please empty your brain below
I like it that way too.
It was such a lovely blue too...
You can find out if a car still exists by putting its details into [drat can't remember which] one of the insurance comparison sites. If it still exists, it will populate the details fields when you enter the registration. If it doesn't it will say something like 'sorry we cannot retrieve details of this car'.
once in a while, i like to drive to a big supermarket though, and do a big shop because over a month it saves even more money rather than walking to my local Tescos express everytime. and for that, i belong to a hire car club, perfect ... except my nearest car is half a mile away.
car sharing is the way forward. i'd like to have a scheme where there's a car right outside my house, and i share it with my neighbours.
I did also get a bicycle, which I use when its not raining or too cold. I am much fitter now and have a slim waistline which many drivers do not seem to have. I keep telling people "get rid of your car, you do not need it in London".- however my neighbors on each side both have 3 cars, and the street and driveways are cluttered with vehicles which are used normally just to convey one person on a short journey. Front gardens have been concreted over to make more room for lazy people to put their car and just step from their front door straight into their car seat. I see obese people squeeze out of their cars and they are hardly able to walk around the supermarket, their legs just used to pushing the accelerator/clutch/brake, but losing their ability to walk far.
Some say "Oh we need it for shopping, I say "the supermarkets deliver for a small fee". I just carry the bags of shopping home on my bike.
Occasional I may be asked to drive if I am out in a car with friends in their car, I try not too but when I do I am reminded again that diving in London during the day is no longer a pleasure.
I also enjoy the financial benefits of not running a car.
Since I retired in 2002, I've sold my large 4x4 SUV, and bought a classic car. I only use the car in the spring/summer.
Living in the Netherlands, public transport is both cheap and good, I of course own a bicycle. Population of the Netherlands, 16,500,000 people, and 18,500,000 bicycles.
For me it's a motorbike which is indispensible. I've ridden one since I was 19, ever since I worked out a few basic facts about travel costs: I could carry on buying an annual season ticket for my daily commute, at pounds XXX, which at the end of a year would be a worthless piece of cardboard; or I could get a motorbike for similar money, and at the end of a year I'd still have a motorbike :)
Plus... it would be able to take me places that I'd never be able to go with an A-to-B season ticket, and gone would be the days of late arrivals and cancellations.
It was probably the most liberating thing I ever did.
The one thing I still remember most about public transport, was that you rarely ever saw anyone with a smile. 35 years on and there are still times I can smile like a teenager
Directgov can tell you, given registration number and make
http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vehicleEnquiryInfo_en.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.portlet.event&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry&portletid=VehicleEnquiry&portletns=VehicleEnquiry_en&wfevent=link.next
dg writes: consider it updated, ta.
(though I miss my bike. Bloody thieving scum.)
When my car 'dies' I won't have to pay insurance or maintenance and I'll rent the parking place I own in the condo where I live, so I'll be making some money rather than spend it.
I'm not looking forward to it, because I do like driving, but driving in my town is getting more and more expensive and troublesome, so I won't really be sorry, you know.
Cheers
Pepe
I'm getting real sick of green party / leftist loonies doing their best to make plain, ordinary people feel guilty about having their own private transport. Running a car is not a crime.
I have a car, it's mine and paid for, and I'm ******* keeping it.
Sorry to report that DG's old car no longer exists.
I wish I didn't have a memory full of registration numbers. I wish it contained more useful things...
(Plus I meant to say obsequious, not obseqious)
I agree that driving is insane... but walking is medieval compared to biking.
Just imagine being able to see 5 times as much on your out of town rambles....
You might like this blog: http://amsterdamize.com/
Try a bike!
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