Mystery solved. I looked it up. Money Laundering bank check ...
That sounds about right. I work for a firm of solicitors, and we have to ask every new client to provide two forms of ID (one photographic, one proof of address) to comply with the Law Society's Anti-Money Laundering Regulations.
Mystery solved. I looked it up. Money Laundering bank check ...
That sounds about right. I work for a firm of solicitors, and we have to ask every new client to provide two forms of ID (one photographic, one proof of address) to comply with the Law Society's Anti-Money Laundering Regulations.
I sometimes get asked to provide a utility bill as proof of address - an original, not a photocopy or printed from a website. This thing is, and I’m sure I’m not alone 8n this, I never get utility bills though the post nowadays as I do everything online
I don't get utility bills at all; my electricity is prepaid through a little wand thingy that I top up at a corner shop. I get notifications from O2 to say that my mobile bill is ready, but as it's a direct debit, I very rarely look at them. If I had to, I suppose I could download it and print it (or a bank statement or Council Tax bill, which we would accept as well).
Mystery solved. I looked it up. Money Laundering bank check ...
That sounds about right. I work for a firm of solicitors, and we have to ask every new client to provide two forms of ID (one photographic, one proof of address) to comply with the Law Society's Anti-Money Laundering Regulations.
I sometimes get asked to provide a utility bill as proof of address - an original, not a photocopy or printed from a website. This thing is, and I’m sure I’m not alone 8n this, I never get utility bills though the post nowadays as I do everything online
This is why despite the council's encouragement our council tax bill is staying a paper one. Between working in roles that do enhanced employment checks and periodically needing to renew DBS for church and Guiding, over the last few years we've averaged out at needing proof of address at least once a year. And it's addressed to us both.
I deliberately opted to have most of my bills sent through the post and to pay monthly or annually as required. That way I have paper copies, and if anything happens to me, at least this way someone will make inquiries about why I'm not paying and money won't be debited unnecessarily ad infinitum.
Today is a good day for saying "what's the point of..."
In this case, my paying £40 a year to have my garden waste bin licensed, labelled and emptied by the council when they've just emptied my neighbour's for free AGAIN and they haven't paid anything since they moved here.
Virtue really is its own reward sometimes. And I know perfectly well that if I didn't pay and didn't have a licence that would be when they'd decide to have a crackdown and not empty mine.
The Councils here gets around that by including the payment for the bins (rubbish, green waste and recycling) as part of the rates (payments made yearly to the council). Bins also have the householders address stamped on them to discourage stealing.
No licensing here in Cambridge, green garden wheelie bins are included in the council tax. They are emptied fortnightly in the summer, alongside the blue recycling wheelie bin (we alternate between ordinary black bin and recycling blue bin weeks), and monthly in the winter.
We don't bother with garden waste collection here, the garden is too small to justify the expense. Our last garden was massive, with a number of trees and shrubs, and much of it out of my control. We did pay for the garden waste collection there, and always managed to fill the bin to the brim (it's amazing how much you can pack in if you cut the weeds and the trimmings small enough).
What frustrated me was that the collections were for just 9 months of the year, stopping just at the time the most pruning and garden-tidying was starting. I guess the collections were timed to cover the lawn- mowing months, not as many households had vast quantities of the coarser type of garden waste to dispose of.
We're very grateful that our town (oops! city) has weekly collection of all rubbish and recycling. A lidded box for paper and card, a pink sack for glass and plastics, black sacks for general rubbish and a lidded bucket for food waste. A green garden rubbish bin is about £30 a year and is also emptied weekly. Every Thursday morning when all of this disappears/is emptied from the garden gate I find myself fervently hoping that it won't fall victim to spending cuts! Perhaps it's time to write a congratulatory letter or two.
We have 2 weekly recycling and 3 weekly rubbish (though you can get a second general rubbish bin of you have a large family or a child in nappies). It's fine unless you forget to put the general rubbish bin out.
In Embra, food waste weekly: recyclable (plastic/metal/paper/cardboard) fortnightly: glass fortnightly: everything else fortnightly. Garden waste also fortnightly, but you have to pay about £30+ annually.
