Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

mystic_trev

michaels wrote: »

Others might suggest that given moving is so stressful and such hard work, whether it is worth the hassle to only move 10m across the road.....:rotfl:

I need more room.Moving from semi to detached. The new place has a garage with enough room to park four cars, it's also got outbuildings.

michaels

mystic_trev wrote: »

I need more room.Moving from semi to detached. The new place has a garage with enough room to park four cars, it's also got outbuildings.

Perhaps you should have just kept both and asked to have the road closed so you could combine them....

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Trying to tax the car, bit confused/lost. I have the V5 in my hand, I tried online and it says you can do it with that, but then insists on asking for the V11 (reminder letter) reference, which I don't have.

So then I phoned their 0300 number. Got to the point where I typed in the V5 number and it says it can't be found.

So now I'm wondering if I have another V5.

What a nuisance. This will end up chewing up half my day no doubt.

EDIT: Ah, found last year's reminder, I have made a change of address at some point/somehow as they knew my last address.

So, I probably can't take this V5 to the Post Office to buy tax.

I'll have to look for another V5 and/or apply for a new one.... faff, faff, faff.



EDIT 2: Right, found a newer V5. But got a small new problem. I took my car for its MoT and drove it home, can't find the car key ..... it'll be round here somewhere as I drove the car home, but it was separated from my house key to hand over to the garage. No 'problem' as I have a spare - and just used that to double-check the car for the V5.

Right... back to what I was doing then ... tax the car using the V5

EDIT 2: Well, that went well. Car taxed.

Just got to find the car key now .....

EDIT 3: Doh, idiot. The key was right under my nose all along... it was exactly where it should be, where I put my keys every time... brain didn't spot a single/black key in the same spot -v- a bunch that included that one.

I swear I'm losing some marbles somewhere.

Out of interest, have you thrown away the wrong V5C? Or are you keeping that around to provide added excitement this time next year?

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Spirit, what direction do you see your volunteering taking?

When I read your last post, straight away I thought of Citizens Advice as you are personable, practical, have a wealth of relevant experience and in some cases will have "walked the walk". If that is something you are interested in, it may be worth contacting early as it requires a lot of training and shadowing. I wondered if you could fit this round your rehab?

CAB may well tick a lot of those, but like the other things it is down to access. I really am in a transport black hole.

Lunches, coffee, Dinners out are nice, but not enough to make a life.

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

I am bad! Not worthy to be posting on the nice people thread! I'm afraid that I chortled when I read that Jamie Gilt, a prominent pro-gun lobbyist, was shot in the back by her four year old son, using a large calibre hand gun she just happened to have left on the back seat of her car, next to him.

She had previously described how she spent time showing him how to use guns. It's a shame she didn't spend more time telling him not to.

I am also a bit on the naughty side. Proof of Karma if ever proof was needed.

ukmaggie45

Snowden very snowy today. We have kale flowers and budding side shoots so a nice meal ahead! Primroses and mini daffodils in the hedge. We plan to chop the buddleias back further in hope they'll flower later this year than they did last year. Also have 6 broad beans shooting in various pots - we're going to move the pots around so they're all close together for pollination. Really chuffed about the broadies as I planted them when we were here at Christmastime. Need to weed most of the pots on the deck, might try transplant the foxglove seedlings and plant them in garden at home.

Oh, yeah, we made it to the caravan!

No photos yet as grey and misty - Sunday is supposed to be nice according to the forecast though.

bugslet

Spirit wrote: »

I am also a bit on the naughty side. Proof of Karma if ever proof was needed.

Karma doesn't exist otherwise really horrible things wouldn't happen to really nice people.

Hope Mr Spirit finds those work for him.

Mystic, perhaps decluttering might have been easier:D

hjd

Spirit wrote: »

I understand I may not actually like or be cut out for something when I get to do it

Hope I have cut out enough, let me know if not.
It's also just as important to list (for yourself) what you aren't able to do, don't want to do, or have issues with, as well as listing the positives.
I'm sure you have done that already though!

GDB2222

Not quoting, but I like the idea of helping ex-offenders. Probably, both immensely rewarding and immensely frustrating in equal measures. It would use all of a certain person's skills in a most socially-productive way.

PasturesNew

Viva: Thanks for the email/attachments.