Jump to content

walshie

Members
  • Posts

    5,376
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by walshie

  1. My son passed his Class 1 in January and the test centre sent off his licence and the pass certificate direct to DVLA or whatever they are called now..

    Months later he phoned to check the progress and was told they had no record of it and asked him to send in his pass certificate and once they had that, his licence would be with him "within 3 weeks".

    Months later he phoned again and they had lost it again. The smartarse he spoke to said he should have sent it recorded. My son replied "I did. Signed for so-and-so date by so-and-so."

    He was put through to a "supervisor" who then emailed some documents for my son to sign electronically and send back, which he did while the supervisor was still on the phone. He agreed he had all he needed, said he would send it for processing right then and my son would get his licence "within 7 days." That was 3 weeks ago.

    How can they be so incompetent? 7 months and counting.

  2. Best I got was 3 x 20 litre metal gerry cans for 99p. I almost felt bad for the guy when I collected them but he still insisted on giving me my 1p change from a quid. 

  3. My coterminous tickets don't run out till August and I did my renewal application online on 6th June. FEO has already been round for his visit and a cuppa.

    He said to keep my tickets in case I need to buy anything but asked if I could post them or drop them off to HQ 1st week of August which seems fair enough as I pass there most days anyway.

    I've never had anything but good service from them.

     

  4. 44 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:

    Wait for dawn to come and then cut his living heart out, and, whilst it is still beating, offer it up the Gods as appeasement. That usually sorts it. There's always a simple solution to any problem to be found here on P/W. Let me know how you got on and if it resolved the matter. And as for Dawn she probably won't be too happy but she's usually hard to please anyway. You can't keep everyone smiling all of the time.

    Don't think that hasn't crossed my mind. :ninja:

  5. Does anyone believe a person can be a jinx?

    A mate of mine comes to stay with us a couple of times a year and without fail something always goes wrong a few days before his arrival.

    This has included:

    The central heating programmer packing up while it was snowing outside.

    Utility room roof blowing off.

    My wife's polytunnel blowing away (2 occasions).

    The pressure tank for our water bursting its bladder.

    He came to visit us 2 Saturdays ago and on the Friday my wife noticed an oil smell from our heating oil tank and I noticed a split in the plastic. As they can't install single skin tanks here any more and they need a specific size and thickness of base it's costing the thick end of £4k to get it fixed. That's on top of the £300 emergency call out to get the tank drained.

    And a decent size tree fell over into the steam while he was actually here.

    We used to joke about it, but now it seems like it's really a thing. 

    On the bright side my house is getting replaced visit by visit. :unhappy:

  6. I don't understand why they specify an amount. I saw one the other night for £27. If I had a spare £20 I wanted to give to charity and saw this, would I try to find the extra £7 or just give my £20 to another charity instead? Surely £20 is better than £0.

  7. 12 hours ago, ditchman said:

    call me strange but i do like to see nice and neat and tidy...clear as you go..........nice pic :good:

    Nothing strange about that. I can't abide working in a mess. It would be tidier than this by now, but rain stopped play yesterday. 

    IMG_20220517_095309252_s.jpg.30c98f5e42593f5de88f828d58871b18.jpg

×
×
  • Create New...