I'll try again tomorrow. Why is it so difficult. Well, obviously for me but not for you.
But I will try again. I promise.
Mollie
Well, it's all going to go on without me. I've just spent half an hour trying to get in there. It just doesn't like me.
Sorry
Mollie
Oh my word - you really are a law abiding lot.
I got 77 years and in fines
It seems I'm not the sweet simpering child I thougt I was.
Mollie
I don't like you being ignored. This is the first time I've been the first to respond.
You just have to get used to the site. Get to know people and let them get to know you. I hope you find what you are looking for but nobody knows what you are looking for. A threesome, a foursome? A moresome? It looks as is you want a foursome.
Anyway, whatever it is I hope you find it. We did.
Mollie
Edit - pleased to see you got a couple of replies before mine
Sorry, I put a picture in here that could identify where I live.
I have a photo of the local council ignoring its own traffic restrictions. I will be sending it to my Chief Executive and to my two local councillors.
Mollie
Bloody Hell. Forgot again.
How can you say what any property is worth until you sell it?
Mollie
Oh, forgot. Probably lots of things I forgot.
They wanted to know how much my daughter contributed to the household. I said that was a family matter. Mr Smith said it was something they liked to know. "Liked or insisted on?" He said liked. So I refused it. It makes me wonder just how much information they want to keep on file about me.
Mollie
I logged out because my partner, Tom, is here. But I'm still aroused in the sense that my blood is boiling a little. There's a fundamental right enshrined in several places. I've just been to look one of them up. But it's been said by several political parties.
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"
Mollie
(who is starting to feel like she wants to be a Gangster's Moll -I'd set him on some of you)
(I wouldn't really. I might disagree with what you say but defend your right to say it)
HC and Dave Darlings,
I'm not very good with those white boxes so I don't remember exactly what you said. But to one of you the TV Licence can't be denied to the government if you decide not to receive BBC. Also there are a still a lot of people not able to receive about half, or more, of BBC transmissions. Call it a licence if you like but it's a tax you can't avoid.
HC (I think), has a good idea for local taxation. In some states in the USA there is something like a sales tax to fund local expenditure. It can be difficult for visitors because you get to the check-out and find your bill is bigger than you thought. No sweat to the locals though because they know about it.
I still say - TV Licence and Council Tax can't be defended. I think local taxation should be like national taxation - based on income.
I've just been to look. I pay a month in income tax and I pay a month in council tax. Now there's no way that can be right.
Mollie
Why is everybody ignoring me? I'll call you al "Mr Smith" if you want
Ah, now Council Tax is a bee who buzzes angrily in my bonnet.
I don't work. There are good reasons for that - I'm not going to explain that unless pushed. My income goes up by about two per cent a year but sometimes council tax goes up by twenty per cent. How long before my entire income goes to the council? I did a spreadsheet a year or two ago and it's about twenty years. My biggest bill is council tax.
A couple lof years ago I applied for Council Tax Benefit. The procedure is demeaning. The clerk who helped me introduced himself as John Smit (it's ok, mods - that isn't his real name). I said "hello John" and he said "That's Mr Smith to you". AND I ACCEPTED IT.
After showing my last two months bank statements and answering what I saw as really intrusive questions I was awarded 23 pence a week.
A year later Mr Smith wrote to me asking me to apply agaim.
I Didn't - and I won't until I have to.
Council Tax has to be based on "Ability to Pay" ie, an income tax.
Mollie
Thanks Treasure,
I might just do that. Watch this space.
Mollie
There are some people who I ALWAYS have difficulty saying "no" to. But that doesn#t mean I'm a push-over. It just means that some people have an effect on me that makes it difficult to say "no".
I don't resent it. Almost always these people make me feel good.
Mollie
Now I'm really not sure about this but..
should it not be:
each other's grammar
Mollie
Definitely my last post here. It's about insurance. We are brainwashed into thinking we have to have travel insurance. Well, it's true that I only have experience of needing medical treatment in France. So I can't speak for other European countries. By the time we got back to England there was a refund cheque waiting for us - we had to pay upfront!
Last week, I got this letter expalining what we had been charged and how much we had already got back.
It cost about the same as a prescription here and was much less effort than making a claim on an insurance policy. Also, the E111 is free. An insurance policy has to be paid for and the insurance company will impose an excess. - probably you will have to meet the first £50 or so yourself.
I've deleted anything the Mods might worry about.
I would hate to influence anybody into taking or not taking insurance. This is just my experience.
I don't think I'll be posting in this thread again. Our next trip is, provisionally, planned for January. But we have to back in England for late April/early May so we might delay it until May. We'll see.
I hope there has been things here that mighty be helpful.
Mollie
Thanks. From what the F11 procedure said when it operated, it said that it formatted the hard drive. I think the hard drive was rubbish anyway so I don't thinkit would go into another computer but I'll change my bank account passwords anyway.
Anything else that might be on there I'm not bothered about.
Thanks
Mollie
Look, sorry about this but I was just trawling through stuff posted while I was away.
I bought a new computer about a month ago and, well basically, it was a heap of junk. My instinct, reinforced by people here, was that the hard drive was junk. I t crashed nearly every day. The maintenance people showed me how to use F11 to repair it but I lost all my personal information and eventually I got them to come out and do a full repair. Just a replacement hard drive and everything is now fine.
The evening before the guy was due to arrive I realised that my bank account details together with code words, pass words and PIN numbers were on there. So I went through the F11 procedure thinking that this deleted everything.
From this thread. do I understand that if my old hard drive finds it's way onto another computer my password information could be available to somebody able to retrieve it?
Mollie
Sorry. I had a lovely weekend. I'm not really sad.
Mollie xx
I've had the last three weekends alone. This weekend I think we will be back to normal. Three in my bed.
Mollie
