[Blackmirror]

He cant drive and he is at work today.....

[MightyQueenCarolyn]

Oh. Well that sucks. I was sent on what turned out to be a wild goose chase a month ago, looking for over the knee-high rugby socks for middle lad. I went to 5 stores over 3 hours, travelling from one end of town to the other by freaking local transit .... only to come home with the wrong ones: they had a bit of white on them, not totally black. Middle lad did the return and exchange himself, by foot, as he's too cool to ride the bus.
The things we do for our kids and for WHAT? A thank you for the effort would be nice.

[Blackmirror]

Well i survived
Ran into heavy traffic and it hailed so hard i had to pull over and stop for a ciggy

Macbook all fixed and on the way home this made the trip worthwhile

[Daveskater]

MQC

My my, Donna, Norfolk looks rather lovely this time of year

[Blackmirror]

Thats not Norfolk
Random rainbow picture lol

[MightyQueenCarolyn]

Originally Posted by Daveskater

MQC

Hi, Dave. Always nice to see you.
Did you remember where you were supposed to be or are you posting from the pub?

How's the job search going?

My my, Donna, Norfolk looks rather lovely this time of year

LOL

Checkitout 10 minutes in da Queen's presence this am AKA Battle of the hats:

Middle lad cannot find his hat. Its not where he left it. He accuses younger brother (who'd taken his coat by mistake early in the week as they are similar (black with grey piping and black with white piping but no logo). Older didn't wear a coat that day because even though it fit, younger brother's coat stunk.
Younger says he hasn't got his hat, then finds it in his (own) coat sleeve.
Older says it's his and chases him around house, slamming younger into wall. Grabs it. Smells it and tosses it back at younger, claiming it stinks.
Younger takes it and heads out the door. Older chases him out the door, finding the discarded hat in the snow and comes back in to "tell on him".
He won't wear it, he says and struts off to his room, from where he reappears moments later holding his younger brother's hat that he'd found in his bed. He sniffs it. He won't wear it.
Eldest offers his extra hat, but it's refused as it's black with pink pirates on it.
Eldest is running late for the bus so rushes out .... leaving his hat behind.

It's minus 13C (oops wrong thread ) and no one wore a hat today.



*tries to think of something random for her next post*

[Blackmirror]

My 2 were having a see if they can flick each other with wet tea towels competition yesterday

[MightyQueenCarolyn]

LOL that's how I sometimes get my lads to perform duties in da palace.

Doing the washing up can be fun!

[Blackmirror]

I am a good shot and an even better one with a wooden spoon

[MightyQueenCarolyn]

I used to have a box of wide rubber bands to ping at them, but they're all gone.

[Blackmirror]

I have a variety of weapons
Shoes slippers in fact anything near to hand

[MightyQueenCarolyn]

I don't own enough pairs of shoes.

Youngest has just come home because there is no classes.

A call to the school un-confims this.
Me thinks I have some disciplining to do.


I leave you with... a random Shatner moment.



TSTers.

Laterz

[Albert Lionheart]

Anyone else seen this? Is it a spoof??

Unwitting motorists face £1,000 fines as thousands of photo card driving licences expire

Thousands of motorists are at risk of being fined up to £1,000 because they are unwittingly driving without a valid licence.
They risk prosecution after failing to spot the extremely small print on their photo card licence which says it automatically expires after 10 years and has to be renewed - even though drivers are licensed to drive until the age of 70.
The fiasco has come to light a decade after the first batch of photo licences was issued in July 1998, just as the they start to expire.
Motoring organisations blamed the Government for the fiasco and said 'most' drivers believed their licences were for life.
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A mock-up driving licence from 1998 when the photo cards were launched shows the imminent expiry date as item '4b'

They said officials had failed to publicise sufficiently the fact that new-style licences - unlike the old paper ones - expire after a set period and have to be renewed.
To rub salt into wounds, drivers will have to a pay £17.50 to renew their card - a charge which critics have condemned as a 'stealth tax' and which will earn the Treasury an estimated £437million over 25 years.

Official DVLA figures reveal that while 16,136 expired this summer, so far only 11,566 drivers have renewed, leaving 4,570 outstanding.
With another 300,000 photo card licences due to expire over the coming year, experts fear the number of invalid licences will soar, putting thousands more drivers in breach of the law and at risk of a fine.

