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I bet he's really worried - they could sack him

I've said exactly the same in the past

"No Ants were hurt in the name of Art"

I was talking years ago to a council pest control who were dealing with some wasps for me. I mentioned ants and was told that bendiocarb was the stuff to use, but the stuff that you or I could buy was not concentrated enough. Fortunately for me, a packet of this (http://www.pestfix.co.uk/bayer-ficam-w-bendiocarb-wettable-powder-insecticide.asp) fell out of his van as he left.... However, as a general rule, i dont find the diy stuff too bad - the issue is that unlike wasps, typically there are multiple entrances, so it's difficult to get them all. If you can dig up and mix the powder in as you dig, it can work better

I walked in to a Toyota dealer - interested in a GT86. They have 2 (a demo and a show car), both white and both with no spoiler, so no chance to see how different colours or options look.... Apparently there's a limited edition in Orange. I appreciate not every dealer has one, I'm prepared to travel to look. No one, not even Toyota UK can tell me where they are located apparently?!?!? So I have to assume if I wanted to buy they were going to send out a search party.... I bought a second hand Porsche...... Now if you have the cash, that is an experience to have one time in life. Couldn't help enough when i went in, even though they'd had an open day and i basically turned up 1 hour before they closed. I was the last car in the car park, and only me and the sales lady in the showroom when I left. On collection, it's under a cover as I walk in and is "revealed" after all the paperwork is done, the keys are in a presentation case with a "congratulations" note from the sales team. I get a photo of me next to the car for my desk, a bottle of champagne, flowers for the wife and a scale model of the car. I know I paid for it all, but it was certainly worth it!

OK - it's bad form for a salesman to imply that you "will" rather than "could" get more. However, you're still only paying what you originally thought you would for the car in total. You're not paying £1.5k over the market value, you've just paid £1.5k too little up to now for the car you have. Forget cars for the moment - assume you buy an item for £100 in 2 installments of £50. If you pay one, and the (second hand) item could now be bought for £40 would it worry you? If you thought it was worth £100 in the first place? (I realise the numbers are bigger!) However, it's never a nice feeling to feel as if you didn't actually get quite as good a deal as you thought you were getting, so for that you have my sympathy. And I've just realised that i messed up point 3, since the car is worth X and you owe X so you have 0 value in the car

I don't understand this obsession with "negative equity" in PCP deals. At the start of the deal, you were given a price for the car, the monthly payments based on that and your deposit, and the balloon payment to keep the car. You were happy to pay this then - why not now? As far as i can see, it only matters what the value of the car is on the day the agreement ends. Then you: 1) pay the balloon figure that you seem to indicate you were happy to pay anyway ("my initial thoughts were to keep the car as I like it") 2) give back the car and try to buy a different car with the same spec for under the balloon payment (and you can win this way, but of course you don't know the history of the "new" car in the same way as you do your current one") 3) hand the car back and take another from the dealer using the value in it (which surely is the same as the balloon payment) as you're deposit. Am i missing something? And regarding your comment on size of deposit, does that matter (apart from the interest you pay)? If the car cost £28k, and the GFV is £10k, then the car is costing you £14k over the PCP period. It doesn't really matter if you pay £13k deposit and £1k over the period or the other way round except for the interest you pay (although you may prefer to have the money in your bank)

I've always found Battery Megastore very helpful...

Cool, thanks. Is it just us two, or are we going to pick up some udder people? (just filling time while i get my coat....)

That's heifer so bad.... (Split the fare?)

I've just taken a cement mixer our of my MkII :-)

Wow - bottles of champagne struggle to last 15 minutes in my house!! My father-in-law used to keep wine out in the garage - is that a possibility? i think no rapid changes in temp is the main thing

+1 for recuva

That's no way to talk about Fiona Bruce :D

The BBC commented this morning about (if HC had got in) that they're would have only been 8 years since 1989 where the president wasn't Bush or Clinton and likened it to a dynasty rather than a democracy