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I work at a main dealer, where we try to be more like your independent although sometimes you can’t win, but our service receptionists are pretty good. Reason for posting though if you’ve got a valid complaint leave a google review, give plenty of valid info. Two of the brands we’re involved with go nuts over them.
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Sorry, I wasn’t clear, I’m fully aware that there will be no convertible, Lotus themselves chose a sportier version rather than an open top. But I was told that we should know about the sportier version by now but I guess that’s after the i4
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I was told before end of the year for an announcement on something sportier when I had an Emira test drive at the beginning of the year. I’d have preferred a convertible/spyder version & was also told that Lotus were given the choice of the convertible or a sportier Emira by Geely
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No, it’s a friends old car, he swapped to an Emira
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An exclusive club but one that we have to join at some stage in life rather than through choice. Have a good vacation.
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Sorry to read this Bill, I’d been checking this thread for news, how are you doing now that you’ve joined the club?
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@bogle Tough times but 91 is a good innings, my Dad died in a hospice nearly 4 years ago, unlike my Mum he was still in there mentally & kept setting himself targets, Christmas, his 82nd birthday, new year etc. The nursing staff loved him for it, loosing him knocked me for six. The no parents club is all about good memories
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I’ve just posted in the happy thread, can’t bring Mum back but we found our cat this morning, he’d somehow got inside the roof of a stable block & couldn’t get down. He was far further away than we could’ve imagined.
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I posted in the unhappy thread a day or two ago about how our cat of the last 7 years had disappeared without trace on Wednesday morning & my mum had passed away (fully expected so no shock, but still very sad) on Thursday afternoon, so Christmas wasn’t looking to clever for us. Well I’m glad to report that after putting in some real leg work by knocking on doors, posting flyers & talking to people we learnt that the area our cat covers is even larger than than the large area we previously knew of. A country cat you see, he was found stuck up inside the roof of a modern stable block. It’s a good half a mile from here. Merry Christmas all
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Thank you for the comments, my mum had had a condition abbreviated to NPH, a Dementia/Alzheimer’s thing. She always knew who we were until she couldn’t really speak, but apart from odd moments no real communication for years, no emotion when Dad died 4 years ago & in a care home for her condition for the last 18 months of her life. So we knew she was going rather than your Brother in law walking in on his Mum.
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Our beloved cat of the last 7 years went out at approx 5am Wednesday morning & hasn’t been seen since, totally out of character as he’s never been gone for more than a few hours & always sleeps in the house at night 🙁 And then Mum died yesterday, this has been on the cards for a few weeks so not such a shock but I’m allowed time off for that so I’ve been searching for the cat but without success, we live in a country lane with very few houses & have knocked on every single door & walked round all the fields & hedgerows. It’s going to be a strange Christmas 😢
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Bearing in mind that that car is a repaired write off & there was a straight LF1 on Facebook yesterday for £44/45,000 it doesn’t seem cheap to me at all
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Daft isn’t it? I sell Renault/Dacia. For those that don’t follow the Dacia brand, a new Sandero & it’s Stepway version were launched last April/May time. I’ve had a customer who bought an Essential SCe65 from me at launch for about £8500 new sell through Motorway for just under £10k a couple of months ago. He’s very happy & bought another higher spec Dacia from me just before it went up £1300, he’s going to run it for a year again & see what happens. This week I dealt with a customer who’d bought a Stepway Prestige auto with spare wheel for approx £15800 new at launch. That car new now is £18300ish & 6/7 months delivery, WBAC were suggesting to him it was worth over £16k! Customer didn’t want to deal with WBAC so he’s bought a secondhand car & had several thousand paid into his bank account. I’ve got a very nervous Head of business until I find a new home for my 16 month old Stepway Prestige auto 😁
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I was there on Saturday, 25 plus Lotus in the car park & it was nice to see NM wandering about in scruffy clothes and an Audi cap on
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Sorry, didn’t see this post before, my other half doesn’t like the lack of footrest. So in my first Exige V6 (no side carpets, I tried ordering a couple of mats which turned up & were too narrow. So found a trimmer to cut & re-sew the edge onto my original mat. Then 4 odd years ago swapped to a 350 Sport with side carpets at B&C, sorted out a footrest as part of the deal & they said they’d get the mats. 350 Sport different to earlier V6 apparently. Anyhow after several months we had to agree on giving up, no short mat could be sourced. My trimmer had now retired so I have a long mat over the footrest, creating a hidden compartment to carry things like a footpump on top of the footrest.
