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General Discussion Area / covid vaccine

« on: 01 January 2021, 09:36:12 »

the doctors practice that i am with has apparently administered 70 doses of the vaccine . that got me wondering , whom decides the priority. also nobody should call the surgery, just wait to be contacted. a lady has written on Next Door Dalton that she was put on hold for two hours before she became No 1 on the call list.my guess is the surgery was inidated with calls regard the vaccine. all the lady wanted to report was ,her mum had been given the wrong pills

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General Discussion Area / tv license

« on: 01 January 2021, 09:16:41 »

having past the age a week ago where i am exempt from buying a tv license they reckon i overpaid & have sent me a cheque for £31 . i may send it back & tell them i was overpaying for over 55 years so put a couple of noughts behind the one, 

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General Discussion Area / happy new year

« on: 01 January 2021, 09:00:17 »

the very best wishes yo all for the forthcoming year

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General Discussion Area / speeding ticket

« on: 23 December 2020, 22:18:25 »

roughly a month ago i posted that i was caught speeding. its been about 3 weeks since the relevant authority would have received the form i filled in & i still haven,t heard anything.  is it normal for it to take a few weeks ?

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General Car Chat / oil change

« on: 21 December 2020, 19:37:34 »

a neighbor checked the oil in his mokka & found it to be way above the top dipstick mark. he used my cheap mityvac & removed the excess which happened to be 1/2 ltr ish. he reckoned the local garage did the filter changes. if that is right should he pull them. ?

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General Discussion Area / idiot laptop

« on: 04 December 2020, 00:59:39 »

 a week ago my laptop thinks its moved about 60mls southeast . dont know how thats happened.

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General Discussion Area / speeding

« on: 29 November 2020, 00:24:43 »

 i have been driving since 1964 & this morning i got my first ever speeding ticket . clocked doing 36mph in a 30 zone. been lucky though as i admit i dont hang around. the guy that copped me sprung out  from nowhere with a handheld gadget. the irony of it , is i was the fourth vehicle behind a tractor.

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General Discussion Area / advanced driving test

« on: 27 November 2020, 13:03:20 »

has anybody on this forum ever taken an Advanced Driving Test. looking for people that taken one but not because their job required it. also does it make a difference on the insurance.

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General Discussion Area / missing my omega

« on: 19 November 2020, 23:20:31 »

what i miss mostly about my omega is the car i have doesn,t require me to do anything. tinkering about on my mig was i realize now quite therapeutic. services, brakes ect were quite satisfying once done. now i have a shed full of tools which are redundant. plus the last mig was an estate which would carry just about anything i now have a car which only just has room for a couple of shopping bags. long live the omegas 

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General Discussion Area / call centres (frustration)

« on: 06 October 2020, 16:20:26 »

 i am sure this thread will relate to many of us. why do british companies use foreign based call centres I have been on the phone for over two hours trying to rectify a mistake made initially by them. i changed broadband supply from BT to Talktalk two weeks ago ,set it up by speaking to a person that i found it difficult to understand & when he asked me for my email address he must of slipped up by adding an extra L to gmail reading it as maill , consequently not getting emails from them. after two hours on the phone still no joy . the guy kept saying we have sent you an email with a link to reset my a/c . if i had hair i would have pulled it all out by now. how many times must i tell them that the emails are not arriving from them.

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General Discussion Area / furniture village

« on: 30 September 2020, 18:37:59 »

i ordered a sofa & chair from furniture village on july 1st . the delivery date is well past. they have the sofa but no chair. there offer is a £i00 discount if i am prepared to wait which they estimate to be another nine weeks. ( but thats not a guarantee ) or i just cancel the chair 
 with a full refund,& except delivery of the sofa .  anyway thats what iv,e done. as i was doing so the salesman informed me the delivery of  our sofa is tomorrow morning. we did insist that i needed at least a weeks notice to arrange disposal of our current sofas. so did have a bit of a panic getting a removal guy at a short notice.  also i shopped on-line and found the same chair £200 cheaper with guaranteed a 2man  delivery on Fri 2nd

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General Discussion Area / ebay shop

« on: 17 September 2020, 12:09:08 »

i ordered a dog crate at 15 .53 yesterday afternoon & the sellers address was Hampshire . hermes was ring my door bell at 8.30 this morning. it was due Saturday. that must be some kind of record

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General Discussion Area / royal mail service

« on: 31 August 2020, 23:27:34 »

i am sure i am right in saying a letter bearing a first class stamp posted in the uk sent to a local address always arrived the next day, i posted one on Thursday lunch time expecting the recipient to receive it by saturday but its not delivered as yet. i have a brother in law that works in a sorting office & he said mail should be arriving as normal even with the precautions in place

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General Car Chat / diamond brite

« on: 24 August 2020, 12:28:14 »

i purchased a car which had a diamond brite paint warranty. last week i noticed on the rear o/s wheel arch a bit of lacquer peel. its about the size of a thumb nail. i am a bit worried if when it goes for a wash the peeling gets worse.  i contacted the dealer that i bought the car from but they told me to get in touch with diamond brite. did so, but i expected them to say take it to a place near to me & get it assessed & rectified near to where i live, but not so. they want to see a photograph. i took a couple but with the shine of car its hard to spot.

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General Discussion Area / state pension woe

« on: 24 July 2020, 22:31:59 »

 my wife whom has been eligible for her state pension for almost 15yrs has had it stopped, the reason being she has been told was a letter was sent to her notifying her of the yearly increase was returned to them stating " not at this address " trying to explain to them that the letter never reached us & it must be a postal error & the wrong recipient must be the one to return it has for weeks been falling on deaf ears. also to phone them it takes up to 40mins to get through & never less than 20mins. on Monday it will be 11wks. mine incidentally mine has not been effected.