the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

now im interested in what it is you are looking for?? t

I'd have to go over seas for what I want I think...there are studs here but none quite right. There is a three year old I like in wales who is a good price but she's a bit little ....no, she's lovely but not for me. Resolve. Its not an unusal breed bt commands a high price for quality in UK, and much better quality for lower price where its from.

so a yearling is the youngest I could reasonably get to travel to uk really...for economics.

DH and my dad want a schoolmaster Ride and drive to share..but DH also seems to want an arab or high % arab.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd have to go over seas for what I want I think...there are studs here but none quite right. There is a three year old I like in wales who is a good price but she's a bit little ....no, she's lovely but not for me. Resolve. Its not an unusal breed bt commands a high price for quality in UK, and much better quality for lower price where its from.

so a yearling is the youngest I could reasonably get to travel to uk really...for economics.

DH and my dad want a schoolmaster Ride and drive to share..but DH also seems to want an arab or high % arab.

is it a dutch warmblood by chance?

Rummer

I am saving my pennies for a Fresian!

Poosmate

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I wouldn't have thought it legal to sell at a lower rate. When a retailer has to sell something VAT rated, he has to sell it at the currant VAT rate, he has no choice over what rate to sell it at.
I can buy something in 2010 at 17.5% VAT, but if I sell it now, it has to be sold at 20%.

I think in the past Lotus, our Morrisons has reduced it's price to swallow the rise in the tax. I think I last got petrol on the Tuesday after Christmas day and it was 120.9p so they are maybe selling their petrol at half an a bit pence less than before the VAT went up.

Poo

ETA:

Ok caught up now, reading posts in between watching Greys Anatomy and Criminal Minds.

Choille, hope your winter is a short one this year, especially as it started so early.

Alfie, bad luck about the skip! Hope you get your fresian.

LIR, hope you get the hos you want.

Oops! I forgot to hit the submit button! lol Silly me!

Poo

Rummer

I was watching both of them too! I have just finished doing the indoor animals and I am ready for bed!

Lotus-eater

Poosmate wrote: »

I think in the past Lotus, our Morrisons has reduced it's price to swallow the rise in the tax. I think I last got petrol on the Tuesday after Christmas day and it was 120.9p so they are maybe selling their petrol at half an a bit pence less than before the VAT went up.

Without wanting to be too a*al about this, no one mucks about with the VAT charged on anything VAT rated.
What they tell you they do as an advertising campaign, is another thing completely.

VAT is charged at point of sale and can't be changed.

I think Choille must be thinking about something like fuel duty, which I don't fully understand when the tax is added to the cost of the fuel, but I think it's to do maybe more with the processing time than the sale.

lostinrates

Rain rain, rain. Feels like a bleak day when spring is far away (these days in long winters that won't go away or sometimes in autumn ...the days when you forget what summer is like). I love the rain and the odd day like this but this is too dismal for me today. Feral had the runs again...so started the day cleaing carpets. Special horse still has a huge lump..though still seems happy and pain free... The dogs were drenched to the skin by the time I'd finished outside, meaning I need to clean the kitchen floor again.....and the walls. and I'd quite like to go back to bed.

As an aside I put finger nail polish on on Tuesday night. an ultra hard one with a top coat too. Looks tatty already.

I've put the boiler n for a bath and I'll feel chirpier after that.

choille

We have massive hail stones, really sore ones. Everythings dusted in white marbles.

Davesnave

Well, I have been a silly Billy, so I'm confined to barracks, sourcing replacements for our dahlia collection, which has been wiped-out 100%. We'd dried them off thoroughly and were storing them till Christmas in the old polytunnel, rather than clutter-up the conservatory.....In a 'normal' year that would have been OK.

I did think the tubers in 7.5 litre pots would be OK, but they're as bad as the rest.

Looking on the bright side, dahlias are cheap to buy-in, and I've located most of the ones we want, but we won't be selling any this year, that's for sure.

I'm not the most miserable thing here today though. My little cat, Daisy, has just found out that there's a new cat next door, so she is under the van in the pouring rain and I think there's a long-term staring contest going on.

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, I have been a silly Billy, so I'm confined to barracks, sourcing replacements for our dahlia collection, which has been wiped-out 100%. We'd dried them off thoroughly and were storing them till Christmas in the old polytunnel, rather than clutter-up the conservatory.....In a 'normal' year that would have been OK.

Well if it make you feel any better, we've lost a whole load of stored squashes, that were in the back porch. I think about 75% of what we had left (which was a lot).