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[windemere]

Right, well, I slightly recind my love of the new Fb timeline. I am hoping it's a starting glitch, but every single time I click or change anything, it refreshes itself and returns to the top of the page. Which is ANNOYING AS HELL.

In other news, there was apple, raisin and cinnamon crepes today with a large cinnamon mocha and I only missed the maple syrup a littlebit.

Spent 20 minutes in circles on the tax automated system that HMRC have and discovered there is actually NO WAY to get a real person on the line, no matter what you press.  However, I think the 'nice English lady' answered the questions I had anyways, so there's.  Which is good, because their website, though extensive, failed to give me a straight answer about ANYTHING.  I don't like ambiguous.  It bugs me.

Lastly, I have a stack of 12 papers (blessedly the longest is 2400 words) on my desk that need to be marked by Friday.  Considering my day tomorrow (and the fact that today is almost over and not a single one has been looked at), I guess I know what I'm going Thurs/Fri.  On the upshot, 12 essays is lots of money!  And I still have my work from Monday to be paid to me next week.  And there are essays in March too for marking.  In still other news, I may get back to paper writing on, oh, Saturday? Which will be a week from when I started writing it.  Unless I get something done in the next few hours.  Maybe to 2000?  My outline hasn't even been approved yet though, so I don't want to get too far into it.  Decisions, decisions.  And Castle.  And tea.  I spent faaaar too much on groceries today, but bought a whole wack of healthy stuff again (third week running now) and all the stuff I need (minus, unfortunately, black pudding) for a fry-up!  And icing for the cupcakes I am making for the bake sale next week.

Which I should write in my day planner before I forget. 

And Morrisons now sells proper food dye for icing.  The gel kind!

So: nice food colouring, answered questions, and the 1950s, which inspired my outfit today!

Comments

[zaftig46.livejournal.com]

So what was the answer? Do you have to file to get a refund?

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Apparently, in this country, they do it for you. Which is sort of handy, I guess. Basically, at the end of the tax year, they look to see how much you earned. If it's below the free tax allowance, they send you a cheque.

[zaftig46.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my understanding. I haven't ever gotten anything, because I wasn't signed up for PAYE. BUt I earn such a pittance (no, really, the HMRC lady actually LOLed when I had to call about something last year), that it's nice to get it all in my pocket.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Looks like the uni never gave me a choice. Long as I get it back at some point; I don't need it right now, and don't get my Canadian refund until May anyways!