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Post by TallPaul on Oct 3, 2020 13:59:51 GMT
Clearly, anita, nobody believes that someone so young-looking could possibly be eligible. You should never have had your hair cut! 🙂 Joking aside, I respectfully suggest that, if you haven't already done so, now is the time to make your councillor / assembly member/ MP earn their corn. Please keep us posted. |
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Post by lynette on Oct 3, 2020 17:05:46 GMT
Being given the runaround. My 60+ oyster card expired on Sunday & I haven't received a freedom pass yet. No one seems to answer emails & when they do they pass the buck. Just spent 15 minutes on the phone to TFL trying to find out if they have passed all the documentation on to the freedom pass people. Got nowhere. The young man said I should have applied a year ago. I pointed out that isn't what is says on the website for freedom cards or on theirs about 60+ oysters. God knows how much the phone call has cost. Looks as if I'll have to start all over again at the begining. Really fed up. Can't go anywhere. After reapplying from scratch , today I got a letter rejecting my application. Did you fill in the freedom pass application form which the post office has? I suppose you can do it online now but that is all you have to do. I don’t think they are clever enough to to transfer an oyster to a freedom. My freedom pass was renewed without me doing anything. They do them in batches according to your age and application so all people in a batch get sent their cards at the same time. Get the post office to advise maybe. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 20:44:30 GMT
I have a leaky roof (being repaired in a week and a half) so I'm not entirely thrilled to see the forecast is for a solid 20 hours of heavy rain. I have to keep going into the loft every few hours to empty Tupperware containers.
(Edit) On the other hand YouTube has just offered me a video of a sheep on a trampoline, so I guess it's not all bad. |
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Post by peggs on Oct 3, 2020 21:19:52 GMT
There's a whole host of animal on trampoline videos out there @thematthew if it will lighten you emptying load, turns out john lewis wasn't so very wrong though they don't all hold hands and do it together.
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Post by david on Oct 4, 2020 15:11:30 GMT
Just finished a ZOOM tour of the now disused TFL Underground station at Brompton Road as part of the London Transport Museum's Hidden London tour series. A fantastic look around the former WW2 Air Raid Command Centre with much of the site still intact despite being unused for such a long time. Highly recommended if you are into that side of London history.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2020 17:16:45 GMT
Just finished a ZOOM tour of the now disused TFL Underground station at Brompton Road as part of the London Transport Museum's Hidden London tour series. I find old transport infrastructure fascinating, and I've always loved looking out for abandoned bits of the Underground network when passing them.
My nearest disused "Underground" station is Verney Junction, some 50½ miles out of Baker Street. According to an old timetable journey times from Baker Street to Verney Junction took around 2¼ hours for the all-stations service and 1¾ for the semi-fast. I've always thought it's a bit of a shame that the Metropolitan was forced to abandon its ambitions and become a local railway for local people, and Baker Street become just another stop on the inner circle instead of the terminus of a main line to the Midlands.
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Post by david on Oct 4, 2020 17:52:02 GMT
Just finished a ZOOM tour of the now disused TFL Underground station at Brompton Road as part of the London Transport Museum's Hidden London tour series. I find old transport infrastructure fascinating, and I've always loved looking out for abandoned bits of the Underground network when passing them.
My nearest disused "Underground" station is Verney Junction, some 50½ miles out of Baker Street. According to an old timetable journey times from Baker Street to Verney Junction took around 2¼ hours for the all-stations service and 1¾ for the semi-fast. I've always thought it's a bit of a shame that the Metropolitan was forced to abandon its ambitions and become a local railway for local people, and Baker Street become just another stop on the inner circle instead of the terminus of a main line to the Midlands.
One thing i have enjoyed about doing the TFL Hidden London tours is really getting the scenes of some of these really lovely Victorian and Edwardian buildings to have a look at the architecture and the fantastic engineering feats that they achieved. As I've gone behind the scenes I've often wondered what future generations will make of today's building designs. (Edit) - A sheep on trampoline YT video is just great. The YT algorithm really does throw up some gems from time to time. |
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Post by anita on Oct 5, 2020 12:29:21 GMT
After reapplying from scratch , today I got a letter rejecting my application. Did you fill in the freedom pass application form which the post office has? I suppose you can do it online now but that is all you have to do. I don’t think they are clever enough to to transfer an oyster to a freedom. My freedom pass was renewed without me doing anything. They do them in batches according to your age and application so all people in a batch get sent their cards at the same time. Get the post office to advise maybe. Hubby's 60+ oyster was transferred without him doing anything Filled in form & sent with ID asked for. Now they want more proof of ID. Have sent new lot. |
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Post by lynette on Oct 5, 2020 17:35:49 GMT
Did you fill in the freedom pass application form which the post office has? I suppose you can do it online now but that is all you have to do. I don’t think they are clever enough to to transfer an oyster to a freedom. My freedom pass was renewed without me doing anything. They do them in batches according to your age and application so all people in a batch get sent their cards at the same time. Get the post office to advise maybe. Hubby's 60+ oyster was transferred without him doing anything Filled in form & sent with ID asked for. Now they want more proof of ID. Have sent new lot. Very odd. Hope it comes ok soon. |
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Post by david on Oct 6, 2020 15:37:25 GMT
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Post by daisy24601 on Oct 6, 2020 16:19:03 GMT
Not sure if this has been discussed anywhere else, but what is this Equity vote I keep hearing about on Twitter from actors?
