I saw a 4x4 today, with a surf board on top, I was no where near the coast, either.
That was kinda my point, as it was raining hardWho needs a coast?
We're not on a Smart Meter and our energy supplier has written several times over the last couple of years about making an appointment to fit one. I have always ignored it. Sneaky buggers decided to tie it in with a meter reading instead. When the bloke turned up, he took one look, said we couldn't have a Smart Meter fitted took the readings and left.Plus they are the only company that has it in their small print that you don't have to have a smart meter,
other companies try and tell you that if you don't you will go on their higher tariff.
There is no legal precedent for this either.
ResultWhen the bloke turned up, he took one look, said we couldn't have a Smart Meter fitted took the readings and left.
mine went down to 3/5ths the year I signed up, as they estimated the usage based on previous.Hopefully it will halve our water bill.
EDF?The new supplier doesn't demand the installation of smart meters either.
No, Octopus. They do have a programme of installing smart meters for some of their tariffs but it's on hold at the moment until they get the latest meter technology. They are also one of the few that don't sting you with exit fees if you want to switch suppliers during a fixed 12 month contract. That's my lifeboat in case they change their policy on smart meters.mine went down to 3/5ths the year I signed up, as they estimated the usage based on previous.
(There had been a water meter in place for a couple of years but not connected)
The following year it went down to half the original tariff and over a £100 rebate
EDF?
They're waiting for you to bugger off, so they can put dusty paw prints all over it.
Not to mention what pigeons leave behind.....Yep. Will get in tomorrow and see a set of paw prints going up the windscreen!
Not to mention what pigeons leave behind.....
The car got it's first clean today, good to see it nice & shiny again. It then got photobombed by the cat!
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Was it sign recognition or was it the Sat nav displaying the speed? If it was Sat nav it could need updating to a recent speed limit change.Just spoke to my car insurance company, they are not interested in the fact that I got a speeding fine (camera trap) in the Netherlands a couple of months ago as there are no points/endorsement. What is still annoying is the fact that the car I was driving displays the speed limit on the road as you drive along & I am convinced it displayed the wrong limit. However it's a long way back to check, especially as the fine was only 37 Euros (I exceeded the speed limit by 6km/h).
Was it sign recognition or was it the Sat nav displaying the speed? If it was Sat nav it could need updating to a recent speed limit change.
When I drive to my son's house, there is a 50mph speed limit on a country road. On the approach to a 30mph built up area it looks like they have extended the 30mph zone out further. They must have decided the best place to reduce the speed was at the last 50mph marker, about a hundred meters or so from the 30mph sign right by the built up area. You would think they would just replace the 50mph sign with a 30mph sign. Oh no. They have planted a new pole a few feet in front of the 50mph sign and placed the 30mph sign on that. I can only assume this has caused some confusion and had people slowing to 30, see the 50 and increase speed again and then slow to 30mph at the sign by the built up area.
Now the sensible thing to do would be just remove the 50mph sign. Oh no, they have planted another 30mph signpost a few feet behind the 50mph sign.
I'd have been sorely tempted to lodge a dispute that he would have to declare, just to wind him up.Getting home from work and finding that the ares hole of an opposite neighbour has the Estate agents in
I'd have been sorely tempted to lodge a dispute that he would have to declare, just to wind him up.
I wait for the day our neighbour shows signs of leaving.....but sadly does not look like anytime soonGetting home from work and finding that the ares hole of an opposite neighbour has the Estate agents in
I now feel sorry for all the things I said to his face and some behind his back ... Ok that bit's a lie
His parking p***es people off more than anything, spaces can be a bit of a premium, around here, but he always makes sure he has enough by moving his cars
into the road ( 3 cars and a van, his drive will take 3 but there is always 3 "in the road" )
once everyone else has left for work. leaving his drive clear.
The worse thing he did? one evening he double parked with me, because I was in first
It was dark, I saw blue lights flashing through the curtains, and cracked them open to see what the score was, a fire engine was trying to get through, no chance with that twatt there. As I looked out, I saw him turn off his house lights!
Now I would never wish that sort of problem on anyone, but also I'm a great believer in Karma!
I'd have been sorely tempted to lodge a dispute that he would have to declare, just to wind him up.
