On Sunday 09 August 2015 22:41:18 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > On Sunday 09 August 2015 02:48:57 David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > > > As if I shan't have > > > > enough to do if my husband predeceases me, I shall have to acquire a > > > > paid-for TV Licence rapidly, if I am not to have their bulldogs after > > > > me. Or I suppose that I could just get rid of the TV!! Fast. And > > > > watch iPlayer after the event. Though not everything is available > > > > that way. > > > > > > the licence is per household so you're covered > > > until the expiry date anyway. > > > > I shall have to check. But I think that you are only entitled to a free > > licence, however long the piece of paper says, while the free licence > > holder is alive. > > D'oh! (My turn). I hadn't picked up on the significance of "paid-for" > and just assumed that one of you paid the bills and "all that sort of > thing".
Correct. I do! But when they said: change the name on your licence to your husband's and you can have it free, I said thanks and changed the name. > > > It was bound to have gone on line. But I haven't had to pay for one for > > 7 years so didn't know that. But I'll still have enough to worry about > > without flipping TV licences! > > AFAICT you could put the TV licence in the name of your pet rabbit; so > long as the address has one, they will not disturb you. Yes, but, slow as they are, I think that they just might pick up on the person entitled to a free licence being dead, seeing as how deaths have to be registered! He'll just have to take care to let me predecease him. ;-) Or wait until I qualify for a free licence myself. > Were you to > get rid of your TV (and let your licence expire), they would plague > you with letters until you made a declaration. (Even then they might not > stop.) At one stage I didn't have a television. I assure you they don't stop!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201508092255.47715.lisi.re...@gmail.com