Just come off the phone with HMRC ....

[ToughButterCup]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury and Commentariat, I bring before you today a sorry tale of coughing, furious backpeddaling and arisole covering on the part of Her Maj's Revenue and Blood Suckers. Dunno what I'm on about? I refer you Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury to the preceeding matters.

 

Faced with the incontrovertible evidence of the Date of The Document which informs us of Listing in the VOA List being five months after the Effective (oh that inglorious - and misapplied -  word) List  the respondent for and on behalf of HMRC replied

 

"Oh well, with an Iffy application like this, we have to make sure that you (I) are not the cause of the 5 month delay."

"Ya wot, sweetheart? " I answered (she had a smashing voice)

 

"Well we need to make sure that you hadn't asked the VOA for a delay in communicating the entry to the Valuation List, and then there's the problem of us all coming back to work slowly, I work from Wales, so there are very few of us in the Office. So we just had to make sure."

 

Now, I don't know  about you, but most self builders know when shoo shoo is being shovelled don't we? 

 

'.... we need to know that you are not the cause of the delay ..." 

followed by the real give away

'....  then there's the problem of us all coming back to work slowly, I work from Wales, so there are very few of us in the Office. ...'

 

Thats an HMRC employee telling me: But my dog ate my homework.

 

As often when I'm cross, off to walk the dogs along the river. Might see a Dipper. 

 

 

[SteamyTea]

15 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

I work from Wales

Hope you got it in writing.

There is a reason we say 'Welshing on a deal'

 

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef;
I went to Taffy's house and Taffy was in bed;
I upped with the jerry pot and hit him on the head.

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in;
I jumped upon his Sunday hat and poked it with a pin.

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a sham;
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of lamb;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was away,
I stuffed his socks with sawdust and filled his shoes with clay.

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a cheat,
Taffy came to my house, and stole a piece of meat;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not there,
I hung his coat and trousers to roast before a fire.

[ToughButterCup]

A slightly disappointing response @SteamyTea. Imagine for a moment you are a proud Welshman. 

[Ferdinand]

I read that as HMP.

 

Hope it does not happen.

 

Mr Buttercup - EVENING - you only have photographically proved the existence of 382 newts.

 

There are 383 on the list.

 

Why?

 

My  colleague is over there with the Black Maria...

 

F

[andy]

3 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Hope you got it in writing.

There is a reason we say 'Welshing on a deal'

 

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef;
I went to Taffy's house and Taffy was in bed;
I upped with the jerry pot and hit him on the head.

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in;
I jumped upon his Sunday hat and poked it with a pin.

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a sham;
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of lamb;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was away,
I stuffed his socks with sawdust and filled his shoes with clay.

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a cheat,
Taffy came to my house, and stole a piece of meat;
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not there,
I hung his coat and trousers to roast before a fire.

Thanks for the normalisation of racism…