Budget 2010

tomterm8

sjaypink wrote: »

I haven't had chance to properly look at what was announced today, but my initial calculations suggest I will be about £3,200 a year worse off in cider duty.

Haven't checked out the new tax credit / ch ben rates yet, perhaps popping out another kid will cover it?

...GD beat me to it

Get 1 baloon
1 gallon water bottle (tesco value will do: discard the water, its horrible)
1 packet of tesco's value bread yeast
several one litre cartons of tesco value apple juice
a bit of sugar

preparation:
make small hole in baloon
Empty water bottle

recipy:
put apple juice and sugar into water bottle
add yeast
leave in warm place
put baloon on top.
juice will start glooping.
Wait until it stops glooping
Drink.

Lovely(ish).
Henceforth known as "turbo cider".

sjaypink

Sounds vile. I'll try it

Graham_Devon

I'd make that myself. But I have no idea what glooping is, or be able to tell when it's doing it, or indeed, when it's stopped....I could be there for months waiting for a gloop

tomterm8

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'd make that myself. But I have no idea what glooping is, or be able to tell when it's doing it, or indeed, when it's stopped....I could be there for months waiting for a gloop

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UwX9FvYssc. Although he's cheating. He has all the proper equipment. You also need to siphon it into bottles, after it has finished fermenting. Maybe have a look at http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/cgi/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=recipe;action=display;num=1175682348 .

sjaypink

How come you're in a good mood GD- no fuel duty rises? What about car tax?

Graham_Devon

sjaypink wrote: »

How come you're in a good mood GD- no fuel duty rises? What about car tax?

What are you trying to say!? Normally I'm in a foul one!?

sjaypink

Graham_Devon wrote: »

What are you trying to say!? Normally I'm in a foul one!?

Erm....

Whats going on with everyone tonight? All very chirpy considering........?

I still don't get it. I don't think any of this is really relevant to me this yaer- apart from cider

wageslave

On a purely selfish note....

Petrol up, I use the company cars for pretty much everything except ferrying the dog.

Fags up, I buy them from the pub down the road duty free.

Booze up, this may well be a good thing:o

I don't really get any credits or anything worth speaking about from Her Maj so I doubt I will be affected.

I can save more? Yippee. Only I haven't had a wage increase in two years so that isn't really viable.

Heating allowance doesn't really affect me yet and I have a bank account.

So unless I have missed something glaringly obvious, I sort of stay the same. Which I regard as a positive result for me.

I am long past the stage of expecting any help from this government.

I told someone I was going to vote tory a couple of days ago which is the first time I have verbalised it, even to myself.

Nothing in this budget has changed my mind.

Graham_Devon

sjaypink wrote: »

Erm....

Whats going on with everyone tonight? All very chirpy considering........?

I still don't get it. I don't think any of this is really relevant to me this yaer- apart from cider

Considering what?

The fact I seem to be paying more and more week by week to get my sorry butt from my house to the hell I call work, in which I spend most of my life, only to find I'm not getting a pay rise this year, but the personal allowance is held, council tax is going up, and NI is going up and council parking charges to park, to work, is also going up.

I have decided to spend an extra 2 hours a week in the hell hole, to pay the rising costs simply to get there.

But on a positive note, houses are going up price, Hamish said so, and this is good. So surely me paying more to spend my one life working forever more to pay out forever more is also absolutely fan frickin tastic.

I'm listening to 80's music though, and dancing on the ceiling has come on, and it's taken the edge off. I was considering having a drink to drown the sorrows, but figured that would now require extra time in the hell pit.

ukcarper

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Considering what?

The fact I seem to be paying more and more week by week to get my sorry butt from my house to the hell I call work, in which I spend most of my life, only to find I'm not getting a pay rise this year, but the personal allowance is held, council tax is going up, and NI is going up and council parking charges to park, to work, is also going up.

I have decided to spend an extra 2 hours a week in the hell hole, to pay the rising costs simply to get there.

But on a positive note, houses are going up price, Hamish said so, and this is good. So surely me paying more to spend my one life working forever more to pay out forever more is also absolutely fan frickin tastic.

I'm listening to 80's music though, and dancing on the ceiling has come on, and it's taken the edge off. I was considering having a drink to drown the sorrows, but figured that would now require extra time in the hell pit.

You sound like you like your job as much as I liked mine