What are you all up to
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Nellie - We have had the same problem with the Volvo the battery is needing replaced I tried to start it last week and it wouldn’t go ended up getting it started with a starter pack it had been sitting on the drive for just over a week by that point We have only been out in the car twice since lockdown going to wait until some of the restrictions are eased before getting a new battery it seems pointless at the moment while we are not using the car. Luckily we can open the drivers door with a key if the battery is flat.
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Yes did that so that I could access the lever to release the bonnet. Although the car is in the garage there is just enough room to get into the engine compartment, so hopefully the man from GreenFlag can get it started.
WN, fingers crossed that we don't have an emergency. If we do either I walk or take the bus. Think that I will invest in one of those starter packs....yet more expense, but as we're not paying site or fuel fees at the moment now is the best time to fork out I guess.
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Good to here that we are not the only ones. Whenever we run the car it shows a low battery charge warning, and speaking to the guys at a clue of the Volvo garages they all say that it's because we are not doing high enough mileage on a run. As we generally only two for up to 80 mils and then use the car as little as possible when on site we're not changing the battery up to it's full extent. We were out in the car on Thursday evening but only did about 6 mils total with a few stops, but it started ok each time. Funny that it should have gone flat so quickly though.
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Nellie, OH says try disconnecting the battery and charging the battery off the car. Charge on low settling on the charger overnight.
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Thank Helen, I'll give that a try tomorrow. What concerns me is all the electronics that drop out when the battery is disconnected. I don't know how to recover them, and what with the virus and t h e garages being possibly closed I might have fun starting the car again.
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Thoughts with you and your Aged Parent, Moulesy, It can be very upsetting when you can't even give them a hug, as I know only too well.
Helen, A bit late I know but you might even be getting ready for the second slice of cake about now ??
I'm definitely coming to the point of view that removal of starting handles etc was a definite booboo !! Even if you only stir the oil round a few surfaces it would help by reducing the drag on turn-over
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Nellie
Any chance one of the courtesy light switches have been left on accidentally? I have been having problems with my car battery (car only three and half years old) I now check the battery voltage before attempting to start. Trouble is not really using the car at the moment unless I sneak out for a couple of miles in the hope of putting some charge in. I find my charger sits in the engine compartment with the bonnet partially closed.
David
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Very sorry to hear about your Dad's care home moulesy. My 98 year old aunt has been in hers for some years. They are also using the dining room, when I queried this I was told, although using the dining room they are being spaced well apart. It is easier for the home to have them eat in their rooms - auntie has to be hoisted into a wheelchair- but the isolation was having a very negative effect. Maybe the same where your Dad is. I do hope your Dad is ok, it is a worry.
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Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts. One good thing is that we are being kept regularly informed of the situation. And I think care homes have suddenly taken a leap up in the government's awareness. We must just hope that whatever measures they take are effective and that Dad manages to stear clear of the virus.
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I hope you are treated better than me. It was like the Spanish Inquisition going into my branch to do a transfer the other day. Even before I got in - "is it essential, we're only open for essential banking you know", "don't you do Internet banking", why haven't you got the app on your phone", "won't they accept a cheque". And then the whole procedure all over again when I got to the desk.
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Oh dear
I do online banking, have done for years and also had the phone app that would have allowed me to scan the cheque and pay in. But the app stopped working last year as the minimum android version for use went from v4.4 (kitkat) to v5 (lollipop), so now I have no phone app and I'm not going to throw away a perfectly working mobile to get v5.
Why I can't scan the cheque on my home printer/scanner and do it online I don't know
My paper cheque paying in slips disappeared years ago since doing online banking.
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I get annoyed when I am sent a cheque because of the palaver of having to pay it into a bank branch. It is the only reason that I tend to actually go into a bank as I do everything online. Any chance you could persuade the sender to change it to a bank transfer?
David
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I pay the occasional cheque into our bank via the local Post Office, put in a paying in slip in a bank envelope from the PO with the cheque. Saves me a long drive to our nearest bank.
If you've got an old cheque book lying around you might have some paying in slips at the back?
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I did David, it is an insurance payout for the money we spent on our dogs operation. I ticked the box saying to pay into my account using the Debit card details used for the annual premium, but was told via Email that can only be done if it is continuous monthly DD, but I pay the premium annually. Cheque was only option.
