kevinjohnsonmbe

That's tax policy driving manufacturing for you right there.... Lower the emissions, lower the tax class. Keep it 'commercial' and appeal to the self employed builder set... Bought as a commercial, used as a family car - just like the majority of vans driving around Cornwall, beds, cookers and cupboards in the back - jobs a guid 'un!

Heretic! Dyson will get us through Brexit! Great British engineering (direct from Malaysia!)

Snows Plymouth? You may have dodged a bullet there too! 2 months late on delivery date. Refused to accept defect with forward facing camera, until Toyota issued an upgrade. Rear cab lock defect - then in for fix - then back in for complete cab replacement. First service which should have included and was charged for adblu top-up. 200m later, adblu warning light comes on because they hadn't topped it up. Jet washed after first service (Nov 17) noticed paint stripped off under body. Row with service manager (who was a Richard), spoke to manager, got it recognised and rework agreed, STILL waiting for them to call me to arrange. I'll leave in a while longer then Mr Angry is going into the showroom.... Truly dreadful service..... Best thing I can say, at least it's not a DMAX!

Good piece that....

Is that a viable option with the evolution of Wix etc? I didn't have a website for ages but whilst down with man-flu Nov last year had a tinker and put together something that I'm quite happy with. As recent as a few years ago perhaps you'd have to be a proper geek to build your own website and it might have been worth paying out some bunce to have it done for you... But it incurred the usual upselling and tie-in costs of having to pay for amendments, not owning the copyright etc. Now, as I found, you can find and buy the web name for peanuts (123 reg), build a page on Wix and amend / update at your leisure. That kind of leaves only the big corporate entities that want an IT geek or the knuckle dragging saw monkeys (I include myself in that category) who don't want the faff of doing it themselves as a market share.... and if you focus on the arb sector, wouldn't your natural design tendencies / preferences result in all the arb sites you create being vaguely similar rather than uniquely individual? PS if anyone looks at 123 reg.com and is thinking about a web name they might like, don't keep going back to look at the same one many times because it causes the price to go up since they think it is desirable. Think about it first, look once, then buy.... Some are even free for first year if you sign up for 2 years If of a devious nature for example, that has to be of concern to legitimate organisations who might have unscrupulous bandits piggy backing on their good name.

On reflection, it was quite boring (data mining RFID after the point of sale) No hysterical ranting.... i think the LBC catch-up is a pay to subscribe service - not worth parting with the pennies Mr E

That clown on LBC (James O'Brien) was withering on about it this morning.... Shame really, I quite like LBC but find him increasingly unbearable. Got a phone in slot myself on Nick Fararri show this morning!

Some of the hostesses have been interviewed under caution for the charge of receiving swollen goods! Dunno if i should have said that last bit..

That'll be on my epitaph!!

It was 24 years ago! I was young and impetuous with a tendency to over indulge leading to irresponsible and out of control behaviour..... Not so young anymore....

Been out tonight so catching up on the thread (I know I should read to the end before jumping in) but can't help myself... The bit in red.... could I propose an amend / addition? "and that people shouldn't necessarily be judged by 'today's standards' for yesterday's behaviour..... (I'm not suggesting that which was illegal then, shouldn't be addressed now, rather that as awareness and attitudes change with time that we don't seek to crucify people for what today might be judged as heinous social gaffs which, back in the day, might have been viewed with slightly less hysterical zeal?) I also confess to a degree of ulteria motive here.... I may, in a not too distant future, stand accused of being ejected from the 1993 Devonport Field Gun Crew dinner for assaulting the stripper with a rather large dildo, cast out into the night by my contemporaries dressed in nought but flip-flops, a grass skirt and a flower garland since said girl, having been assaulted with a friendly weapon, refused to return to the stage..... And I'm not even going to think about the donkey incident in a strip joint in Panama City!

They are living in a bubble that is populated only by other joyless sanctimonious plonkers. Meanwhile, in the real world..... the ability to laugh in the face of adversity goes from strength to strength with every joyless sanctimonious plonker that seeks to inflict their views upon us! (maniacal laugh....)

