El Loro posted:

A fox found having a nap on a microwave in London:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46699818

😮😮😮

A good news animal story for a change 😁😁😁

Billy Taylor playing his "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"

Used as the theme music for BBC's Film programme which has been axed after all these years.

El Loro posted:

A fox found having a nap on a microwave in London:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46699818

 Cheeky fox. I’m glad he was well enough to be released.

Moonie posted:

A good news animal story for a change 😁😁😁

Hi Moonie 

Yogi19 posted:

Moonie posted:

A good news animal story for a change 😁😁😁

Hi Moonie 

Hi Yogi  

I hope all is well with you today 

Moonie posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Moonie posted:

A good news animal story for a change 😁😁😁

Hi Moonie 

Hi Yogi  

I hope all is well with you today 

All good thanks  Hope all is well with you too

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros

Hug for any night owls

El Loro posted:

A fox found having a nap on a microwave in London:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46699818

awww fabulous photo EL

night yogi moonssummer if you pop in

Yogi19 posted:

Moonie posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Moonie posted:

A good news animal story for a change 😁😁😁

Hi Moonie 

Hi Yogi  

I hope all is well with you today 

All good thanks  Hope all is well with you too

 

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros

Hug for any night owls

Nite nite, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi and Rosss  

🤗 for any night🦉🙂

Good morning everyone

Fairly cloudy here.

Yesterday was a busy day for me with client work with one quite complicated return - the first time I've been dealing with a pension savings charge. That doesn't arise for most people. Most likely to arise for people in the public sector on higher salaries. If the value of their pension fund increases in a year by more than the annual allowance of £40k, the excess is taxable at 40%. Unused allowances for the previous 3 years can be used to reduce the excess. Rather than paying the tax, a taxpayer can request the tax to be paid out of their pension fund but that reduces the amount available for their future pension.

Husband and wife clients coming to see me this morning to sign off their returns - that's straightforward. The client with the pension savings charge could contact me at any time to discuss his options for paying the charge.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone.

Heavy rain and very windy overnight.

El, I hope the client meeting is straightforward

Have a good day, all.

Good morning an overcast and windy day here.  I hope you’re all warm and cosy 

I planned to come on here last night, but fell asleep and woke up in the exact same position this morning! Work was busy, but great fun and afterwards we went for a walk and watched Mrs Wilson- I loved it!!!! 

Good morning a grey, damp and dreary morning, I do intend to stay warm and cosy thanks Summer but no doubt my two  boys (one big one small) will be venturing out, I hope it cheers up.  Trying to fit the grocery deliveries around the Christmas schedule has been tricky so we've just had our grocery delivery this morning and won't be placing another order for 10 days, as you can imagine everywhere is stacked with food.

Enjoy your day everyone

Yogi, the meeting was straightfoward

Been busy with doing a document of the various options for paying the tax for that client with the pension savings excess. Now waiting for him to come back with his decision as to what to do.

Squiggle, I hope all the food use by dates work for you

Another animal news story with a happy ending:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-46709311/

Good afternoon Buddies  

Quite a pleasant day here 

Shopping all done for the weekend 

So I am a happy bunny 

Have a great weekend everyone 

El Loro posted:

Another animal news story with a happy ending:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-46709311/

Awwwwwwwwwww  but 

Well done happy bunny

El Loro posted:

Well done happy bunny

🐇 <- bunny 

El Loro posted:

Another animal news story with a happy ending:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-46709311/

aww EL love these -gorgeous

night everybody  summer if you pop in

Good morning everyone

Cloudy day here, dry though the road looks a bit damp, no fog but there's a warning for that this morning.

The real Clash of the Titans tonight on television - BBC1's Les Miserables which is its majot heavyweight drama series of the year versus ITV's premiere of Star Wars episode VII (the one with the return of the original 3 leads). Television clash of the millenium.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning I’m laying in, listening to love songs on radio 2 I like this show 

I hope you all slept well happy NYE Eve what are you up to today? 

Good morning everyone, a little brighter but still fairly grey, dry so far though.  I've watched the Les Mis anniversary show, which was all the songs, which I thought was brilliant: and I watched the Les Mis film which was good but I think I'm all Les Mis'd out now, and I never have watched Star Wars so no clash for me.

Enjoy your day everyone

Happy New Year's Eve eve Summer

Squiggle, the BBC Les Miserables is a 6 part drama adapted from Victor Hugo's book rather than the musical. Most likely to be appreciated by those who appreciated BBC's War and Peace.

Hi everyone 

Showery weather up here.

I’ve had an annoying cough for a couple of days, and now my head is banging and nose is streaming - I look like Rudolph!

Why are my grandchildren always so generous with their colds and coughs?!

I’ll pass on Les Misérables and Star Wars, I have Poirot episodes to watch.

Have a good day, all.

Yogi, I hope your cold/flu buggy thing clears up quickly

Yogi19 posted:

Hi everyone 

Showery weather up here.

I’ve had an annoying cough for a couple of days, and now my head is banging and nose is streaming - I look like Rudolph!

Why are my grandchildren always so generous with their colds and coughs?!

I’ll pass on Les Misérables and Star Wars, I have Poirot episodes to watch.

Have a good day, all.

Yogi 

I hope you feel well again very soon 😷  😉

Our church organist sometimes plays music at the end of a service as a tribute to some well known person who has died. I mentioned to him that June Whitfield had died. He hadn't heard that news announced this morning and had intended to play the BBC Film programme theme music at the end.

So, during the sermon, he had a look on his phone for the theme music for Absolutely Fabulous. At the end of the service he started by playing that and then morphed the music into the Film theme music

El Loro posted:

Our church organist sometimes plays music at the end of a service as a tribute to some well known person who has died. I mentioned to him that June Whitfield had died. He hadn't heard that news announced this morning and had intended to play the BBC Film programme theme music at the end.

 

So, during the sermon, he had a look on his phone for the theme music for Absolutely Fabulous. At the end of the service he started by playing that and then morphed the music into the Film theme music

😮 

Evening gang *night owls* 🦉 

i hope you’ve all had a lovely day. Yogi, get well soon your poor Rudolph  

I’ve been visiting a friend who’s just had an operation, she’s doing well and appreciated a cuddle from Bramble  

Summer, I hope your friend continues to recover well

Thank you El, she’s a trooper. I admire that quality- I’m a huge baby lol 

how Oe was your day?

Today's Antiques Roadshow was a compilation of items valued by them over the years.

This clip from it is rather special and the most memorable part - it goes to show that sometimes items which don't have a huge value can be remarkable:

Aw I bet they found some real gem’s among that lot! 

~Sweet Sparkles~ posted:

Thank you El, she’s a trooper. I admire that quality- I’m a huge baby lol 

 

how Oe was your day?

Not too bad though I had to deal with that client with the pensions savings tax charge. He wants to try to get some of the tax paid through his tax code. I'm far from certain that he can (and I told him that) but to have any chance he had to pay part of the tax immediately to leave the rest for the tax code - I had to file the return with HMRC today as there's a deadline of 30 December when someone wants the tax to be collected through the tax code for the following tax year. So it wasn't something which could wait. My tax software let me do this though I'm not convinced that HMRC will agree. I'll be monitoring his tax account to see what happens. I've already told him the options he's got if this doesn't work.

~Sweet Sparkles~ posted:

Aw I bet they found some real gem’s among that lot! 

Watch that clip I posted, it's quite emotional.

Crikey, your client has gone right to the deadline!!! 

I’m sleepy sweet dreams El and the rest of you