Recent content by mj4456

Waiting on a tax return form from HMRC, just found that banks no longer take tax from interest at source! after the rise in interest rates last year been getting a good return so we are over the tax fee limit, already in discussion with HMRC re an income loading they added to my coding to send...

£75 today, just topped hers back up to the max, hopefully help with bigger returns.

According to friends that worked in the plant there could be a tanker of ‘something’ leaving roughly weekly that paid for the running of the plant. A lot of guys told me petrol and diesel were waste/by products of refining oil, the good stuff was very expensive and came in small amounts. If...

I had a call from a loft insulation ’survey’ company on Thursday too, I asked if they were paying for the information, no they replied and was a tata and I hung up.

Was/is the one on the telly this morning, only caught a brief moment and heard about letters and scam, phone rang and I muted telly.

Skoda part of the VWAUDI group so use many parts the common across the group, when I worked in a parts dept at Kia I bought parts from Škoda at a better price than others in the group yet they came in a VWAUDI pack, similar cars better value.

I got one call from a scammer claiming to be my bank, quickly hung up when I told him to hold his hand up and wave as we must be in the same office.

Hasn’t this rule been in force since Brexit? Do people read the t&cs when booking a holiday? Last time I was in a travel agent they had a notice regarding the new/not so new rules. I’m sure this problem? has been in the news every springtime the last few years.

When did Nike change our flag?

When I installed our fence I built up the concrete around the posts higher than garden level so that water can’t ‘puddle’ around the post, don’t know if it’ll work but after I saw the guy do it at our decking installation it made sense, time will tell.

Well got mail from HMRC, my tax is now effectively a minus, they added a figure to my pension to ensure the ‘correct’ tax is taken, no explanation, but no change to my wife’s coding(yet), called HMRC and the staff member assured me “that’s not right, I’ll look into it”, I’m not expecting a good...

RIP Cobra, we never met but you always a good guy on here. Condolences to those left behind

Yep, pockets emptied every night in various piggy banks-makes the twice annual count easier.

Get so many of these, and similar since a data breach at my pension admins last year, they all go straight to junk anyway, I don’t buy much mail order anyway so I know if a parcel is due, besides, it’s the senders function to ensure postage is correct when they send it?

Lots of reasons why I wouldn’t watch football even if it being played on my front garden, I might turn the sprinklers on and shout “Get to F*ck” at them though. Rugby now, the weather is never too bad to go watch a game.