GbH ("GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm>) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

> I'm currently attempting to register my new acquisition. Swansea claim
> they cannot do it because I am not resident in Mainland UK, wherever
> that is,

It's that big kinda islandy thing, generally known as Great Britain, and  
consisting of England, Scotland, Wales. If you aren't resident in one of 
those three, then - no, you don't register your car with DVLA Swansea.

> Coleraine 

So you're in NI? Right. So you don't register with Swansea. Next.

> refuse to recognise Swansea's documentation and require me to complete 
> a new registration application by hand.

And that's Swansea's fault? How?

> FFS is it any surprise I think they're all a waste of space!

I'm sure the feeling's reciprocated.

Adrian wrote:
> GbH ("GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm>) gurgled happily, sounding
> much like they were saying:
>
>>>> Them bits were no longer with the V5 I had. The back of all I had
>>>> was in Welsh!
>
>>> So what bit DID you get?
>
>> SFAIR the V5C, the bit with all the vehicular details, as space for
>> the new keeper, me, couple of of signature boxes, that's about all,
>> can't check because DVLNI (Belfast) kept it, assuring me I would get
>> a new one in the post.
>
> Just a single double-sided page?
>
> Front is a title page, back has the details on?

No back had same as front but in Welsh.

-- 
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remember the darn question

Adrian wrote:
> GbH ("GbH" <Geoff_Hannington@IEE.ORGasm>) gurgled happily, sounding
> much like they were saying:
>
>>>> SFAIR the V5C, the bit with all the vehicular details, as space for
>>>> the new keeper, me, couple of of signature boxes, that's about all,
>>>> can't check because DVLNI (Belfast) kept it, assuring me I would
>>>> get a new one in the post.
>
>>> Just a single double-sided page?
>>>
>>> Front is a title page, back has the details on?
>
>> No back had same as front but in Welsh.
>
> Fuck knows what it was, then, but it doesn't sound like the half of
> the V5C you should have been given.

It wasn't awfully helpful in terms of instructions!
I think Swansea could have been more useful since they saw it all!
'You done it wrong' is not awfully helpful!

-- 
Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could
remember the darn question

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:57 +0000, Willy Eckerslyke
 wrote:

>Jim Warren wrote:
>> GbH wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> The correspondence from Swansea specifically said Mainland UK, which 
>>> is fictitious and not
>>> GB which is the statutory entity!
>>>
>> I suppose technically "Mainland UK" excludes the Isle of Wight, Anglesey 
>> and all the Islands off Scotland.  That could make registration awkward 
>> in such places.
>
>I was rather pissed off to read the other day (in Wikipedia, so it may 
>not be true) that Anglesey is now technically regarded as part of the 
>mainland. Thomas Telford and Robert Stephenson have a lot to answer for.

Where was that, then? I don't see it. It says it's part of Great
Britain, but that's not synonymous with the British Mainland.

-- 

Ian D

Ian Dalziel wrote:

>>> I suppose technically "Mainland UK" excludes the Isle of Wight, Anglesey 
>>> and all the Islands off Scotland.  That could make registration awkward 
>>> in such places.
>> I was rather pissed off to read the other day (in Wikipedia, so it may 
>> not be true) that Anglesey is now technically regarded as part of the 
>> mainland. Thomas Telford and Robert Stephenson have a lot to answer for.
> 
> Where was that, then? I don't see it.

Ah, neither do I any more. Perhaps I was dreaming...