We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
📨
Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
Discussions
Revolution at Nominet
Just noticing (tweets, press) that Nominet have had an EGM, voting out 5 of 11 directors including the CEO and Chairman. Possibly the good guys won, who knows, perhaps we'll see cheaper prices for our domain names :|
Success: removed rad valve with no c/h drain down
I'm demolishing an old kitchen at present and bumped into the usual issue of the radiator valves being unmovable from the radiator. Rather than drain down the hot system, after switching it off, I placed 2 rubber bungs in the attic expansion tank, one in the tank outlet, one in the open vent. Then bled the kitchen…
FSCS protection for estate funds
I'm currently executor for 2 estates, one of which I'm running myself, the other is being done by a solicitor. This has the side effect that I get advice on process for one, which is applicable to the other. I recently was advised that "it is good practice not to distribute the estate until... 10 months after Grant of…
Old US dollars
I have discovered $200 (US) ish in a recent tidy up, which I think were acquired in 1999. Looking on Leftover Currency, most of these notes have been "withdrawn from circulation" but Googling suggests that US posters suspect their notes can always be used, anywhere. I'll be in South America next month, Chile, Argentina and…
Bespoke kitchen carcasses
I've had water damage to a couple of kitchen carcasses (not the doors) which are not to current standard sizes. I've got too many other projects on to redo the kitchen just yet. I can see oodles of potential suppliers with a Google search but are they any good ? Anyone had any good (or bad) experiences with kitchen carcass…
Actuarial magic
One of my pensions is about to mature and I have the final numbers. If I take the pension as 100% annuity, then the percentage of the "standard lifetime allowance" is x%. If I take the pension as as a 25% lump sum and a lesser annuity, the percentage of the "standard lifetime allowance" is 0.49% lower. My mind says this…
Vanishing pension
A couple of weeks ago, I authorised the transfer of a pension from Legal & General to Hargreaves Lansdown. Having been told "it will take 10 days", I logged on to both organisations today to find £nil in both accounts. H-L deny everything; so I now have to contemplate ringing an 0370 (eek) number to find out what L&G have…
Interesting sales approach
I used to buy power from PowerGen and regularly received correspondence from Scottish Power implying that I had an account with SP but had forgotten to advise some minor admin details. The intent was presumably to persuade the unwary into changing supplier, whilst maintaining a plausible excuse of "admin error". The whole…
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Is this how you want to be seen?
We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.
