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Re: 2025 Fashion On The Ration Challenge
@alicef - I agree with you about gazing longingly at the Susan Crawford retreats. I'm taking a basic course right now, but have problems with dropping a needle. Someone here has talked about a knitti…5 -
Re: Alchemausterity II
Thanks @CCW007 this is not the first instance of it, we also had it where I mentioned something and was told it never happened, despite the fact that I could remember time, date and exact location. …6 -
Re: Alchemausterity II
Thanks @greent. After this week when he is supposed to be collecting his stuff, I will be properly free 🙂5 -
Re: Alchemausterity II
@Watty1 thanks, I am really. Who puts their CHILD on OLD!4 -
Re: Alchemausterity II
@edinburgher thanks it made me wonder if I knew him at all, and I guess not.4 -
Re: Learning to walk before I run
The Sunday blues even though it's bank holiday Ed?5 -
Re: +++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++
Bravissimo had a warehouse fire and are annoyingly offline. I say annoyingly but it is saving me £££!7 -
Re: Parental home proceeds to children via surviving parent
That wouldn't work as per mta999 above, but there's also the fact that surely returning an amount umpteen years after receiving that amount as a gift is unlikely to be seen as a cancellation of the …1 -
Re: Parental home proceeds to children via surviving parent
no difference scenario 1. Person gives 2x30K gifts and then dies three years later. At death estate value is say 200k. Total estate value is therefore 200k plus 60k gifts ie 260k. No IHT due. scenari…1 -
Re: Interesting report about retirement lifestyle (Quilter Retirement Lifestyle Report 2025)
It's not clear how many of the sample size actually had a DB pension at some stage that they could have transferred out of as it would seem unlikely that all would have. It looks as if the sample gr…2
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