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The unopened Tommy Tippee machine is lying up in the attic winking at us in an inviting way

No no no. That means you get dragged into the equation for night feeds!

Whilst true blue is correct if push does come to shove and the bottle feeds are a thing then the Tommy Tippee yolk is a great job, only takes a minute or so to make a bottle.

When I started on this journey 17 years ago now it didn't exist and the midwife warned against pre made bottles for night feeds so it was jump up, boil the kettle, make the feed with the formula and then run the bloody thing under a cold tap    till it cooled enough for the wee bollox to take.
The first you always follow the rules as best you can then after a few others you realise a lot of if is bollox.
The auld dummy used to have to be sterilised if it touched anything, at the end it got a bit of a lick and back in the grateful gob of the ba..

Enjoy it, the time will fly in.

Our first was pre Tommy tippee machine. But we got wise and got a wee flask and had it up at the bed side. Got real good at it. Used to put boiling water in the flask, let it cool a bit with top off, then top on and bring it up to bedroom with the wee pot of formula. The bloody bedside table looked like we were flat out on coke every night with the amount of formula spilt everywhere.

Ahh good times!

Ours was all before these machines. 1st one is 15 and was on draft so no hassle at nights there but twins were next so the bottles were introduced early on. We had a kettle in the bedroom and everything was a military operation, timings etc. No breaking routine for anything, left family gatherings etc to make sure they were in bed at the right time. One fella would wake up like clockwork on the 4 hour mark, she lift the 2 of them out and change nappies while I got the 2 bottles sorted. Fed, winded and back down.

Mad times and I was working long hours back then too. You wonder how you got through it but you always work it out, never compare yourself to what others are saying they're doing.

You'd never believe the joy of hearing a good burp at 4 in the morning, bliss....

Don't get them winded properly and you'd be cleaning up the boke 10 minutes later

One of the lads was like a windbox toy, sat him up after the bottle and he let the biggest ignorant burp out of him and back to sleep straight after it. His twin brother held onto it and was more unsettled. He would of been crying away in the cot with the other boyo sleeping away beside him and he wouldn't wake at all.

The unopened Tommy Tippee machine is lying up in the attic winking at us in an inviting way

No no no. That means you get dragged into the equation for night feeds!

Whilst true blue is correct if push does come to shove and the bottle feeds are a thing then the Tommy Tippee yolk is a great job, only takes a minute or so to make a bottle.

When I started on this journey 17 years ago now it didn't exist and the midwife warned against pre made bottles for night feeds so it was jump up, boil the kettle, make the feed with the formula and then run the bloody thing under a cold tap    till it cooled enough for the wee bollox to take.
The first you always follow the rules as best you can then after a few others you realise a lot of if is bollox.
The auld dummy used to have to be sterilised if it touched anything, at the end it got a bit of a lick and back in the grateful gob of the ba..

Enjoy it, the time will fly in.

Our first was pre Tommy tippee machine. But we got wise and got a wee flask and had it up at the bed side. Got real good at it. Used to put boiling water in the flask, let it cool a bit with top off, then top on and bring it up to bedroom with the wee pot of formula. The bloody bedside table looked like we were flat out on coke every night with the amount of formula spilt everywhere.

Ahh good times!

Ours was all before these machines. 1st one is 15 and was on draft so no hassle at nights there but twins were next so the bottles were introduced early on. We had a kettle in the bedroom and everything was a military operation, timings etc. No breaking routine for anything, left family gatherings etc to make sure they were in bed at the right time. One fella would wake up like clockwork on the 4 hour mark, she lift the 2 of them out and change nappies while I got the 2 bottles sorted. Fed, winded and back down.

Mad times and I was working long hours back then too. You wonder how you got through it but you always work it out, never compare yourself to what others are saying they're doing.

[Are the EGR problems related to the type of driving]

Any of you men here owned a mid 10s BWM 420/430D? And is it actually true cars are cheaper in England?

I have a 2017 420d xdrive, the 5 door one (grand coupe). I haven't had any issues so far apart from the constant call backs because of the EGR problems. They finally replaced the whole unit just before Christmas though. I like it, handles really well and it's nice to drive.
I have a mate who has the 3 door 430d which is 2014 and he had a massive issue with it last year, 2 grand problem. Can't remember the actual problem though and it was high mileage. He stills loves it though.

Are the EGR problems related to the type of driving ie town driving v motorway driving? I know town driving is not ideal for diesel engines.

My Mrs has a 2019 118d and EML starting coming on just as 12 month warranty ran out (classic woman completely ignored it and just drove on anyway). She only commutes about 12-14 miles each day and presuming the previous female owner was doing the same as the mileage wasn't high when she bought it.

BMW are replacing all the EGR systems on certain models. All the recalls etc I had were on them and when they finally replaced it I got a voucher from them to go towards the next service. Have you had any recalls since you had the car?

Yeah pretty sure there was a letter sent but she's typical woman she's done nothing about it 

They're replacing them at the minute FOC so it would be a good time to contact BMW. You don't want to be caught replacing that yourself.

[Are the EGR problems related to the type of driving]

Any of you men here owned a mid 10s BWM 420/430D? And is it actually true cars are cheaper in England?

I have a 2017 420d xdrive, the 5 door one (grand coupe). I haven't had any issues so far apart from the constant call backs because of the EGR problems. They finally replaced the whole unit just before Christmas though. I like it, handles really well and it's nice to drive.
I have a mate who has the 3 door 430d which is 2014 and he had a massive issue with it last year, 2 grand problem. Can't remember the actual problem though and it was high mileage. He stills loves it though.

