make do and mend for tougher times

Gintotmelinda

Sammy Kaye ((hugs)) go and kick a**se. Especially with two young children.........hope it works out. What about your MP or the paper or the head of the council.

Gintot

Possession

I agree Sammy Kaye, getting your MP involved is a good idea. They are bound to be on Twitter which is a good way of getting it publicly noticed, or at a surgery or they will have a contact me part on their website.
If their system can seriously lose £330 in cash then they have an appalling system which is open to all kinds of abuse and that in itself is going to be worth investigating. I would tell the high horse lady - in writing - that missing cash is a matter for investigation and you will be involving your MP and making a statement to the police. That in itself may get things moving.

mardatha

GQ that link is making me soo bloody mad. I just want a guillotine and my knitting! I was all for the poll rax riots, we had it up here for a full year before England did and it was so unfair. Everybody in the family & work tut-tutted at me, but I said at least these people are getting off their backsides and speaking out against unfairness - more than can be said for you lot. LOL I was popular !
I hope to God people will do this again, it's the only way to make a govt listen. Talk doesnt work.
Signed Mad Red Arthur of les barricades

Pips_Mum

Morning!

Naughty PipsMum just placed another Approved Foods order despite only unpacking one on Friday!! Got some of the breadmixes so Thanks to whoever mentioned them, also got some pasta sauces and curry sauces. I love that site it's saved us so much money, I spent £40 so got free delivery and it calculated I had saved £98!! Lots of stock now so my weekly Mr Ms shop will be much lower and also means I have penty to go on for the weeks I can't go out easily after having baby Pea.

Very well done to those that have stopped smoking :j, its hard I know. OH stopped when we were having Pip and there were times he was so grumpy I wanted him to start again but [STRIKE]he[/STRIKE] we perservered and hes been stopped nearly 4 years now.

Sammy-Kaye the payment systems are ridiculous. We got a parking ticket last year and I paid it same day. I then got a court summonse telling me I hadn't paid it, when I proved it had gone from my bank they actually tried still fining me as "I had paid too soon" so I said send it to court then, where of course it was laughed at and cancelled and they looked a bit stupid. Hope you sort it soon x x

Cooltrikerchick - I bet a tax on Ebay is just around the corner, you're right.

On a same note we had a roofer out today as we have a leak in the bathroom roof. He said he would ring us with a quote later today but he would let us do cash in hand for a bit cheaper as OH had been chatting to him and mentioned both having no job at minute yet everything keeps breaking, leaking.

Have a good day all x x

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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

'lurker pops her two penneth worth in'

I wouldnt be suprised if they force ebay to automatically take a % of each sale for tax...
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You have to set your minds at rest re ebay tax. My bil and his oh are tax inspectors, bil is high up and an investigator and they are taking special notice of the ebay sellers that sell a lot to make high value profits. Not the little sellers. The ones that buy in especially to sell, the ones that run big cars and live in big houses. They also go to auctions and the like and believe me they have marked the cards of some very big sellers but not the likes of you and me. They have limited time so we are not worth the manpower when they can, and do, catch very big fish

I need to read all posts down from above but I wanted to stop you worrying

Its a right hot day now and yes I know it is raining in the north, it makes me mad when met don`t give equal weight to north and south weather. Too hot to be out now and I need a break so am sitting here with a cool fan directed onto bare feet

Today I am making easy fruit leathers, whizzing strawberry and banana, or strawberry, kiwi, pear and banana. Ate one peach, which was like a crisp pear and was going to eat a kiwi but it was also hard. I am fed up with hard fruit that doesn`t ripen properly

I have regained long past interest in raw foods and have bought a lurch spirali, I have a small device that makes angel hair from veg but want to make more robust `spaghetti` from veg. I have used the little one a lot over the years for salads. It will eventually see me cutting down on wheat as you just steam the spirals for 5 minutes. Imagine, courgette, sweet potato etc

PAH lots on you tube about circular dehydrators like yours

Farmers are busy here today, rapeseed saved in the nick of time and they should get away with the wheat too if august forecast is right

I haven`t mentioned noro wool to dh yet, I`ll wait and see if he is out first and it will then quietly join my stash.

