Quote from: class8mikado on July 20, 2026, 09:35:20 AMHave noticed that some of the pricing on ebay is optimistic, from one point the starting price and the selling price grow wider apart and some sellers still think putting £ 5 post on a £10 wagon isnt going to put people off...

Cost of postage plus packing.  It does make buying one cheap wagon uneconomical perhaps, but you just factor the P&P into what you're willing to pay. Maybe make an offer, or just walk way and leave it to somebody else.

QuoteOn a technical note  i seam to be being debited an extra £ 1 every time i use paypal ? is that the case now  ?

Nope, not seen that ever.  You haven't set up some sort of charity donation have you?

Quote from: Bealman on July 20, 2026, 12:19:34 PMYou need a passport to go to Scotland? I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!

You don't. Not yet anyway although the Scots are working on it  and hopefully Wales too one day 

The problem is that airlines should accept other documents for internal flights but that requires training their minimum wage staff so they often don't bother. There are other options but the photo ID has to be government issued.

I just get the train.

That's the problem with Hadrian's Wall. I was never fit enough to climb up onto it.

    

Quote from: Bealman on July 20, 2026, 12:19:34 PMYou need a passport to go to Scotland? I've never heard so ridiculous!

George ... you must have been stopped at the customs posts located at the gates in the Milecastles on The Wall. The ones where the  procuratores collect the customs duty. Probably also need to make sure your vaccines are up to date for travel over the border - especially if on checking your papers they realise you hail from Sunderland...

Quote from: class8mikado on July 20, 2026, 09:35:20 AMsome sellers still think putting £ 5 post on a £10 wagon isn't going to put people off...

2-4 day delivery with Evri for a small parcel is £2.62. £3.65 for tracked 48 from Royal Mail. Add in cost of packaging and £5 postage soon gets eaten up - quite reasonable in my opinion.

You need a passport to go to Scotland? I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!

Agreed, I am pleased that Spain won but I only watched a bit of the game live.

Tim

Conceding only 1 goal in the entire tournament is testament to Spain. A good job done.

Quote from: thebrighton on July 17, 2026, 10:16:09 AMFor similar reasons I let my passport expire, I've no desire to go abroad again, too much like hard work when there is so much of the UK I've yet to visit.

However, I still had a perfectly legal paper driving license but in the eyes of the world I no longer existed if I ever needed to prove who I was for the most trivial of things.

I've now had to pay to get a photo driving license which I'll have to pay to renew every few years.

My wife surrendered her driving licence due to the potential of an hereditary sight defect. No big deal, I don't mind doing the driving, but as she didn't have an active passport, she had to buy an 'Over25' photo ID to be able to vote.
The only problem with that photo ID is, she can't use it as ID for internal flights, so we need to get her a passport for a trip to Edinburgh later in the year. The whole 'do it digitally' thing is all well and good but she's changed her name since her last one was issued in 2006, and had no need to replace it in the intervening years. It's all a bit of a pain.