Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

I think she knows she won't get the childcare element of TC unless she does 16 hours. The question is whether working 14 hours would lose her all of her jobseeker's or income support or whatever it is she's on at the moment, given that she will still be actively looking for work.

I think, but check, that you lose all but the first £20 on a £ for £ basis. So earning £100 over 14 hours and you lose £80 off your benefits.

Just googled and editted. Also there is in-work-credit worth £40 a week, payable for a whole year, but you must be working 16 hours or more and you must claim it from the job centre within 5 weeks of starting work.

http://www.onespace.org.uk/benefits/benefits-available-when-going-back-work

Looks like a 14 hour a week job is going to mess up entitlements. Also remember a term time only job will be averaged out to calculate hours per week.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

The hidden axe probably was used a someone in the next street fed up with their neighbours trees and took an axe to them, then hid the evidence.

They should have bundled it into a parcel and sold it as a cheap Buy-it-now item on ebay.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Every geographical reference seems in a triangle between London/ West country/ West Midlands. Nobody from Wales, east Anglia or points North?

I am in the triangle. But one day I hope to be in the inner circle:o.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'm within that triangle. Not sure if Pastures would consider Cornwall to be part of the West Country or beyond it. I think the distance from Bristol to where Pastures lives is further than London to Bristol.

Yes, Bristol is virtually London compared to where I am.... I think Bristol to London is 100 miles or so and I am about 170 miles from Bristol.

Think of me as "round the corner from Lands End" ... for people who don't know this bit of the UK well.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I know she and two friends were making and selling a bit of jewellery a few years ago. I'll suggest she could maybe do a couple of hours a week of that if she ends up with a 14 hour job.

They're also clamping down on that loophole.... people were doing stuff like flogging on ebay and Avon stuff just to 'qualify' for the extra. I think they will be assuming NMW for the hours worked at any such job thing.

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

Am I right in saying that this thread is geographically focussed on areas round the London/ Black Country/Bristol conurbations?

Every geographical reference seems in a triangle between London/ West country/ West Midlands. Nobody from Wales, east Anglia or points North?

Actually, scratch that- I forgot Generali's in Oz!

Points north? Anything past Watford is north, darling!

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

Kent used to be the center of apple production in the UK. Cider production isn't just a west country thing... it's all over (except highland Scotland, where apples don't grow).

Kent still has a lot of orchards, the whole "Garden of England" thing. When some mates of my parents moved from Kent to Surrey they said they were moving to the Patio of England (-:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

......Aberdeen?

:hello::hello:

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Points north? Anything past Watford is north, darling!

Watford! Anything north of Lords is beyond the Pale.

Davesnave

I was due to be your Welsh correspondent, but it didn't quite happen.

Like a salmon, I still find myself drawn there by some inner compulsion. Roots are very stong, even if I don't know exactly where mine are. The Family Tree goes back to the late C19th and then there's a long arrow and the word "Wales."