Did anyone get paid the 350 ?

[mercenary for hire]

They can't charge you for a service that you aren't using.Insurance policies get cancelled or reduced all the time.I'd completely cancel my entire policy with a Axa but I need it occasionally.

If I get to my renewal date in August and there's no work I'll just drive the wife's Range rover.Stop laughing Hal..

[Shallowhal]

I'm trying to worknout if Range Rover is an anagram for the hairdresser car!!

[mercenary for hire]

Shurup you!.I don't do anagrams.Too much work.I pumped up the wheels on me mountain bike today.Don't have to have a car at all really.

[Shallowhal]

I actually saw me bike for the first time today in about 2 or three years,cleaned out the shed best i could, have access to all my tools,saw,compressor...and paint,gonna be a busy few days weeks ahead!!

[mercenary for hire]

A lot of talk says this could go until September.

[Shallowhal]

Just gonna have to wait and see....i won't lie but i'm actually enjoying my time pottering around getting stuff done around the house that i've neglected for too long.

[Golfer14]

+1 ,with a few bob for free coming in .Thinking like mfh ,will i bother going back ,when this is over after 20 years service .!!!

[taxi1990]

just two questions, I know I read something from the NTA saying to break the link if you are taking the emergency payment, is that important?

also i have my insurance paid up until end of june, with liberty. I will have the use of another car if i like or id be ok without 1 really for a couple of months. do ye know if liberty can pause my insurance?

I think you need to ring Liberty and see what their arrangements are,as an AXA customer i rang and like other drivers with AXA they seem to be doing something to ease the burden.

will do.

[Billy boy]

To be honest, I'd go back to work tomorrow. I've ran out of stuff to do in the house and my head is wracked. I'd much rather be working for the 350 rather than sitting around the house. It's really not good for my mental health. Can't see meself lasting another 2 weeks. I'll have to get back working. Coronavirus or not... And I would definitely sign off the scratcher.

[vandriver]

Driving a taxi is a piece of piss compared to the list of jobs my missus has lined up for me.
I've already weeded the front garden,weeded the back garden,moved trees,installed a paved area and moved the rabbit hutch onto it,fixed two curtain rails,cleaned and painted the porch and reseeded the lawn.
All of these were huge jobs due to 2 years of utter neglect(new job as a taxi driver!!)
Now she wants the kitchen painted,the bathroom painted and whatever else takes her fancy while she's at home working,and silently judging my half-hearted enthusiasm.

[john m]

To be honest, I'd go back to work tomorrow. I've ran out of stuff to do in the house and my head is wracked. I'd much rather be working for the 350 rather than sitting around the house. It's really not good for my mental health. Can't see meself lasting another 2 weeks. I'll have to get back working. Coronavirus or not... And I would definitely sign off the scratcher.

Dont know where you are based Billy but do not give up the payment .If your head is melted try see if there any local community based groups looking for volunteers dont matter what your doing you seem to be struggling with isolation rather than financial issues .Try get out and waffle with others .Take care of your head come on hear and blow off steam call a cunt a cunt .Its all part of how some of us cope

[dalymount]

Is there a mend shed in your area?

[Horse]

Hang in there Billy, we're all in the same boat. I'm bored out of me trolley too, feels like being locked up but don't go risking your life by driving your taxi till all this is over, which it will be sometime. Hopefully this will all seem like a bad dream soon.

[john m]

Driving a taxi is a piece of piss compared to the list of jobs my missus has lined up for me.
I've already weeded the front garden,weeded the back garden,moved trees,installed a paved area and moved the rabbit hutch onto it,fixed two curtain rails,cleaned and painted the porch and reseeded the lawn.
All of these were huge jobs due to 2 years of utter neglect(new job as a taxi driver!!)
Now she wants the kitchen painted,the bathroom painted and whatever else takes her fancy while she's at home working,and silently judging my half-hearted enthusiasm.

I take it your youngish Van .The more reflective Gents are on the sofa watching TV doing DIY will only lead to conflict .About 30 years ago I fitted Aluminium windows mate was to deliver them by 9AM so I was up at 7 removed old ones but the new ones didnt arrive till after noon I finished fitting them plastered and finished about midnight .My hen then casually says all we need now is central heating ,not a well done or anything I had to call a Neighbour to give me a lift in with the Large front window and my Hen says Billy was very good helping you  he was there for all of 15 minutes ..Two months later I done the Central Heating off the Back boiler .I got at the boiler from the hall press that contains all the useless crap but she complained that she couldnt fit it all back in because of the pump .That day I handed in my cards I dont do DIY anymore .She is quite good at painting and decorating  A few years ago she went to her mothers for a week I fitted a new Kitchen and changed the Doors told her I paid somebody to do it she was so happy with yer mans work .There is a moral there somewhere Van .

[taxi1990]

If you want something to keep you busy you could do what I do, and study for a new area test.

I have two counties but have been working on my third the last couple of years, just make a list of places of interest and then learn them for every town and village in the new county, then do all the estates. I have a folder now with about 200 + pages in it of the new county, am going over it now, by the time the country is back up and running I should be ready to sit the test.