MG - The Matrix Re-wired

Dustykitten

The lack of wine in the house is making it worse not better Greenbee. DH did offer to drive into town but that screamed of being desperate. Thought I'd have a pimms instead but of course the kids have pigged all the lemonade.

Dorastar

I think I must be out of kilter too. Spent most of day hidden away in an office working and declaring myself "grumpy and to be avoided" but did manage to get some stuff done.

Did manage to fit time in for lunch (rare) and started my couch to 5k again (ouch). Colleague at work has breast cancer and is poorly so staff are going to do Race for life in summer - a lot of staff are young and fit so am determined not to be the sad sack at the back!

Marru

Please can somebody tell me if there is an email address for the Financial Ombudsman?

I am so effed off. Work is madder than mad, boiler is acting up and managing agent is passing ball to the land lord and they passing it to BG and they are expecting me to sit here half day to wait for them.:mad: And DCA is still after a debt that was settled despite me sending them a letter proving it had been settled. They started their letter with: " we are sorry you have been ignoring our letters.." I am so tired I could cry...

Mum_on_a_mission_2

Marru wrote: »

Please can somebody tell me if there is an email address for the Financial Ombudsman?

I am so effed off. Work is madder than mad, boiler is acting up and managing agent is passing ball to the land lord and they passing it to BG and they are expecting me to sit here half day to wait for them.:mad: And DCA is still after a debt that was settled despite me sending them a letter proving it had been settled. They started their letter with: " we are sorry you have been ignoring our letters.." I am so tired I could cry...

http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/

phone our consumer helpline on
0300 123 9 123 or 0800 023 4567
Monday to Friday – 8am to 6pm
Saturday – 9am to 1pm
we'll be happy to phone you back
email complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk
we will usually be able to deal with phone queries on the spot – so phoning might be quicker than emailing us


HTH

Moam

teapot2

Hello all, is there anyone who knows about allowances and tax returns? Particularly what I can claim for re travel? I know I can't put the details on here but its quite complicated [to me, a bear of little brain re tax] so could PM if anyone is au fait?

Thanks, have spoken x 2 to HMRC but they didn't really listen or take the time to explain so am none the wiser. Teapot x

Memory_Girl

Morning ladies

Had DS1's visit to the local High School -there will be an intake of over 300 in August, taking the school to knocking on 2000 pupils ................ that's not a high school - its a pretty decent sized town.

So hopefully of the 300 pupils he will find a little group just like him - and hopefully of the 187 teachers there will be a few that can relate to him.

Biggest disappointment was the library visit - the English teacher showed them two bays and said "these are the only books you will be choosing from - here you will read in your age group". DS1 has already done the Morpurgo's, Pratchett's (Mine) and tried the Alex Rider series but they got a luke-warm reception, so when the teacher asked what he was reading and his response was "Homers Iliad" there were certainly raised eyebrows. I might have to just get him an adult car for the library instead.

So today - I am out of my CBA mood - it is 7 months until my precious goes to High School, there is work to be done, money to be earned and fun to be had.

Got my list of three frogs and they are going to be chomped.

MG

greenbee

I was reading the same thing at the same age. Don't worry, he'll grow out of it when I was revising for my common entrance I was reading Jackie Collins, and by the time I was revising for GCSEs I had progressed to Jilly Cooper - so you can reassure the school that this may well be the most serious reading phase of his career

In all seriousness, be careful with Dickens... I was put off because although it is thought to be accessible at that age, it is VERY dark and much harder to read than the TV adaptations suggest.

Still in bed. Need to get up and get on... One client appointment, lots of housework then lunch out followed by what I hope is my last visit in a long time to the hospital...

Memory_Girl

OooH I know what you mean about Dickens - a favourite of mine but I have kind of steered him clear so far, same with Shakespeare - I only ever show him staged adaptations never the script ................... look if he was alive now he would be writing "Eastenders" and you would never sit down and read the script for that would you???;)

The English teacher asked if he was going to see "War Horse" - and he answered "No - its a 12A and I am only 11" another raised eyebrow moment LOL. He did later explain that he had "read the book, but had no real interest in watching animals and humans being blown apart for entertainment, so he was going to leave it a year or so as his "suspension of belief" wasn't up to it":rotfl::rotfl:

Teacher did ask where he had heard that expression - "from my Mum - she used to work in theatre and she keeps telling me the most important thing is the story" :T SO he does still listen to me:D

Funny little chap

MG

tellmeitsfriday

teapot2 wrote: »

Hello all, is there anyone who knows about allowances and tax returns? Particularly what I can claim for re travel? I know I can't put the details on here but its quite complicated [to me, a bear of little brain re tax] so could PM if anyone is au fait?

Thanks, have spoken x 2 to HMRC but they didn't really listen or take the time to explain so am none the wiser. Teapot x

Does this help...?

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/travel.htm

If not, I could have a go, but I can't promise to be 100% up to date x

tellmeitsfriday

Ahhhh, I love reading, I devour anything.. but if I can honest I don't like Dickens. Maybe we don't share the same sense of humour. I know it's meant to be funny... but it's not me.

...but I suppose that's the fun of it - there's a whole world of books out there so we can pick whatever we fancy

I remember a similar experience of libraries, but mine was in primary school. I was told to pick a book from my shelf, but after I annouced I'd read them all, they decided it was ok if I went to the library with mum, picked one there and I took a library book to school!