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Ah, how I laughed when I read that in a small ad.

But for "lost" read "nicked".

Got to my car (in a CCTV protected car park) at 5.30 today to find my passenger window smashed and poor old Odysseus, my sat nav, gone.

Bugger.

Well, that's a bummer, how did you find your way home.

I don't expect the police hold out much hope for it then - I imagine the cameras would be pointing the wrong way.

Wouldn't it be fab if satnavs were programmed to speak to whoever nicked them?

"Oi you. Put that back at once, you thieving git"

Aint they got a mobile phone build in to send you their location in case you are lost?

Aw poor Beatrice.

I hope you managed to find you way home without it.

Next time I'll come visit you I'll do it in the same car as last time but then it will be on my own insurance.

Bugger. The good thing about maps is they're a lot less appealing to thieves.

Hope you didn't have your home address stored in your sat nav... Common mistake...

*runs to check hers

Hadn't thought of that, Bob.

I've heard of people having handbags with keys in etc nicked, and when they got the car they found it very easy to find the house, keys and all... Always set your homepoint on the sat nav to somewhere local, not your house...

Well yeah, but then I'd rather live my life NOT expecting to be robbed, rather than compromising on the basis of what MIGHT happen.

There was nothing else taken from the car - no keys or anything with the address on. And it was password protected so unless there's a way round that which doesn't involve re-setting the whole machine then even "home" won't mean much. Plus we're moving next week.

I do miss my little Odysseus though, specially trying to get round the flurry of roadworks that have descended on County Down.

Just as long as you keep you eyes on the road to avoid and get around the slurry that might have fallen on the flurry of roads that have descended on the glorious County of Dawn.

Indeed. The slurry on the flurry is a worry!

So take heed not to hurry through the slurry on the flurry avoiding worry.

Do not worry about my hurry through the slurry! I shall suck a Murray mint to bury all my worries, and think of curry as I hurry to my furry friends in Newry

I take it you are saying Newry there with a Newry accent.

Complete tangent here. Why are Newry people called 'nyucks'? Not sure how it's spelled.

Are they?

DD - I couldn't think of another town in Down that rhymed - Bury and Surrey are a bit too foreign.

It probably Neuk doing a quick check on google. Google is Ulster Scots for an alcove or small neuk so I might relate to Newry's geogrpahical position tucked in as it is by the Mournes to the North.

Could be!