What have you done today thread?

[KungFooBob]

The MD has just been round the office with a tin of caviar.

Spooning it on to the backs of people's hands, apparently that's how you eat it?

It was a bit fishy, quite salty and very earthy.

I don't think I'll bother next time any is on offer.

[gremlin]

The MD has just been round the office with a tin of caviar.

Spooning it on to the backs of people's hands, apparently that's how you eat it?

It was a bit fishy, quite salty and very earthy.

I don't think I'll bother next time any is on offer.

Yeah. Odd what people consider a delicacy.

Next time put in a request for surströmming. Mmmmm. Delicious. >chef's kiss<

[Mr Moofo]

Next time put in a request for surströmming. Mmmmm. Delicious. >chef's kiss<

The food of gods
Balut is also something quite unpleasant

[Pirahna]

I do miss a bit of cod roe from the chippy.

[KungFooBob]

I think it could have been improved if I'd had a glass of Krug in the other hand.

[Dodgy69]

We've had a works bbq today, only a meaty burger or veggie burger, but none of that fancy posh shite.

[Sadlonelygit]

Discovering the little differences between France and UK.
Been trying to register the car.
In the UK, fill in V5 new owners supp, send it off, get a new V5, if you're lucky for the right vehicle.
No V5, fill in form, send £s to dvla, ditto.

France.
They have now gone digital. Previously you turned up a a prefecture, sat in a queue, paid your money, bish bash bosh, done
Now they have ANTS, an online document depository.
So you go online and try and register, however to register you need a validated form of govt id.
Aha! I have my titre de sejour. I enter the id reference........Non! Cette une carte d'etrangers
OK, I'll use my carte vitale (french NHS card), log on to my health account.......enter your id reference.........Non! Cette une carte d'etrangers
I'm seeing a pattern here!
Ok, we'll try la poste. Fill it in, go to page 2....... enter your id number......oh fuck off!
Look online at service de carte grise near me. Right, off we go, just needed to take:
passport, old CG, new insurance, drivers license, leccy bill and transfer of ownership document as we purchased from a 'professional'. Took the lad about 10 minutes to click, click, whirr, click, whirr and sign 'ere and 'ere!
€146 svp monsieur, which explains why frenchies run cars into the ground.
I enquired about registering a bike, which they said they can do. I mentioned it had no CG, the lad behind the counter explained that it is impossible to register without a CG, and if you loose it, technically you are to cease driving until you have applied for a replacement. The only person who can apply for a replacement CG is the person who's name is recorded on it!

[KungFooBob]

You can do it digitally in the UK too, you just need the doc number. Takes seconds and the new v5c usually turns up within three days.

[Silly Car]

You can do it digitally in the UK too, you just need the doc number. Takes seconds and the new v5c usually turns up within three days.

I wish the trader I bought the SLC from had done that, 4 weeks later and no V5C. I’m giving it another 24hrs before sending off the paperwork to get a free duplicate… Lovely lady at DVLA wasn’t even surprised the new document hadn’t turned up…

[KungFooBob]

You can do it digitally in the UK too, you just need the doc number. Takes seconds and the new v5c usually turns up within three days.

I wish the trader I bought the SLC from had done that, 4 weeks later and no V5C. I’m giving it another 24hrs before sending off the paperwork to get a free duplicate… Lovely lady at DVLA wasn’t even surprised the new document hadn’t turned up…

I recently bought an X2 for the wife, Sytners BMW registered it in my name when I paid the deposit. I had the V5c before I went to pick the car up and pay the rest four days later.

A colleague who bought a car four weeks earlier still hadn't got her V5c when I got mine. She did the online chat thing with DVLA and they told her they'd not received anything. She had chased the dealer after the first week to be told thing often get delayed. She rang them back with the info from the DVLA and went ape shit with them. Got the V5c 3 days later.

[Silly Car]

You can do it digitally in the UK too, you just need the doc number. Takes seconds and the new v5c usually turns up within three days.

I wish the trader I bought the SLC from had done that, 4 weeks later and no V5C. I’m giving it another 24hrs before sending off the paperwork to get a free duplicate… Lovely lady at DVLA wasn’t even surprised the new document hadn’t turned up…

I recently bought an X2 for the wife, Sytners BMW registered it in my name when I paid the deposit. I had the V5c before I went to pick the car up and pay the rest four days later.

A colleague who bought a car four weeks earlier still hadn't got her V5c when I got mine. She did the online chat thing with DVLA and they told her they'd not received anything. She had chased the dealer after the first week to be told thing often get delayed. She rang them back with the info from the DVLA and went ape shit with them. Got the V5c 3 days later.

Goodness knows why the guy didn’t do it online, he managed to sort the tax online with no bother While there is no particular hurry for the document, I’d like to get the irrelevant private reg off the car onto a certificate and sell it.

[KungFooBob]

I traded in the SL for the X2.

Sunday I went to look at the Beemer, decided to buy it.

I managed to put the SL plate on retention online 2mins before the 7pm cut off on Sunday.

Got the X2 V5c on Wednesday, got the Retention cert and the new SL V5c on Thursday, picked X2 up on Friday with the new plates on it.

