Ordered a new van which will be with me next week. A Ford Transit Custom with auto box and 185ps engine.
No silver. I got 9k+ off list price with Ford discount, dealer discount and an F1 discount which you can get if you're vat registered and pay cash. I was pretty happy with that. I had to have silver as it was the only new auto they had in stock otherwise it was a 3-4 month wait. This one had a few extras fitted as well, adaptive cruise control, folding roof rack and security locks.
Nice! Silvers the best colour for sure! I’ve been looking at the new transit 4x4! Looks a good bit of kit!
Wow that's some discount i didn't expect,maybe the state of the economy perhaps,anyway pictures as & well you can.
Same here in Vietnam. Never understood why I should pay import duty on the transport cost and then GST on the lot. Just a bloody money making racket.
Spent the last two hours taking the kitchen sink plumbing apart as the wife poured hot fat down it for an as yet undetermined reason. I’ll ask in the morning although she must have been wondering what all the noise was about. Time for bed
Came downstairs around 6.30am, made a cuppa, sat in the garden room and read stuff on the iPad. When it became light the back garden and patio areas looked dry and clear so I had a thought I’d get out on the bike this morning for a change. Took SWMBO a cup of tea in bed at 8.10am, pulled back the bedroom curtains to see that at the front of the house the front garden, car and road are covered in a thick frost. And there was evidence that it had snowed at some point too. That’s put the kibosh on going out on the bike today methinks.
Fillet, de bone and take the skin off, fry in butter. The fishery offers a smoking service, might try that next time.
I didnt realize we were allowed out to play yet? - are we or arent we....ive not really looked at the rules yet tbh....i just stay in....
northern lightweight. When it gets a bit chilly in Somerset we just man up and get on with a bike ride.......
I got a good nights sleep - for probably the first time in literally years.....over the last 10 years weve had about 6 different matresses all either firm or medium.....ranging from memory foam, sprung and the latest one was an emma mattress which we bought just before xmas. That, i needed to take 500mg of Naproxen just to get through the night - so have asked for it to be collected. (theyve got a good returns service) i say that as theyve not fucking collected it yet! Bit the bullet and my final gamble was to get a top of the range tempur mattress (soft) as every time ive brought up the bad back conversation the reply has always been "youre mattress is too soft..." so thought fuck it...order a soft as clearly medium and firm mattresses arent working....waddaya know....i slept....and not only that, if i manage to make it through the night then a sore lower back will force me out of bed no matter what (and to get to that point i usually wake up at 3am ish and have to literally do a Mr fucking motivator work out to get rid of the pain).....not this morning....first time for as long as i can remember i chose to get out of bed....and wasnt forced to....all hail Tempur matresses.... As a quality guide....taking the emma mattress downstairs was light, and like moving a slab of foam...relatively easy. Taking the tempur mattress upstairs was like pulling a slab of putty....id hazzard 4 times heavier than the emma mattress... Edit - not cheap though...2.2k for a fucking mattress....but, after one night on it....it was worth it...and i might add my wife just read through the instruction manual and, so it says....the more you sleep on it the better it gets as the memory foam when loaded, gets more maluable.....its just the gift that keeps on giving....
Remember to plan fuel stops, I only managed 60 miles on a tank on a test ride Hooligan bike, have fun Andy
