Sunday, January 31. 2010
Bowled over by the rest
Thursday, January 28. 2010
Paul and Christophers Birthday's
We celebrated Paul and Christopher's birthdays by having a family outing at
TGI Fridays, Sutton Coldfield. Carl and Heather, Paul and Zena, Christopher and Alison, Nicola, Paul and Rebecca, Sam and Billy, Gail and myself.
The food was good but overall expensive. The service for the drinks was a bit poor.
You "Buy a glass" for Coke and can have it filled as many times as you wish. Unfortunately some members of our party were unaware at first and paid more than once. I went and waited at the bar for some 5 minutes to have mine and Gails glasses refilled to be told by the barman you had to ask a waitress at the table.
He saw me standing there for 5 minutes with no one else in the queue so that was poor. Next I had to wait for ages for a waitress to appear and summon her to the table. Later she only brought back one glass and had approached me from behind. She put the lone glass down and had gone before I had chance to swivell round.
When the bill came I handed my Bank Card over to pay, the waitress went off with the bill and came back with the machine. After paying it was then noticed that she had exchanged the bill for the receipt so we were now unable to check that the bill was correct. A few members of our party thought we had been over charged but it was now too late. I also thought that the place was very noisy and also there was not much space at the table.
Wednesday, January 27. 2010
Yikes - Supertax!!!
A letter arrived on Tuesday from the Inland Revenue giving me my new PAYE tax code for being a RAD. Click here to view the letter.The letter briefly stated that ALL of my earnings as a RAD would be subject to 40% income tax. This would mean an additional payment of about £150 per month.
After thinking about it for a while I came to the conclusion that the code must be incorrect and so this afternoon I telephoned the Inland Revenue and sure enough they had made a mistake (Phew!) and my correct tax code was not D0 (Super tax) but BR (Basic Rate.)
Remote Access of Home Computer (Earth)
I have now successfully been able to remotely access "Earth" from "Acer" whilst at work using my internet dongle. I did so by using Windows Remote Access and logging into stevejjones.co.uk I even checked my email and then sent one to Paul. In fact I am writing this entry from my desk at West Bromwich Police Station!
This might come in handy when we are away from Home for a while such as our forthcoming holiday in Scotland.