Still running on Winters?

[Welly]

Anyone swapped back to summer tyres yet?

The winters have been a complete waste of time for me this year but hey-ho.

Struggling to get the time to have the summers remounted on me rimz, takes about an hour and my weekends are full up at the moment.

[trem1]

Temperatures around here are way above 7 degrees, so you really should make the time.

[grasmere59]

Still on my winters,i keep thinking I should change back but we've had cold snaps later than this before so i'll keep them on a while longer.

[mjb]

Was 14c yesterday afternoon, but it's going into the minuses with sleet predicted for the weekend... ARGH

[Welly]

According to my reliable* outside temperature indication device it was -6C this morning so I'm keeping the tyres on for now

Seriously I reckon I might have to have a 'dentist' appointment next week and get them swapped over.

[DaiRees]

Yup as above, not convinced we've had all the cold stuff yet. Gonna hang on another week or two, weekend of the 5th / 6th April doesn't look too busy at the moment. Mind you this decision is complicated by the fact that all my summer tyres are down to below 3mm, I'll squeeze another thousand miles out of them before changing (that's gonna be a hard day for the credit card!) but I'm a bit edgy in case we get heavy rainfall in the meantime.

[trem1]

Do your insurance companies have any opinions on when you need to change back to summer/all weather tyres ?? Or could you legally run winters all year round?

[DaiRees]

Do your insurance companies have any opinions on when you need to change back to summer/all weather tyres ?? Or could you legally run winters all year round?

Hmmm, shall we have the "have you notified the insurance company?" discussion again?

There's no legal requirement as to when to use winter or summer tyres in the UK at the moment, so you could leave the winters on all year round (not that I would), in the same way that most people leave summer tyres on all year.

[scotty73]

Do your insurance companies have any opinions on when you need to change back to summer/all weather tyres ?? Or could you legally run winters all year round?

Hmmm, shall we have the "have you notified the insurance company?" discussion again?

Can we have a "I should get insurance discount because i use winters" convo too?

Mine are still on because I'm not convinced we've had winter yet either... Monsoon season yes winter no....Add that to me trying to decorate the livingroom in the day and my kids are taking up all my spare time with their singing gigs I'm not sure I have the time.....And this Saturday we have a HUUUUGGGEEE interview of the west end/ recording franchise kind.

[steve_earwig]

Ooh, splendid, best of luck!

When I MOTed the Pug I was worried they'd fail me for having summer tyres on it, needlessly as it turns out. We're not meant to change back until 15th April but there was some cop interviewed on the telly last night who said, due to it being 20+ degrees in the day, they weren't going to push it (yeah, right ) It might be quite warm in the daytime but at night it's still pretty cold and we're still having the odd frost, so buggrit, 15th April it is.

[Welly]

west end/recording franchise kind

Nail-biting times eh?

Hope it goes ok, have you got to go to that London?

Hold on, all my freds are being hijacked..........but in a nice way.

[scotty73]

west end/recording franchise kind

Nail-biting times eh?

Hope it goes ok, have you got to go to that London?

Hold on, all my freds are being hijacked..........but in a nice way.

Well the thing is for the last few months my two have been going to open mic nights and we've kept in touch with a drummer who plays for Owen Money (insert Welsh b list celeb here) he's a lovely guy that has toured the world with various bands, cruise ship work etc but is now putting all his time into helping youngsters in the valleys enjoy performing and has collected the od queens award along the way.
Well two weeks ago he recorded 5 songs with my girlies and he was so impressed with my eldest that he advised me to send one of them to a couple on my Facebook that have just launched an album for children in need with some well known West end singers (No2 in the West end charts at the moment) And are heavily involved in the West End... (Richard Burton musical to be launched in 2015)

To cut that long story shorter they listened to the song and wanted more so sent another and the reply was We'd love to hear her sing can you bring her to sing for us we have a few things in mind for her.... Aye to right see you Saturday at 11.30am.... Luckily for us (for now) their based less than 20 miles from me so I guess we'll see what is said.

Mad thing is the day after we arranged this i bumped into them while shopping they were collecting for the air ambulance with hidden body guards at my local Asda .... So I introduced myself and the guy couldn't stop talking about my eldest's unique operatic voice.

[scotty73]

Here's the song my mate was so proud of she performed this Saturday in a small coffee house but the weather was lovely so the doors were open... We had people stopping and wowing her the whole time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar3R2cN ... e=youtu.be

Uploaded to youtube just for you lot.
The audio recording of this is awesome and it gets the old 406 bouncing from my head movements.

PS: Sorry for the hijack Welly.

[trem1]

Here's the song my mate was so proud of she performed this Saturday in a small coffee house but the weather was lovely so the doors were open... We had people stopping and wowing her the whole time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar3R2cN ... e=youtu.be

Uploaded to youtube just for you lot.
The audio recording of this is awesome and it gets the old 406 bouncing from my head movements.

PS: Sorry for the hijack Welly.

can't get the link to work scotty

[scotty73]

Her voice is so high only cats and dogs can hear it

I was just giving it a watch while you commented... The audio's not there what the hell? I'll delete it and try and get it back on here.