Yeah, I remember you telling me about that off-roading experience. Sounds like fun :-)
Not too sure of the precise details of my brother's Land Rover, but it seems like a nice bit of kit. Certainly, it's in pretty damn good condition for a 35 year old vehicle, doesn't require any road tax, runs on biodiesel, and is oddly inexpensive to insure. Plus given my brother's line of work could require a fair amount of off-road driving, it's looking like a pretty good buy.
They're for some reason really cheap to insure. Despite being twice as heavy as my car and far more destructive ability, and costing a lot more to buy (£600 to buy my car). Presumably cos they always just carry on working for decades and never get crashed or break.
That's the thing about land rovers though. you buy one, chug off across a field... then you'll still be at it 20 years later, but probably a bit muddier.
*hannah says hip hip hooray for biodiesel* I say that now the gummint's upped the tax on it the budding biodiesel revolution will die off again. shame that, but there's always LPG... oh, no, you can't buy it and they're talking of upping the tax on that too. maybe chip fat...
I'll have to have a look if he ends up outside with it at some point...
'ello. Nice to hear things are all going well for you. :) So, are you going to be at UEA next year, or does it all depend on your OU course results etc?
mmmm, gaming. I need some of that (but nothing involving two hands right now). The last time I went anywhere non-uni work related was probably St. Patricks day... Reminds me I need to bug Pete and see what's up with Edge of the Wood. I miss my gamesoc friends.
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Yeah, I remember you telling me about that off-roading experience. Sounds like fun :-)
Not too sure of the precise details of my brother's Land Rover, but it seems like a nice bit of kit. Certainly, it's in pretty damn good condition for a 35 year old vehicle, doesn't require any road tax, runs on biodiesel, and is oddly inexpensive to insure. Plus given my brother's line of work could require a fair amount of off-road driving, it's looking like a pretty good buy.
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Presumably cos they always just carry on working for decades and never get crashed or break.
That's the thing about land rovers though. you buy one, chug off across a field... then you'll still be at it 20 years later, but probably a bit muddier.
*hannah says hip hip hooray for biodiesel*
I say that now the gummint's upped the tax on it the budding biodiesel revolution will die off again. shame that, but there's always LPG... oh, no, you can't buy it and they're talking of upping the tax on that too.
maybe chip fat...
I'll have to have a look if he ends up outside with it at some point...
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(there's always time for a bit more squee!)
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mmmm, gaming. I need some of that (but nothing involving two hands right now). The last time I went anywhere non-uni work related was probably St. Patricks day... Reminds me I need to bug Pete and see what's up with Edge of the Wood. I miss my gamesoc friends.
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...and I've already bugged Pete about D&D...
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