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My late father had met three generations over his lifetime, the last one was Prince Charles. Turned out he’s the patron of the palliative care home that Dad ended up in & he regularly makes unannounced visits to spend time with the sick & dying. Not just a quick handshake either.
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Believe it or not my manager is one, but under pressure from his wife to not have it rather than of his own choice. Of course his wife got it & he did stay home the minute he knew but it looks like it was too late. We were only being asked to test every other day, not daily. We then all went down over the next week, I was one of the last but had had a sore throat despite testing negative
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40mg of a Statin that was withdrawn at some point afterwards screwed me up good & proper with cramps etc. about 7 years ago. But a senior GP at my surgery who is also on some heart group within Gloucestershire NHS & seems to be held in high regard locally loves statins, he took me off ezetimibe last time saying it was a waste of time to put me on another statin which I just stopped taking in the end. Interesting that you don’t rate them & they didn’t try to push them on me at all this time round
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That’s it, & with regards to the food, they haven’t at least not yet, my cholesterol has been monitored for awhile as I’m a coeliac & unable to tolerate statins. It’s around 4.9/5.1 without tablets, I’m now on ezetimibe again (statin substitute but taken off it after a year previously) & bempedoic acid which is new apparently in an attempt to get it down further. Unfortunately it’s all a balance, gluten free food tends to contain more fat & I’m supposed to need more calcium than a non-coeliac. I do have a love of cheese in moderation & have now cut it back further until it’s gone. The rest are things I’ve hardly touched in years.
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‘We’ decided that my other half could retire last year so I need to keep going for a few more years! Not to sure what has happened yet, waiting for an MRI. 6 tablets a day & a spray thing to use if I think I am going to have a heart attack?
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I’ve just put a brief version of my story up, looks like we’ve been through something similar, we can compare number of tablets later. I’ve been off since the beginning of Feb although the first 10 days were co-vid & I’m currently signed off until the end of this month
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I’ve had warning signs before & had been seen by the local rapid access chest pain clinic as recently as this January. End of January we had a co-vid outbreak at work & I tested positive early February, everyone else had a slight cold. My symptoms were Man-flu for a few days, started to feel better but still testing positive when I became breathless, so rang GP/visit GP/sent to Hospital & home some 12 hours later to rest. I’d had low blood/oxygen. 3-4 days later finally test negative, but don’t feel well, following day a high pulse as well. Co-vid ward follow up people call me & told to get myself back into hospital, oh & don’t drive yourself this time! So back to Gloucester Royal, even though I was now negative I was told that I still needed to enter through the co-vid side of A&E but given my own room, loads of tests ecgs etc. plus a negative PCR test which is apparently unusual for someone who was just had it especially as their lab had tested me positive 5 days earlier. No chest pain, no arm pain but the right side of my neck & jaw was painful, pulse still 120/130 I’m normally 50ish & blood oxygen low again. So marker in my blood was now 39 compared with 21 5 days earlier. I was admitted, first night in the clothes I’d come in & in a hectic A&E ward, wired up & woken just about every time I’d managed to doze to check my blood pressure etc. Followed by 4 nights in a couple of general wards which were awful & 7 nights in cardiology ward. Cardiology consultant suspected one thing, sent off me twice for Angiograms, the first time after hanging around all day in a gown unable to eat they ran out of time & sent me back to Cardiology, the following day I insisted on keeping my warmer clothing on until they were ready, I came away with three stents which wasn’t what the consultant was expecting at all, so discharged to recover & awaiting an MRI scan. Not allowed to drive for 7 days, that was up on Friday & signed off until the end of the month. I tested positive for Co-vid on the 2nd of Feb, so that’s two months off work 🙁