What are you all up to
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Planning a trip to Scotland before I need a pasport to get there
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Mind you you'll need to check on what you've spent and have a lie down this evening.
Bakers, it was ironic that I needed new frames as usually it's Mrs WN who costs a fortune but she got away with paying nothing this year.
Mind you, we did expect to have to fork out something.
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Don't you just love it. Over the last year OH has received one letter after another from HMRC stating they owe him money, adjust code, no wait a minute he owes them money, adjust code....no that might be wrong they owe him, adjust code, oops no he owes them, adjust code. Final letter? He owes them. Lengthy wait to get on the phone for explanation, voice recognition code now in use (rather than on line where the same figures sit in confusing columns.) Still not clear why, so back to the phone tomorrow.....
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Know what you mean about dealing with HRMC. Word of caution, be careful about doing anything online. We started something, but ended up finishing by telephone. We got a letter confirming everything, just left us waiting for a cheque. In between we were contacted by email, asking us to open a link. We didnt do it luckily, it was a scam, but the scam knew all about our query. We phoned HMRC to check, and they said yes it was a scam, and passed it on to those who needed to know!
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HMRC now operate a voice recognition password. In fact I heard OH saying this three times so I requested he take the phone into the kitchen as I knew he was in for a long session......(I could hear all the messages like press button 1, stand on your head, listen to the music while we connect you.....
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After a quiet afternoon, it got busier this evening. Now it's quiet once again but only one more hour to do before we finish work for today.
The weather has been brilliant though! Sunny all day but a bit of a chill in the wind. We spent some of the afternoon sitting by the sea front on West Parade. Then we went to the surgery to enquire about a repeat prescription for one of the new medicines, the diuretic one, since being discharged from hospital.
After that we drove along the Goring sea front into Ferring and parked for a while there with a view of the sunset over the sea front. There's a small car park just where the road turns the corner. It made a break from the noise of the traffic in the town centre. Then later we drove back to Broadwater Green and parked there until 6 p.m. before going on to the town centre with its free after 6 p.m. car parking. Then the orders started coming in, one after another.
At lunchtime, there was only one delivery: a packet of 20 cigarettes to our regular customer that orders every two days, only cigarettes, no food order. Two of the evening orders were from the Turkish restaurant Efes. The staff there seem to watch with amusement my attempts at trying to squeeze my Smart car into tight parking spaces outside their restaurant!
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Best of luck with HMRC brue. You couldn't make it up could you!
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Gosh I'm exhausted just reading about your day Wherenext.
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I can confirm that it will be a boy or a girl. LOL. Oh, and by the way, she's gone to hospital again. Carol has gone down the road to look after grandchild 1, leaving me to watch the telly, play on CT, and dog sit.
(They are expecting a girl by the way!)
David
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Same here David.
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We got back on time last night at 10.35 p.m., so the last of the long days are over, before we move from Redhill to Worthing, day after tomorrow.
We had our evening meal when we got back, so it was midnight by the time we got to sleep. We were up at 7 a.m. to make a pot of tea. Breakfast was Weetabix followed by scrambled eggs, cooked in the microwave, on toast, using the low wattage toaster.
Two hours left now to get ready for work and then a one hour commute back to Worthing. We'll be using the Shogun for the commute and then changing to the Smart car when arriving in Worthing to do the afternoon deliveries.
I wonder whether yesterdays quiet day was due to people's Council Tax bill arriving or was it the glorious sunshine all day? Perhaps it was a combination of both! With such lovely Spring weather, why would anyone want to stay at home?
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We went to the Nuns Valley yesterday. The scenery was simply breathtaking! Towering mountains and plunging valleys.....incredible!
After taking the local bus (take note, David
) to the top at about 3500 feet we did the 'Nun's Walk' - a long, rambling path that winds down part of the mountain to a valley. Apparently the nuns built it to escape marauding pirates.......quite why the pirates didn't just follow them up the path wasn't explained.
But whatever, it was a great day out.......and then we caught the bus back down the mountain to Funchal. Splendid.
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Kjellnn, talking about Scotland, do you know the route along the A roads, west of Glasgow that involves the ferry crossing and avoids the congested route that goes past Loch Lomond. You may have read about it in the November 2016 issue of the Caravan Club magazine where it discusses a visit to the Isle of Arran as part of the journey?
I was just thinking of that as a possible option when we go in June.
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I wonder whether yesterdays quiet day was due to people's Council Tax bill arriving or was it the glorious sunshine all day? Perhaps it was a combination of both! With such lovely Spring weather, why would anyone want to stay at home?
I don't think my council tax plus utility bills come close to your annual site fees Malc. Plus when I get too old to caravan for whatever reason I have somewhere to live or to use as an asset if necessary, instead of at the age of say 90 winding those steadies, erecting the awning, moving monthly etc. How does one still work when having to pay the carer!!
Old age comes to all of us unfortunately, with it hopefully comes some security and bricks and mortar could be a way of funding that if caught short, How secure is your future?
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Like you say, DaveFL2, the day may well come when it is no longer possible to continue caravanning but I think it could be that we may yet get a good few years more out of it before that day arrives, I hope!
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No secure future. Just live from day to day!
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Congratulations, David!
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