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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
Moussaka completed and smells delicious. I popped the details into My Fitness Pal to get the calorie count :eek::laugh:.............omelette for lunch!!!

I've never had moussaka and didn't know exactly what it is. Google tells me it's similar to lasagna and has plenty of garlic in it.
I can be at yours around 5ish :smile:
 
Location
Widnes
Charity shops are very fussy these days.

We have given them a lot following our big attic clear out but they didn't want non-fiction books, hardback books or the new condition chrome and glass hi-fi stands that we have.

Most of the ones we have round here won;t take any kind of furniture
But there is one on the high street that does so I take anything big there

sounds like you need to ring round
 

Webbo2

Über Member
I've never had moussaka and didn't know exactly what it is. Google tells me it's similar to lasagna and has plenty of garlic in it.
I can be at yours around 5ish :smile:

Except Lasagna is made with pasta and is Italian .Moussaka is made with Aubergines and is Greek so other than that their identical.😉
 

PaulSB

Squire
I've never had moussaka and didn't know exactly what it is. Google tells me it's similar to lasagna and has plenty of garlic in it.
I can be at yours around 5ish :smile:
Of course. I'll set a place for you and leave the porch door open, we don't always hear people knock.......🙄

Yes, similar idea to lasagne but different flavours as it has oregano, cumin and cinnamon as part of the sauce. Food of the gods, one of my favourite dishes.
 

PaulSB

Squire
Wasn't there some mention of changing the basic tax rules so that the state pension can never trigger taxation on its own??

no idea how it would work but I seem to remember something about it that has died off

I haven't heard this before. The basic has never, as far as I know, passed the tax threshold. However as the SP is currently only £22 below the threshold, which is frozen till April 2031, it's a certain part of the SP will be taxed next year.

I feel sure the government will have a plan to address this. There will be uproar when the "poor pensioners face tax hike" headlines start.

Then the practical difficulty of collecting the tax. There are 13 million recipients of the SP. I reckon at least half would never have done a self-assessment return plus it has to be done online!! :eek::eek:
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
Yep, I completely get that. My experience with this Chromebook proves it to me. I quite literally cannot do the absolute basics. Name a file, create folders to place file into and even put a shortcut on the Desktop. Mrs P's lack of patience with this stuff means she'll never crack it on her own.

Absolute nightmare.

I have never used a Chromebook, although, I have toyed with buying one just to "play with it".

I have become a convert to Apple Macbook, although, I have also dabbled with Ubuntu and I have Linux Mint on an 18 yearold macbook (I am typing this on that particular machine).

I have no desire to re-enter the world of Windows.
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
Wasn't there some mention of changing the basic tax rules so that the state pension can never trigger taxation on its own??

no idea how it would work but I seem to remember something about it that has died off

Yes, I have seen something to that effect, but, I assumed it was "click-bait" and never clicked/read the details.
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
Bangers and mash with onion gravy, carrots and spinach for lunch
don't think I'll have a pudding today

I have had light food so far........
Banana and yogurt for breckie.
Apple pie and custard for lunch.
I will be having a roast chicken meal with all the trimmings later.
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Lamb for us today. :hungry: I do like lamb. It's my favourite.

The weather is awful here. It'd dark, it's heaving down with rain and the wind has picked up.
 
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