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General Discussion Area / Re: Your Next Holiday Abroad

« on: 02 July 2020, 08:01:27 »

Permanent nights too, so works for me 

I did that for 15 years ... initially Mon to Fri 10 till 6 then later did 3 nights a week 6 till 6. Worked great when the kids were little but wouldn't do it now. The odd night shift recently has just reminded me I wouldn't want to do nights on a permanent basis now 

Traditionally done 12 hour shifts but current job, if I get back to it , is 8 - 6, which feels almost part time

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General Discussion Area / Re: Your Next Holiday Abroad

« on: 02 July 2020, 07:59:56 »

Depends if it was a package booked through them or separately. They may have, mistakenly, got this wrong. Or they may, surreptitiously, have done it to spread the cash drain.

I suspect that by the end of August, once the cash flow has returned to a degree of steadiness, everyone will have been refunded.

It isn't right, but equally it's easy to see why travel companies might do this, or freely offer vouchers over the booking value. Put another way, if had to refund 100,000 customers a day for four months. From your savings. What would YOU do?

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General Car Chat / Re: Cheque book time.

« on: 02 July 2020, 07:52:28 »

£150,000!    There are places that you can buy 3 houses for that! 

Or one really nice house somewhere else 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Your Next Holiday Abroad

« on: 01 July 2020, 23:21:11 »

Permanent nights too, so works for me 

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Omega General Help / Re: Water leak / spare pipe

« on: 01 July 2020, 23:12:49 »

New matrix required

Plus stripping the carpet and sound insulation to get it properly dried out.

Does this mean that matrix leaking is causing the water to somehow make its way under the car above the gear box as it’s dripping on the drive from that area
Or have I got two separate leaks

You may have two leaks or the matrix has failed at a point where it's draining down the aircon evaporator drains.

Set the climate panel to LO on both sides and press ECO if it's too cold. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Water leak / spare pipe

« on: 01 July 2020, 23:08:52 »

Pulling the carpets is the ONLY way to get them dried out.

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Omega General Help / Re: Water leak / spare pipe

« on: 01 July 2020, 22:53:15 »

New matrix required

Plus stripping the carpet and sound insulation to get it properly dried out.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Your Next Holiday Abroad

« on: 01 July 2020, 22:49:07 »

I am hoping to go to Gran Canaria in late November, but not booked anything yet as work is still up in the air That said, I've got four shifts booked off between now and Christmas... 4on/4off has distinct perks as that's 44 days off, including August Bank Holiday weekend and half of September 

Worst case I work for a spell and go away for three weeks next year.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hong Kong

« on: 01 July 2020, 22:35:07 »

My only take really, was asking where the hell were the UK going to put over 3 million newcomers in a short space of time?

Which is presumably why you highlighted Nigels' last sentence and added 'Explain please' 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 01 July 2020, 22:06:41 »

Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer. Was 95, that's a good innings. RIP, a great Batsman.

Howzat.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hong Kong

« on: 01 July 2020, 22:05:37 »

Headlines are designed to grab your attention in a short, snappy soundbite.

"Millions of Chinese to get British Passports" for example.

Unfortunately this soundbite usually misleads from the truth of a given report or article. In this case the fact that some Hong-Kong residents who hold British Overseas Citizen passports will be given the opportunity to move to the UK and, ultimately, apply for full UK citizenship. This isn't news.

The fake/misleading part is that the article often reflects the headlines rather than the facts of a situation.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hong Kong

« on: 01 July 2020, 20:22:19 »

Read it today that Boris is offering up to three million HK Chinese entry here for five years. After another year, they can apply for UK citizenship. Don't know how that's going to work and where the hell will we put them all. Sorry, can't do links.

Glasgow, with the rest of them 

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General Car Chat / Re: Spotted an extremely rare car on Sunday.

« on: 01 July 2020, 19:58:36 »

Especially in moose, sorry Nantucket, grey

It was a shame they couldn't be bothered to develop/build it properly... They still had the captive nuts in the chassis rails for the Mk3s antirollbar mounts

The Omega was the car the Scorpio should have been

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 01 July 2020, 19:17:08 »

Acquired a new rear bumper to replace the battered and bruised one that came with the car.

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General Car Chat / Re: Spotted an extremely rare car on Sunday.

« on: 01 July 2020, 19:15:07 »

Likewise, except the Mk1  Dad bought a very late '99S boggle eyed pig, aka 2.3 16v Ultima estate in metallic black, actually looked ok with smoked headlights

He got rid when the heater matrix blew all over his leg on the A11. It must have really pissed him off because he replaced it. With an '03 Scenic