An admin day. I bloody hate big businesses and their auto phone systems. Also trying to get my wife’s driving licence back from the DVLA following her fall. The DVLA are just a bunch of Wayne Kerrs. They have had 26 weeks to make contact with my wife’s doctor and they haven’t made a call. They have now had an additional 6 weeks and still won’t discuss her case, hiding behind “ their process” …
I just hope none of you ever have to have a medical intervention with your licences because it’s just unfair how the DVLA deal with peoples lives. They Could not care less.
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That goes for lots of civil “services”. 
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Hope you can get it sorted soon mate 
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An act of seasonal symbolism today: I lit the living room stove for the first time since what passed for spring. This was both a bad thing - I can no longer pretend the summer isn’t over (boo) - and a good thing - I no longer have to put on an extra jumper in the evenings (hooray). Now sitting here nice and cosy for the first time in weeks. 
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Today I have mostly been shopping. Now that I don’t work anymore I decided to take up my old hobby of cultivating bonsai again. I still have all my tools, so got a few starters and will go from there.
Quite a few (prohibitively expensive) fine specimens in the nursery.
My starters… 
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It’s it right that you can bonsai any tree?
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It is - they’re not a species, but rather a way of growing.
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Wow, must like tomatoes… 
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Receiving fanmail from France… apparently I exceeded the speed limit by 7,5 mph… €45 down the drain…
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You hooligan. Hanging is too good for you people 
You should stick to the legal limit like I always do 
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And I suppose you don’t tell fibs either!
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Is that through choice Wim …? Have you joined the retired club now?
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We’ve been back a week and I’m still watching the post every day…!
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I’ve never got fanmail from Italy yet - you’ll be fine(d)…
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Yup, through choice - I’ve worked for 46 years, quite enough, methinks. Had a bit of a windfall last year, enough to tidy me over to my state- and extra pension. I reckoned whilst still fit I’d now enjoy life without being annoyed by pesky employers…
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Maybe not Italy but we did France, Germany, Austria , Switzerland and then back to France…. 
Great news that you’ve retired. Enjoy it, I am sure you will.
Easter next year for me 
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Cheers, I will!
France and Germany are not so bad fine-wise - Switzerland however… 
. But I think after Brexit you’re probably safe.
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Great! Freedom at last!
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