Good morning everyone

 

A sunny and warm day is forecast for here today

 

Summer, I hope the prawn jalfrezi was good and has helped to kill off your cold

 

Yogi, I hope the rest of your holiday continues to be good and the weather is as nice there as here

Good morning
A lovely day here, I hope it's the start of the mini heat wave we have been promised.

I've had a restless night, my runny nose continues on. I got up for a bit at 6am to take some tablets.
Hopefully a good rest today and some fresh air later will help

I hope you all slept well

I hope you begin to feel better today Sweet and enjoy your day off

Good morning everyone, looks like it's going to be a lovely time.  I hope your jalfrezi will finally get rid of that cold Summer, enjoy your day off and I hope that by this evening you will be feeling better.

 

Off to lunch with a group of friends later, a lot to do before then so I hope everyone gets some lovely sunshine today, especially Yogi and that your day is great

Have a lovely lunch out squiggle

Summer, I hope the fresh air helps to clear your cold

I've been out getting some fresh air this morning as I've been cutting the grass.

 

Squiggle, I hope you have a lovely lunch with your friends 

Squiggle I hope you have a lovely lunch out

El, 4 lawns waiting here when you have finished yours

Well, you can't blame me for trying, can you El?

I love the smell of cut grass
Feel free to do ours too while you have the mower out El

I enjoyed my fresh air, it's quite warm outside.
You won't believe what I have discovered though- we have a wasps nest outside the bedroom window they're going in to our brickwork through a small air vent thingee

I love the smell of cut grass
Feel free to do ours too while you have the mower out El

I enjoyed my fresh air, it's quite warm outside.
You won't believe what I have discovered though- we have a wasps nest outside the bedroom window they're going in to our brickwork through a small air vent thingee

Summer, I think your council will treat the wasps nest assuming that the bedroom is on the first floor. If it's higher I think they won't and you will need to get in touch with other pest controllers.

 

Me too Sweet

*coughs* i'm first in line Sweet *coughs*

 

When the council modernized out house many many years. They removed a pipe from the porch above our front door. They neglected to fill the hole up. Last year or the year before, I noticed a few wasps going in and out of this hole. Reported it to the council. They came sprayed stuff in there and killed them all. About a month to six weeks later they came and filled the hole up

an echo post Sweet

I wonder why I echoed I don't time travel..!

I think calling the council is the plan, I'm guessing they have special fumigation products?
Is it expensive?

Summer, my council would charge £39 for the visit to get rid of wasps.

I would happily pay that to get rid of them! I hate not being able to open the windows

Who said that?

Mine was done for nothing Sweet

I don't know if its just our council that doesn't charge

Could be different for people who live in council houses?

 

That's a good point El

How typical- mr summer got home and couldn't see any wasps!
I guess they're more active earlier on..?
I'm 100% certain they're in there though

I need to go to bed, sweet dreams lovely friends

Squiggle I hope you've had a lovely catch up with your friends

Leaving   for absent friends

Good morning everyone

 

Clear blue sky here at present and should be another nice day  (just don't look at the forecast for next week)

 

Summer, wasps only fly around during daylight hours. I hope you were able to get a night's sleep and are over the worst of your cold

 

 

Good morning everyone, another lovely morning.  Summer I hope your cold is on its way out now.

 

About the wasps, if it's any comfort we once had a wasps nest one summer which freaked out the lady next door but the wasps used to come and go and didn't seem to bother us so we just ignored them and they didn't come back the following summer.  I know they are a nuisance but in my experience they only get dangerous towards the end of the summer when they seem to get irritated and inclined to sting just for the sake of it.

 

What's the forecast for next week then EL - or is it so bad you are frightened to tell us?

 

Enjoy your day everyone.

We learn something new every day, a baby puffin is called a puffling

 

Squiggle, it's a return to showers or longer periods of rain for days Next Wednesday is looking very wet (16mm of rain currently being forecast) and I'm having to make my return visit to Hereford that day. I'll go a different route this time as the shorter route has very sharp bends and I don't want to be driving round sharp bends in pouring rain.

Oh well EL we will just have to make the most of the lovely weather this week.  I am torn because of course I am keen for my new plants to survive and I know rain will help with that.  This lovely weather has been great though.  I am sure you are right about taking a different route, you don't want to be having to cope with lots of sharp bends in the pouring rain.

This is supposed to be the actual colours of an Arizona canyon, seems incredible to me but very beautiful anyway

 

Afternoon Buddies kiss:

Sunshine and cloud here but with a breeze. So good washing drying weather hence a line out and another lot in the washer. I'm washing everything that isn't nailed down

Have a good day where ever and what ever you a doing

 

PS. love the puffling

Squiggle, it's a beautiful picture. I know the canyons there can be spectacular reds and oranges but purple

 

The bus station in Gloucester is to be replaced and the general area around it improved.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...cestershire-27409409

About time to as it's a bit of an eyesore and doesn't give a favourable impression of people coming to Gloucester.

There's going to be an archaelogical dig there. I don't know what they will find - Gloucester is a very old place and they could find some interesting things.

 

I'm old enough to remember that part of Gloucester is where the cattle market used to be - that's why it's known as Oxbode.

How interesting EL, I haven't heard much about the Roman city of Glevum so it will be fascinating to see what they discover.

 

Moonie where on earth are finding all this washing from?

Squiggle, Gloucester pre-dates Roman times and was known as Caer Glow meaning fair city. The Romans took over making it into a walled fort calling it Glevum. Eventually the name was anglicised into Gleawecastre and then became Gloucester.

The reason why Gloucester became so important is its locality being the most southerly point on the River Severn where it was possible to go between England and Wales until the Severn Bridge was built.

 

Moonie's been carrying out an archaelogical dig

If Summer or Garage Joe ever get a letter headed "Publication of companies and VAT Registration Numbers in the UK Corporate Portal" don't reply. It is asking companies and self employed people to respond to the letter using the form which is enclosed with the letter to give or confirm their VAT registration number.

 

If you only glance at the letter you might think that it's a legal requirement to reply to the letter. It's not. It's a scam which traps you into being in a directory for 3 years at a cost of £797 a year. Although the letter says there are no costs for correcting your data, don't believe that.

There are lots of businesses which have been caught by this particular scam.

 

I think I might have posted about this before but it's worth reminding people about it.

 

Hi Squiggle
I have no idea but it seems to have 'dried up' now, thank goodness

Well, El, some of my stuff is quiet 'ancient'

what will they get up to next?

What's difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion?
Which is illegal and which is legal but immoral?

Moonie, tax evasion is illegal. That's where someone has deliberately not informed HMRC that they've been getting money which they know they should have paid tax but haven't.

 

Tax avoidance is where someone has done something to save tax. It is a much wider spectrum than evasion. At one end of the spectrum is putting money into an ISA account so that no tax is due. That's above board, and there's nothing immoral about it. It can be described as tax mitigation which is that part of tax avoidance which is completely legit.

At the other end of tax avoidance are these artificial schemes which make use of loopholes in the tax law. They may be legal but many would consider to be immoral. These are the schemes which get into the news.

I don't get involved with those sort of schemes and don't have clients who do.

Thanks for the information El. Very informative