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8:23 am
Wed 10-Feb-10
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SOL
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I cant believe they are charging £20 (or was it £30), to put a new picture of me on my driving licence. That makes me look like a ghost. It is all black and white in the picture now. I have heard that if they mess your driving licence off and you have a motorcycle licence, that they knock that off your licence and then you have to retake your test. Which is hugely expensive and totally ridiculous. So I 2nd Rae in that rant. If you are to provide a service, PROVIDE THE SERVICE WE PAY FOR!!!!
Now back to the chocolate, before I really start to RANT, about a police man that told me to stop riding on the pavement and take my life in my hands on the roads around here, where people cross 3 lanes of traffic and cut you up because they couldnt get in lane and wait 2 seconds!!!!!
I am now going to go through my first day of cold turkey of no chocolate, as I have to research what chocolate is made by cadburys and if they make chocolate for any one else and it might slip under my radar. Now I will have to give something else up for lent. I really must get my thinking cap on and get my jar to put the money in that I would have spent and decide on a charity to give it to….
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11:03 am
Wed 10-Feb-10
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Shereen
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I was invited to an 08:00 meeting this morning, via a Post-It note on my desk at 08:15. The meeting was to bring me up to date with all the Change Request stuff from my week off. Only the meeting organiser acted like I'd not been off, and should therefore have all the answers to hand like that *snaps fingers*
By the third time I 'd said "I'm sorry, I've not worked through the backlog that built up during my holiday" they cut the meeting short.
I'm more annoyed because I wasted 2 hours of my last day doing a handover on the expectation that the urgent stuff would be covered. It would have been easier just to put it all on hold.
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11:22 am
Wed 10-Feb-10
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SOL
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Shereen, this is the reason I am working my socks off so I can pay the mortgage off on the house. I can then pick and choose my job, even go part time and start a business.
I think I need a sign that says
"doesnt play well with Idiots" hung above my desk. They probably did that to seem important and to show you that they are in super early, and therefore must be super efficient. I worked in one job where there was one person who didnt do a stroke of work. She wandered around with a fax all day long up and down trying to chat to anyone. It was an art form. How to look busy doing nothing.
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12:00 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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bobquail
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S.O.L. said:
I cant believe they are charging £20 (or was it £30), to put a new picture of me on my driving licence. That makes me look like a ghost. It is all black and white in the picture now. I have heard that if they mess your driving licence off and you have a motorcycle licence, that they knock that off your licence and then you have to retake your test. Which is hugely expensive and totally ridiculous. So I 2nd Rae in that rant. If you are to provide a service, PROVIDE THE SERVICE WE PAY FOR!!!!
When I moved house a couple of years ago I lost the paper part of my driving licence so I delayed getting it replaced until it was absolutely necessary. When I finally replaced it, they gave me one of those with the crappy pale picture which looks really sh*te.
On the subject of driving… I really love driving to work during the school holidays because the roads are almost completely empty and I get to work in less than half the time.
And why is it that when I need to get to work early, so I leave the house half an hour earlier than usual, it can sometimes take an extra half hour to get to work because the traffic is busier? Arrgghhh!!!
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12:13 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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JoannaS
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S.O.L. said:
And now I have to give up most of my chocolate needs and loves.
How about:-
Dubbles chocolate bars? http://www.dubble.co.uk/
Divine chocolate http://www.divinechocolate.com/default.aspx 
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12:17 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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JoannaS
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S.O.L. said:
a police man that told me to stop riding on the pavement and take my life in my hands on the roads around here, where people cross 3 lanes of traffic and cut you up because they couldnt get in lane and wait 2 seconds!!!!!
Is this of any use http://www.lcc.org.uk/documents/Cycle%20sense(1).pdf,
Not sure if it is but thought I would post it anyway in case it is of any use to anyone else
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12:20 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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JoannaS
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bobquail said:
And why is it that when I need to get to work early, so I leave the house half an hour earlier than usual, it can sometimes take an extra half hour to get to work because the traffic is busier? Arrgghhh!!!
One of the reasons for never ever living back in the UK, we listen to the traffic reports and snigger as it is rush hour here if you see three cars at the same time, unless they are parked outside the supermarket 
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1:11 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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mutley
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I cant believe they are charging £20 (or was it £30), to put a new picture of me on my driving licence. That makes me look like a ghost. It is all black and white in the picture now. I have heard that if they mess your driving licence off and you have a motorcycle licence, that they knock that off your licence and then you have to retake your test. Which is hugely expensive and totally ridiculous. So I 2nd Rae in that rant. If you are to provide a service, PROVIDE THE SERVICE WE PAY FOR!!!!
