cats are working animals - feed 'em too well and they won’t go catching mice 
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I don’t know how long it takes for the average motorist to clock up a million miles, but I bet that it will take longer than the time when you have to get rid of your diesel car.
We have a Mercedes C220 estate which we bought in January 2007 and was just three years old with forty thousand on the clock. As we hardly go anywhere, I am sure that it would take more energy to dispose of it than keep it on the road.
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You have inadvertently inflated the figure - it was kilometres!
It is known that the majority of engine wear occurs in the first 10 miles, so a car that is driven all day every day is likely to achieve a high total mileage. But we are not all taxi drivers.
A small car is good for short journeys, because the engine warms up quicker.
So it was.
We bought the car for our journeys from Stroud to Burgundy.
Wolverhampton taxi drivers used to buy Ladas and changed them every year. They reckoned that was the cheapest way to run a car.
Reminds me of a joke… how do you double the value of a Lada? fill it up with petrol 
Fill the petrol tank!
At one time, Russia was buying them back by the shipload. At minimal cost they could get another 10 years out of them.
if you click on the blurred bit in my post @Mike_Kearney you’ll see that’s what I wrote 
Clever trick! How did you do that?
simple - type square bracket [ then the word spoiler then close with ] type your message and the end with [ then /spoiler then ] (no spaces)
Brexit means…
Brain drain:
More world beating benefits from the Brexit team.
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Oh that must be the reason we moved to France!!!
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Tout à l’égout ? 
Not you personally, I hasten to add!
Interesting…
Just about sums up the mentality of the ***** who run the UK - once they have made such a mess of things they run away and deny all responsibility…
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I’ll believe it when I see it…
I worked for a short time with Sir Humphrey Wakefield on the early stages of setting up an EU-funded training scheme in ‘traditional skills’ (eg. dry stone walling) on the Chillingham estate.
His enthusiasm seemed to me to wane as it gradually emerged that the scheme would not work as a source of cheap labour - so might be a good idea to keep a pinch of salt handy when listening to him…
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Has this been shared before on SF? …
Wasn’t Cummings going to be “off in 6 months” at some point
No surprises there. The EU has other, more pressing, fish to fry (pardon the pun).
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