The Kernish method, regularly seen around Gunnislake which seems to have a disproportionate number of zipper-heads, is to stack the brash in the road. Granted it'll likely be a single track road with goats and an occasional car, but none the less, bloody funny when you happen across them!

My memory astounds me sometimes! Can't remember the wife's birthday but can remember DL number, bank acc number NI number, and I just thought, was it page 72 of the red book? Kaboom!!

Interested in people's thoughts on "Stop Works" boards. Been a while since I've read the book, but from memory, I recall the potential for Stop Works boards to be a useful alternative (where suitable and the prerequisites are satisfied.) The ability to stop traffic for (I think) 3 mins without going through the full TM procedure. If I understand / recall correctly, the intention is to allow a short, un-scheduled traffic block - for example to reverse a wagon out onto the road or the like. So it has always occurred to me that this might suit the dismantle of a limb or 2 over a road. Climb, face cut, rig, stop traffic, back cut, lower, ground crew collect and walk off the road, traffic proceeds - the stop traffic bit is all achieved within the 3 minutes allowed. Never used it but have bought Stop Works boards just in case. Any thoughts???? Just seen Gary's post..... This could be embarrassing!

120squid on Amazon.... They've come down in price (bloody Brexit!) Daft not to have one at that price... I've just ordered another one - might have it as a rear facer on mine or put it in the Mrs motor.

NextBase 512G Mr E. Looked at loads, there really is too much choice in every aspect of life these days (bloody Brexit!) Not much to say good about 1 over any other really. I’m pleased with it. I applied the logic “buy cheap = buy twice” so went towards the mid-range budget wise. You plug it in, it records stuff - job done. Didn’t look at the manual, didn’t know how to get files off it until that tractor incident. It was no drama, plug in into Mac, transfer files. Job done. Pretty happy all all round really, would (will) but another for wife. ?? PS don’t forget - 100% deductible as IT equipment!

Welcome back TW! I’ll only take issue with (1) Agreed, the DEFINITION of a DPV is clearly defined and published. The original point of the thread was not to take issue with that definition, which is easily understood, but rather to express a frustration that it seemed, and still does, impossible to extract from the manufacturer of a new vehicle, by the provision of reliable data, where that vehicle sits within the parameters of the known definition of a DPV and, by extension, which, if any, speed and testing implications might apply.... I couldn’t get to the bottom of that, on the face of it, fairly simple question. ?

Totally agree Gary! Sketchiness and subjectivity of the definition of ‘garden’ overlaid with an apparent lack of resources and the (localised) justifiable perception of unwillingness to take action by FC hierarchy, provides for a fairly substantial degree of ‘flexibility’ in decision making for the potential transgressor - like investing money, all depends on the tolerability of Risk (and wether or not the next door neighbour is a leading light in the Green Party ?) ??

That’s a good post mate! (Eagerly awaiting ‘Justme’ giving a critique ) It all sounds like the conclusions of my investigations before the will to live was sucked out of me!! Have you read the whole thread? (I’m not suggesting you do, unless afflicted by chronic insomnia) I think, from distant memory, the subject of MOT test class was covered earlier and recal the phrase “if, in the opinion of the tester” was the basis for determining which class MOT test would be appropriate..... What a mess!

Not sure what you mean there donnk. Anyone that purchases a house on a development subject to 106/CIL will shoulder elements of cost passed on by the developer - it’s not exclusive to FTB’s. Really dont know what what you mean by 2nd para? Is it a criticism of the requirement for ‘affordable’ housing in larger developments? Sorry, just not quite getting what you mean...

Multi-tasking Mr E! 70/30 focus on shredding the policies and spending of the PC v reading AT. Somethings gotta give!

Those mechanisms are already in place by virtue of section 106 or CIL tariffs. CIL is intended to replace the abymally administered s106 fiasco but it's implementation is 'optional' for adoption according to the desire of the LA.... What could possibly go wrong....?

Some direct links here: https://www.forestry.gov.uk/england-fellinglicences https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/10/contents