It works ok - for the midwinter interregnum on garden waste, it's amazing how much you can get in a bin if you let it wither down.
We have 4 bins here. A small one, emptied weekly, for general household waste. Three much larger ones emptied fortnightly. One is for paper and cardboard (yellow lid), another for bottles and cans (blue lid), and the third for green waste, such as prunings and lawn clippings (green lid). One week sees the small bin go out with the bin for green waste The next week sees the small bin go out with the other 2 large ones. We compost as much as we can for both household and garden waste. There may be opt-out available, but we've never wanted to.
My mother and friends live in an area which charges £30 pa for garden waste collection. They complain about this. I live in an area where I have to transport garden waste (beyond what the compost heap can cope with) to the municipal tip. I tell them what a bargain £30 pa is, I would happily pay £50.
I hereby consign to hell both the 2 major political parties in Aotearoa/NZ for taking a leap to the right and trying to micro manage what is taught in NZ schools, the way it is taught, and various other stupidities.
Hell, if I were younger I would consider standing myself, just to ensure there was someone I could vote for without holding my nose.
Part of my problem is that most of those who are advocating not voting are the so called "freedom parties" who are anti vaccination, masking and any other policies to prevent the spread of covid, and they are even worse than the other idiots.
In all my 50 years of voting I have never felt as disenchanted as I do now.
My mother and friends live in an area which charges £30 pa for garden waste collection. They complain about this. I live in an area where I have to transport garden waste (beyond what the compost heap can cope with) to the municipal tip. I tell them what a bargain £30 pa is, I would happily pay £50.
We don't have to pay. Our somewhat cash-strapped Council are threatening to start charging but are, I think, concerned that doing so might increase fly-tipping.
I have just checked the website, and the garden waste collection the local council provides is fortnightly, for the full 12 months, just omitting any of the collections that fall in the Christmas period.
It costs £70pa.
Mr RoS is happy to take to the recycling centre any garden waste I can't manage to put on our compost heap - he loves to have a rootle around the area they keep of things for sale, in case he can find anything "useful"
Right, tried to ring the council to ask politely if the garden waste team could be gently reminded to always check for bin licence labels. End result: no, not really, first we'd need to check whether your neighbours have a bin subscription or not and we can't tell you because of data protection.
I shall carry on paying my bin subscription as at least it guarantees my bin will be emptied 100% of the time instead of 50%, but it is a bit disheartening.
TICTH school run parents clogging up the roads with their massive SUVs, and especially the one this afternoon carrying one child in a car the size of a Sherman tank holding everyone up doing a seventeen point turn outside the school
TICTH the mail service, and particularly the ^&(%^*!!! who was supposed to deliver my medication today. He drove right up to the mailbox, removed the 8 x 11 note that said "I am inside to sign for this package, PLEASE KNOCK ON DOOR", shoved in a couple bills, and drove away. Without leaving the package.
Naught young man to be telling fibs - there may be impressionable children around who'd hear them and think there are times when you are allowed not to tell the truth.
Northern RFail. Mainline train running late. Replacement bus for connecting service inadequate for number of passengers, and left without us. Hour wait for next connection plus cost of taxi at end of journey.
Ideologically driven Conservative governments under Margaret Thatcher and John Major for ridiculous privatisation of British Rail whereby station operating companies have no direct connection with or influence on train operating companies which use them. Avanti station manager could see bus was inadequate, but had no means for ordering more transport, and no authority to make other arrangements.
O! for the days of British Railways, when at least everything was under the same umbrella, so to speak.
Something similar happened to me on a journey to Bournemouth some years ago, when we had to leave the train at Southampton (a broken rail had been found between there and Bournemouth), and pack into some hastily-summoned road coaches.
However, AFAIK there were sufficient coaches to accommodate all the passengers for Bournemouth, and we arrived at the station there not especially far behind time. The problems referred to by @BroJames seem not to have arisen on this occasion, so full marks to South Western Trains (as it was then).
Ideologically driven Conservative governments under Margaret Thatcher and John Major for ridiculous privatisation of British Rail.
