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enismirdalI STILL haven't received a census form. Coming to the conclusion that they were cutting it a bit fine, and knowing from experience that my address tends not to feature in a lot of databases (new conversion from offices, about 1 year old, etc.; it makes online purchases a bit annoying because the web-form will run a search on my postcode, provide a list of addresses that aren't mine, and then I'll have to enter the thing manually), I figured it was high time I requested one to be sent to me, so I could do my civic/legal duty.
I found the web form for "request a census form because you haven't been sent one". It asked for my postcode and building number/name. I filled it in. It told me my address didn't exist. I growled at the computer and said, "It does exist. I know. I live there!" I tried again, this time with just the postcode. It threw up a list of around ~6 residences with that postcode. None of them were mine. None of them were anything remotely like mine! I muttered brown words and phoned up the census helpline.
After playing the touch-tone game, I got a nice helpful human being, and had her search; she also confirmed that my address existeth not in the central census database. So she made a new entry just for me, with my correct address. I am now having a census form sent out.
The boys upstairs are also not in the database, it appears. They'll have to sort themselves out. My suspicion, however, is that they won't bother.
I wonder if the government will even realise they exist if they don't receive or fill in a form... I wonder how many people do get missed that way.
(In other news, driving is improving. He filled in my record book again today, and all my driving aspects that he'd previously rated 2 ("under full supervision") have now moved up to 3 or even 3.5 ("prompted" and "prompted sometimes but more often than seldom", respectively). He's going to make me drive TO my lesson location in my lesson on Saturday. I am terrified, but it'll be at 8am so the roads should be quiet and it'll hopefully only take 10 minutes. And being a big girl, if I say, "I want to pull into a side-road and take a bread for a bit," I will make sure I do! I've been promised traffic lights, and more roundabouts, which is good as I need to start doing more challenging things. He confirmed what I already knew - that I'm going to take towards the longer end of a normal number of lessons to learn - but as I knew that already, it didn't come as a disappointing surprise.)
I found the web form for "request a census form because you haven't been sent one". It asked for my postcode and building number/name. I filled it in. It told me my address didn't exist. I growled at the computer and said, "It does exist. I know. I live there!" I tried again, this time with just the postcode. It threw up a list of around ~6 residences with that postcode. None of them were mine. None of them were anything remotely like mine! I muttered brown words and phoned up the census helpline.
After playing the touch-tone game, I got a nice helpful human being, and had her search; she also confirmed that my address existeth not in the central census database. So she made a new entry just for me, with my correct address. I am now having a census form sent out.
The boys upstairs are also not in the database, it appears. They'll have to sort themselves out. My suspicion, however, is that they won't bother.
I wonder if the government will even realise they exist if they don't receive or fill in a form... I wonder how many people do get missed that way.
(In other news, driving is improving. He filled in my record book again today, and all my driving aspects that he'd previously rated 2 ("under full supervision") have now moved up to 3 or even 3.5 ("prompted" and "prompted sometimes but more often than seldom", respectively). He's going to make me drive TO my lesson location in my lesson on Saturday. I am terrified, but it'll be at 8am so the roads should be quiet and it'll hopefully only take 10 minutes. And being a big girl, if I say, "I want to pull into a side-road and take a bread for a bit," I will make sure I do! I've been promised traffic lights, and more roundabouts, which is good as I need to start doing more challenging things. He confirmed what I already knew - that I'm going to take towards the longer end of a normal number of lessons to learn - but as I knew that already, it didn't come as a disappointing surprise.)
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Date: 22 Mar 2011 10:26 (UTC)