Don't do it! You could be stuck with with him forever!
Brilliant idea! If I could think of one, I would do
As I'm not looking to sell now or anytime in the distant future it wouldn't matter.Hmmmm! not an ideal thing to do because 'cuts both ways'.
BUGGER! yes that's a thought. I need to some how "Big up" his sale.Don't do it! You could be stuck with with him forever!
Doesn't that blight your place, as well as his?I'd have been sorely tempted to lodge a dispute that he would have to declare, just to wind him up.
Getting home from work and finding that the ares hole of an opposite neighbour has the Estate agents in
I now feel sorry for all the things I said to his face and some behind his back ... Ok that bit's a lie
His parking p***es people off more than anything, spaces can be a bit of a premium, around here, but he always makes sure he has enough by moving his cars
into the road ( 3 cars and a van, his drive will take 3 but there is always 3 "in the road" )
once everyone else has left for work. leaving his drive clear.
The worse thing he did? one evening he double parked with me, because I was in first
It was dark, I saw blue lights flashing through the curtains, and cracked them open to see what the score was, a fire engine was trying to get through, no chance with that twatt there. As I looked out, I saw him turn off his house lights!
Now I would never wish that sort of problem on anyone, but also I'm a great believer in Karma!
but no its only a car derived van.Gonna be a real bitch when he moves out if there's nowhere for the van to park anywhere near - especially if he's doing his own move...
Oh he's already done that, driven off, when half parked on the mud verge, mud tyre tracks leading from his side of the road, straight to the scrapeJust make sure your vehicles are covered by cameras in case they get "accidentally" damaged when he's carrying stuff past them.
His parking p***es people off more than anything, spaces can be a bit of a premium, around here, but he always makes sure he has enough by moving his cars
I've got a neighbour like, his S-I-L comes over every weekend and they make sure she has a parking place in her preferred space, often blocking it with his car and van parked with a big gap so no one else can park, she arrives and the van is moved away from here so she can park.
If she can she will park where I normally do, which is a residents only space and even go off on holiday with them and leave it there, we have limited parking so it can cause problems but nothing is ever said although I know it annoys a couple of others who have to park away from here
I have a neighbour who has to park her car as close as possible to the path leading up to her front door. She will do so, regardless of the size of the gap she leaves in front and behind her car. I would say 9 times out of 10 she will leave space for half a car in front and 3/4 of a car behind or there abouts.I've got a neighbour like, his S-I-L comes over every weekend and they make sure she has a parking place in her preferred space, often blocking it with his car and van parked with a big gap so no one else can park, she arrives and the van is moved away from here so she can park.
If she can she will park where I normally do, which is a residents only space and even go off on holiday with them and leave it there, we have limited parking so it can cause problems but nothing is ever said although I know it annoys a couple of others who have to park away from here
I have a neighbour who has to park her car as close as possible to the path leading up to her front door. She will do so, regardless of the size of the gap she leaves in front and behind her car. I would say 9 times out of 10 she will leave space for half a car in front and 3/4 of a car behind or there abouts.
Must be related to the brain dead f***-wit over the road.The wife’s grandmother used to get up at 5am everyday and move her car off her drive and onto the road outside to stop any one parking in “her”space....and move it back at 9pm, often having gone nowhere all day...
Parking in our village is occasionally difficult but we generally muddle through. A couple of years ago there was an outbreak of “donut park here” notes on windscreens. I was waiting for the explosion but none came. It seems the chairman of the parish council had a word with “our” PCSO who had a word with the writer. End of problem.Must be related to the brain dead f***-wit over the road.
Generally every one muddles through here too, its just the f***wit opposite that seems to think he owns the road.Parking in our village is occasionally difficult but we generally muddle through
Where everyone knows what everyone else doesI do like living in a village.
Generally every one muddles through here too, its just the f***wit opposite that seems to think he owns the road.
I've even had him overtake me on the estate road, its very windy in an effort to control speed plus its a 30 with plenty of parked cars,
So he could get home before me and park outside my house
He truly is an idiot
Where everyone knows what everyone else does
You don't live near a station by any chance? do you?when we return any spaces on our section of road are suddenly full with cars that don't belong to any of the neighbours. Worse still they could be sat there for a few days, maybe over a week without moving