1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

Nice idea! 

Are they definitely going up to the full flat rate of tax?

It's penciled in for April 1st 2025, but they could do it earlier. 

 

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

... An extra 7p for 2nd class, and an extra 10p for first class...

Still a bargain though, if I gave you a letter, and a £1 coin, you'd be hard pushed to take it to Belfast for me LOL

10 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Still a bargain though, if I gave you a letter, and a £1 coin, you'd be hard pushed to take it to Belfast for me LOL

Email ? 🤣🤣

12 minutes ago, iantt said:

Email ? 🤣🤣

Yep, but the Post Office doesn' charge for email LOL

27 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Yep, but the Post Office doesn' charge for email LOL

Why would you send the Email to the Post Office to send to the recipient when you could send it directly yourself ?

14 minutes ago, Wino said:

Why would you send the Email to the Post Office to send to the recipient when you could send it directly yourself ?

Right guys, I';m out of this conversation, apparently I'm the only one sober on a Saturday night 

yep getting silly, i'm sober

I do like that I've booked myself onto a driver experience session in May. 
Now, you're probably thinking that it's like a track day or something but this experience day isn't for a car. 
This experience is for about 2 hours and relates to my hobby of photography and railways.
I am going to be driving an iconic class 37 diesel locomotive on a preserved railway. 

58 minutes ago, Nick Y said:

I am going to be driving an iconic class 37 diesel locomotive on a preserved railway. 

Enjoy! One of my late relatives was a British Rail driver at Healey Mills. Through him I got to drive the 37s bigger brother (Class 40) from Healey Mills to Stanlow and back with a train of oil tanks one night in late 1969. 

7 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Enjoy! One of my late relatives was a British Rail driver at Healey Mills. Through him I got to drive the 37s bigger brother (Class 40) from Healey Mills to Stanlow and back with a train of oil tanks one night in late 1969. 

That's awesome. Wasn't as much health and safety back then, lol. 
I'm not that far from the old Healey Mills Yard. Such a shame that it's derelict now and left to waste. 

I most definitely will enjoy the experience. Not many people get the chance to do these kind of things these days because not many places do them and also they cost a lot to do. 

9 hours ago, Nick Y said:

Wasn't as much health and safety back then, lol. 

Lol, no. Strictly unofficial of course but I don't think anyone will get into bother by me mentioning it now, over 50 years (where did it go?!) later!😃

18 hours ago, StephenFord said:

Sad that I can't see a blue badge on the car. I have never parked in a 'disabled' space in my life. But have become even more conscious of errant parkers since my mum was awarded her own blue badge last year. ('Parent and child' spaces are fair game, always park in them, not my fault you decided to have a sprog )

You can register it in the hospital. We had one incident where some low life broke the window to a patients car, took the disability badge and got away in his electric scooter.  At least then now if people register the reg or badge they don't have to display it. Only thing is we wouldn't know if the car owner is owned or brought in a disabled person. 

I just assume anyone who parks in these bays are disabled 😂

11 hours ago, Nick Y said:

I do like that I've booked myself onto a driver experience session in May. 
Now, you're probably thinking that it's like a track day or something but this experience day isn't for a car. 
This experience is for about 2 hours and relates to my hobby of photography and railways.
I am going to be driving an iconic class 37 diesel locomotive on a preserved railway. 

Dad has told me and sister to take him to the model railway exhibition in a few months here in London.  Took him to the last one a few months back. I do appreciate the work these people put in to making the landscapes.

The first time you visit my local major health hub, not hospital, you take your blue badge to reception where they photcopy it and thats you sorted till you change your vehicle.

17 minutes ago, zain611 said:

Dad has told me and sister to take him to the model railway exhibition in a few months here in London.  Took him to the last one a few months back. I do appreciate the work these people put in to making the landscapes.

Need another prog in the style of the one Bob Symes ???????? forget his last name covering 3 or 4 model pursuits in one episode and revisiting during the season. It fascinated me sooo much i bought the books along side it and actually built the Glider and the Frigate. The guy had a pssion and it came across something much of todays youth are sadly lacking. I tried to build the wooden Rolls Royce but at that time struggled to source the different woods at a price i coud afford as a kid.

3 hours ago, Jimpster said:

Need another prog in the style of the one Bob Symes ???????? forget his last name covering 3 or 4 model pursuits in one episode and revisiting during the season. It fascinated me sooo much i bought the books along side it and actually built the Glider and the Frigate. The guy had a pssion and it came across something much of todays youth are sadly lacking. I tried to build the wooden Rolls Royce but at that time struggled to source the different woods at a price i coud afford as a kid.

Bob Symes! Totally forgotten about him, he was certainly a part of my TV viewing growing up, him and Jack Hargreaves.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Symes

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves

3 hours ago, zain611 said:

Dad has told me and sister to take him to the model railway exhibition in a few months here in London.  Took him to the last one a few months back. I do appreciate the work these people put in to making the landscapes.

That the one at Alexandra Palace? I've heard that it's good. 
Some model railway builders have fantastic setups and some look very realistic so a lot of time and effort is put into them. 
 

13 minutes ago, Turvey said:

Bob Symes! Totally forgotten about him, he was certainly a part of my TV viewing growing up, him and Jack Hargreaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Symes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves

I must be too young to remember those. 
 

3 hours ago, Jimpster said:

Need another prog in the style of the one Bob Symes ???????? forget his last name covering 3 or 4 model pursuits in one episode and revisiting during the season. It fascinated me sooo much i bought the books along side it and actually built the Glider and the Frigate. The guy had a pssion and it came across something much of todays youth are sadly lacking. I tried to build the wooden Rolls Royce but at that time struggled to source the different woods at a price i coud afford as a kid.

We had the James May Toy Stories series about 10 years ago but not may youngsters these days are into model railways, model kits etc. They're too bothered about playing CoD etc on their Xboxes or playstations. 
I do build plastic model kits but I've slowed down in my builds these days due to space being at a premium in my small apartment. 

James Mays an a55 and warrants little mention in anything.

Did someone mention health and safety. Around Eric's time driving grown up trains, or a little after, I was driving 8 wheeler trucks on the road at 14yrs old .I did start out driving milk floats first though ( not electric ones but ford transit MK1) 

The same company is still going too. 

Those were the days 🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

Was impressed by the military bits of kit being transported down the M1 this morning. Quite a few tracked tank type vehicles. I'm no military expert. The low loader trucks were huge carrying them. 

Was it them off the telly Allelys or Kings ?

37 minutes ago, Jimpster said:

Was it them off the telly Allelys or Kings ?

Militarys own trucks. Oshkosh . 

Alleys have been about for many years. I remember seeing them regularly when I work down the road from them . There depot was and assume still is in studley. 

Where I now work, there's a train/ carriage refurb depot that get moved out on big low loaders. That's a sight to see. Saw one loaded up Friday afternoon ready for the traffic to calm down before setting off. 

 

Latest camouflage colour incase you need to go off road and encounter a river of custard to cross. You never know. 🤣🤣🤣

6 minutes ago, iantt said:

Latest camouflage colour incase you need to go off road and encounter a river of custard to cross. You never know. 🤣🤣🤣

I saw a recent episode of CAR SOS when they did an 80s Ford Escort RS2000, could swear that was the colour of it! 

Could it be Daytona Yellow ?

They need to get it MOT'd again 🤣