Can you disconnect the battery and just plug it into a socket ?  that's how mine runs.

Nothing will change as there's too much money at stake and it happens every year, it makes me sick 😡
I dread the Grand National.   

Quote from: Raven on Today at 04:50:49 PMAlex I'm sorry to about your heart valve, it sounds similar to what happened to me. You will probably have to have the same operation I had last November, it's terrifying as your mind plays all sorts of tricks on you, I was scared out of my wits if you remember. But, it was all in my mind....Really. The operation was under an hour and I never felt a thing and no after pain. I was awake throughout it all and talking to the nurses.

Thanks Raven, I do remember how scared you  were.  I was hoping maybe they'd just put me on statins to halt any further calcification or thinners ?  tbh I know nothing about it, but hope my GP calls me in sooner rather than later.

I hijacked FB's thread, sorry FB  !   


I've never had a problem renewing my road tax Klondy, I did it in December without a hitch.

 Just spotted someone on Gransnet having the same problems as me phew !  then someone added 'if you think renewing over 70 on line is bad, wait till you need to do the over 80 renew' 

But he's the PM, the buck stops here etc....

Quote from: klondike on Today at 09:04:57 PMI'm surprised. The DVLA car tax is usually good. I think I renewed my licence last time by post as they only supported photo update if you had a current passport and I don't any longer.

I've never had a problem renewing my road tax Klondy, I did it in December without a hitch.
 Just spotted someone on Gransnet having the same problems as me phew !  then someone added 'if you think renewing over 70 on line is bad, wait till you need to do the over 80 renew' 

It's easy to blame Starmer but the main failings here must be the Navy and MoD. It's the job of the Navy to maintain their ships and surely the MoD should be advising him on situations affecting national security.  It would be up to him to authorise the actions they advise but as the thing wasn't even seaworthy when it was needed can't be down to just him.

Ah I've always found the DVLA ok but I've had a gov.uk account for years dating back to when I was self employed through my own limited company which required contact with IR and VAT too.

I'm surprised. The DVLA car tax is usually good. I think I renewed my licence last time by post as they only supported photo update if you had a current passport and I don't any longer.

Quote from: Alex on Today at 11:12:22 AMIt's humiliating that France and even Greece were there to protect Cyprus before us.  Starmer must have known weeks ago when the US started moving their big boys towards the middle east.  The fact he didn't think about the threat to our base in Cyprus is just incompetence.

Of course he knew.  Like the coward he is, he chose not to get involved.  In fact, he chose not to involve us, which is pretty disgusting because I'm sure that most sensible British people would want to help defend our overseas territories.

What coward Starmer has done, and continues to do, may well encourage the Argies to attempt to take the Falklands again.  Unfortunately, with our present lack of armed forces and equipment, especially in the RN, I very much doubt us being able to retake them this time.