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Chesterfield

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  1. Yeah, will have to give up it seems - found a taxi company that would take card for their journey, but no way of paying the bakery, and no other nakery locally that has 80 cakes on the shelf ready to go. Oh well, not to worry. Thanks for trying guys, it was much appreciated.
  2. nope, even the local cabbies that do take card, arent willing to take payment for the cakes as well and then hand the cash to the bakery - I suppose that would be money laundering technically though.
  3. Thanks for your help, though they can't accept that, they need cash over the counter apparently. Trying to get 80 cakes delivered to a group of pensioners is seemingly impossible at short notice. Grrr..
  4. No longer needed now, but thanks for the offers of help and suggestions, very much appreciated. Anyone in the region of post code BR5 4AX Orpington Im desperately trying to get a load of cakes to a funtion for pensioners at a church in Orpington. A supplier to this church has let them down, and they cant cook their meal for about 80 pensioners, so they have made arrangements to get salad for the day, and even though its not our fault we would like to try and get them some cakes. We have found somewhere to supply the cakes etc, but they dont have any method of taking card payment. Is there anyone inthis area that could pick up some cakes in the next hour and deliver them to a church five minutes down the road, I can paypal you the money if you are able to pay cash for these cakes roughly £70. Need to know in the next 30 minutes or so!! Thanks for any help whatsoever from any kind soul. If you can help, please pm me your phone number
  5. Totally agree, but there Is no law against being in it if your not overtaking, but there is a law against speeding. Errr... https://www.gov.uk/m...line-264-to-266
  6. A professional tuner will most likely have indemnity insurance though, so if they do goose something, they should be covered enough to fix it. Some bloke down the pub with his laptop and a hooky remap is not going to offer much by way of warranty imho. Though I have never had a car remapped or ever put one on a dyno in my life, so Im just making assumptions there.
  7. Even though speed exagerates the impact of bad behaviour such as tailgating and poor lane discipline, I don't think reducing speed is the answer. Its a bit like treating the symptoms of an illness, but not the underlying cause. Taken to its extreme, we could ban cars from doing any more than 5mph on any road. This would no doubt have the effect of reducing road deaths to almost zero. There would however still be some chump that manages to reverse over somebody at 5mph and kill them. Would that be a reason to then drop the limit to 4mph? Its better driver education needed. More enforcement of the rules and harsher penalties. The number of people I see not wearing seatbelts, talking on the phone or both is staggering. There really is no excuse for it. Start dishing out £1000 penalties for these offences and if people can't pay, then ban them for 3 months instead. Maybe the morons will get the message. Same for people who sit in the overtaking lanes on the motorway. We wouldn't need to spend billions making them wider if people just used common courtesy and sense when driving on them. How many times have you had to pull out into lane three to overtake some praying mantis, knuckles white with fear almost chewing the steering wheel while they do 65 in the centre lane, completely oblivious to anything?
  8. If Wales were to become a biennial event, I would like to see the alternate years filled with another similar event held elsewhere, such as a Scottish Hoon or somewhere mid/southern England. Two years between major events is too long imho.
  9. Will also depend on the market I suspect, if they can sell them by the truck load to people who want them (think VAG 1.8T engines), then they can offer a lower rate and make the research and development pay for itself. If the market is somewhat limited then expect to pay a premium. APR flash for an RS6 is looking likely to be in the region of £3k.
  10. As per title update, this is now sold. Gone to a lovely couple who will no doubt make themselves more known to the club now they have found a car. Great to meet them, and both Tracy and myself hope they have as many happy years with this car as we have. Quite emotional knowing that its going. I never knew how much I loved that car.
  11. Only went up today Martin have a few people wanting to view, only got phone access at moment will reply to all later. Though it doesn't look like its going to hang around.
  12. I've had several PM's and will reply to them all hopefully later this evening.
  13. Sorry, no p/x I'm afraid. Going to be without a "toy" car until after the house extension and new garages have been built.