Are the EGR problems related to the type of driving ie town driving v motorway driving? I know town driving is not ideal for diesel engines.

My Mrs has a 2019 118d and EML starting coming on just as 12 month warranty ran out (classic woman completely ignored it and just drove on anyway). She only commutes about 12-14 miles each day and presuming the previous female owner was doing the same as the mileage wasn't high when she bought it.

BMW are replacing all the EGR systems on certain models. All the recalls etc I had were on them and when they finally replaced it I got a voucher from them to go towards the next service. Have you had any recalls since you had the car?

[2 grand problem.]

Any of you men here owned a mid 10s BWM 420/430D? And is it actually true cars are cheaper in England?

I have a 2017 420d xdrive, the 5 door one (grand coupe). I haven't had any issues so far apart from the constant call backs because of the EGR problems. They finally replaced the whole unit just before Christmas though. I like it, handles really well and it's nice to drive.
I have a mate who has the 3 door 430d which is 2014 and he had a massive issue with it last year, 2 grand problem. Can't remember the actual problem though and it was high mileage. He stills loves it though.

From what I'm told, in newer cars 2K is not a massive bill. It's the norm for any kind of issue.
I had to put injectors in a van recently, cost well over 1K. Know a guy who had an A8, suspension problem cost him nearly 3K.
Seems to be the norm now which is madness and part of the reason why I've been putting off buying.

I moved jobs recently and they have an Electric Car scheme you can sign up to...basically cycle to work for cars. Covers maintenance, insurance, tyres etc which is very appealing....but i hate the thought of electric.

We had signed up for a brand new electric car, Volvo XC40, on PCH. I had worked out the saving for no diesel to buy, warranty etc and had it all justified in my head. Ordered in March but by the time it came at Halloween the interest rates changing had pushed the payments up by nearly £60/month. By the time you took the upfront fee etc there was nearly an extra £3.6k over the 4 years. we were offered the chance of walking away with no cost so that's what we did.

Any of you men here owned a mid 10s BWM 420/430D? And is it actually true cars are cheaper in England?

I have a 2017 420d xdrive, the 5 door one (grand coupe). I haven't had any issues so far apart from the constant call backs because of the EGR problems. They finally replaced the whole unit just before Christmas though. I like it, handles really well and it's nice to drive.
I have a mate who has the 3 door 430d which is 2014 and he had a massive issue with it last year, 2 grand problem. Can't remember the actual problem though and it was high mileage. He stills loves it though.

Considering getting a new car. Any recommendations for an SUV type, budget is around 15K? Was looking at the VW troc, but know next to nothing about cars and generally consider it pot luck.

Wife changed a CRV for a 2019 Mini Countryman lately, it was in that budget roughly. Looked at the X1 & X2 but she liked the extra finishes that came with the mini and it feels sporty in comparison to others. Bigger than you think too.
Another friend  went with a Seat Arona (a t-roc in different clothes) and it seems like a decent motor but cheaper than the VW.

Any successes are probably a mixture of of would have gotten better anyway and in some cases helped along with the placebo effect.

Exactly, anytime its "worked" it's always been a self limiting minor ailment that would usually resolve itself anyway (eg. cough).

Warts are caused by a virus and they can go away all of a sudden so it can be easily put down to something like a cure. My father went to get cure for sciatica in his 20s and said it worked - hard to argue with someone's reasoning.

I'm maybe a bit sceptical because a man with a cure local to here was accused of child abuse. Dirty aul c**t. I was taken to him for a cure for psorasis and it made no difference.

One thing back on him was you couldn't pay him because that broke the charm, same as saying thankyou. There's a few now taking a fair few pound for a charm.

Took the kids to see Wonka yesterday. It's a nice, feel good type of movie for anyone to watch. Everyone enjoyed it.

I see the masked slipped again yesterday only for McGregor to delete the tweet again.

Was that the video aimed at a northerner that was floating around yesterday?

Both sides are using a grieving man's words to suit themselves in a time when calm is needed. I don't agree with some of what he said but I can't imagine what he's felling either and if something like that happened my wife or daughter I'd probably look at the situation differently.

7 people in the publicity shot.

Wha you reckon the spread would be for how many of them has a Dodgybox? 4?

Our county hurling manager was calling out people for using a firestick to watch GAAGO during the summer. Taking money out of the GAA's pocket or something like that. I probably will get a season ticket this year if I can get the app on the TV, mostly because the streams didn't work right during the summer, but that sort of nonsense does my head in.

I pay family membership in 2 clubs (football and hurling are separate clubs), have a county draw ticket for each club, lotto in both, countless draws and fundraisers through both and I'm the problem if I watch a couple of games on the firestick. Tackle the amount of money going to coaches/managers/s&c/fraudsters doing the clubs out of 1000s every year

Milky Way - 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4drNFXd6dw

I talked about that ad a while ago and everyone looked at me like I had lost the plot

How long would a retender take?

Depends on whether the design has changed. They could issue tender documents with a qualification document along with it instead of getting a short list first - that might save 6 weeks. For a project that size you'd need at least 6-8 weeks to price it. Same again to assess it and award it.

Never did the cinema myself but for a show like napoleon that she wouldn't be interested in I am genuinely considering it

I went to one of the Hobbit shows on my own when it came out. Had 3 kids under 4 at home and the 3.5hrs of peace was like therapy
Sure you don't even have to go ask for a single ticket now