~Sweet Sizzling Samba!~ posted:Hopefully Sunday, but that depends on what time my visitor leaves. I should make a plan A and a plan B
how was poldark?
Always good to have a back up plan.
Poldark was good, thanks.
I hardly slept last night and now I'm getting sleepy, so I better say goodnight and sweet dreams before I nod off. 
Sweet dreams yogi, I hope you sleep better tonight 
Leaving goodnight hugs for ros, velvet & moonie
night yogi summer moons velvet
Good morning everyone 
Some sunshine here at present.
Yogi, I hope you got a better night's sleep last night
Here's a link to that local news story about Poldark
It is a spoiler so don't click unless you want to, and if you were to hover over the above hyperlink, there is a partial spoiler in the web page hyoerlink.
Summer, I hope you have a good time with your visitor
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone, some sunshine here too EL. I hope you slept better last night Yogi. Does your visitor arrive today Summer? Have a great time together anyway.
Enjoy your day everyone
Very pleasant here. I've done two washes already and they're out on the line. After we've been in a bike ride I think we'll pop across to Whitby for lunch and tea.
Enjoy these last summery bits everyone!
Sometimes I despair of our friends the HMRC. Just over a month ago I got a couple of HMRC tax calculations for 2015/16 for clients that I haven't had any contact for some time. The tax calculations would be from their PAYE system, not the self assessment system. The clients no longer have self assessment tax returns and typically these PAYE calculations are in respect of their employment and/or pensions.
The style of these calculations have changed as their is now a requirement of me to notifiy HMRC of any error. As I have no contact with the client, I can't sat if there's any errors or not. So with those 2 I rang HMRC, told them and I asked them to remove me as agent which I think they did.
So I thought I would go through my list of clients on the HMRC website and remove myself as agent for those who I've had no contact for some time and I've no reason to think that they will need my services again. (If they do, it's easy enough to reregister as their agent), I think I may have posted about this at the time.
So today I receive another tax calculation in respect of one of those clients I removed myself as agent some 5 weeks ago.
I rang HMRC about this. It turns out that although I can remove myself as agent from the self assessment system I can't from the PAYE system. Whenever I get such a tax calculation I will have to ring HMRC and tell them to delete me from their PAYE system - that's the only way.
Very silly of HMRC, wasting my time and their time when they are under pressure to reduce costs.
Afternoon all
Weather was dry and bright this morning and is clouding over now.
Thanks everyone, I slept better last night.
Enjoy your bike ride to Whitby, Joe. Will you have fish and chips while you're there?
I hope you have a lovely weekend with your friend, Summer.
El, what a palaver with HMRC. The right hand doesn't seem to know what the left hand is doing!
Thank you for the Poldark link.
Good evening I hope you've each had a lovely day
my friend has had to cancel her visit as both the baby and her husband are unwell. Hopefully we can do it another time
I'm turning in, so leaving sweet strictly dreams for you all ,
~Sweet Sizzling Samba!~ posted:Good evening
my friend has had to cancel her visit as both the baby and her husband are unwell. Hopefully we can do it another time
Aww Summer, that's a shame. I hope you can reschedule it soon.
I thoroughly enjoyed Strictly tonight and now I'm going for a bath and then a read before bed.
Goodnight and sweet dreams Summer, Velvet and Ros
Yogi19 posted:~Sweet Sizzling Samba!~ posted:Good evening
my friend has had to cancel her visit as both the baby and her husband are unwell. Hopefully we can do it another time
Aww Summer, that's a shame. I hope you can reschedule it soon.
I thoroughly enjoyed Strictly tonight and now I'm going for a bath and then a read before bed.
Goodnight and sweet dreams Summer, Velvet and Ros
night yogi summer velvet
Yogi19 posted:Afternoon all
Weather was dry and bright this morning and is clouding over now.
Thanks everyone, I slept better last night.
Enjoy your bike ride to Whitby, Joe. Will you have fish and chips while you're there?
I hope you have a lovely weekend with your friend, Summer.
El, what a palaver with HMRC. The right hand doesn't seem to know what the left hand is doing!
Thank you for the Poldark link.
I'm carp at explaining things 
we went out for a long bike ride and then set off by car for Whitby at about mid-day. It would take me several hours to cycle there. Oddly enough we had a small plate of fish and chips each - normally we eat Turkish. At the end of our visit we bought a Chinese meal and ate it 80 mins later back home.
