On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:57:36 +0000 (UTC)
Adrian wrote:
Its not that grim and its in london. Where's you house? Oh , thats
right, according to your blog a while back you didn't even have one and
were squatting in the camper van. Nice.

Well, the house in a really very pleasant corner of the home counties
which we were renting out whilst we were away sold in three weeks for
quite a lot of money - just as well, really, since we were in the throes
of buying a rather large and lovely house in a beautiful rural part of
the country, thank you for asking. With a nice chunk left over after
paying off the mortgage.

Ah , so I was right about the trust fund. Either that or a lottery win or
an inheritence. There's zero chance a dumb**** like you could earn enough
by 40 to pay off the mortgage on a posh house.

So, at just over 40, here I am - mortgage free - in my dream house. Poor
us. How's the wage-slavery going?

Well given I'm self employed its hardly slavery plus my contract will be
ending soon and I won't be bothering to look for another until next year. The
benefits of IT contracting rates. Though the only benefits you'd know about
would be income support.

With the exception of the 4x4 - proof-of-necessity short-term purchase -
they're all cars that we love dearly, and all bought for being bloody
excellent at the job. So, yes, they're definitely "decent vehicles". The
fact that you think the value's more important than the driving dynamics
shows you as the sort of vacuous urban-centric **** that you are.

A cars value is set by what all the people who want to buy 2nd hand cars
everywhere around the country think its worth. That rather trumps your opinion.
If its only worth a few hundred quid its because everyone else thinks its scrap.

Well you seem to champion cyclists and get all irate when someone dares
to suggest they should be taxed. Why would anyone other than a dyed in
the wool Cyclopath give a ****?

a. Because I genuinely don't think bicycles are half as much of a traffic
problem as the kind of ****wit who gets red mist at the thought of them
b. Because I genuinely don't like snide hidden agendas promoted by
duplicitous little ****s.
c. Because I genuinely don't think bikes need taxing and I don't think
cyclists need licensing.

d. Because you're a trolling little dick.

I don't believe you. And - one thing's definitely for certain - the value
of your whatevercommutermobile's only going one way, and it ain't the
same way as the value of our fleet is.

LOL!!! Yeah , whatever you say )

One other thing's for certain... I'm sure that the value of your car
bothers you far more than the value of mine bothers me.

If its value bothered me I'd buy a new one. But I happen to like it and
intend to keep it until it falls to bits.

NJR