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I have resisted online banking up to now because I want to make an albeit small personal effort to keep my local branch open. So many quite large towns are now without branches. Like others I rarely use cheques these days but where, as in this case, I'm asked to transfer money I like the security of being able to do it in branch.
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I did look at all options, even spoke to someone from the bank and she agreed it was the only way now.
I can't remember the last time I received a cheque, and my cheque book with slips in the back got thrown out years ago, just so happens it's not the right time to have received it.
Must be thankful I suppose that the Insurance company deemed it OK to pay out
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Oh well, as you say, at least you've got the cheque in your hands. I'm not sure how many banks can be accessed via the PO but for me it's a useful service. I post things off as well but I'd be more cautious with a big cheque...not that I can see one coming my way at the moment.
I always keep a cheque book, I use it occasionally.
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We do most of our banking online nowadays, but we too have retained a chequebook, mainly because a few of the CLs and cottages we use are still happy to use cheques.
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I spent a fair part of yesterday afternoon making some ice cream, prep, cool, churn, freeze. Just tested it this morning, tastes yummy.
So, it will be lunch overlooking our modest “estate”, maybe a dabble in the pond tickling the tadpoles, a stroll through the “orchard” (otherwise known as the apple, pear and plum tree), some weeding in the herbaceous borders, and checking for greenfly in the “rose garden”. It ain’t Hidcote or Trengwainton, but the ice cream will help with the illusion!😁
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Our first camper van had a starting handle, got us out of a few tight spots. Mind you, OH managed to put it through radiator one time, that was fun! Plastic padding to the rescue😂 Goodness knows how, but we did thousands of miles in that camper. Once came home from Whitby in third gear, we got very good at rolling up to traffic lights and rolling around roundabouts🤣
Cars are too complicated nowadays. Much easier when you could just bray your LR starter motor with a lump hammer.......’ee them wer’t days!
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And a bright sunny but cool morning to you all
.Collected my Sunday news paper, fed the birds, chatted to neighbour who is still in employment although he had Easter week off which came close to driving the lad scatty
. Now its five minutes on here before I disturb the cobwebs on the exercise bike 
.So glad to hear many of you are doing your bit to support the financial institutions and help them weather the storm
.TtDA, Before Plastic Padding came along I think it was a large fresh egg broken into the radiator filler, run the engine 'til hot and check that the hole was fully sealed !!
Keep on keeping on if you can or even if you can't for that matter
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As I posted on the previous page 'MrRoute', I had the app on my phone then my bank along with others made the Android version of the app and phone a minimum of v5, this meant my 3 year old mobile v 4.4 could no longer use it and as it works perfectly for its main purpose I am not upgrading it soon.
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Sunny and cool here...yes, don't mention the banks ABM!
Going to try and keep some sort of routine, might call it Sunday today, that seems like a good idea! I haven't read a newspaper since lock down. On line reading them doesn't seem the same.
Very excited, an amazon delivery coming today...a squeezy mop, a bendy lamp and a book of ancient uk stone monuments, a sort of delivery indigestion I think?!
oh. and the Hunter Davies book "Happy Old Me", which I hope will be an entertaining read, if I can settle enough to read.
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Not a cloud in the sky but a cool breeze from the east.
Getting a bit tired/depressed of the TV broadcasting and repeating everything on Coranavirus. I realise it's importance and do feel the need for daily updates, but to be continually bombarded with the same reports have made me search out some good YouTube videos on the TV, especially our local what was steam train lines, along with canal journeys, Anderton boat lift and the Falkirk wheel..
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Reading all the posts about cheques I still use my cheque book when in the UK for paying for my back treatment as she only accepts cheque or cash. We do online banking for UK and here in France.
A lot of shops over here still accept cheques as I waited in the queue for shopping to ind the 1 couple paying by cheque the checkout staff have a machine to print the cheque and you then sign it and sometimes they need extra ID, a lot of the older generation here prefer cheques to cards or even cash.
Have had some rain overnight not much but more forecast for later today and the next two days so water butts should be full again never had to water plants in April before and ground is full of cracks even with all the rain we had in the winter.
Take care folks.
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