Be Excellent To Each Other

Just follow Zardoz's lead, and you can both pay off your own mortgage!

Was this some sort of claims direct thing? "Have you had a heart attack because you're an unfit northener? Someone owes you money!"

Life Insurance paying out on Critical Illness?

Congratulations Zardoz! That's ace.

Result. I *could* have paid off my mortgage had I not moved to a bigger house.
I'm not sure if that was the right decision or not.

Oh, and no Nigel Farage MP

Pfft. I paid off my mortgage two years ago.

Errr.... Haven't you just bought a flat?

Bought? Goodness no.

Silver lining of my shit cloud.

<cries>

good for you Z. xx

Like a dick, I forgot to send the text off that pays for my car parking, and the clampy-men and super-ticket-happy in the train carpark.

However, I get to my car and there's no sticker on it! Yay!

Someone stole the ticket for a laugh, you'll get a court summons through in 30 days.

The swifts have begun to arrive.

Tell Jon I really liked the story about the little people.

I pictured you standing in a shadowy room, looking around the edge of a heavy curtain at the bright world outside, saying this and then closing the curtain again.

But in the parks, the rain continues to fall.

The woods... and the darkness... and the howling vind.

Understood.

/starts banning people

Comrade

I also will 'start banning people'.

*adjusts for crosswind*
*slides bolt*

<leaves>

Never thought I'd get so much mileage out of that. What fun. I think you've all been watching too many Cold War spy films.

Seriously, the swifts have started to arrive, and one of my simple joys is to sit in my garden of an evening and watch them in their aerial ballet, catching insects on the wing and, as the dusk falls, chasing each other around the houses at roof level.

And when they've gone wherever they go for the night (in next door's eaves, if they're nesting) a single bat flits around, hoovering up anything at low level that the swifts might have missed.

... Clarice.

FUCK

Not a Yay.

FUCK AGAIN

I was referring to the cold war thriller on the Beeb. I get the impression that that is not what you were all thinking of.

Perhaps someone should take me to one side for a quiet word.

Whatever that reference was, I've edited it out of the original post. Please accept my apologies, for whatever it was I did in my ignorance.

An DO try to enjoy the swifts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

I see. I've been playing that, but not by that name, since I was about 5.

Explains a lot, really.

In that case, the Wikipedia page is inaccurate (with regards to the creation date).

Wikipedia? Inaccurate? Shirley Knott.

I'll let it pass this time, as I never told anyone about it.

And remember, there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

That's what the third group of people want you to think.

Those bastards can fuck right off.

My lady got her driving license back today after it being suspended for four months. Can't even tell you how happy we are, yay!

Basically they found out she'd had a stroke over three years ago and decided to suspend her license. Much annoys but so happy to get it back

Just stuck in a third month of 71% accuracy against a call I made in January. It was 81% for April against the call I made in march. Over 83 lines.

Accuracy =1-(total absolute difference across all skus from forecast/forecast)

So if there were 2 lines and I said they would do 100 each but line 1 did 50 and line 2 did 150 that would be 1-(100/200)=50% accurate.

I should probably get a thank you for this....

Home after a great week in Yorkshire with my parents

My son loved it, my dad has big garden as well as a field at the back with chickens in. All the surrounding fields are full of sheep and cows so he has come back with these noises added to his collection!

We went to a forest one day that is surrounded on all sides by open spaces. They have turned it into a Red squirrel reserve. I didn't know that squirrels will not travel in open spaces so the forest had none living there in the first place and greys (which carry a disease that kills reds) can't get in

Was brilliant to see so many, I've only seen one once years ago in Scotland, they had a feeding area with a hide around it, they would come and run around your feet if you stood there long enough! Never quite pulled that off as my son was so excited to see them.

Sounds like you had an idyllic time. Really happy for you

Well today I had to switch out a motherboard, which is always a cause of stress. I had a RAID 0 array on the controller on my old board that I was certain I was going to lose. Imagine my sheer shock when I fitted a completely different board, fired it up and my RAID array was alive and well !

YAY.

I've forgot to download some programmes on the Internet for a few weeks.

NAY.

I've now got 4 episodes of 2 Broke Girls and 3 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

YAY! Colon hyphen closed parenthesis.

Forgot again

Balls.

That's shit. What's more shit is that they don't automatically charge you if they have your details anyway.

They certainly do - I’ve paid the fines enough times!

I don't understand why they don't do this. My car is registered with TFL so if I enter the congestion charge area they automatically deduct the money without me having to do it personally, why can't train car parks do this if you're parking there everyday?

Because then they lose the opportunity to charge you much larger sums of money by way of fines, I'd guess.

If so, it is rather cynical.

Because then they lose the opportunity to charge you much larger sums of money by way of fines, I'd guess.

If so, it is rather cynical.

Costs v. Benefit?

Sure they could do this. just enter the number plate and if registered charge for a full day worst case if registered.

A few years ago my council started charging for garden waste bin collection. For the first few years they issues different coloured stickers each year. Now its a bar code which looks to be scanned by the bin lorry when they put the bin in (was watching them the other day as my son loves lorries and diggers!)

You can ring up the council if you forget to pay and once payment is cleared your bin will be approved for collection instantly.