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paidinchickens

prepareathome wrote: »

Well done indeed pic - my 6 months is on Thursday will tot up then............you are doing fantastic, it is brilliant isn't it stating you are a non smoker

Congratulations:beer::j

I didn't realise you gave up that soon after me, at the time it felt like weeks. Well done and I can't wait to see your total, mine was quite low as I bought cheap tobacco

esmf73 wrote: »

Hi all, Fuddle kindly linked me to this page. Will read through properly later, but any advice gratefully received. Thanks x

Welcome

mardatha wrote: »

Mist and rain here and I'm losing the will to live !

I am so sorry I felt like that last week, if the sun hadn't appeared at the week end I would have lost the will as well. Two of the boys are visiting their Mum so we have a bedroom free, I could probably spare some sweeties from my stash

Finally the front is now block paved :j

I am not really a fan and tried for years with grass but no matter what we did it was still boggy as the sun does not shine on the front for long. Plus the blocks were freeeeeeeeee

Just need to have a good clean up and how did all the dust get into the front room ? Did someone take the windows out while the blocks were being cut ???

I see the new enemy of the government are the cash in hand payers. Personally I don't pay cash in hand as I don't have any cash but we PAYINCHICKENS or swap trades as hubby is a leccy. They are just closing in on any money they think they're missing out on but we know who are the worst and they should look closer to home :mad:

Car MOT this morning so wish me luck

PiC x

prepareathome

Thanks Meme think you are right going to be to hot for eating anything hot - two days without rain and its sunny, almost a record here.

Will splash out on some cold bits and bobs for them and will do a nice picnic somewhere - Grandchildren rarely have such things as both daughter and dil prefer to have a day off cooking and eat out somewhere when out and about.

prepareathome

paidinchickens wrote: »

I see the new enemy of the government are the cash in hand payers. Personally I don't pay cash in hand as I don't have any cash but we PAYINCHICKENS or swap trades as hubby is a leccy. They are just closing in on any money they think they're missing out on but we know who are the worst and they should look closer to home :mad:

Car MOT this morning so wish me luck

PiC x

Good luck with the car.

Government doing their usual tactics - report how trillions of pound s of tax avoidance going on by their pals so they have to get our attention off that so suddenly cash in hand workers are the baddies - I some how doubt they avoid trillions in tax. Also am sure I read somewhere our dear PMs family made their money from tax avoidance schemes and also were able to get their hands on tax payers money through some then legal loophole, just cannot remember what and if I have it right.

Well if stays like this today its going to be a scorcher as its hot outside already, not checked outside temp although in bedroom its 23 and that is with my fan on full

COOLTRIKERCHICK

'lurker pops her two penneth worth in'

I wouldnt be suprised if they force ebay to automatically take a % of each sale for tax...

With the cash in hand they got to prove it, who is to say that hteir are not helping out for free, as loads of businesses are struggling..In the past some of our mates/family have rallied round and helped us with work or jobs that needed to be done around the house etc...

They will be driving the country back to a bartering system ( which i personally think isnt a bad idea) so then they will get naff all in taxes:D

By the way even though i dont post,, I have followed all the thread..... love them:T

Evie74_2

Good morning all and (((hugs))) to anyone in need.

Hello and welcome esmf! :wave:

Just a quick post from me this morning as I'm waiting in for the electrician (replacing fuse box and doing scary things related to oven cables/ceilings/floors :eek:) so I think the leccy will be off for most of the day. There is now a very empty room where my kitchen used to be... The new cupboards and appliances are being delivered a little later on so that will be exciting (hope they are as nice as I remember )

Since I won't be able to do much else I am going to dig a new veg patch in the garden while the electrician and carpenter do their stuff - making the most of the sunshine and having somewhere to plant out my remaining winter veggies which are still in pots and desperate to be transferred.

The DDs are out of the way of all the work at my mum's so it's very quiet (eerily so!) - I always imagine that I would love to have more time to myself but now that I have it I just feel lonely!

After I've dug my new plot I'm going to head off in search of birthday presents for various upcoming birthdays - not exactly a frugal day!

Thank you for the heads-up about sugar - I have a few kg in store but usually use it up for jam over the summer so will have to get some more in stock if prices are set to rocket.

Right, better go and squeeze in another coffee while I can!

Have good days all.

Evie xx

mardatha

I think they've suddenly realise that since they've cut so many jobs then nobody is paying tax. It is hard to work that one right enough - almost rocket science eh.
Course the morally wrong payments in cash wont include the bungs that they take for letting people speak to Callmedave..

GreyQueen

esmf73 wrote: »

Hi all, Fuddle kindly linked me to this page. Will read through properly later, but any advice gratefully received. Thanks x

Welcome, in, hun, hope to hear lots from you.


:mad: Hey,check this out:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/23/poll-tax-back-cameron-localism

Whilst the rest of us are to be distracted by the bread-and-circuses of the Olympics, this is what is really about to hit the fan. I ususally have a lot of time for Polly Toynbee but one throwaway comment in this article has my blood boiling; about how the single occupancy discount is usually claimed by well-off singletons in large homes so can be done away with without really hurting anyone to ease the burden on everyone else.

Excuse me, Polly! I already spent 1/12th of my take home pay to pay my council tax and that's with the discount and in one of the smallest flats you could imagine. The same is true for a lot of people. Seems like we may have to do a rinse-and-repeat of the anti-Poll Tax movement from the eighties, where I was a busy little bee. Grrrrr!

It's about time the governement woke up and smelled the coffee; a lot of working people are only just making their bills each month and if you put any more onto them, they're gonna break................

Evie74_2

mardatha wrote: »

I think they've suddenly realise that since they've cut so many jobs then nobody is paying tax. It is hard to work that one right enough - almost rocket science eh.
Course the morally wrong payments in cash wont include the bungs that they take for letting people speak to Callmedave..

So true - and yet they still insist that "we're all in this together" :mad::mad::mad:

Evie xx

jamanda

Morning all,

Just a heads up for stock cupboards - T*sco mushy peas (the lowest price whose name escapes me) have gone from 6p down to 4p this morning. They are nice as well and I don't usually like tinned ones.

re. Alpaca - last winter I spent a fair amount on an Alpaca jumper which I wish I hadn't. I don't have sensitive skin, and the damn thing makes me all itchy and fidgety. OK for an over layer. Thinking about it, it loses it's shape during the day and goes a bit soggy as well.

fuddle

Evie74 wrote: »

Just a quick post from me this morning as I'm waiting in for the electrician (replacing fuse box and doing scary things related to oven cables/ceilings/floors :eek:) so I think the leccy will be off for most of the day.

Think of the electricity saving today So envious of your empty room soon to be fab new kitchen.

I already barter when it comes to family and friends. A little anyway. When MIL's partner does a job for us I'll pay him in lager, MIL pays us in eggs and produce form her little garden/chickens when I do her a favour and friends get crochet gloves or hats for their kiddies as a return good deed. I better than embarrassing them with a fiver/tenner here or there.

Sis would rather have cash value for favours and it gets my goat, I don't know why, it just does.