Dobbed in by Dixons!

I just got a letter from the TV licensing people. "We have recently been advised that you purchased television receiving equipment in January 2006 from Dixons Store Group. However we have no record of a TV licence at your name for the above address."

good grief! -- when did my friendly neighbourhood electrical store become a lickspittle lackey of the secret police??

It goes on "If the item purchased was not for use at this property, please let us know the address of the property where it is to be used (you may then receive a visit from us to confirm the situation)." And you wouldn't like that, sir -- very flammable, this place looks.

(T has had a TV licence at this address for some years, so it seems a bit paranoid to be working on the assumption that I must somehow have fitted a separate household in here.)

Timeouts

I've been getting a load of server timeouts on LJ in recent days -- anyone else on a free account seeing the same thing? People on paid accounts, are you seeing a rise in your "I've leapt onto the server ahead of X number of freeloaders" stats lately?