I must say the whole experience of dealing with Sytner BMW Sheffield was brilliant, I've never bought/traded a car with so little stress and so much free coffee.

[Yorick]

Washed the 3 beasties. Not washed the GSXR since just before I went to Portimao in October

All 3 are fantastic at their job. I see no need to change them in the near future.

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[Noggin]

You can do it digitally in the UK too, you just need the doc number. Takes seconds and the new v5c usually turns up within three days.

I wish the trader I bought the SLC from had done that, 4 weeks later and no V5C. I’m giving it another 24hrs before sending off the paperwork to get a free duplicate… Lovely lady at DVLA wasn’t even surprised the new document hadn’t turned up…

I recently bought an X2 for the wife, Sytners BMW registered it in my name when I paid the deposit. I had the V5c before I went to pick the car up and pay the rest four days later.

A colleague who bought a car four weeks earlier still hadn't got her V5c when I got mine. She did the online chat thing with DVLA and they told her they'd not received anything. She had chased the dealer after the first week to be told thing often get delayed. She rang them back with the info from the DVLA and went ape shit with them. Got the V5c 3 days later.

My brother bought a new Fireblade years n years ago. Living in Camden and commuting to work he realised he'd not got a ticket from a camera he knew he'd set off. Realised it happened a second time and got a bit throttle happy - still nothing.

He was doing nights at one point, set off late evening to head to work in the rain through London. Normal road closed, so he was 'navigating' and winging it a bit - speeding a bit in the straights, only slowing for turns and not looking behind him at all.

Next he knew there was a road block - for him!!


Turned out the Blade hadn't been registered by the dealer - think it was close to a year old by then The police let him go to work and called him in the morning after they'd spoken to the dealer. He got the V5 pretty fast after that!!


(I'm guessing he cut the wet ride through london story short/cut some bits out!! )

[Count Steer]

Taken a couple of picture acquisitions for framing. The frame for one of them cost 50%+ more than the picture (and would have been £40 more with the magic 'no glass' glass!).

Took in the 'Edo' art exhibition (lots of Japanese prints) and went at the price of some that were for sale in the gallery. It's a bit of a mickey take that the labels on some said eg £2,250 (not including frame) - that's just grasping that is.

Had a elevenses of their famous Welsh Rarebit.

Escaped via the shop with minimum financial damage. (Bought a tea towel ).

[KungFooBob]

Taken a couple of picture acquisitions for framing. The frame for one of them cost 50%+ more than the picture (and would have been £40 more with the magic 'no glass' glass!).

Took in the 'Edo' art exhibition (lots of Japanese prints) and went at the price of some that were for sale in the gallery. It's a bit of a mickey take that the labels on some said eg £2,250 (not including frame) - that's just grasping that is.

Had a elevenses of their famous Welsh Rarebit.

Escaped via the shop with minimum financial damage. (Bought a tea towel ).

Are you putting 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' up in your living room?

[Yorick]

Had an innocent looking tumble on enduro ride and hurt thumb, shoulder and knee. So had to head home.

But the lads took some good pics after of a baranco (dried river canyon) showing the sort of thing we often do

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[Yambo]

Taken a couple of picture acquisitions for framing. The frame for one of them cost 50%+ more than the picture (and would have been £40 more with the magic 'no glass' glass!).

I recently had one of my astrophotographs printed on metal (thin aluminium) as many people say it's the best way to present astro images.

Amazingly cheap - about £8 with postage. OK, I would like the print to be bigger (it's 20 x 20 cms) and i'm looking around for someone who can do that but as a test print it was great value.

[Count Steer]

Taken a couple of picture acquisitions for framing. The frame for one of them cost 50%+ more than the picture (and would have been £40 more with the magic 'no glass' glass!).

I recently had one of my astrophotographs printed on metal (thin aluminium) as many people say it's the best way to present astro images.

Amazingly cheap - about £8 with postage. OK, I would like the print to be bigger (it's 20 x 20 cms) and i'm looking around for someone who can do that but as a test print it was great value.

There's a local 'open studio' event every year and one year a potter did a combined show with a chum that has photos printed on aluminium. I particularly remember one night-lit cityscape. It was stunning. It was about A3 size and the street lighting and sky etc suited the medium just I think she said she had the printing done in Germany but it seems there's a few places here that do it now.

[Silly Car]

Had to take the new (to me) car to an independent Merc specialist as there was a warning light illuminated on the dash. Within the short space of a conversation with the business owner, he said, “I bet it’s one of the Nox sensors” on hearing an Adblue injector had been replaced before I bought it.

I hadn’t arrived home before he called to inform me the diagnostics machine had confirmed the rear Nox sensor was showing “out of range” readings. £475 for the part, £90 diagnostics fee and £110 labour, all plus VAT.

I called the trader I bought it from, he took the details and said he’d call his local specialist garage and come back to me. I was expecting lots of if, buts and maybes before being told to stump up for it myself.

Nope, he duly called back saying part price was correct, labour & diagnostics were a bit high and that the part wasn’t covered by the warranty but as a gesture of good will, he’d pay for everything for me, asked me to get the garage to contact him for payment which he has done and the car will be back with me tomorrow morning