Why Can't I Ever Manage A Lie-In?
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I hate this.
A year in the current job, getting up early 5 or 6 times a week has runined my ability to have a nice lie-in. It gets to 6 am and thats it, i'm awake. 7.30 at the most I can manage before I have to get up or develop a stinking headache.
So now it's just after 8 on a Sunday morning, I'm awake, i'm the only one in the house and I'm thoroughly bored.
Marvelous.
A year in the current job, getting up early 5 or 6 times a week has runined my ability to have a nice lie-in. It gets to 6 am and thats it, i'm awake. 7.30 at the most I can manage before I have to get up or develop a stinking headache.
So now it's just after 8 on a Sunday morning, I'm awake, i'm the only one in the house and I'm thoroughly bored.
Marvelous.
karen182 said:
But on the plus side, instead of wasting the day, you are up nice and early to make the most of it
Thats the problem. I wouldn't be wasting the day. I've got f
k all to do today! mxdi said:
I am the same, getting better though, woke up at 7 today, but just think, it gives you chance to do more stuff, surf the net, tidy up, wash the car, even go for a traffic free hoon 
Done all that stuff yesterday. Except the traffic free hoon. When you drive what I do that idea isn't hugely appealing.
>> Edited by flooritforever on Sunday 15th May 08:29
I love it. My internal clock lets me lie in every other month or so. Otherwise bed at 1-ish rise at 6:30am. I get a fair amount of me PH fix on a weekend morning and during the week I'm first in the office. By the time everyone else is coming in to a mass of phone and e-mail messages for the US, I'm all done and ready to face the day.
Morning in Spring and Summer is the best part of the day. Garden is fresh, birds are singing, car washing, mowing lawns, just generally a time to potter about.
Morning in Spring and Summer is the best part of the day. Garden is fresh, birds are singing, car washing, mowing lawns, just generally a time to potter about.
peterpeter said:
flog the rover 620.
get yourself a cheap westie (or something of that ilk) and I promise, you wont be bored on sunday morning.
Maybe not, but instead i'd be cold and miserable and possibly very wet on frequent occasions during my daily commute to work.
And what did you mean by 'cheap'?
Don't bother with the Westie - too compromised - but the idea of 'splitting' your car is a good one. Dig through the older/classic price guides, thinking about flogging the Rover for, say, £1250. Then you can spend half on a random cheap commuter hatchback, and the other half on a 205 GTi or a Capri - something to enjoy a hoon in.
Twincam16 said:Your implication being that you can't enjoy a hoon in a westie. Having owned a 205GTI and several Capri's I beg to differ. It's the low seating open nature of all '7' variants that makes them driver cars. You could stick a Ford 1300 pushrod in there and it would still be fun. A Capri on the other hand with its cart springs is certainly not a drives car, more a promenade cruiser.
Don't bother with the Westie..................and the other half on a 205 GTi or a Capri - something to enjoy a hoon in.
tvrbob said:
Don't bother with the Westie..................and the other half on a 205 GTi or a Capri - something to enjoy a hoon in.
Your implication being that you can't enjoy a hoon in a westie. Having owned a 205GTI and several Capri's I beg to differ. It's the low seating open nature of all '7' variants that makes them driver cars. You could stick a Ford 1300 pushrod in there and it would still be fun. A Capri on the other hand with its cart springs is certainly not a drives car, more a promenade cruiser.
Nah, what I was meaning is that, as his everyday all-round car is a Rover, it wouldn't be a good idea to replace it with a Westfield. Instead, get two cars that fit within the budget, one sensible, one fun, both cheap. Capri and GTi were just examples.
Twincam16 said:
Twincam16 said:
Don't bother with the Westie..................and the other half on a 205 GTi or a Capri - something to enjoy a hoon in.
Your implication being that you can't enjoy a hoon in a westie. Having owned a 205GTI and several Capri's I beg to differ. It's the low seating open nature of all '7' variants that makes them driver cars. You could stick a Ford 1300 pushrod in there and it would still be fun. A Capri on the other hand with its cart springs is certainly not a drives car, more a promenade cruiser.
Nah, what I was meaning is that, as his everyday all-round car is a Rover, it wouldn't be a good idea to replace it with a Westfield. Instead, get two cars that fit within the budget, one sensible, one fun, both cheap. Capri and GTi were just examples.
Interesting ideas guys. Trouble is I have nowhere I can keep a second car. Also, I doubt I'd be able to flog it for very much anyway. And I can't afford to insure and maintain two cars.
I bought the Rover cos it was low mileage and they have a reputation for being mechanically bullet proof. At least engine-wise anyhow.
Last thing I need is to get two even cheaper cars that have much greater potential to break!
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