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I have renewed my driving licence online in the past two weeks, no problem.
If your licence expires between 1 February and 31 December 2020
Your driving licence or entitlement to drive in the UK will be automatically extended for 11 months. This is because of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The extension will start from the date your licence is due to expire.

Mine licence is now up in 20/08/21
 

PaulSB

Squire
I got my first granddaughter cuddle this afternoon. A rather nice thing to do. 🤗
 

12boy

Guru
Location
Casper WY USA
Got a little snow yesterday with the possibility of some more tonight. I hope we do to alleviate the drought we've had this year. The high today will be maybe -4 and I will probably ride down to the library to return books and maybe get some new ones. It looks like Thursday before I will want to do much outside as we are in a pattern of possible snow and/or strong wind unti then.
Be safe and warm.....
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Got a little snow yesterday with the possibility of some more tonight. I hope we do to alleviate the drought we've had this year. The high today will be maybe -4 and I will probably ride down to the library to return books and maybe get some new ones. It looks like Thursday before I will want to do much outside as we are in a pattern of possible snow and/or strong wind unti then.
Be safe and warm.....
Your libraries are open!!
And you got snow, with below freezing temperatures.
 

PaulSB

Squire
What is her name ?
Miley ........as in Miley Cyrus. I had to tell Mrs P who Miley Cyrus is. Got BIG bonus points for knowing this. 😄
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
If your licence expires between 1 February and 31 December 2020
Your driving licence or entitlement to drive in the UK will be automatically extended for 11 months. This is because of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The extension will start from the date your licence is due to expire.

Mine licence is now up in 20/08/21
Yes, I got same message, but, it still allowed me to renew, and, I have received a new licence in post. To be clear, that was renewing after 70, (73 in my case, so, first renewal after 70).
 

12boy

Guru
Location
Casper WY USA
Classic 33.....of course the library is open, to limited numbers, everyone mask wearing, books are put on carts by the patrons and not shelved for 24 hours and other precautions. We rarely close anything here unless the roads are terrible. A foot plus of snow on top of ice in a zero visiblity blizzard sort of thing might see schools and govt offices close. I used tell my staff "we'll close when Wal-Mart closes" because they never do. Early closuresand delayed openings happened more frequently. The city does pretty well with snowplows and sand on major streets but the residential streets are not usually plowed and they can be tough. Many have 4x4 vehicles here but I didn't for over 25 years.
Wound up riding 14 miles on Piglet , my 'Dale with studded snow tires. Great traction but a hell of a lot more work. It's -6 C but windless, so while my cheeks were chilly I was sweating like a piglet myself. Good to get home and take off some layers. Don't do stupid things like I do....
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Classic 33.....of course the library is open, to limited numbers, everyone mask wearing, books are put on carts by the patrons and not shelved for 24 hours and other precautions. We rarely close anything here unless the roads are terrible. A foot plus of snow on top of ice in a zero visiblity blizzard sort of thing might see schools and govt offices close. I used tell my staff "we'll close when Wal-Mart closes" because they never do. Early closures and delayed openings happened more frequently. The city does pretty well with snowplows and sand on major streets but the residential streets are not usually plowed and they can be tough. Many have 4x4 vehicles here but I didn't for over 25 years.
Wound up riding 14 miles on Piglet , my 'Dale with studded snow tires. Great traction but a hell of a lot more work. It's -6 C but windless, so while my cheeks were chilly I was sweating like a piglet myself. Good to get home and take off some layers. Don't do stupid things like I do....
We'd limited numbers, limited time in the central library only, until last month(for three weeks) then closed again. The rest have been shut since the 13th March. Any books handled placed back on a trolley for 72 hours, before anyone touched them.

Local library, doesn't look as it will re-open. Broken into and a fire started inside in August. The condensation is running down the inside of the windows. A "free for all", if you've the keys, for anything inside.
 

12boy

Guru
Location
Casper WY USA
Thank god for Libby, which allows me to download ebooks and then read them whereever I am without using data. A decent library is very important to me. Vandalism of a library definitely qualifies someone to go to the special hell. The one reserved for people who talk who talk loudly in the movie theater and child molesters, per Shepherd Book from the Firefly series.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Thank god for Libby, which allows me to download ebooks and then read them whereever I am without using data. A decent library is very important to me. Vandalism of a library definitely qualifies someone to go to the special hell. The one reserved for people who talk who talk loudly in the movie theater and child molesters, per Shepherd Book from the Firefly series.
In the following weeks it was felt, locally, that whoever did it, would be safer handing themselves into the police.

The police got one suspect the same morning. It appears they posted pictures on facebook, showing them on the inside with the fire going.
 
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