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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 10, 2024 14:23:18 GMT
Been a bit of an expensive morning. £21.50 launderette, £120 dentist, £20 tyre repair, £46 bedding from Dunelm. Two days' wages gone in three hours. The good news is that I dropped in at home on the way back to the boat and a letter has arrived from DVLA this very morning to say that the V5C for the Scoopy will be issued on 18th October, so I'll look to get that MOT'd when Charlie is up last weekend of October, and taxed and insured from 1st November. Also you don't call the Boat 'home'. Presumably this is because HMRC, DVLA,VoSA and the DwP are watching you like hawks. And The boat is my retreat, my home is in Kent. That's why DVLA write to me there.
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 10, 2024 15:21:38 GMT
I am supposed to be retired and thus early starts should be a thing of the past. But this morning I had to set the alarm for 06:30 and leave the house at 07:15. Outrageous!
Drove to RAF Lossiemouth where they were having an airspace get together. It’s 1.5 hr drive each way on a shit road, I only went because we were promised a tour of a Typhoon squadron. And very interesting too, up close and personal with a guided tour of the aircraft by an avionics engineer and an airframes and engines engineer. Didn’t get to sit in the cockpit but we did get to look into it from a maintenance stand adjacent.
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Post by Jim on Oct 10, 2024 15:32:40 GMT
Also you don't call the Boat 'home'. Presumably this is because HMRC, DVLA,VoSA and the DwP are watching you like hawks. And The boat is my retreat, my home is in Kent. That's why DVLA write to me there. But but but, don't you think that could cause serious confusion in some poor (to the point of bankruptcy) decrepit demented soul? He'll be along in the next post detailing his febrile fantasies, confirming I'm right, just you wait and see.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Oct 10, 2024 15:48:34 GMT
Also you don't call the Boat 'home'. Presumably this is because HMRC, DVLA,VoSA and the DwP are watching you like hawks. And The boat is my retreat, my home is in Kent. That's why DVLA write to me there. Correction, Shit-for-Brains, . . the DVLA write to you at the false address in Kent because you've lied to and mislead them about where you live, and have lived, for the last 9(+) years. Which, coincidently, is the same reason that led Warwickshire Police, some 7(+) weeks ago, to open enquiries into locating and identifying you with Kent Police. Something I found highly amusing, . . given that the super thickies conducting the enquiries, inspirationally led by one particularly stupid Inspector 2692 Johnson, were all based at the Newbold Road station, . . no more than 10-15 minutes drive away from where you really do live, . . on the non-residential boat Council Tax dodging moorings at Colehurst Farm.
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Post by dogless on Oct 10, 2024 15:52:12 GMT
Early start for us too ... 7am to 3pm shifts today and tomorrow and decided to have a bacon butty and coffee (good coffee too) at Greggs near work, as they open at 6.30am ... seemed rude not to.
Busy shift ... tons of stock to shift and a further delivery tonight, but that's why they take on extra staff.
After work tomorrow we're heading to the boat to get it ready for the winter over the weekend.
Got to be back for work Sunday evening at 5pm.
A dry weekend would be nice 🤞
Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 10, 2024 17:43:03 GMT
Early start for us too ... 7am to 3pm shifts today and tomorrow and decided to have a bacon butty and coffee (good coffee too) at Greggs near work, as they open at 6.30am ... seemed rude not to. Busy shift ... tons of stock to shift and a further delivery tonight, but that's why they take on extra staff. After work tomorrow we're heading to the boat to get it ready for the winter over the weekend. Got to be back for work Sunday evening at 5pm. A dry weekend would be nice 🤞 Rog It does seem incredibly early to be taking on extra staff for Christmas! But obvioulsy the demand is there.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Oct 10, 2024 17:45:40 GMT
Just back from working on the boat. It being built from polyethylene, it was tricky to find a solution to getting the bilge pump to stay put. Eventually settled on building a frame from combination of straight brackets and steel repair plates to fit snugly in the splash well, where all water collects. It worked, sort of, but the frame fouled the bung at the bottom of the transom. It just wouldn't do. So, spent a horrible hour with a hacksaw cutting it to size. Stainless steel is a bugger to cut. The frame is slightly smaller than the splash well now but holds the bilge pump in place nicely. The job's a goodun.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Oct 10, 2024 17:55:05 GMT
Also you don't call the Boat 'home'. Presumably this is because HMRC, DVLA,VoSA and the DwP are watching you like hawks. And The boat is my retreat, my home is in Kent. That's why DVLA write to me there. Correction, Shit-for-Brains, . . the DVLA write to you at the false address in Kent because you've lied to and mislead them about where you live, and have lived, for the last 9(+) years. Which, coincidently, is the same reason that led Warwickshire Police, some 7(+) weeks ago, to open enquiries into locating and identifying you with Kent Police. Something I found highly amusing, . . given that the super thickies conducting the enquiries, inspirationally led by one particularly stupid Inspector 2692 Johnson, were all based at the Newbold Road station, . . no more than 10-15 minutes drive away from where you really do live, . . on the non-residential boat Council Tax dodging moorings at Colehurst Farm.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 10, 2024 18:18:57 GMT
Here's the letter which turned up today containing the good news. Just need to get it insured, MOT'd and taxed and I'll soon be whizzing around the Kent countryside.
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