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I had a 2008 2.5 saloon for a while. Very nice to drive, based on the Mondeo. Parts are widely available and cheap (especially compared to the Subaru Legacy I had before it). Petrol engines are good and use timing chains, diesel engines best avoided as far as I can remember.

Mine unfortunately died through chassis rust, so I suppose my advice is to have a good look underneath!

Considered a VXR8? Wasn't there a dealer approved supercharged version?

Same age(ish), same problem.

I find that driving in an old pair of glasses with a mild prescription makes the world of difference at night.

Maybe it's time for an eye test?

Back when I had a stripped out 182 I used to keep the tank with as little in it as was practical. My thought being why drag around extra weight I don't need? Better for every area of performance, including economy.

These days. To the brim every time, but still drive and prefer smaller lighter cars.

11 year old Dexter looking a little bit patchy. Diagnosed as diabetic this week and the poor little fella is all over the place.

Only took him to the vet because he'd started spraying in the house and his rear legs looked a little uncoordinated. Now he's on two insulin shots a day and diabetic food.

Making me properly sad seeing him struggling so much this week.

Went to Wingham zoo last weekend and they have a new bug garden. At the end they have a good number of live insects and spiders. The camel spider was my favourite, I'll get some pictures next time.

Can you post a pic? Will help.

I think they do a few wheel sizes and it could be as above, that you have the wrong one.

What are you struggling with? Not done one myself, but my dad did one in a morning and he's no mechanic! I think it only took so long as he needed a shim for the handlebars from Halfords to mount the battery mount.

Still no idea.

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs that's fucking another deer?

I got ripped off last year. I've always been happy to pay upfront previously, but now after losing a very serious amount of money I'd never do it again.

Most people are decent human beings, but it only takes one to leave a very bitter taste unfortunately.

I thought I was careful when picking the tradesman out too, knew him for a couple of years and had done various other smaller scale jobs for us, friends and family.

Wickes Proplex here whilst we wait an age for a flooring date. Has reduced the dust quite well

Oddball entry, I now know I never built it to ride it.

Decide whether you want to get insurance as it's unlikely your current policy will cover you

The MOT history doesn't give me the impression that it has been a well loved vehicle in the past. I'd be looking for someone with a better history

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

I bought a bozaap massage gun off Amazon for £60. I figured for the price I couldn't go far wrong and it works a treat.

Left field but I have a huge soft spot for our Daihatsu Sirion 1.3. Bought back in 2015 for £2k. Used and abused daily and cost me around £1k in maintenance over 5 years. It's fugly but fun to drive and surprising spacious inside.

Tracker bars are getting hard to find too :(

Love the look of the jailbreak bike

Thanks, my Dad used to work in the insurance game so he's helping us on that front.

We know it won't go anywhere but we'll be instructing him that he must claim on his insurance when we have an idea of overall damage this weekend. He's the only one who can claim as it's his policy, but we will be copying in the insurer when we do it.

We expect no response from him as he's got his head in his arse and hasn't responded to any of our communications so far.

After that there's the 3rd party rights against insurers act, but only after his company is wound up (which he's trying to do).

If you see him just shout out that he's a robbing scumbag cunt. Ta!

Melbourne in Derby. I know he likes to mountain bike too. Pretty sure our money paid for his newest pair of bikes.

We've already tried his local paper and the last we heard they were going to approach him for comment.

Action Fraud not so great and don't appear to see it as a crime which I struggle to grasp but won't let go. I want to see him in prison.

I'm saving the Kent Messenger for the absolute star of a builder who's picked up the whole sorry mess.

You'd think insurance would cover it, but despite notifying our house insurance provider and providing them with a copy of the builder's insurance there appears to be no cover for this anywhere!

We're still working on it, but the long and short of it is that our home policy doesn't cover damage caused by the builder's incompetence or negligence and his policy doesn't cover him for the type of building work he was undertaking.

Not a great photo, but this gives an idea of how he left the steelwork below the wall.

Missing quite a few nuts and bolts! We had to add props after getting advice from our structural engineer.

Ha! No, just a regular family man!

We are! Quite a few tears as the realisation set in as to just how badly the house has been affected, but everyone is alive and well! And that's the main thing - bricks and mortar can be rebuilt, and will be!