New Lock for the garage door - £8
250 mile round trip from Buckingham to Whitstable and back to pick up gift engine from the lovely Frank
- so that is £40 worth of petrol plus some wear and tear on the car - call it £50 in total
Thames Dartford crossing - £5 paid online (bridges should be for the common good - building bridges to cross rivers is the very least a governement should do for its people. Scottish Bridges are free)
A day of my time down the tubes - call it £50
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its the hassle that these wee bawbags cause that’s the real headache – good you got one replaced though :)
Re. Dartford crossing, I read somewhere that the cost of building the bridge had been recovered more than ten years ago and that it is now operated by a French company. I am sure they are doing it from the goodness of their hearts.
I used to live in Bicester. To get to Whitstable I would have taken the M40 and M25 south of the smoke, but that was a few years ago. Maybe things have changed.
Its quite incredible that burglary, and it is burglary because a shed or garage is a building of some permanence. Is considered a low priority offence in the UK. If the thieves were caught after being given a helping hand paid for by the tax payer they would get something akin to a slap on the wrist and a quid out of the poor box. Yet they cause decent folks anxiety and expense. Yet if you transcend to drive a few miles over the speed limit you are hung out to dry. I gave up with expecting a sense of justice in the UK years ago and I am a retired copper
‘You lucky lucky Bastard…’ Only £112 Finally got out to my boat on the River Wyre. Usually it dries out at low tide. Not for the last month or so! Got within 10′ with thigh length waders on a few occasions but was beaten back by the shearer force of water Bowland hills. Now, I thought she looked a bit low in the water? When finally got out at the weekend in a dinghy, it was flooded with rain water 2′ short of the cushions! Unfortunately I found my FM Radio £15, Garmin GPS £115, 50x7s binoculars £115, Nautech Autohelm (£100> est. to fix) underwater and ruined. And looking up the mast I noticed my VHF arial/wind-vane (£115) stolen by the strotey winter gales. Still, the roller genoa well trussed up with my old main sheet was intact. ‘They must think the sun shines out of your …’
( and a little nod to the Monty Python dungeon scene)
Dylan your maths is getting a little rusty mate, maybe still seething from the scrotes.
Dylan
I found out last year on a visit to UK that the Dartford Bridge was pay online only and with only one sign to tell you to pay if you don’t have a transponder!, NO toll booths!, not even 1. Bloody pain in the ask” since my cell phone does not work in UK except on wifi. Quite the ‘riga ma roll’ for a non UK based to pay…..
Mind you a few years earlier when they still had toll booths I drove straight from the airport up to one of the 15+ toll booths to pay the $5….. whipped out a fiver… ‘sorry mate that’s out of date!… no problem… whipped out a tenner…sorry mate that’s out of date…..Hmmm…no problem whipped out a 20 quid note all notes from my saved english money stash……Eh sorry mate that’s out of date too…..What?….. credit card?….no good…..well all I’ve got is US Dollars (the most counterfeit money in the world)……YES no problem we take dollars!
How crazy is that!
w
Yes, nowadays government depts. and quangos are run solely for their own benefit. The personal and financial costs that the “customer” has to bear never come into the equation.
Something I go on about a lot is the sheer quantity of rules and regulations that small businesses and organizations like the scouts etc. have to comply with that don’t apply to the bureaucrats who create them or to the really big businesses.
Sorry if this is going off subject…..
And to you too D. There’s a 9.2 metre tide tomorrow at 10.30am. With a bit of luck she’ll be tucked up in my driveway by early afternoon. The regular club MOBs told me she dried out on the mud last week for the first time in a few months!
Dave it’s interesting you say that, from my return visits to uk I noticed that somewhat. (registrations for boats!!!) In the US while we have regulations it is very easy to fly under the radar. ( too easy ). one ways they get around the regulations here is congress or the states that the regulations are imposed on don’t provide or seriously limit the funding so there is no implementation of the regs!
They did this spectacularly 30 years ago with the conversion to metric. There was no funding so all the gas stations , grocery stores and material suppliers like plywood , paint etc all reverted back to feet and inches and lbs and oz! Except car companies and the military!
So I get to work in the lovely ‘ natural ‘ measurements systems of old England and not ugly mm and kg most of the time.
A real pain for engineers and designers to do calculations but they tend to use metric and convert back.
For Boats ( to make it relevant) I get confused looking at specs for uk boats even old ones that now only show metric specs…..
Prehaps if UK does leave the EU it can convert back……..aargh! ( joke)
Warren
18″ snow so far …..
Warren, only just seen your reply…It is still possible for the individual to fly under the radar here in Europe but it does depend upon the activity concerned. The sharing of data between bureaucratic orgs. is always a threat although funnily enough the data protection act hinders this – but one day there will be no more cash, all transactions will be via digital networking and government depts. will be giant databases monitored by search programs – HEY! just like Google!
Must be the season for scrotes. Woke up this morning to discover all 8 tyres on my two work vans slashed. Still you know you’re doing something right when the opposition come in the dead of night to attempt to scupper your business. Neighbours Landrover Discovery was parked next to my vans but they ignored that. Could do without the £900 bill
If you were not such a brilliant film maker you could earn a shilling from delivering hypnosis as I turn to your Keep Turning Left films to sooth my often troubled soul. Peace, perfect peace.. I will gladly purchase your films if you tell me what to do through my email.
Bruce.
Many thanks Dylan I will download as you say and hit the paypal button.
Bruce
Hi Dylan. Thoroughly enjoying your films. Getting ready to do a round Britain with a mate, these are helping and make me even more sure I was correct to get a bilge keeled Westerly. Just watching off the internet, it means I don’t upset my wife’s TV schedules.
Ian