To be fair, although Margaret Thatcher sold off peripheral businesses such as Travellers' Fare and Sealink (although one might argue that the latter was hardly "peripheral"!), she thought it inadvisable to privatise BR. It was Major, advised by the Treasury, wot dun it. Things might have been very different had Robert Adley MP, who understood railways, not suddenly died halfway through the process.
Travellers' Fare, there's a blast from the past. I've never had a cup of tea before or since like the ones I had from there. Not only could you have stood a spoon up in it, you could have stood a cast-iron shovel upright in it. Great nationalized sandwiches too. There's an art to those curly edges.
TICTH people who stop right behind you in traffic queues - so close you can't see their radiator grill in the rear view mirror. On steep uphills. Do they not foresee that the vehicle in front might roll back? Causes me stress when we move off again.
The advice given to learners is that they should stop where they can still see the point where the rear wheels of the vehicle in front meet the road. There's no advantage gained in being a metre closer.
O but there is...you shave at least one nano-second off your no doubt vitally important journey...
IOW, I agree. I always say that a bad driver is worried that their grave is getting cold, but, alas, it's often some other poor innocent party who ends up dead or maimed...
O but there is...you shave at least one nano-second off your no doubt vitally important journey...
IOW, I agree. I always say that a bad driver is worried that their grave is getting cold, but, alas, it's often some other poor innocent party who ends up dead or maimed...
It's not behaviour likely to result in injury or death, but it could easily make for a ruined day and weeks of mucking about with repairers and insurers. All for absolutely zero gain.
I haven't forgotten being overtaken in Sainsbury's car park by an impatient driver who accelerated past across the zebra crossing and nearly wiped out an entire family who were about to cross. What was so important that he couldn't wait half a minute?
O but there is...you shave at least one nano-second off your no doubt vitally important journey...
IOW, I agree. I always say that a bad driver is worried that their grave is getting cold, but, alas, it's often some other poor innocent party who ends up dead or maimed...
It's not behaviour likely to result in injury or death, but it could easily make for a ruined day and weeks of mucking about with repairers and insurers. All for absolutely zero gain.
Yes, very true, but I was extrapolating your remark to include bad drivers in general. Their name is Legion...
I haven't forgotten being overtaken in Sainsbury's car park by an impatient driver who accelerated past across the zebra crossing and nearly wiped out an entire family who were about to cross. What was so important that he couldn't wait half a minute?
Nothing, probably. I sometimes take longer than I would like to cross the road outside my local Co-Op, and I've nearly been wiped out by impatient drivers - as if my crutches don't indicate that I'm crippled enough already...
Bloody earthquakes! It wasn't centred in Christchurch, but a pce some distance away and there it would have been felt strongly. Here it was a long gentle rolling movement that went ooooooonnnnnnn for ages. The quake itself has finished, but I'm still shaking. It's been some time since one left me feelingso disturbed.
Pubs are for beer and cider, primarily, IMV. I'm told the wine is generally overpriced and unlike the beer (at least in a proper pub with proper beer) is exactly the same as what you can buy way cheaper in bottles. Ditto shorts.
At least wine and shorts don’t take any longer to serve than beer or cider. It really boils my piss when I’m standing for ages with an empty glass waiting to get served while the barperson mixes half a dozen cocktails.
At least wine and shorts don’t take any longer to serve than beer or cider. It really boils my piss when I’m standing for ages with an empty glass waiting to get served while the barperson mixes half a dozen cocktails.
You can at least smugly fume to yourself that they're paying an eye-watering amount of money for the dubious privilege.
But to be fair, around here if you stand on the street by a bus stop holding a phone or purse/wallet it’ll probably get snatched by someone whizzing by on an e-scooter.
TICTH people who order cocktails in pubs. There’s a special corner for those who do so when there’s only one person working behind the bar.
Seems to me that the appropriate consignee in this situation is management, who made the decision to stock the ingredients necessary to make cocktails and offer them for sale without ensuring that there would be adequate staffing to handle the preparation of what they offer for sale.
