Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

purch

i paid my tax at about 6pm on the 31st

Harry told me not to worry, so I didn't bother to pay any this year !!!

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

you've done this before, haven't you...

No, but you can learn a lot of tricks on MSE......

chewmylegoff

purch wrote: »

Harry told me not to worry, so I didn't bother to pay any this year !!!

to be honest i'm a very stupid man and cannot sell the word 'tacks' properly, i pay my accountant a lot of money to sort all of this out for me and really in those circumstances can i be expected to do any more?

yes, i know i didn't tell my accountant about my bank account in monaco, but honestly, i am very stupid and i thought my dog would tell him.

good luck with that!

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Can you pay for it on a cashback credit card??

I paid mine, in full, probably also the July payment (in advance) so I don't have to worry about it ... and I stuck it all on my debit card.

Paid, done, dusted.... I can forget anything about tax returns now until 30th January 2013.

i actually don't know, because i only have an amex, which they don't take, so in fact i had to put it on visa debit. i think i put it on my egg card last year though, which was 1% cashback, can't be certain though.

PasturesNew

Jamie Oliver's on More 4 with his "30 minute feasts". He's doing a Moroccan thing.

He says you have to get ready to start.... and it could easily take 20-30 minutes to get organised to start the 30 minutes.... so that's nearly an hour.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Post-tax return I celebrated with a microwaved kebab.

There's a pattern emerging here.

Wheezy_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

There's a pattern emerging here.

I guess PN must be halfway through her kebab stock by now.

PasturesNew wrote: »

my freezer space is the size of four small sliced loaves ... and currently full of frozen kebab boxes.

I've never eaten frozen kebab.

lostinrates

I have never eaten a frozen kebab either. I make shish Kebab style suppers at home quite a lot. Mmm, with shredded salad and raita style sauce and lots of ras al hanout on the lamb, and lemon wedges........yum, yum, yum.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did you fill them up with sugar/sweets, then send them home with mum? You won't see them again then.

When DS was little I was very careful about what he ate. Then I had a miscarriage and was quite ill for several weeks, followed very quickly by another pregnancy (DD). After she was born, LNE had his affair, got fired, lost the house, and left me, all before DD turned 2, so for 3 years or so there were more pressing things on my mind than what my kids were eating. By the time I had space in my brain to think about it again, the battle was lost.

I originally came on MSE looking to learn more about buying a house. I migrated from the main house buying/renting/etc board to this one, and have found a home in the NPT. I did, in fact, learn loads about buying houses, and also was hugely helped by the support of the NP when I bought mine.

When LNE died, I had a choice - keep the important things in my life hidden from my friends on here and retreat into utter superficiality, or compromise my anonymity. I chose the second. I'm well aware that anybody who knew me IRL would recognise my story if they came across "Lydia" on here. However, I'm happy that if kids I teach wanted to stalk me, they wouldn't be able to search for me here, and they'd be very unlikely to come on this board by chance. Also, people that only know me on here would have to work pretty hard to track me down IRL, I hope.

I'm careful not to say anything on here that would be truly disastrous if it was traced back to me. If I have things I want to say that I really don't want to share with any casual acquaintance who knows me well enough to recognise my story, then I have at times posted under another ID - but always for anonymity purposes, and never for wind-up purposes. :rotfl:Otherwise, I just post things here knowing I might be recognised. So someone who recognises me would find out that I don't like mushrooms, I've got solar panels, and my mum died in November - so what? I don't mind that being public knowledge.

lostinrates

Lydia has a sockie? Now i really cannot keep up.