MSE Parents Club Part 8

harley1

jillie1974 wrote: »

28!! i wish i was 28!! i'm 35 (sssh) feel like i'm 28 though!! i must be one of the oldest on here


stupid DH left me logged in all night!!!

Harley- fairies are going to post office today!!

I'm 35 too Jillie, maybe we should start a little 'oldies' club. Think I'm the oldest at boobie club too, apart from the staff.

Please thank your fairies for me, boobies much appreciate their thoughtfulness.

Damn Doctors surgury just rang. Had 6 week check today (at 7 weeks) but wanted to go to baby signing since I've only missed the first week so far. Rang yesterday to ask if I could move the appt and was quite categorically told no, it was important that it be today. So I went on an made arrangements for next tues knowing I would now have to wait until the next signing course was available, only for Dr receptionist to ring me earlier to cancel and rearrange for 1st Dec.

How downright inconsiderate!!!! We wanted to learn signing!!!!:mad:

xxx

BrunoM

jillie1974 wrote: »

28!! i wish i was 28!! i'm 35 (sssh) feel like i'm 28 though!! i must be one of the oldest on here

Yes, 35 here I feel extremely aged today. Tigster notwithstanding!:p

SusanC wrote: »

You must have been very lucky so far - I just thought it was a given that they make mistakes. I have only ever had two "proper" jobs and both of them paid me incorrectly.

Well - perhaps you're right Susan, and the scales are falling from my eyes... I work for a huge global finance company though and given the scrutiny and vast numbers of people involved I unwisely assumed they would usually get things right. I also did look into it quite a bit when I started working for them (and again when I changed roles) - this one caught me by surprise because they changed the tax code in a random month for absolutely no reason.

elle_gee wrote: »

:hello: all.. I caught up last night, wrote a really long post and then my laptop crashed OH has just nipped out to get us some lunch and Rhys is zonked out Having a lovely time, barely anyone else here, going swimming later. Rhys slept for 13 hours last night, waking only twice for feeds and going straight back to sleep

Bruno, your employer should not have changed your tax code without instruction from HMRC and they should hold all tax related records for seven years so they should still have the instruction.. :cool:

Hugs to all xx

Aww well done Elle I am jealous, hope it continues blissful! We go to Bruges next week but I am not sure how relaxing it will be - fingers crossed.

Yes - I spoke at length with payroll - they kept me on hold while they went to find the instruction which had directed them to make the change - came back to say that for unknown reasons they couldn't find it and they were very sorry. Having just handed off their stuff to a new provider last month they will need to follow up with them to see if the NEW provider has the facts, thus the delay til tomorrow. If they can't find any reason, I am not really sure what my next step is!

emlou2009

bruno i'm no expert at this and am probably talking out of my backside, but if they need to have kept instructions to change your tax code and havent done so, would i be right in thinking you may have some kind of case against paying up? i'm sure someone else probably knows more
it just all sounds like a shambles, and if none of it is your fault and can be proven, people have got away with a lot less!

cazscoob

*hugs* for Rmac not sleeping is just torture and i know i cannot function without a good night sleep! your doing a great job, but you just have a suborn little madam(as i do!) if you fancy meeting up next week or the following to get out just give me a shout!

I love curries, would love to learn how to make indian curries from scratch but i dont have the time! im having to settle for potato and leek soup as my cupboards are bare and i forgot to do the asda order until today! feel a little better but i have such a sore head?

Sami why are the houses next door empty? it makes me mad when there are so many people desperate for homes and there are so many lying there!

emlou2009

i sold something on ebay, listing closed on saturday and it went for more than it should have dont really, and i think the winner knows he's overbid for it cos the f***** hasnt paid up yet, do you think i should try and open a case on him tomorrow or just cut my losses and relist? i've never had a non-payer before! apparantly i cant open a case yet, and i've sent invoices every day :mad:

r.mac_2

hmmmmm, HV hasn't turned up yet. She's half an hour late. I'm sure she was held up by an emergency. I'm an optomist.

