Test drive Golf

I've tried a Volvo C30, a Skoda Fabia, a Toyota Yaris and this Golf TSE something, which is way beyond my price range, so in around 10 days I'm going to try a Golf 1.4 80bhp.

Diabetic pains

Grumpy husband grunts as he tries to get his b* insulin sorted out.

• He doesn't get enough blood out of his thumb for the test strip
• The test strip won't sit well so as to leave a visible hole on the meter
• He can't get the blood on the pad

There's not a enough blood anyhow, so the test doesn't work, that strip is wasted and he has to start again! And he's hungry too and now has to wait longer till he can eat until he's sorted out how much insulin he needs.

Grr!

Test of Intelligence and observation

You will be allowed five minutes to complete this paper. Mark your answers in the space preceding each item number. Work as quickly as you can.

1. Do they have a fifth of November in America?
2. Some months have thirty days; some have thirty-one, how many months have twenty-eight days?
3. If you had only one match and entered a dark room where there was an oil lamp, oil heater and some kindling wood which would you light first?
4. If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last?
5. A man builds a house with four sides, a rectangular structure each having a southern exposure. A bear comes wandering by. What colour is the bear?
6. A farmer has seventeen sheep. All but nine die. How many did he have left?
7. Divide thirty by a half. Add ten. What is the answer?
8. Take two apples from three apples. What do you have?
9. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the Ark?
10. If you drove a bus with forty-two people on it from London and stopped at Watford to pick up seven more and drop off five passengers and at Luton you dropped off eight and picked up four and arrive at Edinburgh twenty hours later, what is the driver's name?

That is what the 11+ test questions seemed like to me - and the requirement to be quick still makes me panic, so I can't read them properly. But even worse, now so often there are multiple choice answers, which confuse me even more. Yeuch.

Do you want the answers?