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Tuesday. We were promised frost this morning.They got it wrong again. Fine by me!
I had an email yesterday, supposedly from the tax office, telling me I had overpaid tax last year and was due a refund of £285. they needed my bank details to give me this money. Rather odd I thought. I don't pay tax! It looked authentic, with all the proper logos and wording. So if you get one of these ignore it or report it to the police. I printed it out and took it to the cop shop.
have a happy day everyone.
I had an email yesterday, supposedly from the tax office, telling me I had overpaid tax last year and was due a refund of £285. they needed my bank details to give me this money. Rather odd I thought. I don't pay tax! It looked authentic, with all the proper logos and wording. So if you get one of these ignore it or report it to the police. I printed it out and took it to the cop shop.
have a happy day everyone.
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True, Oz. My parents were very careful and always saved their money. My Mum used to put my 'family allowance' into a fund to spend on Christmas. You only got paid for the 2nd child in those days, nothing for my sister. Not like these days, where you're paid to overpopulate the country!
06:35 Tue 28th Feb 2017
If you are so am I! Everything does get dearer. I was talking to a couple of youngsters, we got to talking the price of petrol. I told them when I got my first car, petrol was 3/6d a gallon, which equates to 17.5 pence for four and a half litres. It's around £1.20 a litre now. They were amazed. Then I told them my pay was about a fiver a week. :o}
I guess it's relative, somethings are extremely cheap these days, others not so, in comparison.
My niece and her hubby are about to move into their new house. A decent sized house shoehorned onto a tiny block of land on the outskirts of Sydney, $590,000. No way could I borrow that sort of money, I'd never sleep at night and stress my self silly.
My niece and her hubby are about to move into their new house. A decent sized house shoehorned onto a tiny block of land on the outskirts of Sydney, $590,000. No way could I borrow that sort of money, I'd never sleep at night and stress my self silly.
that's a lot of loot. A bigish house with a tiny garden seems to be the norm now. When we were at Vera's last place, just down the hill from here, there was a wee estate of, if I remember rightly, 7 houses with good sized gardens. All old and unsaleable. They were demolished and twenty two housed built on the same patch, all with tiny, useless gardens, and all overlooking each other.
Morning WBM and Oz!
I've had emails like that from the tax, banks I've never been a member of, £500 vouchers for shops I've never used, you name it. I forward the emails to whoever and let their people deal with it.
The sky here turned yellow yesterday, which usually means a storm, but all we had was an hour of very fine snow which disappeared within another hour. Amazing sky though!
I've had emails like that from the tax, banks I've never been a member of, £500 vouchers for shops I've never used, you name it. I forward the emails to whoever and let their people deal with it.
The sky here turned yellow yesterday, which usually means a storm, but all we had was an hour of very fine snow which disappeared within another hour. Amazing sky though!
Which is fine for a couple, but when kids come along where do they play?
Mrs Oz and I bought our first house as a run down ex-rental on a small block, restored and sold before we started breeding. Did that three times getting larger each time so we could accommodate a large family.
Youngsters these days want everything upfront then struggle to pay for it.
Mrs Oz and I bought our first house as a run down ex-rental on a small block, restored and sold before we started breeding. Did that three times getting larger each time so we could accommodate a large family.
Youngsters these days want everything upfront then struggle to pay for it.
You're right oz.
Those houses were all 4 bedrooms, The largest was only just big enough for a double bed and dressing table. Built in wardrobes, but not very big. The smallest 'bedroom' wasn't big enough to get a single bed in. They were on sale at short of half a million each. I was amazed when they all sold. I wouldn't want to live in one!
Those houses were all 4 bedrooms, The largest was only just big enough for a double bed and dressing table. Built in wardrobes, but not very big. The smallest 'bedroom' wasn't big enough to get a single bed in. They were on sale at short of half a million each. I was amazed when they all sold. I wouldn't want to live in one!
My parents lived in 'rooms' when they first married. They then moved to a prefab, which my Mum loved and had my sister. They then upgraded to a little house on a cul-de-sac when they had me.
When they moved to Bedford, they lived in a Corporation house that went with my Dad's job. Then they 'took the plunge' and went for a house that cost £7,000 in 1969, not knowing if they'd taken too much of a risk. It paid off, as when they wanted to move back up here, it was in 1988, when the houses were selling for huge amounts and they sold it for £94,000, bought this bungalow for cash and invested the rest.
When they moved to Bedford, they lived in a Corporation house that went with my Dad's job. Then they 'took the plunge' and went for a house that cost £7,000 in 1969, not knowing if they'd taken too much of a risk. It paid off, as when they wanted to move back up here, it was in 1988, when the houses were selling for huge amounts and they sold it for £94,000, bought this bungalow for cash and invested the rest.
I reckon that's the right way to do it Alec, little steps as needed, instead of a wallet busting mortgage from word go.
If this niece of mine would have considered moving to a "country" city, for that money they would have had a small mansion with all the trimmings, pool, tennis court etc on a large block of land.
If this niece of mine would have considered moving to a "country" city, for that money they would have had a small mansion with all the trimmings, pool, tennis court etc on a large block of land.
Morning all !
Dreadfully long day yesterday. The trains were not good...coming back from Bristol to Cardiff one trains was cancelled at 5 mins notice ( ! ) so the next one, 30 mins later, had to take effectively two trains-worth of people. My colleague and I had to stand, jammed up against dozens of other people. This sort of thing happens almost every time I travel by train !
So begger the company, we are going by car today !
Its very frosty this morning, so I will have to go and chip the ice off first !
Dreadfully long day yesterday. The trains were not good...coming back from Bristol to Cardiff one trains was cancelled at 5 mins notice ( ! ) so the next one, 30 mins later, had to take effectively two trains-worth of people. My colleague and I had to stand, jammed up against dozens of other people. This sort of thing happens almost every time I travel by train !
So begger the company, we are going by car today !
Its very frosty this morning, so I will have to go and chip the ice off first !
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