i did it.
i bought the 206.
god help me *cries* i hate spending money, i feel ill...

i get to pick it up on friday when theyve done mechanical and cosmetic things.

now is the time to tell me good and bad things about 8-9yr old peugeot 206 1.9l diesels.
now.
not after i've spent my pennies.
please.
thanks.

as this is yet another sneaky at-work post, dont think i'm being rude if i dont respond straight away!

belated birthday grovellings to lostlorelei and happy today birthday-ness to karliflower :) x

EDIT: and stonehorse!! i really am not doing well on the paying attention thing today.

while i'm here, i should get the mention in for crazykactus and viciouscabaret who are both that little bit older tomorrow, cos otherwise i'll forget...

turns out the ceremonies were full by march. shame noone from the graduate research office told me that, indeed implied that july 2007 was fine by them, and that i only found out because no information had plopped onto my doormat.

so i get my certificate and my title, but i have to wait til 2008 to swan around in the crappy red robes...

well, how speedy ( Read more... )

some drunk woman in a bmw crashed into the back of a line of 3 parked cars opposite our house sometime after midnight this morning. mine was the middle one. she moved the people carrier behind me about 20 feet and onto the pavement (via my car), got out and tried to get in a taxi, passing the people carriers owner a business card and saying she'd ( Read more... )

i was slightly amused to see that our road looked like an aqueduct this morning. i was less than amused that the arse-end of wakefield had flooded meaning a queue and a navigating-by-hunch diversion back to an accessible junction of the m1 ( Read more... )

my car would be worth £250 if in perfect nick, given the age and mileage (according to the motor vehicle research database i got to play with on one of my temping assignments ( Read more... )

according to the doctors scales i have lost 7.9kg in the last 11 weeks!!
ignoring the fact that i have no idea whether i was wearing light summer clothes 11 weeks ago, that's still over a stone in real money :)

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grrrrr...
new doctors, lots of checking about appointment types, dick about with workday (2 hours travel, for 2 hours work, then working at home when i've finished my lunch), get told all previous info was wrong, come back tomorrow ( Read more... )