What have you been doing today?

[crystal ball]

Trying out a birdsong identifier app (Merlin), was out in the garden and it picked up the usual blackbirds, sparrows etc, some kids walked past making woohoo noises and that came up as a tawny owl, still impressed though

 

[Mottie]

I made a rhubarb crumble all by myself with rhubarb that grew on my allotment. Cooling down right now - I’ll be having some with lashings of cream later.

 

[Justin Passing]

I've been trying to work out my potential inheritance tax liability.

There is a form you download from HMRC. You type your numbers into the various boxes and it tots it up for you. The problem was, I realised with some combinations of boxes, it was doing it wrong. I rang them and we recreated the problem. Luckily it is an easy fix, they said. But I can see that some people (maybe lots) might end up with a bigger bill than they were expecting based on that form.

Interesting.
I tried it, OK for me.

What was the error around?

 

[Ihavenojob]

Popped into a country pub while out with the lads & spotted on the chalkboard 'burger £2, cheese burger £3 & handjob £50'.

I checks my wallet & YES I've got enuff, so I leans over & whispered softly into the barmaids ear "is it you that gives the handjobs then"? & she replied with a wink "yes".

"Go & wash your hands then I want a cheese burger".

That's inflation for you, it was 50p when I first heard that joke (and a ham roll)

 

[JonathanM]

Interesting.
I tried it, OK for me.

What was the error around?

It was Form IHT400

It was failing to add some of the boxes together when calculating both the subtotal at box 96 and the overall total at box 108. The reason they identified was that I was leaving box 92 blank (because I had no exemptions to put in it). We worked out that if you put a zero at the top of the column of box 92 and press enter, it fixes the problem. But they said you shouldn't have to put the zero in. They may have fixed the form by now.

EDIT: Still not working properly.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Testing my little tractor/mower, after making some modifications to the grass discharge system on Sunday. Problem was, it was designed to collect, in a massive hopper on the back, which I never use because grass in the UK is so moist. It would back up in the duct, and eventually jam the deck up. Without the hopper, it blew out of a 9" x 9" hole at the rear and up into the air, went everywhere. Sunday, I fabricated a SS section of duct, so the cuttings went out the back of the deck, then got directed down to the ground. The test, today, seems to suggest it works quite well.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Bricklaying until the rain soaked through to my underwear then I threw in the towel.

Did you mean trowel?

 

[kingandy2nd]

Back to Cadwell Park today

 

[Mottie]

Today I’ve been watching porn over the allotment.

 

[Mottie]

The little fella was going at it hammer and tong. I dropped them once while taking the photo and he still carried on - that'd be the equivalent of us falling off the top of a block of flats and still carrying on. I fell off a bed once and that was bad enough!

 

[Mottie]

In work having a tidy up. I let the kids go early today as they completed their assessments quicker than usual. I'll be glad when this term is over. I've lost a lot of the interest in working these days, lockdown made me lazy and I just see work as an intrusion into my week these days. I'm counting the (half) days (18) until I can step back from this place fully and just be a commercial landlord. It'll be 40 years next year that we've owned this place. Time to step back now - unless I get a second wind!

 

[Old Salt]

Having a day off having changed front discs and pads on the bmw yesterday. Rear discs and pads to be done tomorrow.

 

[Brigadier]

Swam 3.5 km openwater.

 

[securespark]

I made a rhubarb crumble all by myself with rhubarb that grew on my allotment. Cooling down right now - I’ll be having some with lashings of cream later.

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The best rhubarb crumble I ever had was at a caff in Truro in the mid 90s. It was an all butter crumble made with West Country butter, then it was accompanied with dollops or jugs of:

Vanilla custard with West Country cream added.

West Country clotted cream.

West Country double cream.

Home made clotted cream ice cream (not the lesser Kelly's stuff).

It was absolutely heavenly!

 

[securespark]

I've been trying to work out my potential inheritance tax liability.

There is a form you download from HMRC. You type your numbers into the various boxes and it tots it up for you. The problem was, I realised with some combinations of boxes, it was doing it wrong. I rang them and we recreated the problem. Luckily it is an easy fix, they said. But I can see that some people (maybe lots) might end up with a bigger bill than they were expecting based on that form.

That's downright disgusting!

I've got an issue at the moment. I have just received a letter from HMRC that says they have looked again at my tax from 17/18 and I owe them £600ish.

1. Why are they suddenly going back 6 years to look at what I paid?

2. I call this £600ish "rubber", as over the years, they have twice asked me to pay an underpayment of this figure then in the following tax year they have asked me to repay it.

Now they tell me I have once again underpaid tax and they want this rubber £600ish back again.

I don't understand it at all but am going to write to them again to ask them to explain WTF is going on.

I might also sarcastically ask them if they are chasing people like McDs, Costa and Amazon for unpaid tax.....