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Cheap copper, and I bet you're miles from the exchange. Blame the developers for not caring about internets, or blame the people buying the properties for not insisting that a new exchange be built Very common issue on modern properties. It's why I made so many checks as to where the exchange was and how old the house was before we bought ours, as well as checking with neighbours as to their download speeds.

You really can't hang around on some of the missions, can you? Like when you need to save hostages, literally you get a couple of minutes to bomb across the map on horse and go rushing in to get them, and just deal with enemies as you find them.

His personal feelings are not necessarily going to become policy.

Seek a 2nd opinion. Until you get clearance though, you must not drive.

Do it! My brother has just hired a cleaner, think he pays her £10 p/h which is just silly. Why would you not for that price?

Keep an eye out on eBay, I got my TV for £5 I'm currently looking for a Panasonic 28", a specific model really as that's what I used to have and it was ace. Came with built-in 5.1 as well, which would be nice to do out of the box rather than faff around trying to run it through the AVR.

If I knew how cheap they were, I'd have hired one years ago.

One less drink down the pub on a weekend will do it. Or chuck a bluey away every week into a pot, sorted.

Ah sorry dude, that probably came across as really patronising then Erm, didn't mean that, I genuinely thought that someone who was massively into his retro stuff would know more than I did. So yeah, apologies and things. It's ridiculous, I have a 50" LCD hung up on the wall for the 360/Wii/PS2, then a poxy 32" CRT which is about a billion times the depth for playing sodding Mario Kart on!

So not a Zed at all, not a production-ready concept by a long shot, and it's a range extender. Good ol' Autocar, bang on the money again.

Gardeners are dirt cheap, if you excuse the pun. £30 gets my lawn mowed once every couple of weeks, which is peanuts and saves me doing it. I wouldn't do it for £30, put it that way! £130 and I get him for the whole day to rip out bushes, kill off ivy, general tidy up etc. Bargain, I reckon.

They're not though, that's the point. However, let's not go down that route again, and instead lets just appreciate that a large manufacturer has decided to make an EV that doesn't send people to sleep just looking at it.

Careful when buying CRT for light gun games. I know you know that, but I'll mention it anyway. I bought a 32" Sony CRT for my retro stuff, as it's the biggest CRT you can get before everyone started switching to LCD. Top of the range at the time (the speakers are absolutely beautiful, so clear and you now realise just how crap TV speakers now are), looks ace and works a treat. Except it's 100hz. I didn't even think to check if it was switchable, but it's not. None of the 32" stuff I've found is, so you have to drop down to 28" to get 50/60 switchable. All the other games look awesome in 100hz, but I now need to purchase another 28" TV just for Virtua Cop and HOTD! /first world problems

It's just ridiculous, the grass goes from a couple of mm to a couple of inches overnight at the moment! Our poor gardener only came round to trim the hedges the other day, he ended up having to do the entire lawn as well. Rather him than me, I bloody hate mowing.

Basically, it p*sses all over the Tesla in every way that matters. I still wouldn't buy one.

There was a chap here a few months back who had to stop driving and informed his insurers, who promptly cancelled the policy as the car wasn't ever going to be driven. No way I'd risk that.

Good, that would cost an absolute fortune. On the flip side, the same law does make it easy to return stuff to the DVLA like change of ownership details, as once it's posted it's also deemed as delivered.

Which is exactly why I said what I said. If you don't drive again until passed fit, then there's no issue for the insurers to be worried about, and so I simply wouldn't make life more awkward for myself by telling them as that opens up a can of worms you do not want to be opening. Think cancelled insurance and possible significant premium increases for the next 5 years.

I would advise against speaking to your insurers, but then I would also make sure 100% that I'd got the all clear from the docs before driving again. Not that you wouldn't, I just mean get it in writing. Hope you're on the mend now, sounds like it must've been a horrendous accident!

You would hope so, if you're spending that much.

It's a status thing, isn't it? Oh look at me, I'm a jetsetter but I'm saving the planet, yada yada. Not Gangzoom, the stars in Priuseseseses!

They may adjust your premium, but don't expect it to be by much I wouldn't have thought.

Interesting article on the BBC about Corbyn. Some I can see his logic, some are utterly baffling.

No point driving the Fiat, all that does is mean that you'll reduce the premium a fraction on the Zed as you won't need much mileage on it. It really won't make much of a difference though. The first option won't be any cheaper either, as then you're insuring two vehicles with 0 NCB. I've done that with my MR2 as a second car, made sod-all difference. Getting a job will DEFINITELY bring your premium down. Garage is usually a bit pricier but we're talking a few quid, for me it's more important to keep the car safe than worry about £10. Just ring up some companies and get some quotes, at least you know where you're at then.

Honestly, it's absolutely fine! I ran non-OEM size tyres on my 350, I run them on the MR2, as long as the tyre fits the wheel and the TCS doesn't mind then there is zero issue.