Brexit, for once some facts.
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During my working life I covered the whole of the UK, and because this predated Sat Navs, or indeed mobile phones, needed to use maps, and after several years had covered so many miles that I rarely needed to use them very often, and quite frankly the monster London A to Z that covered the area encompassed by the M25 was highly impractical when on the move, as it was literally organised in horizontal slices that I often passed though diagonally requiring a heck of a lot of thumbing pages, thus I pretty much picked up the famous "knowledge" not only of the capital but the whole UK over the years
Monday I covered the north and into Scotland, Tuesday and Wednesday the Capital and South coast, Thursday the midlands and Friday the North again.
My last company car was the year i retired , a Toyota Avensis 2 litre estate, in 2002, and even that didn't have a sat nav.
This latest car is the first Sat nav sytem (apart from phone ones that I never bothered with) I have owned and frankly I regard it as being something that has a long way to go before Newbie drivers should be using them.
Certainly they are far less reliable over choosing routes that won't test a new driver's ability to drive down unsuitable roads that are too narrow and frankly a very poor choice of route.
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Have to say, because I am still relatively new to the area, my satnav is a real blessing. It has also been very helpful in at least identifying heavy traffic ahead and the likely impact on my journey. I usually set it for any longer journey. But the secret really is to be able to judge when, and have the confidence to, ignore it.
In the past I have got myself across London by keeping my eye on the sun. Amazingly, it works if the sky is clear enough.
Agreed, they can only be regarded as a valuable help, not relied on implicitly.
And of course the SD card or other regular storage needs constant updating.
Cost of which was prohibitive for my first satnav - a TomTom - after the initial "free" update(s). That was initially why I switched to using my phone. It would have cost more for a couple of years or so of updates than a new device.
Skoda score on this, there are two updates a year and they are free!
On my Leaf it's included for three years and their Connect system is always on so continuously updated without me having to do anything.
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but we may have to go by boat because without a deal, we may not fly there.We do have an arrangement with the Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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Isle of Man is not part of the UK. The Channel Islands are not part of the UK.
They are only British Crown Dependencies, never in the UK or the EU.
The Queen is titular head but they are otherwise entirely self governing, with the free benefit that Britain provides their defence and consular services.
They are also In the EU customs union and single market by treaty, both unaffected by Brexit, but are otherwise "third countries" to the EU.
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Phew! saved as they say by the Bell (and you know how far you can trust them by jove!)We do have an arrangement with the Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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At last! some real Journalism about the Major crises of the day in the Daily Mirror
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Parrot tells firefighters to 'f**k off' after being stuck on roof for three days
Jessie the Macaw's owner says the bird speaks three different languages, including English, Turkish and Greek"
This sounds suspiciously like a send up of Boris to me!
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Parrot tells firefighters to 'f**k off' after being stuck on roof for three days
Jessie the Macaw's owner says the bird speaks three different languages, including English, Turkish and Greek"
This sounds suspiciously like a send up of Boris to me!
Net figure: 86,000 fewer jobs taken by EU workers in the last year.
Hammond is intending to introduce a revenue tax to get more tax from e-bay and Amazon,he says to help the high street.
But the problem of these big on line sellers are the vendors within are not always charging vat,obviously consumers like it-they get cheap goods.
This is one of the problems hitting the high street,plus rents and business rates are unaffordable.
HMRC have the power to prosecute these fraudulent on line vendors but they seem impotent to do so.
KudosDave
But the problem of these big on line sellers are the vendors within are not always charging vat,obviously consumers like it-they get cheap goods.
This is one of the problems hitting the high street,plus rents and business rates are unaffordable.
HMRC have the power to prosecute these fraudulent on line vendors but they seem impotent to do so.
KudosDave