Good morning I hope everyone slept well and is waking to a pleasant day
what are everyone's weekend plans?
Im going to have a relaxing, strictly dazzling cosy night in 
I just have to get through a busy day off at work first...
joe, it sounds a fab day out, I bet the scenery was gorgeous!
Moin! It is indeed a lovely day and we expect sun and 20 deg.
The scenery was indeed wonderful and the coastal areas looked particularly lush.
Have a good day all.
Garage Joe posted:Moin! It is indeed a lovely day and we expect sun and 20 deg.
The scenery was indeed wonderful and the coastal areas looked particularly lush.
Have a good day all.
Indeed indeed indeed!
I haven't woken up properly.
Good morning everyone
Some sunshine here at present, a bit windier than yesterday.
Summer, that's a pity and I hope you and your friend can reschedule a visit soon
GJ, I guess a lot of people who visit Whitby eat fish, the two do seem to go together
I hope everyone has a nice day
Absolutely El Loro however I'm not a big fan. There is also a renowned pie and mash place but my favourite is the Turkish restaurant near Hadley's.
Good morning everyone, a hint of blue sky and quite a few clouds this morning. Disappointing about your visitor Summer, I hope her family recovers quickly. Enjoy your cosy Strictly Saturday night in. Hot chocolate is called for definitely.
The plan for today is to take my grandsons and his two little ones swimming, definitely for the first time for our wee boy and I suspect it is the first time for his big sister too. It's a local fun pool at Croyde, a famous surfing beach. Its a very shallow pool - the babies section is only ankle deep, and the deeper section is still shallow with a river rapids part where you float through. I've made sure they've both got little rubber rings, a Frozen rubber ring and a little boat thing for the baby where his legs dangle through and he has a steering wheel and a honker. Should be fun.
Enjoy your weekend everyone, whatever you're up to.
Rather technical BBC article about the realisation that the universe is expanding faster than what scientists were expecting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-37438458
Kirk and Spock on on their way to investigate 
Amazon fined for trying to transport lithium-ion batteries & flammable aerosols by air.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37454587
Doing that in a plane is illegal because of the possibility they could go bang.
El Loro posted:Squiggle, I hope you and everyone has a great time at the pool. It's a good idea for your wee boy to be introduced to swimming at an early age
Such a shame EL but big sister has decided she's frightened of going swimming so we've had to cancel for now. My grandson tried to explain how shallow the water was but she had got herself in a state by then. Hopefully we can re-schedule for another day.
She has been a little spoiled EL. My grandson's partner tells him he is too tough with both of them but he has the right idea and sets boundaries. The little girl is only just 5 but, as you say, she should have been taken swimming earlier on so that she can see it's fun and not at all frightening. I'm just sad that my great grandson has had to miss out - for the moment.
I love Bakewell tart 
good evening all I've been pottering around/watching strictly/doing laundry. I hope you all had a good day
squiggle what a shame! I hope big sister changes her mind- perhaps get her watching the little mermaid 
my friend's 10 year old daughter is about to start swimming lessons- I can't believe she has never been before 
I'm going to get an early night, I've got a busy day tomorrow. Sweet dreams everyone
night summer
If you have seen the current Gucci Guilty advert and wonder what the beautiful music is, it's from the adagietto section of Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony. It was also used by Radio 4 yesterday on the Today programme as background music to an article Meet the Author (Rose Tremain) about her fiction novel Gustav's Sonata (not the same Gustav though).
The complete adagietto:
The pictures in the clip of Venice are a strong clue as to why you might recognise the music as it was used in Death in Venice (Dirk Bogarde).
Good morning everyone, a very changeable morning, blue sky now but now and then we get some rain clouds. I hope the rain stays off for everyone, although the forecast for our area is not too good.
A good idea about watching The Little Mermaid Summer. I hope you slept well and have lots of energy for your busy day. I need a quiet day today so I will be trying to rest and recharge my batteries.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning a wet & rainy start here but brightening up now
I've been up early and done a workout! Now I'm going to go pick up some friends & their children and I'm taking them on a snowdog adventure
i hope you all have a lovely day, and squiggle I hope you get to put your feet up and relax today
It rained all night and yet we've just had a sunny bike ride into the country and round the villages!
If you think swiimming the Channel is challenging, that's nothing compared to this man's ambition:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...cestershire-37451452
