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Diary summary week ending 10th August
« on: Monday 04 August 25 22:09 BST (UK) »
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.
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales

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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 11:00 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 12:31 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 13:30 BST (UK) »
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.
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales


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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 13:51 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 15:24 BST (UK) »
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.
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales

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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 15:32 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 23:13 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Diary summary week ending 10th August
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 23:14 »
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.