At the heart of the confusion is the small print on the tiny credit-card-size photo licence, which is used in conjunction with the paper version.
Just below the driver name on the front of the photo card licence is a series of dates and details - each one numbered.
Number 4b features a date in tiny writing, but no explicit explanation as to what it means.

The date's significance is only explained if the driver turns over the card and reads the key on the back which states that '4b' means 'licence valid to'.
Even more confusingly, an adjacent table on the rear of the card sets out how long the driver is registered to hold a licence - that is until his or her 70th birthday.
A total of 25million new-style licences have been issued but - motoring experts say - drivers were never sufficiently warned they would expire after 10 years.
Motorists who fail to renew their licences in time are allowed to continue driving. But the DVLA says they could be charged with 'failing to surrender their licence', an offence carrying a £1,000 fine.
AA president, Edmund King said: 'It is not generally known that photo card licences expire: there appears to be a lack of information that people will have to renew these licences.
'People think they have already paid them for once over and that is it.
'It will come as a surprise to motorists and a shock that they have to pay an extra £17.50.'
The AA called on the Government to use the annual £450million from traffic enforcement fines to offset the renewal charge.


















Before photo card licences were introduced, old-style paper licences were valid until the age of 70.
'Many motorists still believe this to be the case with the new ones.'
Driving instructor Tony Carter, of Canterbury, said: 'It's outrageous; everybody thinks their driving licence is for life.
'Why - when you have already paid £50 for your photo card licence - should you pay the Government an extra £17.50 every 10 years?
'It's another stealth tax. Drivers will be very annoyed.'
Today the DVLA said the date of expiry was carried on the new-style licences, even though the AA says this is 'not clear'.
The Agency was unable to say whether motorists were told the licences would expire when they were first issued.
It said it was issuing postal reminders to drivers whose photograph was due to expire, to get the renewal message across. But a spokesman admitted this was the limit of the DVLA's publicity.
Experts say many drivers will slip through the net because DVLA records are inaccurate and many motorists have changed address, making it impossible to trace them.
A DVLA spokesman said: 'Previous experience has shown that wide-scale publicity is less effective and can generate enquiries and concerns from those not affected. Instead, DVLA focussed on targeted publicity to ensure that we got the message to the right person at the right time.'
The Driving Standards Agency is allowing L-test candidates with out-of-date photo card licences to sit their driving tests as long as they provide a valid passport. This concession will end in January next year, raising the prospect that some L-test candidates will be turned away.
The DVLA said no one had so far been charged with failing to surrender a licence.

[Blackmirror]

I have an old style one

[Albert Lionheart]

You and me both....

[Blackmirror]

It's the same as updating passports, isn't it? A ten year old picture will be very outdated.

makes sense

[Albert Lionheart]

Shaping up to be another stealth tax - I'm not having a new one unless I have to.

[Blackmirror]

Unless you change your address you will be okay

[Albert Lionheart]

Originally Posted by Daveskater

MQC

My my, Donna, Norfolk looks rather lovely this time of year

Hi Dave
Point of order - Norfolk always looks rather lovely at any time of the year. !

[Daveskater]

Originally Posted by MightyQueenCarolyn

Hi, Dave. Always nice to see you.
Did you remember where you were supposed to be or are you posting from the pub?

How's the job search going?

Hello there, It is nice to see you also I think what it was is probably that the pub are doing a "happy hour" from 4pm to 8pm so I was thinking of going early I think their maths is a bit off, though

The job search isn't too bad, I'm looking into a few right now, one of which is with General Motors. Most of my money seems to go on newspapers at the moment - they're piling up all over my floor

The hat fight sounds quite mental as well, I'd get told off if that happened to me Sometimes I get told off for standing next to my sister because "it looks like I'm going to do something bad"

Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart

Hi Dave
Point of order - Norfolk always looks rather lovely at any time of the year. !

Hi Albert I haven't been so will take your word for it

I didn't know that about the licenses though, I just looked at mine and it said 2015. Presumably this is 10 years from when I got my provisional license because 10 back from that would be when I was 16.

I hate the picture on mine though, my hair needed a wash tbh so it's all curly in clumps I'll do it myself next time I reckon Instead of paying the photo shop to do it.