Driving Licence

It turns out that the placed I lived when I first came to London does not appear in the Royal Mail address database and therefore neither does it appear in the DVLC database. This is annoying since I can walk any interested party to the building and poibnt it out to them.

Now the upshot of this is that I cannot update my driving licence online. This is a pain.

I guess it's my own fault, the address on it is twenty years out of date, but since I haven't owned or indeed even driven a car in all that time, it never rweally bothered me. Unfortunately, it does seem to mean that I am now the forgotten driver and I am going to have to phone DVLC and ask what we do next. I expect they will say I should have updated the address every time I moved, but in the past twenty years, I have simply had no use for a car. I'm not sure I do now, but it is a little unfair to expect Furtle to drive us everywhere on the few occasions we hire a vehicle. I should at least share the chore. I am licenced to drive, no doubt about that, but hiring a car with an address that is 20+ years out of date is problematic (unless I am on a trip to the US where frankly, I could wave a piece of tast at the car hire people).

So, to get the new photo licence I have to make a phone call and probably get morte photos taken, instead of them just using those held by the passport people.

I've slipped through the system, people!

Driving Licence

It turns out that the placed I lived when I first came to London does not appear in the Royal Mail address database and therefore neither does it appear in the DVLC database. This is annoying since I can walk any interested party to the building and poibnt it out to them.

Now the upshot of this is that I cannot update my driving licence online. This is a pain.

I guess it's my own fault, the address on it is twenty years out of date, but since I haven't owned or indeed even driven a car in all that time, it never rweally bothered me. Unfortunately, it does seem to mean that I am now the forgotten driver and I am going to have to phone DVLC and ask what we do next. I expect they will say I should have updated the address every time I moved, but in the past twenty years, I have simply had no use for a car. I'm not sure I do now, but it is a little unfair to expect Furtle to drive us everywhere on the few occasions we hire a vehicle. I should at least share the chore. I am licenced to drive, no doubt about that, but hiring a car with an address that is 20+ years out of date is problematic (unless I am on a trip to the US where frankly, I could wave a piece of tast at the car hire people).

So, to get the new photo licence I have to make a phone call and probably get morte photos taken, instead of them just using those held by the passport people.

I've slipped through the system, people!

Is it a bird..?

Me no unnerstandee.

I was just looking at some comics covers for the Marvel Ultimate Comics range and I find myself wondering why they (and all other comic companies) ever bother with these relaunches. They start off doing something to show that the new series is different from the usual product, grittier, odder, funnier, more surreal or what have you. The continuity is reset to the beginning and all looks rosy.

After a relatively short period however, assuming that it doesn't all get cancelled (anyone but me remember Jim Shooter?) because no-one cares, it all inevitably creeps back towards the mainstream and becomes indistinguishable from the original lines upon which the revamp was based, but is supposed to be different from.

Is it a bird..?

Me no unnerstandee.

I was just looking at some comics covers for the Marvel Ultimate Comics range and I find myself wondering why they (and all other comic companies) ever bother with these relaunches. They start off doing something to show that the new series is different from the usual product, grittier, odder, funnier, more surreal or what have you. The continuity is reset to the beginning and all looks rosy.

After a relatively short period however, assuming that it doesn't all get cancelled (anyone but me remember Jim Shooter?) because no-one cares, it all inevitably creeps back towards the mainstream and becomes indistinguishable from the original lines upon which the revamp was based, but is supposed to be different from.

Belt

I think maybe my belt is stretching.

For the past few days, when I have put my trollies on, my belt has been tending toward the next notch in, but it has felt just that little bit too tight, so I left it where I have been wearing it for the past few weeks. This morning I used the next notch in and it didn’t feel uncomfortably tight (though tighter), so I left it. Psychological boost and all that.

The trouble is, having found that both the belt and my tum were happy with the extra tightening, I did what I always do when that happens and zipped down to try out my leather jacket, which is the immediate incentive for losing weight (other than any more esoteric reasons of health and so on: vanity always wins out over logic). To my annoyance, it didn’t seem to be any different in fit to the last time I tried it. Don’t get me wrong, it is still a better fit, a much better fit, than six months ago, but…

My work jacket too, seems no looser.

I can only conclude that either my belt is stretching, or I am losing weight from the feet up. I hope it evens out or I shall look like a bloody bald flamingo in chinos. That’s not quite where I anticipated ending up when we started this weight loss thing.

And I’m not sure that I look any thinner, either. Where’s the ego-boosting reward?

Belt

I think maybe my belt is stretching.

For the past few days, when I have put my trollies on, my belt has been tending toward the next notch in, but it has felt just that little bit too tight, so I left it where I have been wearing it for the past few weeks. This morning I used the next notch in and it didn’t feel uncomfortably tight (though tighter), so I left it. Psychological boost and all that.

The trouble is, having found that both the belt and my tum were happy with the extra tightening, I did what I always do when that happens and zipped down to try out my leather jacket, which is the immediate incentive for losing weight (other than any more esoteric reasons of health and so on: vanity always wins out over logic). To my annoyance, it didn’t seem to be any different in fit to the last time I tried it. Don’t get me wrong, it is still a better fit, a much better fit, than six months ago, but…

My work jacket too, seems no looser.

I can only conclude that either my belt is stretching, or I am losing weight from the feet up. I hope it evens out or I shall look like a bloody bald flamingo in chinos. That’s not quite where I anticipated ending up when we started this weight loss thing.

And I’m not sure that I look any thinner, either. Where’s the ego-boosting reward?

Driving Licence (ii)

I have just realised that I left my driving licence at home, so I can't even phone up DVLC and grumble about it.

Oh well, something for tomorrow.

Driving Licence (ii)

I have just realised that I left my driving licence at home, so I can't even phone up DVLC and grumble about it.

Oh well, something for tomorrow.