Wow, so in France and Spain you have a pretty useless overall safety test and its not even annual, its biannual?
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!
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.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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!!
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
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
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.
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!!
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
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.
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.
Skub wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:34 pm
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.
Your memory is fading. It's your cat, you dozey old twonk
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Also- the Gordon Brown trust fund thing. Thought nothing of it. Eldest (18) checked and he had £1600 in there. From the government putting 2 x £250 into the fund back in 2006.
He’s currently enjoying the extra pocket money on his holiday with his mates
Skub wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:34 pm
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.
I miss cats
Docca wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:12 pm
Also- the Gordon Brown trust fund thing. Thought nothing of it. Eldest (18) checked and he had £1600 in there. From the government putting 2 x £250 into the fund back in 2006.
He’s currently enjoying the extra pocket money on his holiday with his mates
My nephew was a bit gutted - all his mates got that sort of amount but because he was born in the states (english mother tho and has lived in the uk since the age or 4 or 5) he got about £100
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