WHAT a con thay will mess up on purpuss now, well stuff them.
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2:50 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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Toffeeapple
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Joanna, I've had one of the Divine bars, milk butterscotch it was; very delicious. And I don't usually like chocolate that much. 
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4:16 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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danast
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JoannaS said:
bobquail said:
And why is it that when I need to get to work early, so I leave the house half an hour earlier than usual, it can sometimes take an extra half hour to get to work because the traffic is busier? Arrgghhh!!!
One of the reasons for never ever living back in the UK, we listen to the traffic reports and snigger as it is rush hour here if you see three cars at the same time, unless they are parked outside the supermarket
Rush hour here is similar. It consists of about three sheep, two pheasants and a deer on the road. Unless of course the ferry from Bute has come in and then there are actually cars!!!
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5:38 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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brightspark
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We used to live in a picturesque village just outside Reading until about 5 years ago. In Wiltshire the traffic is easily manageable, but when we return to Reading – the potential for road rage is incredible – don't know how we managed before!
However, here in France, is just like Danuta, hours can pass – it is just 'tranquille'. Very relaxing!
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6:45 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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elrohana
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Rae Mond said:
they're parasites of no perceivable benefit to motorists, pettyfogging tinpot hitlers.
Despite the fact that they are entirely funded by motorists (and potentially tax paying pedestrians and cyclists also) they have abominable standards of customer service because they know that nobody has a choice but to jump through their hoops and put up with their incompetence to own or drive a car.
They're evil.
To be fair, all of your issues with them probably stem from a combination of Government policy and bad management, not the fault of the poor sods who work for very poor wages and just had their car tyres slashed.
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8:41 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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SOL
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Thank you Joanna, I think you have just saved me from becoming a crazed mad woman. I have emailed the vending machine people at work to tell them I and my whole section (40 women), will not be purchasing cadburys or nestle chocolate from their machines even if it is cheaper than the alternative. and people have even asked for a list of the choclate bars that are nestle or cadburys so they can avoid them. if only I could also wean them all off post it notes for scrap paper… everyone seemed to agree about the chocolate
and the great thing about the ones you made link s to they are fair trade. that helps the choice. I will email them these brands. thank you 
on another note I had what I can only say is an email holding letter to stall me, from tescos, as I complained that they put organic meat in black plastic, when in this county they dont recycle it. how stupid you care enough to eat organic and they put it in plastic, but no any plastic, they use black DUH! I will email again at the end of the month. watch this space….
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10:11 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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Shereen
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Toffeeapple said:Joanna, I've had one of the Divine bars, milk butterscotch it was; very delicious. And I don't usually like chocolate that much. 
I made up a Divine chocolate goody bag for a Christmas present for my friend. I got a load of different types of sweets in my local Oxfam fair trade shop. The crumbly fudge was so addictive I had to get myself a bag too.
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10:22 pm
Wed 10-Feb-10
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Rae Mond
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you may have missed the point el,
ranting isn't so much about rationality and considering all sides of a problem. it's about letting off steam when something makes you so impotently furious you want to grab a passing stranger and stab them in the eyes with forks. The DVLA are very good at inspiring this sort of feeling.
Also, these people have chosen to work for the DVLA, which is an emanation of the devil, and having bills to pay is no more a defence to that than it is to drug dealing or running prostitutes.
And yes dear, I know that being a lackey for an inefficient government body isn't really on a par with making money from human suffering and the destruction of life. Unless you're in the military or a defence contractor.
But then viewed another way, the level of customer service shown is actually the responsibility of the individual who answers the sodding phone, which is entirely within their control, and not a buck that can be passed to the other poor sods who are just making stupidly inefficient policies, who have families to feed and mortgages to pay and only do what some other poor sod who just wants to get re-elected (with attendant dependants and expenses) told them etc, ad infinitum.
furthermore, given the number of people who work for the DVLA, and the general percentage of the population who are complete wastes of human organs with no redeeming qualities, there must be at least 40 of them who deserved to have their tyres slashed.
Or possibly I don't actually wish bad things on anyone really and am saying all of this for comic effect, albeit not overly amusingly,as you obviously didn't get it.
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