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Post by peggs on Oct 6, 2020 19:14:47 GMT
I read the whole article, came back checked the link, pulled a puzzled face, before I got it. Perhaps putting my pjs on by 6pm is not good for my brain cells. |
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Post by sfsusan on Oct 6, 2020 20:40:48 GMT
I really hope someone photoshops him into the full Evita look -- chignon, gown, everything. (NOT the little slip from the Regents Park production...)
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Post by sfsusan on Oct 7, 2020 13:35:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 20:27:13 GMT
Trump now claims he understands Covid-19, because he managed to pull through a mild case with the help of a huge medical team and all the resources one of the world's richest economies could make available to him. That's like saying that now he understands what it's like to live in poverty on account of one of his housekeepers taking the day off.
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Post by sfsusan on Oct 7, 2020 20:57:10 GMT
Trump now claims he understands Covid-19, because he managed to pull through a mild case I'm waiting for a bit before I agree that it was a mild case. Other doctors have said that 7-10 days in, patients who appear to have a mild case can "fall off a cliff" and end up back in the hospital in serious trouble. It didn't take him 24 hours after he said "I get it" to prove that he didn't, first by making his protection agents ride with him in a hermetically-sealed car so he could bask in the adulation of his 'fans' and then by that stupid balcony scene. |
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 10, 2020 10:02:24 GMT
The parcel I missed last Saturday by seconds has just been delivered, so the day is now my own.
Perhaps I'll have a walk to the local hardware store and collect some colour charts. My walls are so last year! 😉
Then it's chips for tea, purely for research purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 11:16:10 GMT
At Sainsbury's this morning I saw a car that looked particularly poorly parked diagonally next to a pillar. On closer inspection it turned out to have a large dent in the front. I'm guessing someone decided to try a bit of slaloming round the car park and discovered too late that they weren't the driver they thought they were.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 13:37:14 GMT
The parcel I missed last Saturday by seconds has just been delivered, so the day is now my own. Perhaps I'll have a walk to the local hardware store and collect some colour charts. My walls are so last year! 😉 Then it's chips for tea, purely for research purposes. Very jealous - I'm still waiting in for an Amazon delivery that I can't miss! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 18:29:15 GMT
Very jealous - I'm still waiting in for an Amazon delivery that I can't miss! I wish Amazon would sort out their delivery information. With some companies you're given a one hour delivery slot. With Amazon you get told it'll be delivered on a particular date, then on the morning of the day before that date you get an email to say it left the warehouse at 03:00 and will be delivered today so you spend the entire day making sure you're never out of hearing range of the doorbell and at 20:45 it arrives. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 18:43:16 GMT
Very jealous - I'm still waiting in for an Amazon delivery that I can't miss! I wish Amazon would sort out their delivery information. With some companies you're given a one hour delivery slot. With Amazon you get told it'll be delivered on a particular date, then on the morning of the day before that date you get an email to say it left the warehouse at 03:00 and will be delivered today so you spend the entire day making sure you're never out of hearing range of the doorbell and at 20:45 it arrives. I agree entirely - mine didn't show up until 6.30pm! Granted, all I was going to do aside from housework today was run to the supermarket and go for a walk, but the latter didn't happen because I had to wait in. And it wasn't even delivered by van in the end, just an ordinary car! |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 10, 2020 19:01:06 GMT
Sometimes if you go to track the order directly on the website you can get more information such as stops away and estimated time of delivery.
Haven’t sussed the rationale between the tracked and untracked but worth a look and not sure if it is a Prime thing.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 10, 2020 19:43:51 GMT
I have all my Amazon parcels delivered to my corner shop which is a drop off point. Its great as you don't have to stay in and pick up your parcel and a pint of milk at the same time.
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Post by peggs on Oct 10, 2020 20:01:48 GMT
Had something delivered that came via parcelforce the other day, had an email to say it had shipped, the next morning a text with an hour slot and the name of the driver, it duly arrived as promised.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2020 20:55:30 GMT
Sometimes if you go to track the order directly on the website you can get more information such as stops away and estimated time of delivery. Haven’t sussed the rationale between the tracked and untracked but worth a look and not sure if it is a Prime thing. It said out for delivery at 11am then didn't update again until 4pm when it gave an estimated delivery time of between 4.45pm and 8.15pm... And I am a Prime customer so I don't think that makes any difference whatsoever. The actual tracking number is useless as they don't give you anywhere to track it. |
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