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19 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:
Is it even accurate ?
It says the display unit showing how much you're using has to be working or you may get estimated bills. I thought that all they needed to get their data was the actual meter on the wall and its comms, and the display unit was merely a convenient accessory that the user could look at or ignore as he sees fit.
so as mentioned a few months back our electric meter isn’t sending readings and my energy providers customer services made promises to get someone to call back about arranging a time to replace it, that didn’t happen.Had reason to do a subject access request for other billing issues (won’t go into them here) and in there it reveals they have blocked replacement for a year, as they currently get fined by ofgem for removing smart meters under their rollout rules, even if they don’t work and are replaced with another one…it’s bizarre.
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On 16/03/2024 at 03:05, Ozexpatriate said:
A local Subway sandwich place had a break-in where there till was stolen. They remained open - no online orders or credit cards - they didn't have an old-school manual card imprinter (clik-clack). They did take cash and kept accounts with paper and pencil.
Great for me. I use cash and the queues were much shorter than usual with no online orders.
Sadly the old clik-clack card imprinters went out of use in around 2012…Still had to return it with the electronic terminal in 2019 when we closed that particular merchant account to tick a box on the banks systems!!!
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Our GP’s have an E-consult you complete if you want an appointment that’s asks lots of questions, the surgery triage it and sometimes prescribe, recommend a pharmacist or arrange an appointment with a nurse or Doctor.
(If you call to make an appointment for a new condition the receptionist just completes the same form on their screen and it goes into the same triage queue).
This was great when I was trying to get treatment for psoriasis related issues as you can upload photos, no hanging on hold for hours etc etc.
When I caught a flu-type condition recently, that felt rather like the bronchitis I had a number of years back, it was absolutely torturous.
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Was a very good selection of layouts and very busy which was nice to see.
Not a particular fan of the venues suitability, don’t think we found everything, but it’s local so cannot complain.
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1 hour ago, Tim-Hale said:
Just a heads up. Purchasing from MSL, results in them removing the Mwst and the employ FedEx as couriers, never been charged irrespective of the value of the goods.
However on every occasion that DPD were entrusted with any item when Parcel Force is their trading partner in the UK and I have been hit with VAT and the handling charge. The most recent was an item costing €100 which attracted £17+ VAT plus £12 handling charge moreover Parcel Force often forget to send the bill by snailmail which features the unique reference number without which it is impossible to pay the import fees. Instead, I have to drive to Poole and ask if they have anything awaiting my attention…….
Hence, I avoid buying from abroad unless the seller uses FedEx.
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6 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:
Impossible to know without context.
Had it been a photograph captioned "Here is a picture of my husband and me in Paris" then "me" is correct.
"I" would be wrong: "Here is a picture of I in Paris" versus "Here is a picture of me in Paris".
All depends on the context.
People are very conditioned to royal parodies of her late Majesty along the lines of "My husband and I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas" etc such that there is a tendency to think "my husband and I" is always grammatically correct. It isn't - at least as far as I was taught.
"My husband and I had fun in Paris." would be correct.
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shirleysurely the point of the post was that the original poster was trying to make it “me and someone” rather than “someone and me”. We were taught at school to always put the other person first in any such prose…-
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15 hours ago, Neil said:
A question if I may. Can your supplier charge you for gas that they can't meter? Our smart meter seems to have packed up a couple of months ago, there's no reading for gas on the in house device and the digital screen on the actual meter outside has been blank for a while. Despite whinging to the supplier nothing seems to have been done to address the issue and I don't want to end up paying for an estimation of what we might or might not have used.
Thank you.
I have had this on a commercial site for electricity and they took the next 8 weeks worth of use as an average to bill us for. They wanted to use the 8 weeks before, but I refused as that was winter and the blank period was spring.
As Hayfield says if it’s over 12 months AND you have taken reasonable actions to get them to correct it(such as Reporting it regularly by phone or email) then backbilling rules kick in and they cannot charge you for the use over 12 months ago.The (hardwired) batteries in the gas smart meters typically have a 10 year lifespan (subject to the installation permission and how much power they use to transmit the readings). Some models reportedly create false readings as the battery gets very low so if their billing on the final readings it did report seems high do dispute it.
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Would it be cynical to note that the timing of Horner-gate took a lot of media attention off the Hamilton Ferrari move and got the Red Bull name back into the media in a big way, and all neatly concluded before the new season starts…
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9 hours ago, hayfield said:
Dave
The government/planners state a minimum, not maximum, housing targets are different. I can understand builders wanting to maximize profits though
There are a couple of estates in the Maldon area where now parking is much better where at least 1 but normally 2 car parking spaces per house are provided plus off street, seems the developer(s) are starting to realize to get a premium they must consider parking
The policy I mentioned above of a single space for one/two bedrooms or two spaces for three or more bedrooms IS the maximum allowed under Oxfordshire county’s planning policy.
