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Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

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DefTrap wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:06 pm
Noggin wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:04 pm Just annoying that it's 75€ for a basic scan of a bike that probably doesn't even check it's actual road worthiness!

I'm totally happy to take my mates bike for one, but if it's as basic as I suspect (and you've said) then that's a lot of money for very little!! :lol: :lol:
Tbf though doesn't the initial CT for bikes last 3 years?
It's 4 years here for all vehicles.
Then test every 2
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 6:19 pm Letter from the tax man.

I think it's the first one I've ever had that says I've over paid rather than under paid!

£183.20 on it's way back to me.

Same here, but 117. 🥳👍
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Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:24 pm
DefTrap wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:06 pm
Noggin wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:04 pm Just annoying that it's 75€ for a basic scan of a bike that probably doesn't even check it's actual road worthiness!

I'm totally happy to take my mates bike for one, but if it's as basic as I suspect (and you've said) then that's a lot of money for very little!! :lol: :lol:
Tbf though doesn't the initial CT for bikes last 3 years?
It's 4 years here for all vehicles.
Then test every 2
Wow, so in France and Spain you have a pretty useless overall safety test and its not even annual, its biannual? :wtf:
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 12:19 am
Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:24 pm
DefTrap wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:06 pm

Tbf though doesn't the initial CT for bikes last 3 years?
It's 4 years here for all vehicles.
Then test every 2
Wow, so in France and Spain you have a pretty useless overall safety test and its not even annual, its biannual? :wtf:
It's very strict here.
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Sounds like the UK is doing nicely in the middle ground then.

Hoorah for Blighty.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:19 am
Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 12:19 am
Yorick wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:24 pm

It's 4 years here for all vehicles.
Then test every 2
Wow, so in France and Spain you have a pretty useless overall safety test and its not even annual, its biannual? :wtf:
It's very strict here.
You've enough ex-pats there, rebel and hoof the spanish out and get that St Georges flag flying over the new MOT stations! 8-) :thumbup:
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'Safety' is arguable though innit? One UK MOT Tester often produces different results to the next.

But yes, IME the French CT is of a lower standard to the UK MOT, and less frequent. But on the other hand you have to get a new CT before flogging your vehicle on, which is different and arguably 'safer' that the UK.

But meh, vive la difference.
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:35 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:19 am
Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 12:19 am

Wow, so in France and Spain you have a pretty useless overall safety test and its not even annual, its biannual? :wtf:
It's very strict here.
You've enough ex-pats there, rebel and hoof the spanish out and get that St Georges flag flying over the new MOT stations! 8-) :thumbup:
There's about 150,000 folk on this island.

Expats?

About 5,000 British. And same number of Irish & Germans.
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:35 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:19 am
Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 12:19 am

Wow, so in France and Spain you have a pretty useless overall safety test and its not even annual, its biannual? :wtf:
It's very strict here.
You've enough ex-pats there, rebel and hoof the spanish out and get that St Georges flag flying over the new MOT stations! 8-) :thumbup:
They might need to form an axis with the other expats and invent a new flag (apparently - to my surprise - Italians, Koreans, Cubans and Romanians make up 13% of the population!).

Could form irregular troop divisions from the 3 million tourists pa. Use 'em as cannon fodder. :D
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Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 11:18 am
Taipan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:35 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:19 am
It's very strict here.
You've enough ex-pats there, rebel and hoof the spanish out and get that St Georges flag flying over the new MOT stations! 8-) :thumbup:
There's about 150,000 folk on this island.

Expats?

About 5,000 British. And same number of Irish & Germans.
We didn't build an Empire with that attitude! :roll:
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Just been sent a video of a car I'm picking up tomorrow.

That's if the v5c for the one I'm trading in turns up in time
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DefTrap wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:06 pm
Noggin wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:04 pm Just annoying that it's 75€ for a basic scan of a bike that probably doesn't even check it's actual road worthiness!

I'm totally happy to take my mates bike for one, but if it's as basic as I suspect (and you've said) then that's a lot of money for very little!! :lol: :lol:
Tbf though doesn't the initial CT for bikes last 3 years?
I thought it was 2, but could be three - it's not so bad once I realised it was 2 (or 3?) years!! LOL
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Finding a wallet at the side of the road. All the cards gone except a store card for a DIY place. There's €40 plus change and a £10 note.
A wee bit of detective work and I was able to find the guy on Facebook, contact him and tell him where I was so I could reunite him with his wallet.
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Noggin wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2024 3:56 pm
DefTrap wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:06 pm
Noggin wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 5:04 pm Just annoying that it's 75€ for a basic scan of a bike that probably doesn't even check it's actual road worthiness!

I'm totally happy to take my mates bike for one, but if it's as basic as I suspect (and you've said) then that's a lot of money for very little!! :lol: :lol:
Tbf though doesn't the initial CT for bikes last 3 years?
I thought it was 2, but could be three - it's not so bad once I realised it was 2 (or 3?) years!! LOL
I paid €63 for my CT this week. It lasts 3 years
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Neighbours up the road have a couple of peacocks, as well as other fowl, and it amuses me to see them roosting on electricity poles or the house chimneys. They just look so incongruous.

They also frequently strut and display in the road.
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We had this the other day https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news ... eadowmill/ One of the main routes into the town. Must have been a good size queue behind them lot :lol:
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Skint??? Makes a lot of people happy though

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/full-list- ... 20inactive.
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Felix wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:24 am Skint??? Makes a lot of people happy though

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/full-list- ... 20inactive.
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Having a lazy day,just lounging in the chair out the back,when a little tortoiseshell cat makes an appearance,jumps onto my lap and settles down purring.

It was like we had known each other for years. 8-)
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