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  1. Plymborn

    Plymborn Well-Known Member
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    Winter Fuel Allowance has been restored....we both got letters today telling us that we will receive £150 each towards are energy bills.

    Just need reversing our freedom pass to start from early morning... instead of from 0930hrs as it did during Covid.
     
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    Had our Covid and Flu jabs yesterday................booked up online and there where probably more than 80% of booking times available......we where more than 15 minutes early and we got done straight away.....I assume that's because of raising the age to 75 years old.
     
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    Very rare…. I looked it up…. Only about 6,000 ever made.

    I worked with a guy once who had a Jaguar E-Type as his weekend car rather than our rather boring company cars.

    I was always hoping for a ride so every Monday I’d ask “Been out in the E-Type Mel?” It’d be “No it looked like rain so I didn’t” but much more frequently, in fact all the time, it’d be “No, I’ve got the cylinder head off” or “no I’m re-lining the brakes”or…. You get the picture.

    I was only there for about 18 months (having sold and bought a house which we only occupied for 9 months) and I don’t think he drove the damn thing in all that time!
     
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    A neighbour up the road as a red E-Type......his garage looks like a mechanics dream area....but as you say....when he backs it out of the garage....(or does he just roll it out ?) or actually turn the engine on ? he has the bonnet up or the boot open.....and I must admit I've never seen it go beyond his drive ?
     
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    Now I think about it, he was in the process of replacing all the brake pipes. No small task.
     
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    i had a flu jab yesterday and they said am i allergic to EGGS .. she explained why i dint listen.. i only have it to protect my son, i said about covid she said over 75 only.. i may as well not had the flu jab as i protect him from one not the other so i will have to pay for one if possible i need to ask partner as she is a Pharmacist tech
     
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    Hi Joe....how is your lad getting on these days...?

    You had found a place for him near London......is he still there ..?

    If so ...your motorway mileage must be quite high.

    I only did a thousand miles between MOT's this last year.....of course the Citroën was off the road for 6 weeks because of their national recall on faulty airbags.....(120,000 of us in the UK alone).
     
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