A sweet little frog named Dave

Quote from: Vlad on Yesterday at 04:01:35 PMA tip for this hot weather
Put two teaspoons outside, wait 1 hour, if they are wet then it's been raining, if they are very cold it's is sub zero, if they burn your hands it's very hot
I call them my Weatherspoons

Sorry. I am having a bad day

 

Quote from: Vlad on Yesterday at 07:29:46 PMThanks for all the kind thoughts and comments everyone I had a bit of a black dog moment it's been a difficult couple of weeks here, my good lady's Alzheimer's, Diabetes and this heat hasn't helped, so I had to reach out. So once thanks everyone

It is always good to see you, Vlad.

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King Charles paid  nearly £13 million pounds in tax last year.
The POW £7.5 million

But
The sovereign grant ( former civil list) has gone up to £132.1 million
Next year it is estimated  to be £137.9 million
Last year it was around £80 million
That is one heck of an increase .

Meanwhile the Kings personal fortunes has gone up too by about 10%
Much more than inflation
Much more than most pay rises

We have a country that can't find the money to maintain a proper defence force .
Why do we need to give public money to a family that is already immensely rich .

However taxpayers can pay out £370 million for renovations for Buckingham Palace

Meanwhile Charles and William are two of the richest men in the world whose portfolios of properties makes them into the billionaire category.

Charles unlike his poorer  subjects who pay 40% on anything over £325k paid no Inheritance on the millions and vast property portfolio  left to him by his mama .

Nor will William when he inherits .

All this and the country still fawns on this incredibly privileged mediocre family.

The news is worse now .
At least 920 people are confirmed dead but thousands are still missing .

Bugger I wish I had thought of that 

Quote from: GrannyMac on Yesterday at 08:14:09 PMI am a granny in the land of nans & nanas, and Mac is a nod to my Scots background. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love both of yours Vlad, show a vivid imagination 😁

I blame my medication GM 🤪

Quote from: Scrumpy on Yesterday at 02:57:03 PMGood old PG tips for me.. Me being common and all that.. 😁

We get Ringtons tea now.  I think OH felt sorry for the young lad when he first came round. They do lovely tins of biscuits at Christmas. Great for gifts. 🎁