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That sounds about right. I work for a firm of solicitors, and we have to ask every new client to provide two forms of ID (one photographic, one proof of address) to comply with the Law Society's Anti-Money Laundering Regulations.
I sometimes get asked to provide a utility bill as proof of address - an original, not a photocopy or printed from a website. This thing is, and I’m sure I’m not alone 8n this, I never get utility bills though the post nowadays as I do everything online
This is why despite the council's encouragement our council tax bill is staying a paper one. Between working in roles that do enhanced employment checks and periodically needing to renew DBS for church and Guiding, over the last few years we've averaged out at needing proof of address at least once a year. And it's addressed to us both.
In this case, my paying £40 a year to have my garden waste bin licensed, labelled and emptied by the council when they've just emptied my neighbour's for free AGAIN and they haven't paid anything since they moved here.
Virtue really is its own reward sometimes. And I know perfectly well that if I didn't pay and didn't have a licence that would be when they'd decide to have a crackdown and not empty mine.
I might speak to the council about this.
What frustrated me was that the collections were for just 9 months of the year, stopping just at the time the most pruning and garden-tidying was starting. I guess the collections were timed to cover the lawn- mowing months, not as many households had vast quantities of the coarser type of garden waste to dispose of.
It works ok - for the midwinter interregnum on garden waste, it's amazing how much you can get in a bin if you let it wither down.
Hell, if I were younger I would consider standing myself, just to ensure there was someone I could vote for without holding my nose.
Part of my problem is that most of those who are advocating not voting are the so called "freedom parties" who are anti vaccination, masking and any other policies to prevent the spread of covid, and they are even worse than the other idiots.
In all my 50 years of voting I have never felt as disenchanted as I do now.
We don't have to pay. Our somewhat cash-strapped Council are threatening to start charging but are, I think, concerned that doing so might increase fly-tipping.
It costs £70pa.
Mr RoS is happy to take to the recycling centre any garden waste I can't manage to put on our compost heap - he loves to have a rootle around the area they keep of things for sale, in case he can find anything "useful"
I shall carry on paying my bin subscription as at least it guarantees my bin will be emptied 100% of the time instead of 50%, but it is a bit disheartening.
I have a fucking migraine. And no package.
One of them kept shouting "I'm not f*****g drunk" at the other, but I suspect he was not being truthful.
Ideologically driven Conservative governments under Margaret Thatcher and John Major for ridiculous privatisation of British Rail whereby station operating companies have no direct connection with or influence on train operating companies which use them. Avanti station manager could see bus was inadequate, but had no means for ordering more transport, and no authority to make other arrangements.
Something similar happened to me on a journey to Bournemouth some years ago, when we had to leave the train at Southampton (a broken rail had been found between there and Bournemouth), and pack into some hastily-summoned road coaches.
However, AFAIK there were sufficient coaches to accommodate all the passengers for Bournemouth, and we arrived at the station there not especially far behind time. The problems referred to by @BroJames seem not to have arisen on this occasion, so full marks to South Western Trains (as it was then).
The advice given to learners is that they should stop where they can still see the point where the rear wheels of the vehicle in front meet the road. There's no advantage gained in being a metre closer.
IOW, I agree. I always say that a bad driver is worried that their grave is getting cold, but, alas, it's often some other poor innocent party who ends up dead or maimed...
It's not behaviour likely to result in injury or death, but it could easily make for a ruined day and weeks of mucking about with repairers and insurers. All for absolutely zero gain.
Yes, very true, but I was extrapolating your remark to include bad drivers in general. Their name is Legion...
Nothing, probably. I sometimes take longer than I would like to cross the road outside my local Co-Op, and I've nearly been wiped out by impatient drivers - as if my crutches don't indicate that I'm crippled enough already...
I thought it was Jehu ... perhaps Legion is their surname.
(Or perhaps I'm thinking of the Mad Tour)
Fortunately, Aberdeen Station has a manned ticket office, so I am ok, but I have no idea why the website thinks I am a bot.
You're absolutely right - Tigglet did go by Jehu, son of Nimshi for a while.
You can at least smugly fume to yourself that they're paying an eye-watering amount of money for the dubious privilege.