Hi everyone. Raining here today. Just a flying visit to say hope you are all well and have a good day. See you later. xx

we're back! We did it, we saw the queen!!!!! I'm just waiting for SIL to send me the video and then I'll make a thread We got lucky, the weather was superb and we had a good spot in Durham city in a narrow street. She was going for lunch at the castle and although she wasn't making an appearance out of the car, she did a slow drive through the streets. We could have touched her car we were that close! She saw bramble too!!!!!! I was so excited my heart was pounding and my legs were shaking after lol We then went for lunch, we ate outside while bramble fell asleep at my feet bless her. A really fantastic day out I have to go clean out the bunnies now, back in a bit Hope the rain dries up for all of you x

That was great, Summer I wonder if Bramble will now get an invitation to the Palace to meet the Queen.

 

You could always send the Queen an email with pictures and the video

http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/send-message-queen

 

(you can certainly send an email, but I don't know if you would really be able to send photos & video)

 

 

Sounds like you had a great day, Summer. Glad you managed to get see the Queen, and I'm sure she would have been impressed by Bramble.

I'll be off to see a client in a few minutes. The chances are with the software upgrade coming here sometime between 6 and 8 that I won't be back here until tomorrow. I wonder what they have in store for us.

Wonderful that you got to see the Queen Summer, and she got to see Bramble too

Night night everyone, see you tomorrow.

Ooh yogi, congratulations on such a high ranking Here's a prize for you Sweet dreams all

Good morning everyone

 

A short thunderstorm here late evening yesterday but dry here now and rather cloudy.

 

Well done Yogi on your high ranking

 

In ranking terms I and squiggle are neighbours

Good morning everyone, we actually have some blue sky and I am looking forward to a little sunshine.  I do hope it doesn't go humid which is what seems to happen as soon as it warms up.

 

What's all this about ranking?   Goes off to find out, anyway congrats to Yogi who seems to have got the gold

Good morning everyone. Weather is overcast and dry, atm.

 

I'm afraid I'm not in contention for a medal, Squiggle, but I am far, far too high up the table.  I really need to curtail my forumming and slide further down the league table.

Squiggle, click on anyone's gingerbread man, then on Community Details and you will see their ranking. I'm 64 and you are 65. Yogi is in the lead on the Buddies at 4. The rankings are based on activity points etc. Baz is the number 1.

Can one of you click on Home (first in the menu row at the top) and see if you get a page not found error. I get an error message and I have reported it but I just want to confirm it's not just me getting it.

 

I've never clicked on anyone's gingerbread man before so I started with yours Yogi and I was offered an option to 'follow you' sounds a bit stalkerish so I don't think I will

 

EDIT  I clicked on 'Home' and it took quite a while to load but it did load OK

Squiggle, thanks for trying it out. I have tried again and this time did get through as you did. As you say it took much longer than normal.

 

I'm not about to start following anyone either. Getting an email everytime that person made a posting on the forum could be a bit much

 

In any case if you click on a member's ID under their avatar by a posting you get to see their profile page. There you can see a list of their most recent posts. It just shows the name of the topic but if you click on that you get to their posting.

 

 

Morning x

I got into the Home page ok, but a bit slow coming back. That could just be me though. 

Lovely day here, sun is shining for a change!  

Have a good day x 

I'll be going to a course this afternoon so won't be around until later. It may well turn out to be a pointless course and aimed at less experienced people than myself so I may decide to leave at the interval.

 

I'm back from my course. It was more interesting than I had expected. A course on management and financial advice for small and medium sized enterprises could have been very dry. The lecturer was good and was highly experienced. The course was structured around how to survive in this recession. It's more likely to be of relevance to larger clients than I have, but it could be of use one day.

 

Ted has confirmed to me that the problems I reported were probably down to the activity streaming widget (yes, it's another widget ) slowing things down on the home page. They are looking into it.

 

So you didn't do a runner after all, El.

No Summer today, hope you are okay.

Goodnight all, see you tomorrow.

