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GrumpiusMaximus last won the day on October 16 2018

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  1. Saw this up the road from me when out walking the dog. My partner was on the way home and specifically called me when she arrived to take me to 'see something exciting'. She had no idea I'd just walked the dog and seen it - but it was nice of her to think of it! Lomax 232:
  2. Is that similar to the EGR to intercooler pipe on the MK4 platform? I had that go on my 1.9PD when the lugs wore out at about 165,000 miles. Really alarming when it failed doing 70 on the M23...
  3. My Mum bought one of these as an ex-dealer demo in about 2003. It replaced the Focus Estate (which I absolutely loved) and I always did deride it a bit, especially as it was gold and had the 1.4 diesel engine. Just about the slowest car I think my parents have ever owned and I much preferred my Dad's 1.6 Fiesta Zetec. It seems a lot better in hindsight and I now appear to have developed a soft spot for them. Oh dear. Great buyage. This was an absolute bargain.
  4. The Kia Soul: Whenever I see one, I call them a Kia 'Lack of'.
  5. I wonder if they have a collection plate for the van roof fund.
  6. One of my partner's students rocked up the other day and proudly told her that he'd bought his first car. A MK3 Fiesta. This has made me far happier than it has any right to. Fortunately his dad can weld.
  7. If people are taking their investment advice from TikTok or consider Elon Musk to be a reasonable source of information then they really have it coming to them...
  8. If it's any consolation at all, the fact that you're reaching out for interviews is a sign of major progress. You're already way ahead of most of the people that are miserable in their jobs and the fact that you're looking for change and actively persuing is in and of itself a positive. My partner is a senior teacher and had a very bizarre experience last year. She applied for a job in the North in the city we both went to University in. We would both like to end up there again, so she applied for it. With teaching jobs, the typical notice is a term (six weeks, what we used to call half-terms) and this particular job was one that was starting at the beginning of January. She applied on the Thursday. On the Monday, they asked invited her to interview and gave her a date and time but no details. Usually for a teaching job they'll ask you to prepare and deliver a shortened lesson, meet with various senior staff, usually a panel of students and various other parts. Knowing the age group and expectations of the lesson is important as you need to plan specifically for it. As she's applying for a senior manangement position, the interview could be over two days. You do a first day and they can call you back for a second. Bear in mind this was during a teaching week, so she had to arrange cover for potentially two days of teaching. The interview was on the Wednesday. So she had fewer than 48 hours to arrange accommodation for up to two days. They only published the interview details on the Tuesday night so I took time off work to drive to Lancashire and support so that she could write up her lesson plan and other details in the car on the way up. This is not normal and you'll usually get at least a week, so the whole process was seriously expedited. She didn't make it through to day two but neither did anybody else. So they expedited an interview with fewer than 48 hours notice, dragged six people there from all over the country and then chose not to even go to day two with any candidates. They were so slow to feed back that one candidate missed their train back to Cornwall because the last train was at 5PM and they didn't bother telling anybody that they weren't coming back until 6PM. Absolutely ridiculous and a major red flag to actually working there.
  9. This is why I love our postie, Mel. During the week it's highly likely that I'll be in and she knows to wait a few seconds for me to answer the doorbell on my phone (I work in a garden office). Before we had the video doorbell, I had a package that I wasn't able to answer for. She tried neighbours and nobody else was in and then came back at the end of her round and tried again with a neighbour. I was so surprised and in the end sent her a compliment on the Royal Mail website. We had a chat about it and it turns out they actually read it to her, etc. Her dedication to her work is second-to-none and I don't know how she keeps her spirits up given the shit that's constantly thrown at her.
  10. I would have no issue with somebody reading from notes. Interviews are an imperfect and contrived process but you can usually tell fairly quickly if you want to hire somebody or not. When we interviewed in my last job (as it turned out - for my replacement as I left shortly after) we had all decided within a minute that we wanted to hire her. On the other hand, there was one chap that was utterly hopeless. To the point where the senior interviewer on the panel ended up giving them the model answers we had in mind to the questions. It was an absolute car crash and incredibly awkward. Sad really because on paper the chap was well-qualified but he completely missed the point of our questions in quite spectacular fashion.
  11. Was showing my partner's Dad the compilation video of Rufford Ford yesterday. It's the one where the first fifteen or so vehicles are black BMWs. Is this a rite of passage for BMW owners that I'm not familiar with? Seems like you got lucky!
  12. Since Tuesday I've driven about 1,350 miles. Canterbury-Cambridge, Cambridge-Carlisle, Carlisle-Cambridge, Cambridge-Exmouth, Exmouth-Canterbury and a couple of local trips in all of that. Nothing compared to the couriers and lorry drivers out there but I got home about an hour and a half ago. At last.
  13. Just spent the last 15 minutes being followed down the M6 before Corley Services by a black MG6. RK16 registration. Thought it might be you Warren. Apparently not but it is being worked as it had a big ‘Uber’ sticker on the side…
  14. If she has a thing for Vulcans, Solway Air Museum up near Carlisle do cockpit tours of one. It’s brilliant and I highly recommend it.
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