Glad everyone was OK Rob
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The wifeās Fiat 500 is brilliant in the snow.
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Our old K11 micra was unbelievably competent in snow. Never got stuck and I drove it in the very worst conditions.
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Iād dropped the subject, but Tristan asked.
ISWYDT 
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Whether it is or isnāt depends fundamentally on the numbers. I could go into that, but it would involve me not stopping and I wouldnāt want to put lives at risk.
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Was actually less desirable as a place to live than Coventry and hence cheaper, apparently.
No, I frequent this pit of vipers voluntarily donāt I? As Marcellus Wallace said after happy fun bum time with zed and the gimp. āIām pretty fucking far from OKā.
Meh.
We paid Ā£36,500 for a 3-bed semi in June '86. An estate agent valued it and put it on the market for us at Ā£99,500 in April or May '89. In the meantime construction of that bit of the M40 had begun in earnest.
Actually it was a great place to live. The pubs and restaurants were fine, it had Warwick Uni and Stratford nearby so there was entertainment and culture and it had a mainline railway station if you needed to go places. If you insisted on driving everywhere then it could be a bit inaccessible, but we didnāt. We went to Coventry only when we had to. It seemed grey and quite a lot of it was pretty grim.
Marsellus
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Oh fuck - glad sheās ok
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Thanks Mick, and Kev and Graeme.
Honestly, she had no chance, those roads were horrendous. As I was negotiating the very same road about 20 minutes later I had a really nasty moment as I approached a junction, at about 15 mph, changed down gears hoping to roll to a stop but it wasnāt going to happen, had to brake and just slid out half the cars length into the junction. Thank fuck there was nothing coming, And this in a virtually brand new car with presumably state of the art ABS & traction control. A 15 year old Aygo with Ditch-finder tyres, not a chance of avoiding what happened.
Itās been written off automatically, probably because the stated damage is too much of a percentage of the value of the car. Itās kind of a shame, the damage is nothing a few weekends effort couldnāt sort really, nothing seriously bent, but a lot of front end plastic needs replacing.
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Mechanical damage is a shame, damage to your daughter would be a tragedy.
Youāve both got off lightly, take that and move on mate.
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Yesterday my neighbours skoda octavia was parked outside his house
When an elderly gent in his freelander came up the road and blacked out and shoved his skoda 50 yds up the road ā¦nobody hurt but he was concussed and taken to hospital.
from all accounts his blood sugar had dropped ,he has no recollection of the accident but he is ok ,ā¦diabetic .
Oh yeah. Youāre absolutely right. Itās only a car and apart from her being pretty shook up at the time sheās fine now. We had a great couple of hours afterwards doing the Falconry which helped calm her down a lot.
In fact sheās already been on Autotrader looking for a replacement. She fancies upgrading to a Yaris. In some ways she really is a little old lady in a 20 yo Goth bodyā¦
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Yep ,glad she,s ok rob.
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Glad she is okay. Shame about the car.
It is just a thing though.
Did you get to the falconry?
Yeah, we got there, the guy doing it was fantastic, really enthusiastic and you could tell he enjoyed sharing his knowledge. We got to fly & feed a barn owl, a Harris Hawk, a buzzard and he did a display with a Saker falcon which was amazing.
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We were supposed to take the nephews to one last year as a Christmas present. The falconer got fed up and walked out the day before.
Ended up with Julie and them doing one of them inflatable water assault course things instead. She found it all quite hard work, while the rest of the adults sat around with a brew thinking thank fuck we didnāt get roped in.
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If he really did black out then thatās a very long way down the ālow blood sugarā scale. Since he has no recollection of the accident it could be that he was conscious but too āconfused and disorientatedā to keep control of the vehicle. Either way itās lucky he didnāt do more serious harm to the vehicles, himself or, heaven forbid, someone else.
Most diabetics can tell from the way they feel more-or-less where their blood sugar is. Some canāt. Thereās a requirement to test your sugar with a meter and rules about what the result has to be before you drive. I think all modern meters log the times and results of the tests. Between his doctor and the police a conclusion will be reached about whether to allow him to continue driving, assuming he wants to.
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