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I think my daughter liked some of the Usborne Young Readers at that level.

Have you tried the online library The Reading Chest?

Also my Miele (C3j has a little storage compartment to keep all the attachments...

Miele, a thousand times. Excellent suction, lightweight (even I can carry it up the stairs with no effort), and a shape and size that make it easy to store. As soon as I got the Miele, I couldn?t stand having the Dyson around.

She was a wonderful MP and, as was said above, a great humanitarian. A huge loss to her family but also to the country.

I drive to Brixton and get the Tube. Brixton to Green Park = easy peasy.

This is terrible, Lee. Absolutly horrible. I?d speak to 101 and Park Management if I were you.

Thank you, all.

Hmrc are using figures I gave them based on the taxable benefits listed on my payslips for the relevant tax year.

I think hmrc are giving me their default, stock answer and not trying to understand my issue. I?m starting to think that they never amended the self assessment form to take into account the fact that some companies now payroll benefits... I?m basically caught between an incompetent hr department and incompetent hmrc.

I recalculated my gross pay manually today and can confirm that my gross pay includes earnings and benefits. I also recalculated the tax on my gross pay and it looks right.

And thank you, PeckhamRy. I don?t get a P11D form unfortunately.

Thank you, Penguin. My employer has been very unhelpful - doesn?t provide a P11D form and is refusing to put anything in writing. I?m going to take this up straight to the head of HR this time. I never dared to amend my gross pay details as it?s the official number appearing on my P60 so thought this would cause no end of problems. I did contact my husband?s accountant who was most unhelpful. Is there written guidance on this? I can?t find anything anywhere. Thank you so much.

I was wondering if anybody on PAYE but required to fill in a self assessment form has had issues with HMRC when it comes to the treatment of taxable benefits. Basically all my work benefits are payrolled so included in my gross pay on which tax is calculated. Yet HMRC insists on adding the value of these benefits again to my gross pay, meaning i?m paying tax on my benefits twice. I?ve put in an official complaint but was wondering if anybody had had the same issue. Sorry to be boring.

It's really frowned upon. We did it once as SIL decided to get married on a Friday. We asked for authorisation, which was granted but I wonder if it still would be today (it was four years ago and my daughter was at reception).

What a horrible thing to happen. I hope you are ok. Thank you for posting.

My ceremony is also on the 10th!

Well my request for British citizenship has been accepted. Just got the letter today. Now waiting for the citizenship ceremony in a few weeks. It has taken seven months in all to get there so not too bad. My advice for what it is worth: -For proof of address, ask the Council Tax Office for a letter stating when you started paying Council tax on your property. Depending on how long you've been at your property, you can go back quite a few years with a single piece of paper. - Ask HMRC for a tax summary, enabling you to easily prove part of (or even all of) your employment history with a single piece of paper. - For the nationality paperwork, I used the Southwark Nationality Checking Service, which I found useful and reassuring. Good luck.

Same comment as others about not using Gumtree and only asking adopter to cover the costs of health checks and vaccinations. Also you need to get your cat neutered. It's not cheap, I suppose, but there are charities which can help, such as the Celia Hammond Trust in Lewisham, and perhaps also the RSPCA London South East.

Blimey, Renata, this means I can't even rely on my nearest school to allocate me a space if 2/3 of the places are based on a lottery. And I think I'm now out of catchment for Sydenham School and all other schools. Either everything should be based on catchment or on lottery. Why does everything need to be so complicated?!

Oh blimey I misread! Damn, I thought that was us sorted...🙃

Sol, we're talking about Harris Girls ED on Colyton Road, a small, outstanding school on our doorstep, which is currently undersubscribed.

Redjam, I always thought the published figures relate to the initial round of offers. In the link you sent, it says the table refers to the 1st March round so I think they are the initial figures. I could be completely wrong.

Melange in Peckham Rye.

Thanks, Renata. We have two years to go until secondary and seriously considering Harris Girls as our preferred school.Slightly bemused though by the fact that a lot of people we know don't even go for a visit.