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I originally wasn't keen on the latest A3 but the Black Edition looks very nice in my opinion.

I wasn't going to buy anything more powerful as that would bump the road tax upto £600 a year for the first 6 years, this is if a car costs more than 40K new.

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Yes the black edition are very attractive. A real head turner. :romance: enjoy all the attention you get. :naughty:

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My A4 was a Black Edition and we loved it but the 2.0 litre 252hp TFSi wasn't the best build quality and it was expensive to run at £65 for 300 miles. The final straw was the plastic water pump that failed at about 50k miles and the local Audi dealer breaking the frame on the driver's seat and bodging it so I didn't notice for 6 months until the bodge failed. We decided to cut our loses and move on.

While not as flashy the electric Volvo XC40 twin motor is a beast of a car with >400 bhp and brings a smile to my face every time I put my foot down.

I do miss the Audi though. It was the sales manager's car so when new in 2018 he specked it to spend £49980 of his £50000 allowance. It had pretty much every option and extra. I'd wager it was the only A4 of that speck for miles around if not in the country. When we traded it in the Volvo garage admitted they were struggling to value it.

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I've currently got an A3 2018 S Line and the only trouble a few weeks ago was 2 garages had trouble removing the oil filter.

This new car is a huge step up for me because it's my first semi automatic and first with reversing camera as well as lane guidance and god know what else. It'll be like Christmas until the novelty wears off or a curb the first alloy wheel!

Just updated my insurance and that's another payment of £168 for the remaining 9 months, seems a lot.

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new computer chair

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A new physical SIM. I switched to an esim having issues with my previous physical SIM thanks Hugh for suggesting an esim back then. I don't like the fact I have to enter some long arse string in to register a esim so today I've ordered a new physical SIM free delivered by Amazon. It should be here Thursday, possibly tomorrow if they dispatch today which they normally do with orders. My current esim will carry on working in the meantime.

I like physical components that make things work. I'm not all that into the virtual world. I don't use Google wallet etc. NFC. I carry cash because I don't trust someone inputting figures on my behalf unless I'm in a big chain like Tesco etc.

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New not opened Netgear Nighthawk AXE3000 £20+£2.45 delivery ebay. Bargain.

https://www.netgear.com/uk/home/wifi/adapters/a8000

It'll replace my Netgear Nighthawk AC1900

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Is there something wrong with your AC1900 ?

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No. I've kept an eye on AX because 6E is a lot stable, my router is an Asus AX6000. I had an Asus AC1300 AC58 which kept dropping the connection so I got lucky on Vinted August last year £10.34 delivered for the Netgear AC1900. It's been behaving. I just had a bad experience with the Asus adapter which has long lived in my mind ever since :( I wanted an ax adapter.

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Heron Foods had 100g sticks of garlic and herb butter on sale for 19p instead of 79p. The missus loves cooking in butter, so I bought a dozen and put them in the freezer. The lady on the checkout told me that they are hardly selling for some reason.

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Here's an alternative

https://www.trolley.co.uk/product/al...-butter/ALR786

Mugged off :rolleyes:

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I have only recently started cooking in Ghee and my word it is a game changer

People have been blagged that butter is bad and would rather have crappy oil based turd cheese

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This is a product I think is only for the really lazy haha the best way to deal with garlic is to roast it then squeeze it all out into whatever you are doing. Yes it is as sexy as it sounds hahaha

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Fry chopped onions in ghee then crack open some eggs into the pan based or flip according to your yolk preference. With the remain ghee in the pan fry some bread.

Onions and ghee are a delight yum

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I know now but only recently

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Black iPad Pro 13" M5 WiFi 256GB - my previous iPad Pro (bought January 2020) died on me last week in the 33C heat; took it to the Apple Store in Brent Cross, but they couldn't do anything (they spent over 30 minutes trying to access it, even taking it into the back office to use the equipment there, but no joy). I waited until I got home, and tried to reset it (multiple times) using my PC and iTunes, but again, no joy...

Amusingly, the previous previous iPad Pro (which the current borked Pro replaced) started working again three months after I bought a replacement in 2020, so I reset it and gave it to my son, and it's still working (ten years after it was bought), so I'll put the current borked one in a drawer and revisit it in a couple of months.

On the bright side, shiny new iPad... :D