We sort of do the same thing except we set up monzo to automatically split money for bills and spends.
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We sort of do the same thing except we set up monzo to automatically split money for bills and spends.
Reynard
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And I *think* I may have solved the "two versions of the same car at one meeting" mystery.
Went back and looked at both FB posts again, and one of them contains photos from two different meetings three months apart. There is now a strong possibility that the postee (same for both posts incidentally) has got his captions squiffy, and that the photo that's labelled as "Aldershot 31/03/84" should actually have been labelled as "Wimbledon 31/12/83"
That makes much more sense to me, because I have a photo of the car which I can conclusively attribute to a meeting at Cleethorpes on the 8th of April '84 where it's running in its later livery of teal & yellow. So it's kind of logical to think that given the time it takes to prep for spraying, and then for the paint to harden etc, it would likely have been in the teal & yellow livery a week earlier at Aldershot.
Plus there's the mention in the Short Circuit race report for the Aldershot meeting that the driver turned up "in a very smart-looking car" which obliquely suggests a change of livery from the slightly tatty white & blue it had been running in.
Only thing, I'm not au fait with the tracks. I can recognise Wisbech, Foxhall, Hednesford and Cleethorpes, but not terribly pat with the others. If I can find someone who can identify the venue, that should put the matter to bed.
And if I can establish that the photo giving me the headache is indeed from the NYE meeting at Wimbledon, then it gives me a much better idea as to who bought the car after it was put up for sale in the spring of '83.
Went back and looked at both FB posts again, and one of them contains photos from two different meetings three months apart. There is now a strong possibility that the postee (same for both posts incidentally) has got his captions squiffy, and that the photo that's labelled as "Aldershot 31/03/84" should actually have been labelled as "Wimbledon 31/12/83"
That makes much more sense to me, because I have a photo of the car which I can conclusively attribute to a meeting at Cleethorpes on the 8th of April '84 where it's running in its later livery of teal & yellow. So it's kind of logical to think that given the time it takes to prep for spraying, and then for the paint to harden etc, it would likely have been in the teal & yellow livery a week earlier at Aldershot.
Plus there's the mention in the Short Circuit race report for the Aldershot meeting that the driver turned up "in a very smart-looking car" which obliquely suggests a change of livery from the slightly tatty white & blue it had been running in.
Only thing, I'm not au fait with the tracks. I can recognise Wisbech, Foxhall, Hednesford and Cleethorpes, but not terribly pat with the others. If I can find someone who can identify the venue, that should put the matter to bed.
And if I can establish that the photo giving me the headache is indeed from the NYE meeting at Wimbledon, then it gives me a much better idea as to who bought the car after it was put up for sale in the spring of '83.
Illaveago
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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 thedid he get away with it?
There once was a *man who walked a * mile . He found a * sixpence upon a * stile !
Any help ?
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classic33
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No.There once was a * who walked a * mile . He found a * sixpence upon a * stile !
Any help ?
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There once was a *man who walked a * mile . He found a * sixpence upon a * stile !
Any help ?
Yes, and he had a funny-shaped house, big House.
Still very wet and windy out by the sounds of it.
Also seems like someone is getting ready to move into the vacant flat across the landing from me. I hope they don't object to my Raleigh Pioneer sitting there (it's not causing an obstruction).
I spent the evening reviewing and editing some poems I wrote years ago. Editing poems usually mean they get shorter!
Also seems like someone is getting ready to move into the vacant flat across the landing from me. I hope they don't object to my Raleigh Pioneer sitting there (it's not causing an obstruction).
I spent the evening reviewing and editing some poems I wrote years ago. Editing poems usually mean they get shorter!
There once was a *man who walked a * mile . He found a * sixpence upon a * stile !
Any help ?
Ah, so he found my lunch money which I dropped when out walking in 1947! I've spent ages looking for that.
He also claimed 70 grand expenses for heating his stables
Illaveago
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Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have just eaten a pain au raisin. 
Transfer deadline has gone. We spent £12m on Jorginho from Chelsea. Who then turned around and dropped £105m on some Argentinian kid. The mind boggles...
Transfer deadline has gone. We spent £12m on Jorginho from Chelsea. Who then turned around and dropped £105m on some Argentinian kid. The mind boggles...
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
At the same time that 70 people in his constituency could not afford to heat their homes and eat!
What temperature is maintained in prison cells?
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I have something priceless and irreplaceable that a certain crooked man does not have - my Integrity.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
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- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Groundhog Day
Work starts 7.30am . Supposedly. So ridiculously busy; i've started at 5.30am since 'time began'. Still; masses of overtime is accelerating retirement.....
**Other Staff now arriving. The Worlds likely about to 'explode'. Again. Hold tight
Work starts 7.30am . Supposedly. So ridiculously busy; i've started at 5.30am since 'time began'. Still; masses of overtime is accelerating retirement.....
**Other Staff now arriving. The Worlds likely about to 'explode'. Again. Hold tight