OTish: Antifreeze

When the radiator on my 99 Golf GTI developed a leak the VW Main Dealer told
me to top it up with tap water.

 

platypus secured a place in history by writing:

Floor to 10 foot ceiling around a 12'6" foot bay, *triple* lined, double
length fabric. Very heavy, quality fabric and a couple of impressive rope
tiebacks. Plus a rail that had to be forged to fit the bay, which was
about £300 of it, what with finials, rings, brackets etc. Curtains are
indeed a piece of piss to make (although the headers of these are a bit
fancy like) but these were too big for Al to do because they are just too
unwieldy and weigh a ton, it's a two person job. The labour in fabrication
was only about £200.

Twelve hundred quid can only be "really appalling" if you know what it was
spent on, which you didn't at the time of comment.....

 

heh. I remember that voice. Then he took over the asylum.

 

and *whoosh* went the joke...

 

heh.

 

Rubbish! By coincidence I was (I have to admit) looking for tellies
yesterday. There's loads in 4:3 in Dixons and the like and they're cheap
as chips. There's also a raft of them on eBay.

Well give her what she wants and buy a SOBlack secondhand telly and use
the time to persuade her that a new widescreen one is the way to go (do
you have any mutual friends with widescreen?), watch some soppy chick
flick on a widescreen. Failing that, buy the widescreen anyway and let
her spend £300 on soft furnishings, you might as well be comfortable ;o)

 

There are plenty of real ones about if you look.

 

In the hope you'd be back for a new radiator eventually, the old one
having furred up in the meantime.

 

Champ secured a place in history by writing:

Dewhoosh. Thank you for drawing this to our attention.

 

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

We've already got one widescreen, she's sold on the concept just not the
size. And she's more the historical drama type.

But this is all by the by: New WS TV arrives tomorrow

 

Chris Cowley secured a place in history by writing:

<Records advice in Little Black Book for subsequent deployment>

 

Ferger says...

She's a woman, what did you expect?

 

Champ says...

Sorry old chap

 

Fair enough. Although Sarah continues to maintain that she could do it for
less...

Yes I did: it was spent on "curtains". You could get a very presentable SOB
for that money.

 

... at home with a small aubergine?

Phil.

 

Heh, in the end I took it to the independant VW people next door for a new
rad as it was using as much water as it uses oil [1].

[1] A lot