The good news thread

[theboyfold]

I'm fed up. Fed up with all the bad news, the cuts, recession, war, climate change, chavs, petrol prices, cost of living, how things used to be better. I could go on. I won't, as this isn't the point of this thread.

This is a thread about good news, things no matter how big or small the news, as long as it's good it's welcome

I'll start with the simple news that the misfire in the Boxster isn't as bad as first thought, I'm going to actually get a weekend at home instead of work and the new kitchen is in after 2 weeks of mess, lazy installers and microwave meals!

So what have you got? Share the news and save the moaning for almost every other thread on here!

[Tunku]

LOS 33. Surely the best news on the news for a long time.

[slomax]

i watched the minors being rescued on telly last night. damn they are a determined buch of chaps, and amazing that they are all okay!

[sparks_E39]

My car is back from the garage and has cost about £1000 less to get through It's MOT than it did last year, happy times.

[plasticpig]

It looks like MIRA will be creating a few new jobs.

[IainT]

I've got tomorrow and Monday off work - off up north to visit the folks. Should be a nice weekend apart from the M25/1/6...

[elster]

I thought I was going to have a quiet month, turns out I am bloody busy. Just in time to lose it all on OH 30th Birthday Present.

[Sonic]

It's friday tomorrow, meaning it's the weekend very soon.

[Pablo16v]

My friends dad has been given the all clear from the doctors after receiving some fairly intensive treatment for lung cancer

[DJC]

I got an extra day of sanity out of the wife before she went on the monthly mental

[petemurphy]

i sat in a cafe on tuesday and found myself opposite Thom York which made my day/year

[Ozzie Osmond]

Best news in the last 12 months?

"Bye, bye Geoge W!"

"Bye, bye Gordon!"

History will not be kind to them....

[DS3R]

DJC said:

I got an extra day of sanity out of the wife before she went on the monthly mental

[Alfa numeric]

I don't have to sell my car and buy an automatic MINI.

Better yet in the new year I may be able to trade it in and get the Caterham 7 I've wanted since I was 10.

On top of that, after almost two months of faffing it looks like we might complete on our new house next week!

October's been a good month in a great year.

[markbigears]

mortgage is coming off its fixed rate, quids in!

[Sonic]

Ozzie Osmond said:

"Bye, bye Gordon!"

[Big Rod]

I'm on holiday for two weeks as of tomorrow afternoon. Going to Tenerif' on Toosday.

The loss of boost on my turbocharged car doesn't seem to be as terminal as I thought.

Been verbally offered a 12 month contract extension! \o/

[Andy Zarse]

fk good news, who's intersted in that?

[theboyfold]

Andy Zarse said:

fk good news, who's intersted in that?

Me! Now cough up or sling your hook!

[Frankeh]

This week I finally got my MOT done. The cars been standing for around 10 months now.
I budgeted £300 to get it though its MOT but it passed with zero repairs needed (Well, I made a makeshift door handle. But it was free as I used the coat hook from my bedroom door).

Then I phoned up my insurer and it seems my renewal comes in at about £500. Then I found out first direct are offering to beat your renewal by 10%. Basically my quote this year is only £450. Bargain.

All in all, motoring is finally affordable for me.