Well I've pondered and surfed the net, pondered some more, crunched numbers on my trusty sellotaped calculator and then pondered some more, read my trusty reading literature of late 'What Car' again ... and come to a decision .....

(drum roll) Caz has decided to buy the used Fabia Estate she test drove on Saturday.... subject to it passing the car inspection and still being there tomorrow morning.

The real clincher was the lack of boot space in the corolla, it only has 100 litres more than the 106 so I'd still end up with bits in the back on a camping trip for 2 (currently one of the packs usually ends up on the back with other bits. Also the cash price difference between new and used was a bit too much when the used one had everything I wanted (once the dealer has installed a CD player in it for free!)

... and I shouldn't hit anything when reverse parking it as it has the bonus of parking sensors .... no doubt this will annoy me in the streets of Pompey when having to get out of parking spaces!

On another matter I had a conversation earlier over my sister's current batch of kiddies (who aren't too bad) and we're were discussing the likelyhood of them reaching Keystage 4, the level the government require children to gain. However they describe it as an average but want all children to gain it so therefore its not 'average' more likely an 85th percentile. This then went onto how stats can be warped ... in my sister's class each child is worth 4% of the school's reseults but at her bloke's school each child is worth 12%. He has 2 kids unlikely to gain KS4 therefore the government will say his school isn't good enough as it hasn't gained the 85% required. But it 2 of my sister's kids are in the same position they are still OK. I think that's a fine reason for not comparing percentages when stats have been warped by the government and press. Lets not need a GCSE + of stats education to see through the murk of league tables! (which lets face it don't say an awful lot about a school as a whole).