How have rising fuel prices changed your behaviour?

i got an induction hob.

it's great.

 

so, how exactly does having bought a scooter (which needs taxing,
insuring and servicing) cut down on the cost of road tax and insurance
for your car?

 

Er, um, ah, don't ask clever questions, buggrit.

 

Ahh, thats why I'm not getting any

 

This is also true.

 

On the 200-ish mile run to Dover/Chunnel etc, I find that the journey time
is little different whether I use a VFR, a Wing, a Ural, a Z200, a Trophy, a
BMW, a Drifter, a Fuglipla etc.

 

I think I had a gas hob when I lived alone for 3 years. I haven't a
clue, I never used the fucking thing. I only had a cooker to fill a gap
in the kitchen.

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My previous address intermittent bus service aimed at shoppers could
get my daughter to college before her lessons started one day a
week[1] and back home after lessons one day a week[1] - not the same
day. Train station eight miles, so by the time you've drive there,
because the bus didn't go that way[2] you may as well drive the whole
way.


[1] late start one day, early finish another
[2] After all there's no point in linking services.

 

SWOT I do, although due to a cock up somewhere it now appears I owe
the revenue ~£600 back fuel duty. Still it's better than the actual
cost of the fuel.

 

Induction hobs must be a bit of a fucking challenge as well.

 

Err, I don't think that's _quite_ what you meant...

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Quite.

Shamelessly borrowing the thread, we can see why you rate Flaine.
We'll definitely be going back, quite likely staying in Samoens again.

 

An half-decent survey will distinguish between 'none' and 'no answer'.
If it doesn't, then it's crap.

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<x-posting for interest>

Glad you enjoyed. Care to share the highs and lows?

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Highs - huge choice of wide and easy red and blue runs , good snow for
late season, Samoens is a nice village with friendly locals.

All the people we chatted to staying in Flaine itself were families
who really rated it as a family resort. Kids could have lunch with the
ski school meaning parents had all morning and lunchtime to ski off
somewhere. Lots of easy blues, ski in and out. And for better skiers,
I don't think I've ever seen so much off-piste availability.

Lows - Samoens not ski in or out, last part of tourmaline blue link
into Flaine narrow and very crowded, had a long trek from Flaine back
to Samoens one day when weather closed in to 20 ft visibility!

 

Yeah, nice village - was on our shortlist to buy before we decided on
Engelberg.

Indeed, it's the main reason we go back to much. But we've even more
where we are now

But much better than it ued to be now they've got the new express
gondola from village height. The previous access was half-way up the
hill.

They've put in a couple of alternative end-points this year, although
they're both below the worst part where the piste kinks back to the
right under the pylons.

You got back though, which is the main point. It's a fair drive round
in a taxi if you screw up completely.

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Oh yes. And tbf with a regular ski bus from the appartment and no
queues to speak of for the gondola it was more of a medium than a low.

Indeed. Thankfully we'd already done the return trip the day before so
knew what to look out for. I was hard pushed, however, to explain at
one point why the piste markers that emerged evey so often out of the
gloom had, with an increase in steepness, suddenly changed from blue
to black. Luckily Pat believed me that all the blacks were easy that
far down the slope!

 

That'll have been you taking a wrong left turn off the Dahu blue onto
the bottom of the Marmottes black, then. Fortunately it's not at all
black at that point, more of a blue-ish red really. The blue run can
actually be a lot worse at the point where it dog-legs left back on
itself just before reaching the Gouilles lift, so you should tell Pat
that you were taking the easyier route down without too much untruth

 

Oh I showed her the next day (which was glorious sunshine) - and she
was convinced!

 

Oh dear.

As this is a thread about economising, http://redtube.com/ is free,
and can help after a frustrating day.