doc.fixit

Is this govts brief, to make everything they can, worse??

I love Tiger bread! By itself, as toast or with home made soup. or....bacon or fish fingers on fresh, fluffy white with real butter.....mmmmmmmm.

I would like to see flat rate rises for a while not percentage rises. Cut backs on the top dogs and managers, not the coal face workers.

Won't be able to do cash deals any more. How will you get big lumps of your own cash out, a few thousand for a car or machinery for instance. The strait jacket or the noose tightens!

read yesterday that now Lloyds is closing branches. Won't be any cash transactions soon. Not good imo.

Except the girls didn't hang with you they just joined in as equals.

Plus the sun spots and the earth wobbling on it's axis and the magnetic shift?

I've not found that to be the case. A group of us go in every Friday and are very satisfied with the amount both monetary and quantity. We are all farmers or farm associated and like our food.

Reckon the new Ginger restaurant is good and reasonably priced!

wonder wat the environmental impact is of making synthetic fuel?

ATOL didn't help us much when Cooks went bust! Good job we had ins.

I've been suggesting that for years but the gov. just tell me that they can't do it because of the tax regime we share with UK. I presume they mean fuel tax and VAT?

Re-cycled for the next disastrous projects?

Just look. there are many grassy patches between the parking lot and te hospital.

£180 for any vehicle would be about right.

Turn some of the grassed areas into car parking. Be closer to the hospital too.

Looks like a new factory!

The vehicle licence fees are totally illogical like a lot of things the govt. handles. I have two land rovers for work, same specs, a year apart, one is over £600 the other is £240 ish, ( I can't be arsed to go and check). My diesel smart, 800cc is £65.

So you are using the same words to make your point?

Do they need to know individual income other than for tax purposes? I would have thought that VAT returns from businesses plus their taxable income and other relevant info. that the govt already has would be adequate for working out the calculation for VAT rebate from UK. Or we could just do what Guernsey and Jersey do?

Why> Most of them brought their NI with them which added to the island's coffers. Many also started businesses or worked here, again, adding to the island's coffers.

Then just ask for the necessary items instead of asking the population to do their work. The point still remains about the lack of cohesion and collaboration within their systems. Little empires?

After looking over the forms they went straight into the bin! I think they are time consuming, intrusive and unnecessary. Most of the pertinent information is already available to the government if their systems were up to date and organised as a collective instead of so many managers and departments. They already have info. on tax, income and expenditure or it can be worked out using the info. they already have. Just my opinion of course.

Well, don't know about 5G but I haven't been able to use e mails on my lap top for over a month. When I try, a message appears saying there is an ongoing problem which will shortly be fixed. When contacted, Manx Telecom informed me that there was a glitch that they had been trying to fix but they were finding it difficult to figure out! What hope for 5G? Strangely, I can get e mail on my phone

But They don't normally have battery packs do they? i/c engines have been coupled to generators which have then driven the axle. eg Tilling Stevens buses which were excellent for tram or horse drivers transferring to the first i/c buses. No batteries of course. So, i/c-genny-motive power is not new, however, diesel engine-to propshaft on boats is still the norm and although the occasional i/c-genny-electric motor-propshaft with a hybrid type battery pack is newish technology and in my opinion fairly unsatisfactory except, maybe, for harbour tugs without the battery pack of course. If one takes into account the 5 or more changes of energy which means 5 or more power losses then I doubt they are much more efficient or environmentally superior to the old system. I'm quite sure that you will argue and of course you have your own point of view. The biggest advance for electric motors was probably the brushless motor/ induction but it's really a red herring in this discussion. I really want the Manxman to be a success but I really don't think it is.