Jimbo Jagsfan

Today booked from St Pancras to Munich on 13 June 2024 through Trainline for £131 including seat reservations and booking fee. Can't book train back from Stuttgart yet, as not yet open. Will try next week.

Anyone know when we get the tickets for this sent to us? We are off to Cyprus early Monday morning!

2 Tickets purchased for me and Mrs yesterday, and arrived by recorded delivery this morning.

Two bought today, I'm on 22 points and the missus is on 19.

If you are on a DD, then the £66 goes to your bank, so mas not to bugger up the DD. If you are on a quarterly (or monthly) bill then the £66 is deducted on the bill.

We already have a deputy PM. Why not get her to carry the can for a bit? DC for PM

They also had this system in Denmark when I was there a few years ago.

Do you think that they are trying to get a deal done for the shares before the 2022 Accounts are due? TJF didn't get access to the books, so is there something in them which will come out in the accounts?

Tickets arrived by first class post today.

Lucky we are both old farts, so it is only £16 per ticket. And £2 for postage.

Was in London last week, and it was baking hot! Went to the Scottish Stores near King's Cross for a cooling pint of T. £5.90.

Tickets from SFA arrived in post this morning.

Rates on a flat, a domestic property ? If the property is a furnished holiday let it is a commercial property and qualifies for rates relief, and you will only pay the water rates, which will be cheaper than staying registered for Council Tax. However, there also was an income restriction, so that if the income from holiday letting was only a small part of total income (if you had another job) you still would not qualify for the LA grant.

Woman's husband has just passed away. She goes into the local newspaper office to put a death notice in the paper. She hands the receptionist a piece of paper, and on it is written: Jock Reid, Peterheid, Deid. The receptionist says that she can have up to seven words, but she has only used four. The woman has a think, and writes on the piece of paper, and hands it back. Jock Reid, Peterheid, Deid, Volvo for sale.

I don't think anyone will be round. We moved house several years ago and transferred our TV licence to our new address. No problems. Later my wife set up a new DD for the TV licence. Since then we get the same threatening letters regularly, and we put them in the bin. There are only 3 houses in our post code. I suspect that because our house has a 'name' and it is on the address on the licence, it cannot be matched with the house number on the TV licence database, but we are not fixing it, and always hope someone will come round. There is none of the three options open to us: We watch TV, already have a licence and don't have one to transfer, so we cannot do anything about it. Kilmarnock Enforcement must have spent well over £100 by now.

There is reference to Durham Council investigating lack of planning permission on the Telegraph live newsfeed this afternoon. DC will be on toast by the weekend!

Membership card received in post this morning.

When Brenda bites the dust, this would be an ideal opportunity to appoint a president of our new independent republic. But who would we pick for the first president. Not some washed up ex politician. Follow Ireland and have a literary personality? Someone from the media or entertainment? Dont say Sean Canary, as it needs to be someone who actually lives here. So who is there? Lorraine Kelly?

….and the Arsenal and Chelsea fans complaining (as was the MSM) that it was too far away and took too long and cost too much. Try going to Kazakhstan in March, and see your team getting pumped 3-0, and then only having two days to get from there to San Marino. What a bunch of wimps!

Is Liddington not the Deputy PM? Would he not be in charge until Boris is crowned?

and she does a good job with the girls this summer, then give the job to Shelley Kerr. Why not? if its basically about building a happy camp, she can do this.

Sarah Smith from the BBC was in Largs today, interviewing locals about the Community Garden at the Railway Station. She then proceeded to ask my missus (and others) about Independence and Brexit. This interview is scheduled to go out on Wednesday, as (apparently): Nicola is going to make an announcement about Indyref 2 on Tuesday! You heard it here first.

Largs is quite a nice place to stay. Downside, it's quite near Greenock (and also Saltcoats)!

Gordon Brown dropped the 20% rate back down to 17.5% a few years ago to 'stimulate the economy'. The prices in the shops generally didn't go down. When the rate went up to 20% again, the prices went up. All that happened was that the Treasury got less VAT revenues for the period when the rate was dropped!

Any truth in the rumour that Tezza phoned Stevie G last Friday for any tips on how to get out of Europe?