Only ice cream left to make now, ginger greek yogurt, d cream, little icing sugar and maybe blueberries from the garden

fuddle

Oh ice-cream. My girls (and me!) were treat a basic ice-cream maker from their grandparents at easter. It's not fantastic but does the trick. I'm yet to try anything adventurous in it but a basic vanilla is just yummy. That's another idea for the kids then, and ice-lollies. Will do that in a minute.

MrsL flowers are sitting under the bread bin getting suitable squished. They have loved it. MIL is going to laminate them for book marks when they're dried. Snail pic's with wool later when they come in from playing.

They've asked for eggs to be boild to paint so they are cooling down and some good news. My friend has called asking if we wanted to go to the woodland park for a picnic tomorrow with the other mam's and their friends. So I've baked flapjack, jam tarts and pizza base base, will make pop corn too. It hasn't cost a penny because all in the stocks. That's why it's a good idea to have a stock cupboard. Had I not had basic stuff in the house I could have spent £5+ on picnic stuffs.

Going to go make DD's P.E. bag while the kids are drawing over the cardboard box they have made into a tent. Loving the enthusiasm but by gawd I'm shattered!

smileyt_2

Sammy-kaye you need to get to your local councillor or MP asap as they will probably be away in August - I know ours round here don't hold surgeries in August.

Was supposed to be strimming my allotment today but it's too hot and I've had to cancel with the friend who was going to help me. He goes a lovely nut-brown in sunny weather, but he was very understanding when I said that even with factor 50 suncream I would frazzle as I am a redhead. I was out for forty minutes with the dogs this morning and back for half-past ten and I was pink with double the freckles I had when I woke up! Will have to try and do some tonight when the sun has lost its sting. (Sorry, Mar!)

Aching all over as I did 42 lengths of the pool last night (25m pool). I've set up a direct debit for £15/month. A swim costs £2 otherwise so I would only have to go twice a week (well, three times a week for three weeks, the other week of the month being off-limits due to being female!). I am seeing this as an investment in my long-term health and fitness.

Off to do an Approved Foods order (even though I only did one last week - free delivery ....:j). They have soya chunks and beansprout packets so for a vegan like me that's brilliant.

Mardatha start marching your red army down this way and I will join up with you and we will batter some sense into callmeDave and his cronies with our rolling pins and whisks!

grandma247

Sammy kaye nice to see you here. Please tell the council you are contacting your mp and then do so. They HAVE to reply to his/ her enquiries. They all have surgeries so you can go to see them and tell them what happened. Do not take this lying down because you may not be the only one and rogues can be anywhere in any job even .gov.

Cheapskate

sammykaye - how annoying (to say the least)! Don't pay again if you know you have, listen to the other, wiser heads on here and go to your MP, police, press, etc. - I bet even the threat of these will concentrate the mind of the disagreeable lady wonderfully! On a serious note, what if it's happened to other people? Either the system is deeply flawed and money's disappearing into a black hole, or a member of staff may be committing criminal actions - wouldn't be the first time, although I tend to favour incompetence! :rotfl:

My council has no cash office now, just machines to pay through, although you can use cash, but they are horrendous for older people or visually-impaired to use, and there's never any staff around to help. I will NOT be pushed into direct debit by the blighters! :mad:

Re the cash in hand reports in the press, I had to laugh (ironically you understand) or else I would have cried. I know loads of people who do little jobs for cash, from teenagers babysitting, to ladies who "do" for other people - they are ALL close to or over the breadline, hardly mass tax evaders, simply trying to close the widening gulf between their income and expenditure! None of the folk I know even come close to their tax allowance, wouldn't know an avoidance scheme if it bit them on the b.u.m.; I really despair of our leaders - they're as bad as their European neighbours when it comes to enforcing tax rules for those rich enough to wriggle away!
....and breathe!!

A xo

mardatha

SK - you don't EVER pay anything without getting a receipt! :eek:
You should always get one for any money you hand over to anybody. And check it before you leave the office