  14. Maybe, but then it would be £9k and haggled down to probably £8250 anyway, so I'm just posting it at the price I'm willing to sell at, saves anyone being under any false illusion on price. I've got a lot going on at the moment and a new baby arrived last week too, so thought an honest price and buyers knowing I'm not for shifting much at all on the price, then it would save a lot of tyre kicking etc. Looking at it sat out there in the evening sun isn't making the decision to sell any easier
  15. I didn't think it was a particularly low or giveaway price, but I'm not looking to haggle much at all. Saves time. Its modified, which may not be to everyone's taste, service history is more on mileage than age with last one being a P3 in September 2010, but that's less than 1850 miles ago. Again that may put some off. I thought I'd price it fairly rather than try my luck and go through a load of haggling. Can't be bothered with the time to haggle. Oh, the plate is going on retention just in case anyone like a the plate (not that it would mean anything to most)
  16. Thanks guys. I do hope it stays within the club. Tracy has said to keep it if I want, and to be honest, giving it a clean today and running it to and from its MOT made me think about it. I'm thinking of taking it for a drive right now just because its sunny
  17. This is the car thats taken me to dozens of meets over the years, making many new friends and great memories along the way. Heart wants to keep this car, but head says it should really go to somebody that will use it. I'll be very sorry to see it go. Arival of young children over the last two years means it just isnt getting any use at the moment. Its done a grand total of just over 3,000 miles since May 2010. Ive just put a new batery, new MOT and six months tax on it ready to sell. It comes with a lot of the original parts in case you dont like any of the mods. Skirts, strut brace, fluid and batery surrounds, original rear lights, orange indicator bulbs, bonnet stay, centre cuby, and a bunch of hoses pipes in case you want to take the yellow further. 2005 Ultra Yellow 350Z GT4 - No. 113 of 176 31650 Miles Service history. Last few years has done very little mileage and been SORN fr a period so not yearly serviced. Tax to 30 November 2014 MOT until 29 May 2015 Although it is the 300BHP engine, as it is an April 2005 car, it benefits from the lower tax of £285 for 12 months instead of the usual £485 Obviously there are a few stone chips on the front due to the usual wafer thin paint on the zeds, but at least with the yellow having a white undercoat, they don't show much. List of modifications that I can remember: GReddy Front lip spoiler and side skirts Speed Racing Rear Valance Injen full dual exhaust 15mm front spacers, 20mm rear. Z badge on front grill EBC discs HKS Grounding kit Bonnet lifters Carbon Fibre fluid and batery surrounds colour coded engine, batery and fluid covers Polished Intake Pop Charger Air Filter Cusco strut brace Polished fluid tanks Stubby aerial Powder coated plenum, Black with gold/Ultra yellow fleck. LED rear lights Silvertec front indicators Nissan BUrger Badges swapped for Z Burgers Bluetooth module installed Cookbot carPC installed in Cubby: This runs android and can connect to the internet via your mobile if you wish, it has the USB ODBII connection installed so you can read fault codes or other live info from the car if you want, plus use it for music, sat nav, TV, email or any other android function you may want. It will connect to wifi, so if you want to update your music library from the house while the car is in the garage, then no longer is this just restricted to the Mcaren MP4-12C owners. It currently uses the Bose Hack, so isnt the loudest in the world, but if you ever replace the bose head unit, just conect it to the aux on the new stereo and you will be able to crank it up to whatever ear damaging level you want. Many original parts supplied with the car, such as Original rear lights, bonnet stay, orange indicator bulbs, strut brace, cubby for centre console I'm looking for £8250 OVNO for a quick sale. Any questions or more info required, please ask.
  18. Mine has done about 1000 miles in just over two years. In the last 12 months its done less than 100, just to the MOT station and back again a couple of times.
  19. Probably already had one onboard the crashed vehicle.
  20. Other than knowing the correct mig feed speed for the thickness of any given material so that said welding doesn't collapse, or the percentages of oxygen to acetylene to avoid a minor, but life altering explosion, I would agree maths has naff all involvement in welding.
  21. And the ratio of entrepreneurs to those with mainstream careers is?
  22. Struggle and fail at certain subjects such as maths and English and a lot of doors will be permanently closed to a person in life. Including doors to the career paths that people may wish to follow even though that chosen career may seem worlds away from mathematics or English. Something which these would be "I have a dream" videos completely ignore.
  23. you completely missed the point of the video if you think its saying dont bother with eduction Its stating that it doesn't matter. Its not a guarantee of success. It doesn't dictate where you will go in life. Which is fine for those who have the aptitude and attitude to succeed at a career. For those who are struggling with education and finding it difficult to stay the course, its a vindication for their dropping out. His whole speech (or rant depending in viewpoint) is based around people feeling that they are measured solely by the results they get in the education system and being pidgeon holed based upon those results. Why should people conform to societies needs if that society has already rejected them etc. Whereas the truth would be that society rejects people who believe in this overtly liberal "everyone wins a medal" brainwashing that is becoming all to common. "Don't worry little Johnny. If you are finding maths too hard, or English too taxing, you don't need to push yourself and struggle through to do the best you can. You have a real talent for papier mashe and balloon art that you enjoy so much, so you can be a success in life" What utter, utter garbage. And when this chaps five minutes of fame run out? Short of getting a gig writing a column for something like the Huffington Post or some other rose tinted socialist utopian organisation, he will be joining the millions of others who think education doesn't really matter all that much.
  24. Defending, or even promoting, the leaving of the educational system by using the extremely rare examples of Jobs, Branson and Gates is reprehensibly irresponsible. If all of those 5 million people who have watched that video had taken it to heart, we would probably have 4.99 million more people now competing in the low paid low skill jobs market. Its nothing more than very eloquent professionally edited "screw the system" tripe.
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