Caz - will speak to DH tonight about his plans for the next couple of weeks and chose a quite day and see how you are fixed. A christmas shopping meet up would be really lovely. xxx

weezl - forgot to say thanks for your PM.

The fairies at our house have a pack of 2 bottles. They are brand-new-never-opened-the-box with wide necks and slow flow teats from Morisons and look cute. My mum bought them by mistake. She thought she had picked up CTN TT ones, which were the brand we used. Could anyone make use of them or suggest a suitable place/person for me to donate them to? I couldn't find the thread about the 15yr old?

thanks

Millie's_Mum

Slinks in I'm 35 too Slinks out

Jakesmummy

Emlou I think you have to give the buyer 7days to pay before you open a dispute, sods law is they'l end up paying on the 7th day! always happens to me

SusanC_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

:rotfl:even the 'sexy' curries I see on tv cookery things look gross to me and the smell is awful, I can't stand Tumeric which seems to be in them all as well.

You don't have to put the tumeric in though. What about Thai curries? I'm fairly sure they don't have tumeric in them.

Buttonmoons wrote: »

I hate those colemans chilli mix, it's so blah and bland. When I make chilli, the spices I use are, chilli powder, cumin, coriander, smoked paprika. That's all you need and throw in half of a whole clove of garlic, red wine optional

I never thought of putting paprika in chilli. I usually do chilli, cumin, oregano and a dash of worcestor sauce.

Becles wrote: »

Charlotte was weaned on spicy foods, so she eats them all too. She likes chicken jalfrezi best. We went to an indian restaurant when she was about 18 months and the waiters were amazed as she was dipping a popadom in hot lime pickle and enjoying it

My problem getting Alice to eat spicy foods is OH thinking things will be too spicy for her. She'll eat anything no problem but if she hears him saying it might be too hot then she says it is and he gives her something else.

Becles wrote: »

Went ice skating this morning and she loved it! She took to it straight away and just giggled when she fell over and got straight back up again.

Looks like she was enjoying herself. Is that at Newcastle?

BrunoM wrote: »

Well - perhaps you're right Susan, and the scales are falling from my eyes... I work for a huge global finance company though and given the scrutiny and vast numbers of people involved I unwisely assumed they would usually get things right. I also did look into it quite a bit when I started working for them (and again when I changed roles) - this one caught me by surprise because they changed the tax code in a random month for absolutely no reason.

You need a spreadsheet which calculates how much you earn each month and then calculates how much should be taken off for tax, NI etc.

emlou2009 wrote: »

bruno i'm no expert at this and am probably talking out of my backside, but if they need to have kept instructions to change your tax code and havent done so, would i be right in thinking you may have some kind of case against paying up? i'm sure someone else probably knows more
it just all sounds like a shambles, and if none of it is your fault and can be proven, people have got away with a lot less!

I would think as far as the HMRC are concerned, it is Bruno's liability but if it was his employer's mistake I would have thought it would be possible to make a case for them to make a contribution. However it may not be the wisest thing to make a claim against his employer as they could hold it against him.

Sami_Bee

cazscoob wrote: »

Sami why are the houses next door empty? it makes me mad when there are so many people desperate for homes and there are so many lying there!

because no one is desperate enough to live in them :rotfl:
The end one has been empty since the guy that lived there died, it is tiny, it has no back garden (the back door opens into our garden!) and I spoke to some of the people who've viewed it and they all said it was FULL of mould.
The one between us and the pub has recently been renovated so is decent but they haven't done the gardens which are a state and its very noisy in there from the pub, Its a family sized home but obviously no family wants to live next to a noisy pub and we're too far away from any uni for students. It is owned by the brewery and when the bought it we offered them ours but they didn't want it *booo hiss*

we tried a bit of cocoa in MILs chilli a few weeks ago and it really does work!