*night owls* belated hello all yes I'm fine thank you yogi a very busy day at work, had Bramble with me, had to go grocery shopping, unpack groceries, quick bite to eat, bath and bed.. And here I am! I feel really good tonight, calm, like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders and for no particular reason too I hope you've all had a good day, hopefully catch up with you tomorrow. Sleep well

Good morning everyone

 

Summer, I'm glad you had a good day yesterday

 

Dry and a bit cloudy here, weather warning of possible thunderstorms this afternoon. Hope my brother doesn't get caught in one when he comes here this afternoon.

 

Just had a client turn up with his papers for his tax return unannounced. He was lucky to catch me as I am going out shortly to see a client.

 

He told me that he has sold his entire share portfolio in March. This means I will have a huge job ahead to work out his capital gains. Each holding has to be disclosed separately on the tax return - I can't just lump them together. There may be little actual capital gains tax to pay as most of the holdings were bequeathed to him a couple of years ago. However when the total proceeeds exceeds £42,400 (in 2011/12 tax year) we have to do this even if the overall gain was nothing.

 

I have warned him that my fee will increase sharply as a result of this.

 

Good morning everyone, a lovely bright morning I am pleased to say.

 

I wonder what the reason was for your client selling all his shares EL, just his particular circumstances do you think or does he see bleak times ahead in the shares markets?

 

Visitors this afternoon so will pop back after they have gone.

 

Have a good day and I hope you all see some sunshine.

Good morning everyone. Weather is mild, although a bit overcast atm.

Summer, I'm glad all is well with you.

Hope you have a nice time with your visitors, Squiggle.

El, that sounds like a lot of work, so I hope your fee will be big enough to ease the pain.

 

 

I will make sure my fee covers the time involced in sorting out that client's capital gains tax. Last year was the first time I did my client's tax return and I spent time then working out the "base cost" of his shares so that I had the info ready for future use. But there were several bits of missing info so that could cause problems. Base cost is the term used for what we can regard as the cost for capital gains tax. Where someone has received shares under a legacy, the base cost is the probate value of those shares, not what the shares originally cost when the legator bought them.

 

He's sold the shares because he was fed up with them and is using the money to buy another property to let.

 

Squiggle, I hope you have a nice time with your visitors.

 

 

 

I expect my brother to arrive in just over half an hour so I won't be around much over the next 2 days. I think he will avoid the showers as they are now expected a couple of hours after he gets here.

 

Weatherwise, it should be good here for a few days, not that I expect to go out much while my brother is here. I hope you all have a good weekend

Have a good weekend with your brother, El and I hope the weather stays dry for you. xx

The weather seems to have made a turn for the better and I am so pleased that it is just in time for your weekend with your brother EL, hope it all goes well.  For my visitors today I bought a lemon drizzle cake from M & S and can really recommend it, it was gorgeous.  (They had a special offer of 2 for £4 too but I only bought one).

You were very restrained, Squiggle. I love the M&S lemon drizzle cake and might have been tempted to buy two. Not at the moment, of course, as I am still trying to diet.

The sun did come out this afternoon, then disappeared again around 6pm.

Someone mention lemon drizzle cake  I could just have some now with my cuppa! 
Weather here been nice today.
Have a good weekend El.

Glad to see you sticking to your diet Yogi  

Hi Skylark.

This dieting lark isn't easy and the pounds are coming off very slowly but I am trying to stick with it.

Good for you Yogi x  I am trying but finding it hard, too much nice food around! 
There is a packet of cinema popcorn in the kitchen, i think it may be opened soon.   No willpower, sorry to say!

Was watching Britains Secret Treasures , did you see it? it was very interesting

@ the popcorn - is it sweet or salty?

I missed Britain's Secret Treasures, as I was cleaning my oven.

The sweet one, try to avoid the salty one for my BP. 

Enjoy your programme. I am still sticking with BB, goodness knows why, it riles me! xx 

Mr Yogi, eldest and middle sons have gone for a few drinks. I just know they are going to phone me in the middle of Superstar and say, "Is there any chance you could pick us up?".

I am gutted that it is Luke A and Lauren who are up for eviction, especially as Conor, Caroline, Becky and Trashley and Luke S are still in there.

Tyrone needs to get a backbone and boot Evil Kirsty right out the door. (Corrie)

Oh i know  
Hope you wont get disturbed watching Superstar x

I hope so too.

I hate the (new) Ryan Connor character in Corrie.