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It may be too late, but have a look at windows file history, and set it up for future use, if you haven't done so yet.

M5, Bristol to Taunton, (fastest or maybe shortest) will direct you into and out of Sedgemoor services, to cut the corner.

Best place for 'em.

I remember my first payslip as being £2:17/6d and petrol was 3/6d in real money. If my sums are correct, then current price of $2.00 /litre, say, is £9.09 /gal, requiring weekly pay of about £150.00 and generally cars get better mpg these days. Typo, I meant £2.00 /litre, not $2.00 (but not that much difference these days - used to be five bob to the dollar)

long pig

Vehicle excise duty (VED) is a tax levied on every vehicle using public roads in the UK. If you don't use it on a public road, you don't pay the fees, so it is everything to do with the use of the road.

The wording on the tv licencing site is deliberately ambiguous. I don't think the above quote is correct, depending how it is interpreted. It applies if you are using the equipment to receive live tv broadcasts (or streamed if broadcast at same time). Owning the equipment itself does not require a tv licence, although the bbc would most likely want it to be so. As it stands, if you take a laptop to a non licenced house, (you have a tv licence) provided you don't plug it in while you watch tv, it is OK. If you plug it into the 'mains' then the house needs a licence. https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one?WT.ac=home_plt_check How about, if you have an electric car, and are using the web while it's being charged (charging points needing tv licences?) or if I charge a 'power brick' at an unlicenced house, and use it to power a laptop? In effect, it is a tax on electricity being used for certain purposes - i wonder where that will go?. The guys they use to check up if you are using a tv in unlicenced property, have no right of entry, although they intimidate house owners to gain entry. the whole tv licence situation is well past it's sell by date, like window taxes.

It's more complicated then that implies. You don’t need a TV Licence to watch videos or clips on demand on YouTube. But you do need a TV Licence if you watch TV programmes live on YouTube. An example of this would be watching Sky News live. But it isn’t just live news or sport which needs a licence – it’s any programme which is part of a TV channel, broadcast or transmitted for everyone to watch at the same time. The sooner the license fee is scrapped and the bbc has to earn their wages, the better.

In your opinion, of course. Now it's getting like animal farm. 😀

It' a question of what you see is your 'duty'. She was reminded not to park there. She chose to ignore the advice. it is her decision. Nothing was solved by pressing the point, trying to exert authority over another, when you have none, looking like bullying, two onto one, etc. Then the 1984 part, citizens reporting other's minor misdemeanors to 'the authority'.

It did not help the situation by two grown blokes delaying the transfer of the balloons to the car by arguing with the car owner. What would have helped would have been if they had given a hand in transferring the balloons. I guess you were disappointed that the car owner did not immediately comply with your instructions. The woman presumably got all her balloons, but at least four people were pissed off, for what purpose? It's all getting a bit Orwellian these days.

if you like cats, or not...

Many years ago, a friend of mine moved to London. He tried selling his motorbike a Norton 650. Had lots of strange replies.

I tried to find the details on line, but back in the 1950's iirc, a hotel in Exeter was prosecuted for passing off rabbit as chicken. That was before mass produced chicken, of course.

there is so much wrong with that photo-shopping!

maybe you should be familiar with the legislation - both national https://www.legislation.gov.uk/all?title=dog fouling You local council will have their own regs, too.

There was a branch to Dunchideock treacle mines, iirc.