That was a nice touch

You were doing so well until it got to the golf and skiing bits. ;-)

Yeah, I can't play golf or ski!

Show us yours then (fnarr).

Often, many of the people who live in this sort of postcode will be well-off working families with mortgages. These are known as type 10 in the ACORN classification and 2.26% of the UK's population live in this type. Given the commuter nature of this type, it is often found in satellite towns around major conurbations, such as Northampton, Milton Keynes, Reading, Swindon and Crewe. Here is an overview of the likely preferences and features of your neighbourhood: Family income High Interest in current affairs Low Housing - with mortgage Medium Educated - to degree High Couples with children Very high Have satellite TV Very high These are neighbourhoods of young well-off commuter families, with many pre-school and primary school children.

These families often live in relatively large detached houses and have a long time left on their mortgage. However they have good incomes, and feel able to afford such long term commitments. These individuals are likely to be in their 30s, and tend to be professionals and managers with company pensions and company health care. They drive to work in company cars.

These families are financially aware. Where possible they will have regular savings plans and invest in stocks and shares. A child savings plan may cater for the children's future. The high level of remortaging may indicate confidence in their ability to repay high levels of borrowing. They have credit cards with high credit limits, but their spending is not high.

The Internet is a popular channel for financial services, with e-banking fairly common with these households. On-line activity is generally high whether shopping, booking leisure activity, playing games or the children's education.

These are young active people, taking part in aerobics, playing golf, rugby and going skiing. For entertainment they own a DVD player, subscribe to satellite TV and go to the cinema.

(Feck, it's the golf and skiing stuff again.....)

And that's a good thing, because it's a long way away from sensible people.

Dude, you live in *Wales*.

Not even the Vikings invaded Wales.

In no mans land with a massive unemployment rate?

Wales is the poorest country in the United Kingdom.

Aye, but that's just the terrace they're talking about, not the rest of your village. All the rest of them are merely arrivistes.

P.S. There were 40 cars there on Thursday, I lost the plot at one bit...

There's still a bit of old money kicking about, but it's not like the old days I tell thee. (c:

Sounds like a laugh. Pity I never got there to take any pictures.

Sounds a bit nice that does Mr Doug., or is it Lord Doug?

Heh, all this from a bottle of Lanson, I should wind Steve up a bit more often methinks ;-)

Hmm, Athens Wednesday, that should do the job nicely...

SteveH informs me frequently that it's in the middle of nowhere, so it can't be that nice.

Are you going to wind him up by buying him a bottle of Lanson?

I'm buying a Volvo 850 T5 for myself and an MGF for the Missus on Wednesday.

I would never stoop so low.

I'm going to be in the pub watching the Mightiest Reds beating AC Milan again.

Tuesday I've got a meeting in Brighton. Self employment sucks sometimes, close on 600 mile round trip just to argue about a maintenance contract on a bloody roller shutter.

Last time was a freak result and only came about due to Stevie-boy's diving, cheating antics.

Thanks for the 6 points this season, though - you effectively handed us the title with your inept performances in the most important competition of the season.

From where I'm sitting, you're the one getting wound up - to the point of making an Enfield-esque 'considerably richer than yow' post, which appears to have slapped you in the face.

I'm not really buying cars, it was a throwback to a different dimension of ukrcm, when the world was square, the drugs were free, when the likes Glenn and Tanuki the Racoon-Dog meandered gracefully across the high veldt and Hugo Taylor-Jones was king.

Isn't Athens more than 600 miles? You're only going there to watch a bloody football game!

Quiet mere mortals! I slapped you both in the face.

We bow to your greater social status Sir Douglas of Hairdressercarville :-P

Where?

You called the whole of Liverpool "Pikey", I pointed out that where I live isn't pikey, and you called it a wall pissing contest.

As for being "considerably richer than you", I merely pointed out that my house is paid for and I didn't have to move to South Wales to be able to afford it.. If you took that as meaning that I have more money than you then that ain't my problem. I don't have mortgage payments to pay any more, so I don't do too badly but I still have to work for a living. I'm just lucky that I work for myself and don't have to worry too much about making ends meet.

How that has backfired on me, I don't know.

I don't know what you were trying to achieve - you just decided it was worth pointing out that your house was paid for (I suspect you didn't realise mine was, so were trying to score points with that one) - as for 'didn't have to move to South Wales' - I'll admit, moving here was influenced by financial gain, due to cheaper house prices, but ours is now worth more than the place in MK was when we moved. South Wales had the fastest growing market in the UK at the time we moved.

Anyway, the point being, I don't know who you were trying to impress - especially as it appears we both own similarly priced houses outright.

I still say that Liverpool is a pikey shitehole, though, but that's 'cos I'm a Manc ;-)

I could get used to this feudal thing, if it came with free petrol.