Indeed, Joe
If I hadn’t been dealing with HMRC already,( I spoke with 7 different people last week), I wouldn’t have opened it , but, as I say, I was still in ‘after funeral’ mode.
DiL is a Payroll Manager at the Orsepiddle, & has a battle with HMRC almost every day
Carinthia.xx
My sympathies, Carinthia. In defence of HMRC, had it not been for their sympathetic Welsh employee and my Union, I’d have been most dreadfully out of pocket following my retirement due to injury (instead of quite a bit). But, that was 21 years ago and maybe they’re just as pear-shaped as most governmental departments seem to be, these days.
Kedgeree beckons!
Soo xx
Macaroni tuna here, and the DDD has scented it in her sleep and is yarping gently.
The people I spoke with last week were really helpful, just that I got 7 slightly different versions of what to do
Fraudulent activity cannot be reported by 'phone though, so I have had to Email both Phishing & Security
I will be fretting until I get a reply
Sigh
Other half of my Chinese this evening, but not yet
DDD will be Very Happy… 
Carinthia.xx
She has been given the saucepan to lick out, and is in love.
May I have a medal?
For patience above and beyond all reasonable person ‘s endurance
I got a bottle of gin last night and I have waited nineteen and a half hours before opening it…
Aye - I’ve been waiting.
Soo xx
Hold out yer glass wee bee
Tonic and lime?
Sláine!
Soo xx
[stunned sparrer]
Why?
Also:
How?
Some people are weird. Ooh, thanks, don’t mind if I do.
Try not to fret, Dahlink.
A Soothing Pitcher is called for, I think.
Good-oh! DDD is a Happy Hairy Hound, then.
I have just constructed a retro salad. Lettuce, spring onion, radish, tomato and cucumber. Wiv salad cream. Oh, and cold smoked gammon. It smells wonderful and has taken me back - oooh, quite a few decades.
The plug will soon be pulled, so Good Nights all, and Feral, g’luch.
Gxxxx
And she’s now had a lovely evening walk, and (most of) her supper.
I shall sit and wait and see how long this evening’s outage while the server is moved to a new datacentre takes.
Do they use shovels or pitchforks for moving the old posts?
Capacious wheelbarrows, it seems.
Hola, me darlings. Well done that Feral and mates.
Now if someone could stop me ribs hurting… was doing v well and suddenly not doing well at all. ouch. wibble. whine.
Ooh, I know! Cellarbratory Slammers.
Cheers
Gus xxx
Beer fer FT 
Keep yerself propped up abit, O Gusly One,wiv yer feets up abit too
I know
I know , but we don’t want yer Chestals getting infected, do we ?
I’ll have an Celebratory Slammer or 3 as I wait for the next shoe to drop
Scrub that
I’m ok, I promise, just weary & rattled
Abit
Carinthia.xx
We are having no Falling Shoes round here, Dahlink. This izza disreputable cellar. Shoes is kicked orff with vim and elan and the like.
As the wearer of the Cellar Tin Hat, this bothers me not one tit. Or jottle, neither.
We do not like Our Chatelaine being Rattled. RatArsed is fine, though.
A small stiffener and then bed, I think, dere.
Fret not.
G xxxxx .(propped up as per)
Rat Arsed would be Good, Gus
Am having an Medicinal Brandy, & Pondering
Not too much Pondering though, anna little more Brandy…
Carinthia.xx
Ponders End for lovers’ meetings?
Nah. That can’t be right. I’ve been to Ponders End. By accident.
A spot more brandy, otoh, won’t hurt. Sleep well, Dahlink.
Gxxxx