Another pointless thread

Guys - this won't do - you are a sexist lot

Mea culpa - it's a fair cop.

That's why I am married to a woman.

Scott Adams said:

In the future women will run the world for two reasons.

1 - They already do
2 - Who's going to stop them

Just been slightly baffled by fuel cost calculators. Apparently it will only cost me £42 or so to drive 322 miles (diesel being £1.33/l here and the car I'd use returning 46mpg), which seemed wrong but has withstood checking on a few sites. Given a single train ticket (second class and changing at least once) was £133, guess which I plan to do!

Not forgetting of course that you could get three or four more passengers in the car for a little extra on the fuel consumption and save a fortune.

Just witnessed a quite amazing sight - Cookie (our rather large cat) has just chased a fox in loop round our garden! Not the order of things one expects and fortunately the fox decided to hit the after burners rather than face it's tormentor!

Not the start to a Sunday I'd had in mind.


Steve

My understanding of cat v fox is that they are very wary of each other and will only attack to protect their young, perhaps cookie was just protecting his/her? territory.

We had a rather large fat cat once, he was sat in the back garden in the middle of the patio being harrassed by a rather large Magpie, the bird would take off fronm the garage roof and swoop low over the cats head before perching on the fence, it would then do the same back to the garage roof, after a few minutes of this the cat eventually gave in and moved away from the patio, The cocky Magpie then landed where tha cat had been and stood keeping and eye on the cat who was now by the side of the house, what the Magpie didnt see was our 6 month old kitten sneak out from behind the garage and with the near loss of a few feathers the Magpie beat a hasty retreat
Sadly Fat Cat Casper dissapeared without trace at the age of about 17, thats where I learned about the fox v cat thing as we thought mistakenly at the time that he'd been taken by a fox. Mouser was also with us for 16 years but sadly he is now also chasing Magpies in cat heaven

Cookie isn't normally territorial - she has a short fuse and a spiteful streak but normally quite relaxed about other cats stopping by to finish off their left overs or simply passing through.

V glad that the fox opted for the 'flight' option and that Cookie ran out of puff/fox found another gear so I could grab her by the conservatory before the chase continued onto the front drive and beyond. Don't want any of our cats testing the theory that foxes won't normally attack cats.

Well I could...but I think the girl I'm planning to stay with might rather object to my turning up with four random people!

Hi all, have been reading this thread, got as far as p64 then had to skip forward. Funny people! Bit sick today, in bed watching liverpool v utd, and calling weakly now and again for coffee and toast. Should be out with k-x, but might fall over

bw,
catherine

been out again today - testing the theory "DON'T TOUCH THE BRAKES" when edging slowly down slippery roads - works very well. They really are slippery, too - compacted snow that's started to melt on the outside and then been refrozen over night by the heavy frost, only to be rethawed tomorrow.... nom nom, I nearly fell over at least twice.

Bret

Get well soon catherine - at least the result must have cheered you up no end - Kuyt hat-trick and poor old Fergie`s lads made to look very ordinary......................................................

yup, had my €1 on the pool. now if wolves could get their act together, i would be a happy bunny.

This is why I don't like automatic gearboxes much. In a manual car you've always got the option of stopping at the top of the hill, putting it in the lowest possible gear, then coming down on engine braking without touching any pedals. Works superbly on any loose surfaces if you're worried about being able to stop at the bottom.

The really hard one (and I'd like to put a disclaimer that if you crash trying it isn't my fault) is that you should actually use power in a skid.

It takes real nerve to try it the first time, but modern traction control cannot do anything if the car has no power. I'm not saying accelerate but a gentle touch of gas can really help.

If you have real guts try using power and brakes at the same time! You can pull yourself out of anything!