Mundane News

[postman]

As a group of retired people.We meet up once a month,and Spoons suits all of us.The cheaper beer the cheap food coffee £1-25 and fee refills.The pubs are well decorated,It does its job well.

 

[rockyroller]

colder this morning & snowing lightly. glad I got out last night

wasn't the only one out

some lingering icy sections that I had to walk over. I rode some of them while thinking, hmmm, maybe I shouldn't

scattered storm damage that wasn't there a cpl weeks ago

 

[biggs682]

Blueish sky with a breeze
Second cuppa went down well

 

[rockyroller]

I'm not up.

tell that to my cat

 

[rockyroller]

Morning

it is

 

[rockyroller]

Tomorrow I will feel like $hit. Muscles I had forgotten about will be making their presence felt

me too right now. man I could have slept longer

 

[Andy in Germany]

Anything seems better than a trip to Wetherspoons

I thought that was @postman's idea.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just washed the bike! Yes I know. But I’m replacing chain and may as well clean the bits it’s hard to do when chain in place. Taking a break then time to fit new chain.

 

[Speicher]

No £5,000,000 discrepancy, I hope.... Allegedly..

Is that how much it was, in all seriousness, and not wishing to be political?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

New chain fitted to recumbent. No easy task as you have to thread through idlers, and three chain links used to join 2 1/4 chains. Time to change for test ride down road to see if cassette also needs replacing and then a longer outing.

 

[Jenkins]

First duty of the day - check that my pay had been deposited in the bank. It had, so no excuse for a lie in.

Grey & breezy day offset by cakes & sausage rolls as it's someone's last day

 

[oldwheels]

Sunny at my front windows and hail battering the back with a SW gale.
First ferry this morning could not get off the pier due to the wind.
In the good old days they laid out an anchor at berthing and pulled themselves off that way.
Despite the wind the holiday house bin emptied yesterday is still in place blocking two cars. They are good at putting them carefully out to cause maximum annoyance but it is the job of the local peasantry to chuck them back in the gate.
On the annoyance subject there are new complaints that the coop still does not stock cooking apples or cornflakes. I use neither unless I get the apples free from my next door neighbour who has a tree.
Must be feeling more peevish than usual this morning.
The village of Twatt on Orkney is no longer signposted as the local authority cannot afford to keep replacing the signs which are regularly stolen by tourists.

 

[Speicher]

No £5,000,000 discrepancy, I hope.... Allegedly..

Is that how much it was, in all seriousness, and not wishing to be political?

I thought you were guessing the amount, but no, it is fairly accurate. He forgot to pay Capital Gains Tax, on £27 million.

Some years ago I had to fill self-assessment forms for tax purposes. Of course I declared all my dividends from shares, not a great amount in itself. I also declared that my shares in Severn Valley Railway that gave me two "free" adult day tickets, worth at that time say £20, per year.
HMRC decided I must pay 25% tax on that "benefit in kind", I think that is what it was called.

So how the did he get away with it?

 

[oldwheels]

I seem to have forgotten to push the button for my last post.
I was looking out my window and noticed the holiday house bin had lodged itself against a neighbour’s car when she appeared to shift it.

 

[biggs682]

Breezy lunchtime stroll completed
Time for fish paste sandwich