A bit poorer for having to get my car fixed when it failed it's MOT for the first time ever. £140 to replace both front lower ball joints on the suspension is probably not too bad a price though. They normally get replaced at about 70 to 80,000 miles and my car has done 66,000, so it's not totally unexpected given the poor state of our roads.
Do you have any holidays coming up?
I've booked a week in North Devon for September. I was thinking of going to see a relative in South Africa in November, but I'm not sure that's going to pan out.
I can't remember. I used to buy McDonald's all the time because my local newspaper was always printing £1.99 meal vouchers, but since they stopped that I've not had fast food for ages. I normally buy a Tesco meal deal if I have to eat while I'm out.
Last restaurant you went to for a meal out?
I had breakfast in Wetherspoons on Tuesday.
In your family, who normally wins at a game of Monopoly?🎩🧐💰
I do. I actually own a book about the most effective winning strategies in Monopoly. Obviously it's mostly luck due to the dice, but you can give yourself an edge by adopting the right strategies.
Turning socks inside out. Actually, I was turning them back the right way around because turning them inside out was a more skilled job which I did later.
A power cable splitter for a SATA drive, for my PC. Despite having room to install upto four disc drives inside, my PC only has one power cable available. I also bought a SATA data cable and an SSD disc drive.
When someone comes up to you and threatens you with violence, whether it being at work or in your own time, how do you react?
I will try to solve any problem that is placed before me.I know more about any subject than you could possibly want to know and once you get me started I won't stop until your brain is fried. Feel free to stop me when you've had enough 😂It's actually quite difficult to get me started and mostly I will listen, absorb, and analyse, and only then, having considered all the evidence, will I say something. I'm a man of few words, but when I do speak, people listen.
I'm useless at giving gifts, but then I'm also useless at thinking of anything I want if it's my birthday or Christmas etc. Maybe it's because I place too little value on physical things. I'd rather share an experience.
Not really. I've had multiple job titles within the same organisation but each change (some I applied for, and some forced upon me) was more of an evolution than a revolution, and nothing that I was especially unhappy about.
I've not used the site, but I occasionally buy from AliExpress which is similar. It's fine as long as you're not in a hurry as it can take weeks to arrive, and you have to watch out for import tariffs if you buy anything for more than about £15.
Red deer antlers can grow as much as 6cm per day, and are made of keratin (like hair and fingernails). Imagine if your own fingernails grew that fast. These guys (and they are all guys) are in Bushy Park and have got me surrounded.
Either find a job that you enjoy, or find a job that gives you plenty of time off (and particularly no expectations of having to work overtime or to change your hours at short notice), preferably with a short commute, and then fill your spare time with something you enjoy. If work sucks, then at least make sure that you use the money to enjoy yourself when you're not working.My plan is to save, invest, enjoy doing things that are cheap or free, buy only what I really need, and cut my hours down as much as I can afford to.