Quote from: Bealman on Today at 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 Today at 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.

Oh, if only.....

More please!

Have 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...

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

I had a listen to the audio of "Prog Rock at the Proms" last night (NZ time.)
Someone has downloaded it to YouTube in its entirety, if anyone wants to have a listen.
I thought it was pretty good overall, Carl Palmer's drumming sounded awesome. Some items worked better than others. It was a little strange listening to an orchestra imitating Rick Wakeman imitating an orchestra on "And You and I," though I quite liked the result.

I can just about remember Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minutes - I have a memory of my Dad telling me, but I don't think it meant much to me at the time. Kerr did it a whole quarter of a minute faster. But then, he's a professional athlete; Bannister was a university student and didn't have access to today's high-tech shoes, running surfaces, training and diets. Both great achievements, nearly ¾ of a century apart.

Cheers,

Chris