We bought a car!!

We decided on a car and put a deposit on a Regency Red Corolla Verso...it'll be with us at the end of March! I can't wait!!! :)

Test Drives continued...

So, last week the test drives went well. I was surprised at how I liked both cars equally. The Merc was responsive, didn't feel as big as it looked from the outside...but I am not entirely conviced that its the car for us. Long term it has the advantage that the depreciation is less than the Corolla Verso....And merc always look good even when they are really old!

When it came to the Corolla Verso, this was also a fairly responsive car... even being a diesel..tomorrow we're going back to try the petrol version. I am not sure that the depreciation over 3 years makes it a viable option....lots of sums to be done.

So more of an update next week! (oh the Audi could be back on the cards!)

Hooray!

My Lemon Jelly CD's arrived today...I have been looking for ward to this for a while...and I love it! It's probably best I don't write my own review..but you can see one on the BBC Collective website... I also love the album art...

I got the cd single (2) of 'The Shouty track' and it has the video on it which I think is fab. There's also a preview of the '64 - '95 DVD...I'm looking forward to seeing them live in Manchester on the 2nd March too!

Test drives

Tomorrow Peter and I are off to test drive another couple of cars...(weekend before last it was an A4 Estate and a BMW 3 series Tourer) This weekend it will be the Mercedes C-class estate and the Toyota Verso. I think both should be interesting in their own different ways. I think Peter quite fancies the Toyota but he wouldn't be upset about having a Merc...after all I did put my foot down last summer when he was after an SLK...but then an estate is nowhere near as much fun as a 2-seater.

The A4 was a good solid car which stuck to the road and for a diesel it was very quiet. The BMW was also nice and solid and had a bit more oomph, being the petrol version( rather than the diesel which we wanted to test...grrr). The BMW also seemed like it was smaller in height with more interior space...I think it's going to be difficult to choose...

...the next morning

I had a fortuitous escape last night...It seems that the boys decided to call me when they returned to the hotel...but rang the wrong room!

Brussels..

Well, I'm here! Not for as long as previously expected cos the customer postponed the project for a while..but hey I have a couple of days! Yesterday had an early start in the UK and I met DJ at the Heathrow...well on the plane as it seems he had a mad dash to catch the flight! The flight was not uneventful..I nearly wore half a bottle of water courtesy of the steward (who was most apologetic for the rest of the flight!)..I say nearly as most of it landed on the newspaper I was reading! Gideon from the Benelux office picked us up and we went off to site and met up with Glen...training commenced!

Yesterday evening was a bit of a beer sesh for the boys...starting at La Lunnette (at the recommendation of Rene...This resulted in 4 huge glasses of various contents being brought to our table..I think it must have been about a litre of beer! We moved on to a restaurant on the Grand Place called 'T KELDERKE
the food was good (if a little salty for my taste)... the company fab Glen and DJ in combination are...well, it certainly made up for my dullness in the beer stakes!

We went onto a couple of other, what can only be described as backstreet bars, but they are really hidden gems...free from tourists (but I gues Jan/Feb is hardly the tourist season!) I can't remember the names of either of the bars but I'll check today! In the last bar we played a game which involved throwing brass discs at a brass frog. Th ewinner being the person first to get to 5000 points...needless to say I had a girlie throw and completely missed the room let alone the target (which is shameful as I hadn't been drinking!) It would be cool to know what the game is called..so if anyone knows...?

All in all the boys looked after me well, and I was soon tucked up in bed ready for sleep and an early start this morning! Time for breakfast...