DVLA pettiness.I know he can well afford the fine but ..

[motorbiking]

I know London Transport do. A friend had a nightmare getting their car repaired when they were hit by a bus.

Ms motorbiking had her car hit by British Gas, and they rushed to take care of everything to avoid an insurance claim.

 

[Brigadier]

I didn't realise such a scenario was quite so widespread, how many cases are you aware of?

Rich people hiding wealth to avoid paying up?

Far from uncommon occurrence.

 

[motorbiking]

grumpy poorer people making stuff up about rich people.

 

[noseall]

Rich people hiding wealth to avoid paying up?

Far from uncommon occurrence.

You know how the greedy like to cling to every penny of that inherited wealth.

 

[Mottie]

You know how the greedy like to cling to every penny of that inherited wealth.

Are you actually on holiday? Take a break Nosey, chill.

 

[noseall]

Are you actually on holiday? Take a break Nosey, chill.

Chilled.

 

[noseall]

Are you actually on holiday?

Lisbon. Sort of food and sightseeing. All good so far. Nothing really opens till apres 11 am

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Ed Sheeran SHOULD be fined ... for his music!

Boom boom, every one a gem. I'm here all week, DVDs and t-shirts available to buy at the bar.

 

[Mottie]

Lisbon. Sort of food and sightseeing. All good so far. Nothing really opens till apres 11 am

Been to Portugal 3 times. Lisbon twice (stopped there on a med cruise, got off and went straight into a Titanic exhibition!) and once to Madeira. Lisbon bit of a ****e hole with plenty of beggars. We were walking along that main river and saw a black mass ahead in the water which turned out to be hundreds if not thousands of fair size fish all gobbling up raw sewage being pumped directly into the river including sanitary towels, condoms and of course, turds. The locals were fishing nearby - I wondered if the fish were ending up in local restaurants. Yuk. Wouldn't go to Lisbon again but would go back to Madeira.

We couldn’t get sardines in Lisbon. Went to a restaurant recommended by the hotel we were staying at and ordered a local speciality, some kind of fish and it was cooked whole with the guts and bones still in it. And with boiled spuds. Practically inedible, too boney. At another restaurant we ordered some wine with a meal, they brought it up, opened it, poured it, it tasted nice but wasn’t what we ordered, it was a more expensive bottle. When I pointed it out, instead of letting us have it for the price of the bottle we asked for, they took the glasses back from the four of us, poured it back into the bottle and took it away!

Don’t be tempted to try the 'river fish' in any of the restaurants!

We went to Porto a few weeks ago. That was okay - plenty of nice looking restaurants but many we couldn’t try because of Mrs Motties coeliac disease which they couldn’t cater for (has to be gluten safe restaurants, not just gluten free food).

 

[motorbiking]

Are you actually on holiday? Take a break Nosey, chill.

I have an image of him standing in the shallow end of the pool with his hanky on his head messaging on the forum while drinking a non-brand cocktail in a plastic cup, grumpy that the over 70s aqua aerobics is about to get in the way.

 

[Tigercubrider]

Owning several vehicles that are on and off the road it’s daft that SORN doesn’t automatically trigger the insurance.
People with classic vehicles often “tax” sorned vehicles for the summer, let the insurance carry over and then get caught when summer finishes, renewing the SORN.

Sometimes the summer season is long, sometimes not. They still chase for unpaid tax even though historic value is zero.