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Round here county planning policy is developers are only allowed to offer a single parking space to dwellings with one or two bedrooms, and two to properties with three or more bedrooms…great in Oxford city, less practical in the towns that have a fast bus service to Oxford, but only intermittent service to each other and/or the various business parks, or the villages that may or may not have a service at all (particularly after the county council withdrew all bus subsidies).
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17 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:
played for Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Inter Milan.....
Who?😉
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The problem we have as a wholesale sender is that the various EU customs offices are incredibly inconsistent in their approach.
When the trade agreement was finally agreed we went through and ensured our invoices met every requirement but still suffered one in three consignments coming back due to spurious, often incorrect reasons such as missing EORI or VAT numbers when they are on the invoice, packing list and the couriers electronic booking info. We often find nothing wrong with the returned parcels paperwork and simply duplicate the carrier booking, attach a new label (that only differs in date and tracking number) and send to see it sail seamlessly through customs without issue.
We have found two of the international parcel networks are far better than the others and I suspect they have better trained staff to deal with issues at the border, but the EU customers don’t want to pay the extra costs.
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5 hours ago, jaym481 said:
I do miss the UK "order on Monday, delivered on Wednesday" post. Sometimes even next day.
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Just now, Sasquatch said:
That's not the point here. Anyone's modeling budget will only buy half as much as it use to!
Model suppliers won't be shifting so much stock.
Has anyone posed the question as to why Hattons wasn't put up for sale as a very successful business yet???
Been trying to resist that line of speculation all night as don’t want Andy and Phil getting the hammers out….-
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I have built a baseboard…..
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11 hours ago, Classsix T said:
Mia wasn't dead keen on exiting the building as I left for work either today. Still seems to think if she complains enough, her ooman underlings can actually do something about the weather.
C6T.
Like ours, doesn’t like the look of the weather outside back door, so wants to be offered the front window in case it’s different….-
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What is above your lighting? Is it open to the room?
On trade stands at exhibitions they normally put a fire-proofed Cotton over the booth if we had booked lighting. It was white and diffused the hall lighting.
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On 11/12/2023 at 10:54, kevinlms said:
An updated to the crash in Daylesford, Australia where a driver ploughed into an outdoor dining area, killing 5 and injuring others.
He has now been charged. He is a type 1 diabetic and had warnings that his sugars were very low, but seemingly didn't properly act on them and continued driving!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-11/driver-daylesford-pub-crash-charged-by-police/103213184
Difficult one, a relative with normally well managed diabetes sometimes get to caught up In what they doing, and often then the other relatives closest to them are better at recognising they are going “low” than they are themselves, and having to push the “time to stop and eat/inject”If they had a monitor of that sort I could well see them thinking “ just a little more and then I will stop and deal with it” on occasions.
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2 hours ago, Boris said:
I mean the fact that they suspended someone for asking awkward questions speaks volumes about the management culture within the NYMR.
when I used to volunteer for a non rail related organisation that also had a big legal compliance regime there was a small core of experienced volunteers who would never accept an answer unless they liked the answer, and would ask it again and again and again, and then claim the management were avoiding awkward questions when they stopped replying…One example was as simple as the organisation’s national insurance agreements having slightly more people needing food hygiene certification than the base legal standards (event manager who was legally responsible for the whole event needing one as well as the catering manager) and a member of the wider local management team sent over 50 emails asking why as her employer hadn’t needed it….
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Looks like they have used the email address AS the unique key.
I have seen similar and it was something only the database admin could update and the suppliers recommended only after a full backup was taken…less easy in the days of 24/7 cloud enterprises…
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39 minutes ago, Hroth said:
There's no point, you'll have to wade through at least
a dozen pageshalf a page of new content and 11.5 pages of repeats to get up to date!Grit your teeth and there won't be so much to do!
Fixed it for you ;)-
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Saw them at the Brixton Academy around 2005 and I think they had had a bit more practice at holding their liquor by then…it was a very entertaining evening.
We then had The Fairy Tale of New York as the first dance at our wedding, the funny bit was seeing the faces of people as they clicked onto what the song was…
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I have done both TPlink and Draytek routers via a phone in the last couple of years without any major issues as they have a mobile friendly interface.
The issue with many doorbell cameras (and other loud based services) is they want a web service to operate even if you are at home
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Joys of living in a innovative democracy where anything is legal unless specifically banned, and a Parliamentary process that is glacially slow at catching up with technology…but they get to shout at each other on a Wednesday lunchtime so that’s all ok….
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WCRC - the ongoing battle with ORR.
in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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You only get used to the risks if you use the (lack of!) technology, My partner and I got together at 20 years old. At that point HST’s were around 30 years old.
I was shocked to see that she had no idea how to open the doors on them, simply because she hadn’t had any exposure to them, as her parents owned a taxi company (and had a disability in the mix) and simply didn’t use trains. My parents didn’t drive so all holidays etc. were by train out of Didcot and I didn’t think twice about it.