The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

We have reached the dizzying heights of -3 now.

Molly is managing to sit on the storage heater. Her arse must be on fire as I turned it up last night. 😼

 

[Mo1959]

There’s a local artist does paintings and charicatures of Crieff going back a bit. I like this one. Takes me back to what life was like growing up.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Well several task to do

one - fix the air filter's wifi connection
two - fix the solar panels wifi connection

I think the router reset to factory defaults sometime yesterday or something

it was also a bit wobbly last night
anyway - both are one of those things where the instruction have to be taken witha pinch of salt and a bit of thinking around the edges
You have to disable the 5GHz frequency and then reconnect things then put it back after
at which point the thing normally hangs and has to be switched off and on - at which point it may or may not have thaken the changes


anyway - first but done

Third - sort of SWMBO's Microshaft Orifice - I did have it working but it has decided it is not licensed
which mean takeing her laptop off her for an unknown period of time - which is not acceptable so has to be done before she is up
not finished that - but have the required info now so I should be able to do it tomorrow!


thirdly - pick up spare key for the grand kids' house from the other gran (called Nanny) as some idiot lost his house keys the other day!!

and then pick the youngest and his cousin up from school and wait in their house until their Mum gets home from work - which will be getting later and later over the next few weeks as the hotel she works in gets more and more hectic and the traffic and busses get slower and slower due to Christmas!!


then that is done and we are back to normal!!

 

[Gunk]

Bloody freezing here, just popped out on some errands but did remember to preheat the car this morning. Got to love an electric car!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I have discovered that the App associated my car allows me to switch the heater/demisters on, from your phone. So, on mornings like this morning, when I go for the weekly shop, at 07:00am, and the car is covered in frost/snow, I switch on the heater/demister remotely when I get our of bed, and, it is all nicely cleared by the time I have got dressed etc. The wonders of Technology.

I'd definitely like that on our car!

 

[numbnuts]

Morning changed the bedding put it in the machine, and put my winter quilt on 9.5 tog.
Then I found the kitchen sink was blocked, but not at the S bend, so had to dismantel it all
and get the pipe cleaner to work, run some very hot water through and it's all up and flowing again.
It's Friday so it's fish of some thing, maybe with chips and mushy peas

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Anyone else not received confirmation they will be getting the winter fuel allowance yet? I thought I would have heard by now.

Got the letter but no payment yet.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

We've both had a letter, £100 each. I imagine it's £200 per household? Mrs P will have to repay hers as she has a state pension and NHS pension. I only have the state pension plus a bit of SERPS so may not have to. I don't really know.

You only need to pay it back if your individual income is over £35000.

 

[Mo1959]

Off for yet another walk up to the Co-op as I don’t have much milk left.

 

[Drago]

Music done, van cleaned.

 

[welsh dragon]

My daughter was having problems ordering a cheese platter so she asked my to do it. Its from amazon. It wouldn't let me do it either because it said it couldn't verify my age. PFFFSSSS

 

[BoldonLad]

You only need to pay it back if your individual income is over £35000.

Sorry to be picky, but, I think that MAY be "taxable income"?

So, if I am right, income from ISAs, or untaxed interest are not counted.

Don't tell Rachel, please 😊

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Sorry to be picky, but, I think that MAY be "taxable income"?

So, if I am right, income from ISAs, or untaxed interest are not counted.

Don't tell Rachel, please 😊

I had just assumed that members would know it was taxable income - my mistake. Sorry.

 

[PaulSB]

You only need to pay it back if your individual income is over £35000.

For some reason I had it in my head the income cap was per household. With a bit of thought it's obvious that would be very difficult to administer.

No tax for Paul and Mrs P then. 👍

 

[BoldonLad]

I had just assumed that members would know it was taxable income - my mistake. Sorry.

No apology needed!

I could be wrong!

The letter does not SAY taxable income, but, since the recovery appears to be being administered by HMRC, I am guessing it is Taxable Income.