Quite rightly, the main focus of everyone's thoughts and thanks is for the heroes who work in our amazing NHS. They are all doing an amazing job in these difficult and uncertain times

We should all spare a thought for others who are working to keep society ticking over. Bin Collections, Postal Workers, Delivery Drivers, and I'm sure many others. 

We often see them come around or come to our doors. Lets all thank them when we see them. It will help boost their morale at this difficult time.

I went outside and thanked our bin collectors this morning, and have make an effort to thank the postie and delivery drivers when I've seen them. It has cost me nothing hopefully made them feel appreciated

21 minutes ago, honeybee13 said:

Depending on what the charity does, I believe some of them also need volunteers, Jeremy?

 

HB

Very much so. Running events (when we can) needs people. Not sure if posting a link to a youtube video showing what we do is allowed?

There are so many small charities that struggle

We all know how hard things are for everyone, but we should all spare a thought for local charities in or communities who don't have the resource to get on TV and ask for £x per month to support their work.

I speak from experience - the charity I volunteer with in North Yorkshire are going to loose the several thousand pounds this year due to cancelling fundraising events. There are many such charities up and down the country who do amazing work who I worry are being forgotten about in these challenging times.

Jeremy

With you there London. My 11 plate and I did 160,000 happy miles, and I'm sure they are like the tardis and bigger on the inside!

They can't identify the fault. What vintage is your car London? I had an 11 plate Titanium X and I had weird issues caused when the battery was iffy.

Cheers Hammy. Will do that tomorrow. To be honest, I know (just forgot to mention) that a restart clears it.

J

Hi all

I have the above vehicle - 67 plate with just under 30K on the clock.

Every now and then when the car is cold I'll get an amber message pop up about transmission limited function or a red warning saying service transmission now. I know the oil change is due at the next service, but this has been happening since I had the car (had 6K when I got it). 

It's been into the dealer (Stoneacre) who cannot find any relevant fault codes to indicate an actual fault. I've asked about any software updates, to be told there are none available.

Has anyone come across this? 

Jeremy

0049 136 40283 is what came up on my phone

The caller was definitely not German!!

Hi

Had a possible suspect call on my landline claiming to be from Openreach saying there were errors on my Internet connection.

I work in IT and as soon as I mentioned this she hung up. 

The giveaway was that the call came from a German number: 0049 ***** 238 (will post the full number if admins okay it)

Just thought I'd mention it

Jeremy

Hi

16/10/19. Very poor reception on my TV. Re-tuned, but then found I had very few channels (even BBC1/2 were missing)

I called the freeview helpline to find there had been an issue at Bilsdale transmitter, but it was now resolved 

I ended up unplugging TV from aerial socket, re-tuning, then re-plugging in TV and re-tuning to fix it

Thought I'd post this in case anyone has the same issue

I had a similar issue with my 11 plate Mondeo TX. Random electrical issues, hazards would come on, etc

The cause was the battery not taking charge and therefore screwing up the electrics. The car was five years old when I had to change the battery. 

All was fine after that. When the AA came out to test it, they said it should have been pulling 60 amps from the alternator,  but it was pulling 10!

I'd get the battery checked

You should probably make a complaint to whichever train company manages the station

Hi all,

Anyone ever done/tried this?

We are a small charity based in North Yorkshire and I'm keen to know if anyone has had any success with this?

Jeremy

It sounds like Easyjet, British Airways and Ryan Air are all looking to pick up the Monarch staff (along with routes) quite quickly.

Ryan Air in particular could do with a bit of a staff increase right now.

While Ryanair would love some extra pilots, the complication is that they operate a Boeing fleet while Monarch was an Airbus fleet (or vice versa).

And lets not forget the 1,900 souls who have lost their jobs 12 weeks before Christmas

As a regular hotel user myself, I wonder how this hotels guests would feel about the way they treat their staff.

The car is a Ford Mondeo 59 plate.

 

I had got the quote from a local mechanic but fowlers said they won't pay it and wanted to know why it needed a full exhaust. They also then said that they want to repair it and order the parts themselves.

 

I'm having problems getting it repaired and cannot get anywhere with anyone from after sales or the branch, no one is interested in sorting it out and the after sales manager Mark has apparently left and not coming back.

 

I thought about paying to have it repaired but i risk fowlers not paying me the money back.

I have an 11 Plate Mondeo, and I had the same, It needed a new back box only. I took it to my local Ford Dealer and they fitted new (non-Ford) back box for far less than £800

I did take it to a type/battery/exhaust place but they said they couldn't do it.

At the very least it is probably breaching licensing conditions

Out of interest, what if my car is in my garage?

My car was saying low battery on the dash. Turned out the battery was knackered. Was only taking 10A when the alternator was trying to give it 40A

I would have thought you'd have had to agree to and sign for their terms and conditions?

I had to when I last engaged a solicitor.

I had an 03 Tdci and it would sometimes cut out or go into limp mode with a flashing glow plug light. Then if failed to start. Turns out it was the cam chain position sensor that was mis behaving. Got it changed and it was right as rain after that.

There may be rules governing times when deliveries can and can't be made. May be worth checking with the council. Try the planning dept.

Jeremy

I got DV many years ago. I had some debts at the time myself, and they ask for your credit report.

All they really want to be sure of is whether your debts are lore likely to accept a bribe. As a previous poster said, your partners debts are not likely to be a concern.

That was a good few years back.

Very rarely will you see a cleaners sign saying 'slipper when wet' as a company lost a compensation claim using that sign. The judge said that by using those words they had admitted the floor was slippery and should have roped off the area.

Not to mention getting a sue-ball from Bon Jovi for using one of their album titles without permission!!