The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

I just watched the film Eden Lake......JESUS SHOCKING!!!!

A week of stressing with buggy router firmware, suppliers who dont want to know, and a random coincidence of a DHCP fault at the Post Office, and our new business VOIP line from sipgate.co.uk (with free local number included) is now working properly

Free line with instant setup*, no line rental, free voicemail, free caller ID, free phone number (with the right area code), free emails when you receive voicemail (with the message attached) and a £12 bnib Ip phone off Ebay. Plus calls at 1.19p per minute to landlines and 9.9p per minute to mobiles.

Compared to BT @ £130 (+vat) installation with a 4 week order time, £15 a month line rental forever, and call rates of 7.95p / 11.5p per minute.

That strikes me as a bargain




* if you don't count the week of faffing with hardware that wasn't their fault!

Final look at this Transit which has stood on the same spot for at least 20 years....




...the site is now being cleared .

Every time I get an endowment policy review it is marked green & on track or red & in the s##t based upon a projected growth rate of 6% resulting in a surplus or shortfall. Further, they always state that "[our] general view is that 6.00% each year is currently a reasonable assumption for the rate of long-term future investment growth".

So how is 'reasonable' given that they have only achieved 6% growth in 4 of the 15 years the plan has run? How is it 'reasonable' given that after the first 5 years actual growth revealed a projected 22% shortfall I increased my payments by 33% and that still isn't enough to give more than a fag paper thin margin?

I wouldn't call 6% reasonable, I'd call it suicidally optimistic. Complaint lodged.

Effectively after 5 years they held there hand out for more money to achieve no greater result.

Imagine if you bought a Ford Mundano for 30K on a 10 year all inclusive contract and after 2 years Ford decided they wanted £38k over the life of contract instead. Then after year 6 they said it's looking like the car might not make it that far and would Sir like to consider paying a little more?

Am I allowed to post this in here?

Now back from holiday.....really must pull my finger out and get the Toledo sorted

I want a shed. I can get one for a few hundred quid which is perfect. But then, if I'm going to get one, I may as well get a big one. If I'm going to get a big one, I may as well get a posh one. I can't afford a big posh shed so now I'm not getting one at all.
Got to stop this way of thinking.

Hey, I've just become a Great Grand Dad to 10lb 4oz boy. All is well except I'm a little tired. Pass the Gin (again)

[on topic]Congratulations! But how do you know you'll be a great granddad rather than just an adequate one until he's been around for a while? [/on topic]

just watched human centipede 2.........BLOODY SICK!!!!!!!

highly recomended though

Rear sub frame bolts, y u no undo?

just booked Toledo in for respray in November

doesn't give me too long to find the other doors needed

Inside it's today 29,8 degrees and outside 34. Doing nothing today, only sitting next to the fridge and open the door once a while.

Jeroen

Used esnipe to bid on a triumph 2000 mk1. All was well, set up to bid with 6 seconds to go. Then ebay decided I needed to verify my phone number again. No time, lost auction. 770 quid it went for, I would have gone to a grand and it was less than 5 miles away.
Not happy.

I miss my dolomite.