£20! twenty pounds!! Here's me paring down my shopping bills to the last penny, and they want twenty blooming pounds! what are they doing for that £20 exactly? After all they're expecting me to take a new picture (to a ridiculously precise set of standards invloving millimetres) - print and submit it - along with one of those forms with loads of little teeny tiny boxes which are supposed to have one letter each in, AND if you want to take it to a post-office (rather than post it) that'll be a further £4.50 thankyou verymuch.
And as a final straw they want me to hand over my liver, corneas, heart, lungs, pancreas and kidneys as well!
Grrrr!
If you take in one of those special photo booths would that be enough. Or do modern cameras have a passport/driving licence photo size option.
I would also have trouble finding someone to sign mine as knowing me as I don't know people. Coleraine is in Ireland do they really expect you to go all that way?
Why do you need to renew it anyway, I thought licences lasted for life?
I thought licences lasted for life
Your test pass lasts for life unless you do something to upset the authorities, but the licence doesn't. Creature will have to renew his licence when he is 70. He can wait that long because he got his driving licence in 1977 when he passed his driving test and in those days it had no photograph. He had to renew it when he moved to Our House in 1982. His licence looks rather tatty now and is so old the postcode for where we live has changed.Creature has done well to avoid the dreaded licence photocard thus far and keep his paper one as 'By law you must get a new photograph of yourself for your photocard every ten years' and that is why I am suffering and he is not
'You do not need to prove your identity unless your address has changed'. - phew! no trip to Coleraine.
Mr Merry is going to take the photograph and paint-shop it to the requisite size, something he is practised at since Jay has needed many such 'passport sized photographs' for YP Railcard etc over the years.
Only trouble is he takes dreadful photographs so I'll just have to hope I never have to show it to anyone.
The last picture he took of me - see?That photo does seem to pass all the tick list conditions.
I remember YP railcard, it was called Student Railcard when I had one.
I had been looking forward to my new free bus pass at 60 but it seems they are stopping that as they see me approaching 60.There's something not quite right about your ID photo, Merry. I can't quite put my finger on it but I think maybe Mr Merry could brush up on his Paintshop skills.
I too have a paper licence, last updated when I moved to Ecclesland in 1989.Looks the spitting image of you, merry
Maybe we should install thumbprint readers everywhere instead of using photos. It's a pain trying to get one that looks like you unless you get it done properly, and anyway your appearance changes. I'd prefer that to pin numbers and such too.This is Mr Merry's first attempt at a pic. I Have deliberately made it very small so as not to out anyone off their breakfast.
Just the height chart behind and a side on shot to match and it'd be perfect. A good first effort by MM.
When people travel , do they have to also not wear glasses or have fringes or hats or make silly faces? I heard that the new photos had the exact rules as they were programming a computer to recognise people to cut the queues and it got upset if people smiled.Next Page...
