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I have to preface this post with an admission of mild hypocrisy – despite shopping at Aldis for most of our weekly food needs, I am still precious about our local High Street. I would use it more if life was made easier on the parking front, but the council have to make up the cuts in Gov’t funding somehow!!??☹? I do still use the butchers for most of our meat needs, a dry cleaners/launderette for large items, our Post Office ( in the back of one of the Co-ops,) and an old fashioned ironmongers that is dearer than the sheds but convenience is King. 2 minutes to the village or 10 miles to the sheds and back.
The wife went out the other day to her gym in Margate, parked the car, did her gym and then went to Minnis Bay, parked the car and went for a walk along the front. She took a flask of coffee and a book.
Parking had cost her £7.50 in total for an hour at the gym and two on the beach!!
We are lucky at the moment, ( under review by the council despite complaints up the wazoo ) to be charged 20p for the first half hour in one of the car parks. That could increase to £2 for the first hour and £1.50 for the next in line with most of the others. The owners of small tea shops and the like near the beaches are up in arms – nobody wants to spend more on parking the car than on a cup of tea!! Their businesses are under threat.
I went out earlier in the week to order bricks et al to rebuild a front wall. Phoned in advance to check they had everything I needed and could deliver. The journey to Westwood Cross – normally 10 or so minutes, took me over an hour to get there. A fire on the Saturday before had closed off roads and they still had hoses that were more like 8″ rubber pipes running across closed roads. When we eventually got to Travis Perkins they had sent most of the staff home for the afternoon as toxic smelling smoke was still drifting across the estate. We managed to blag our way in and put in the order. In total an hour’s run took me nearer three with the diversion and increased traffic.
Here is a couple of photos from Tuesday night. The one at the bar worked well, it was quite dark, behind the stand. the ones in the stand I added to show zoom vs no zoom. And I added a shot of my Ugly mug to show how poor the front camera is.
You’re right Steve – that picture is definitely sub-par………….. quality isn’t too bad though!!????
The ad states :- Height adjustable with reclining function. Seat back can be adjusted and locked in tilted position.
That could be taken to mean only locked in fully tilted position, as opposed to multiple tilted position. Some seats – I have been looking around for one for a while, to go with my new desk – have a rocking motion of 15 degrees. With this funciton the back and seat stay in the same position in regard to each other but rock back and forwards by 15 degrees.
Your handle has written on it ” push in /tilt lock” and “pull out/tilt release”. Again that could mean both scenarios. Only locked at either extreme, or locked in multiple positions between. Only the vendor can definiotively answer that one.
THIS is what I’ve been looking to get.
there are all sort of gotchas with visas. We were pretty experienced travellers because when we worked, we holidayed three or four times a year. Trade went quiet during the school holidays when our customers deserted London for the country ( or another country.)
We were going to Thailand for the second or third time as we loved it there. On this occasion we were staying for five weeks. No problem there except for the fact that you are issued a visa on arrival that lasts 31 days. Halfway through the holiday my brain did the calculation and the alarm bells were ringing.
It’s only 4 days over, shouldn’t be a problem, I thought, but best to check. It turned out that they didn’t send you to prison for overstaying, they just charged you $500 for an airport issued renewal, before they sent you home!!
Luckily, there was an easy out. We were stayng in Chang Mai and Chang Rai up in the north of Thailand, so we went up to the Golden Triangle, walked over the bridge to either Laos or Burma, turned round and came back into Thailand, getting a new visa stamp and 31 more days.
I know the bowel-clenching moment that follow things like that, so well done in the end.?
Broken link……….:(
Will Steve need an international driving licence next summer, will his insurance be valid? What about medical treatment? Will he need a visa? Should be be buying his Euros now? That what we mere mortals need to know just to plan our next holiday.
The simple approach for ‘mortals’ is to get an International Driving Permit; its £5.50 from selected Post Office branches. As for whether or not to buy Euro’s now; that has always been a question long before Brexit because currency markets have always been in a state of constant flux. Moving on, strangely, even while we were an EU member the advice was still to get Medical Insurance when travelling so nothing has changed there either. The only new unknown is whether or not Visas will be required. I can’t answer that for certain but I suspect it is remote given that many non-EU countries have Visa-free access to EU states. The reality for all ‘mortals’ is that the world is always changing and mortals must face up to such and not expect things to stay the same forever.
That doesn’t anwer Steve’s issue with Insurance. It’s not Medical Insurance, as you say, that’s always recommended, but the new equivalent of the old “Green Card cover”. Not even the brokers that he’s asked know whether he’ll need to buy extra to cover it from March 30th next year, or who’ll supply it.
Edit – started posting this 2 hours ago and got distacted. Steve’s added more between then and now.
Happy Birthday, Lee. ??
It was our Anniversary on Saturday so we went out for a meal. It was just a quiet one so the wife had some time off from cooking etc.
There was a family at the next table to us, Grandad, Grandma, Mum, Dad and 2 kids with partners. Come the end of the meal Grandad paid. The wife was gobsmacked. She couldn’t understand why the kids – who all turned up in nice cars – weren’t paying for Mum, Dad and the grandparents.
Whenever she visited her Grandad she would walk up, give him a hug and slip £20 in his pocket. That was what you did!!
