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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: Roobarb on Monday 04 August 25 22:09 BST (UK)
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Louisa Maud usually starts the new diary each week, I guess she must be busy today so I'll start this week's diary. Hope you're okay LM?
A blustery day here as a result of Storm Floris, a yellow weather warning has been in place. When the sun came out late morning morning is was really warm but not the weather for sitting out in the garden, would have been blown around with the bins!
Trains to Scotland cancelled, I think they've had it much worse there.
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Been quite chilly here the last 2 mornings and noticed some leaves floating down already, an early Autumn this year perhaps.
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Yes a dull damp morning but we escaped much of thr forecast bad weather.
A letter in the letterbox this morning re inconsiderate parking .
Some families have two cars and so use spots outside others’ houses ,quite legal if a bit inconsiderate.
My son has a letter also.
I have no car so he parks outside my house ,it is a bit easier too as I am the end one.
This leaves a space outside his house,very handy for his nice neighbour where there are two cars .
But this last weekend it has been chaos,a red car was outside my house when we got back from shopping ,it had no tax disc ,———yet was moved a bit further down the road to another neighbour’s who don’t have a car ,after three days which meant my son had then a place to park .
No idea who sent the letter , ut asked if people had two cars to park one at the end of the road here an ambulance station- now abandoned - used to
be ,so ample parking places, but perhaps parking not allowed there.
Well must get in,have headache coming but new glasses have bifocals which came right across my line of vision so an old frame snd new lens with better bifocals but giving me bad headaches ,so back to bad bifocals and headaches go,so I suspect the prescription is not right .Honestly!
Well must get on .
Best wishes to those unwell and / or having uncomfortable treatment .
A cool showery morning ,so no washing out today
Cheerio, Viktoria
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Road tax discs aren't issued any more Viktoria, and haven't been for quite some years. You can check online whether a car is taxed and has an MOT.
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Road tax discs aren't issued any more Viktoria, and haven't been for quite some years. You can check online whether a car is taxed and has an MOT.
Still issued on the Isle of Man! ;)
BTW, it's not a Road Tax! It's a Road Fund Licence. :D
Commonly, but wrongly, called Road Tax!
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I'm sure Viktoria will understand my terminology better, and as she lives in Lancashire not the Isle of Man, my comment to her still applies.
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KG, I thought it was Vehicle Excise Duty ::).
The government website seems to refer to it as 'tax'
https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax
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It was my son who said it was not legal,I think as Roobarb says he will have googled it .
My mistake in thinking cars still had the relevant discs displayed .
Shows how unobservant I am ;D
@Finishrd a good book last night,The Flamboya Tree, by Clara Olink KellyISBN number0-09-944553-0 Arrow Books.
An account of the treatment but survival by the author’s family in a Japanese
camp in Java in WW2 .Her wonderful mother’s fight for survival and with two children and a six week old baby to protect.
The Japanese after the war refused to give any apology to the survivors of those camps and still do. The survivors were and still are told by Japan-
‘“This was your war,it has nothing to do with us” .
They were Dutch people .
Well off to bed. Hope all are alright ,given we know quite a few are not very well but hopefully they feel safe and can stay positive.
Night night .
Viktoria.
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P.S. Took the glasses back today and they were checked and the prescription is “ a teeny bit out”——Well the headaches were not teeny!
They will replace them ,I might make some cheese butties and go to Specsavers,or rather they can come to me after I have been on the big dipper
“ What kind of cheese was that!”
A cooler day but got some some washing out and all dry.
Look after yourselves folks .Viktoria.
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I'd forgotten about that advert, so funny ;D ;D
Where's our friend LM? No sign of her this week.
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I believe I am correct in saying that Tax discs are no longer necessary as like so many things these days everything is automated. Vehicles are picked by ANPR cameras as they are driven along the roads, if a vehicle is untaxed they are usually also uninsured so there is a ping on the system and the absence is recorded and then investigated.
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I had to phone our surgery on Monday as I had just taken the last remaining tablet from one of my growing list of pills. The surgery pharmacy there has a system of issuing repeat prescriptions for medication that patients require regularly, but their system seems to have failed in this case, or as the pharmacist said to me, "You must have slipped through the net". :o The particular pill I need has caused problems several times, as it appears to be difficult to get hold of. This time they only received it from their suppliers on the day I rang up, but, maybe feeling a bit guilty, they made up my prescription for collection that same day. They still had no reason for my name "slipping through the net". I'm wondering that will happen with that particular tablet at the end of the packet contents in 28 days time. I like to have at least two weeks' worth of medication on hand and really don't like to be down to the last pill.
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I'm with you GillG, I like to have a couple of weeks of my meds in hand. We work on a different system as the my surgery doesn't have a pharmacy, although there is one next door which most of the patients use. I still use the pharmacy nearest to me that I have used for years. I phone the pharmacy when I want a new supply, they contact the surgery and a few days later two months supply are delivered to my door. It's a system that works quite well as I get them when I want.
With a little Jiggery pokery and skipping the occasional tablet I managed to get them all in sinc so running out at the same time. It worked beautifully until I had a month in hospital in February this year and the hospital used some of my own meds and some of theirs, luckily I have almost got them back to normal.
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Hi folks.
Sorry but I am fine thank you, I cannot believe how busy I have been
Meeting about Church fete on Monday, was pleased my visitors cancelled off PM.
Tuesday busy and yesterday I had 2 cousins visiting, today up to the church hall, cannot believe tables of white elephant stuff, has to go on show as the people who donated will be there, after not getting to sleep till, 3am as you can imagine I am tired, tomorrow back to the hall for final preparation, I will be pleased when it is over, I have to do coffees at church on Sunday so won't calm down till Sunday PM, phew!!
I will be back to tell you of our success, new committee with new ideas.
LM
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No apologies necessary LM, just glad to hear you're okay. :) Sleep well tonight, hope all goes well over the next few days.
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Good luck with your Fete LM.
We have four sales a year, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Today I have been gathering up my donations and ordering raffle prizes for the Autumn one. I always used to be very much involved and miss it now. Although I can no longer get to Church I still like to do as much as I can remotely. What I don’t miss is the exhaustion at the end of the day when we had finished clearing
up.