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Piratebay is your friend...?

Thats the first thing all viruses do is kill the antivirus programs. And viruses work when you download and activate programs you install with them embedeed in them, no matter what your AVG software is. I used to pay £60 for norton that didnt work, then McAfee but that just hijacked everything, so not I use MSE and have done for years. Its been just as good as the rest and doesnt need the 1GB of memory some of the bigger programs need.

Mines the same, will investigate. Whats the deal with the champion blade?

Use Microsoft Security Essentials.

Hmm, Ok well i might sell an old car this weekend.... if this is still available then and if it fits a pre FL MK2 ill be interested then.

Easy fit?

What do these do? Sorry not been one for handling mods thus far

+1 for grandads only

Reassembly is hard, you need a friend or get clever with a g-clamp. That's how i do mine now.

Hi Tim, No I still have it. I have interest but have been using it again!

Oh yeah, I added another reason... ill edit!

Price drop

State run everything is a nightmare. pencils that cost £25 each and £1700 desk chairs. My Father was an asset manager at the CDC... cash strapped council. They bought 2 interactive touchscreen plasmas at 4k each i think, they turned up, no HDMI, so he got told to SKIP THEM and bought 2 more! Government money is easy come easy go. A private organization would have at least put them on ebay to recoup some of the loss.

£4.50 is the going rate here for all childcare this neck of the woods. Childcare, not babysitter. I looked at private nurseries and childminders. Both the same price. As I am saying £4.50 an hour is cheap when yoou look at it from a different angle, too cheap as you are implying Dr Zoidberg.

kiscix, yes i agree. Dont work, Dont buy a house, limp a little and get the whole world given to you for nothing. Broken system!

You planned it all out well tweenster, i think you made the right choices

Sparkly, you back up my view. Yes it is expensive, too expensive for many, but £4.50 to pay someone to look after a child for an hour isn't.

This bring in the minimum wage is bad argument. Which as an employer I agree with. Pay rises should be an incentive not forced on you.

Agreed! I know too many people with huge mortgages and credit cards maxed out, kitchens, sofas, TV's and cars on finance and they worry about interest rates.

At the end of the day, people need to understand this: A ) children cost money B ) impact your life. So there will be no more holidaying with friends in Portugal leaving your daughters in a room while you go to a restaurant with friends, and you need to decide how you will care for and pay for them be it a parent give up work and look after them, or the more modern approach of doing 2 or 3 days a week and using family or childcare or if you are really well off full time childcare, which IMHO is wrong... why have kids? Whatever way people choose to go it needs to be thought about. As for incentives... bring back married mans tax allowance and introduce a childcare tax allowance. That way marriage and childbirth is rewarded if you work!

Or a car with a big engine and complaining of Diesel/Petrol/Road Tax prices?

I do think childbirth should be licensed so to speak and limited to a planned 2 to a family. I know this sounds very totalitarian but we have had many long chats at work and decided this is the only option to control some family related issues. 2 3 (ahem!) example questions: 1. Do you have a dog that will naturally find a foot long wriggling bag of tasty meat a nice snack... yes. 2. Do you work... no. 3. Do you think a baseball cap peak points backwards... yes. All cases mean no children allowed. Easy!

Lets hope its better than the S4, which a few of us have at work and we liken them to bricks, coasters or handwarmers.

Just a minor comment here. My wife and I had a child last may, 9 months ago, and now is the time for her to go back to work. Well, she went back in January, 3 months before maternity pay is legally supposed to stop and 6 months before you must go back to work. We both work full time, I am a Director of a business, and she has a very well paid job in fact earning more than me. Her boss has very kindly agreed to let her do 3 days a week, against his wishes, but knowing in a few years she will return to 5 days. Now... both sets of grandparents have obviously agreed to take him one day a week each and they agreed to share the third... great free childcare. But then we noticed he is very comfortable with adults and old fogeys but not with other kids. a downside of not mixing him with more than the odd child of a friend. So we looked at childcare in Suffolk/Essex, they charge about £4.50 an hour which really isnt much IMHO, less than minimum wage. 8-4 means £36 a day, and £144 a 4 week month. lets round to £150 a month, for 1 day a week. We can afford it, we will pay it, and we can be sure he will mix with other young children but that is a lot of money if you have a large mortgage (or rent which is usually more unless subsidized by us tax payers). I mean £150 a month is 1 or 2 bills and that's just 1 day a week for 1 child. A low income family with the average 2 kids... they cant afford it. But on the flip side, £4.50 an hour is cheap. But you do get 16 hours a week free when they are 2 years old or something. So to sum up, its expensive yet not expensive. P.S. My wife was 38 and I was 34 when we had our first child, to make sure we could afford it.

I think its do-able. And my company makes silver loaded epoxy so no solder! might just do it!