I’d have thought you’d still be in bed after a day’s beer and fresh air, not up at 5 o’clock with the larks!! ??
No worries about drink/driving from that pub!! Looks like a nice canal-side walk. Don’t fall in on the way back.
it’s actually Riverside so definitely no falling in. The canal is on the other side.
I saw what appears to be a narrowboat and made the assumption.?
No worries about drink/driving from that pub!! Looks like a nice canal-side walk. Don’t fall in on the way back.?
I use THIS for a lot of things – under my mouse mat to stop it sliding on the desk, on the car’s dash ‘shelf”, in the cubby holes to stop coins sliding, it’s brilliant.
It should also be good for it’s original purpose to stop mats sliding on wood floors or carpets!!??
Am amazed by the length of this thread. Opposing viewpoints are being expressed, some of which have a shaky foundation not in complete agreement with actual facts.
It has gone on for some time, which is due to the fact that opposing POV have been expressed and countered, but ( mostly ) civilly, which is a joy. That also keeps people’s interest.
Everybody inherently has a different take on events and situations, due to differing circumstances, upbringing, geography and other demographics.
The main reason that it has gone on for so long is down to the continually evolving situation, not a day goes by without press/news coverage of someone in the middle of it all stating the latest version, perception, or words of ( supposed ) wisdom.
Add to that a cast of interesting/scary characters on both sides ( UK and EU ) it’s better than ………( insert favourite soap.)
It has hugely serious ramifications, but thankfully it can still be discussed civilly.????
Ideally we should have another referendum/election when the politicians are found to have lied over their manifesto promises.
Isn’t that the very definition of perpetual motion with our lot over the last forty-odd years that I know of??!!
The problem with a Peoples Vote/Second referendum/whatever you wish to call it, is the same as the first one. Nobody took time to think it through. Cameron thought he was untouchable, threw his toys out the pram and said take my line or I’m leaving. He thought it would be a done deal and we would be scared of losing him/them.
No-one bothered to frame the questions or wonder about permutations and ramifications. It was – to quote the favoured parlance – binary. Yes/No, In/Out, Stay/Leave. I’ve said it before, it should have been 20 Questions time instead of 2. What do you like about Europe, is it a,b,c… – what do you dislike about Europe, – is it x,y,z. That way those doing the negotiations would have known which aspects to hold the line on in talks, and which could be bartered for position on the favoured aspects. Common sense negotiation, as has existed for centuries across most aspects and levels, of life and work.
It’s what I did as a Union Rep in BT when the bosses wanted to introduce something new. You would know your ‘sacrificial lambs’ from talking to the staff and also your ‘sacred cows’!! You would compromise and ease up on one and firm up on the other. It’s the same thing when kids ask parents for more pocket money – the parents always know what they want the kids to do more of and barter accordingly.
On a side note I was also a Health and Safety rep and it was a joy to “negotiate” with the bosses because it wasn’t negotiation, I had a big H&S legislative sledgehammer to wield. That seems to be the position the EU holds currently – they don’t really need to negotiate as such. Us, on the other hand, we have to negotiate, resolve and then get the result past the Commons first, the Lords next, the EU next and then the 28 states have to ratify the final outcome. That’s a bit one-sided.
Was watching Question Time last night and Theo Paphitis was on. He was a very interesting listen.
Edited for flow and spelling.
Im with SSE for my power. Getting them to fit a smart meter next week.
I’m waiting till they start rolling out the SMETS2 meters – should be late this year or early next year. The SMETS1’s were a bit temperamental – interesting article HERE on the overall project and implications for the Government’s targets.
…..off the back of my Ducati 250.
I had one of those – a pre-desmo Daytona. Ally engine, overhead cams, 5-speed box, ally rims…..the list went on. With all your euro travels, was yours the Diana??
Chiropody, I always thought it was a women’s thing. I had my feet done today, I have to admit they feel good.
Only when you have your toenails painted.
I’ve been having mine done ( no – not painted ) for a couple of years now – it’s brilliant, especially as my big toenails have a tendency to grow in!!
Plus, the older you get, the more dificult they are to reach.
John – you can give your eyes a rest for the next 5 years at least – that’ll likely be when a 1TB SSD of that variey comes down to <£25 delivery included or not!! They’re £172 odd at the moment.
Lol, he doesn’t think of your limited space. Lol. Start hoarding now, just so he has to sort it when your gone. When I hit 60 I’m gonna stop throwing things out. If I hit 80 theyll be f-*ked Hehehe.
That’ll be perfect revenge on the kids, ??but don’t forget the wife’s in that scenario too – in fact she’s at the front, in (y)our face and ears!!! ?
A familiar story, Steve. Our version started a few years after uni. Him and his partner had bought a place by then, but they’d been renting a ‘loft’ apartment in Dockands, so all the post uni carp stayed with him. When he split up, that was when it came to my place for a visit and hasn’t moved on since. There’s a couple of early i7 base units, boxes of books of sci-fi/fantasy, video box sets of Buffy etc, seven other boxes of assorted carp in the garage, the list goes on.
He’s been renting for some years now, so the excuse has always been he’s only had limited space, but……………? Luckily we didn’t end up with any furniture because he needed that.
There’ll be some justice when I’m gone and it’ll be down to him to sort it all out but I won’t get to see that!!!
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