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[pensnest]

Somewhat belated thanks for seasonal cards to saba1789, ephemera, sperrywink, <frausorge, turps, rikes and nopseud. \o/

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FIL purchased a car today. An electric car. Not a truck, yay! We took him to the Mercedes dealer in Bury St Edmunds, where there was apparently a fantastic deal available, and the thing is done. So.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE.

Comments

[sperrywink]

Happy New Year!!

You're welcome!

Nice! An electric car is much more reasonable than a truck.

[turps]

Happy New Year!

You're very welcome. I've just been putting up my new calendar up, and it very much cheers up the room :D

[turlough]

Happy new year to you too!!

[frausorge]

\o/

Happy new year and congrats on the new car! May it serve you well.

[rikes]

A car! Finally! Hopefully a suitable house will turn up soon, too.

Happy new year!

[ephemera]

Happy new year to you, too!

An electric car certainly seems more reasonable than a truck, but - does it make it harder for him to find a house that can accomodate it, or can a regular plug do the job if needs be? *is nosy*

[pensnest]

It also, hah, requires minimal car tax to be paid on it. I think the truck was rated at about £1,700 year. Quite the disincentive!

[pensnest]

It'll probably do about a thousand miles a year, we reckon. But it will keep him happy.

[pensnest]

Well, the house is in development, because he's going to live here with us - we can carve out a bedroom, kitchen, sitting room and shower room downstairs so he won't have to deal with stairs any more, and are extending our building work to make sure we're covered. And FIL has already started cultivating the bottom of the garden, which keeps him happy.

[pensnest]

Ah - accommodating the car won't be a problem, partly because it turns out it will just plug in to a regular 13 amp socket overnight, and partly because we're going to knock down the wonky garage and have a new, double one built. We'd already specified a 32 amp charging socket in there (as well as regular sockets) in the expectation that electric cars will be more common in the future.

[ephemera]

That did not work as advertised! What I meant to say was "that sounds like admirable advance planning, because, yes." (Experimenting with replying by email, which I do not seem to ahve quite got set up right yet! sorry!)