taken out a huge pigeon & was happily plucking its remains in the garden.
Our cats contented themselves with watching from an upstairs window.
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