Three months and quite a bit of work but I finally had my decision through from the Valuations Office about my council tax banding claim. They've approved my request to be dropped down a band \o/ What I can't work out though is why they've set the effective date of the change as June 2015 rather than the date we started paying the tax. In theory I can try to squeeze a rebate for the overpayments out of the council but I can only do that as far back as the date of effective change.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
This probably shouldn't be in the curmudgeons thread because after reading this I actually laughed out loud! .. It's staggers me that this woman can be so galactically stupid. I'm tempted to suggest she's probably learned a valuable lesson but I doubt it very much.
Do you get the feeling you're being watched?👀 Whenever I put a tasty morsel out for the birds, something swoops down to get it almost before I'm back in the house.
Cornish language officially died out in the early 1900s I believe when an old lady who was the last native born Cornish speaker. They did however know enough of the language and similar types of Celtic languages to bring the language back.
I don't think that having an interest in the historic derivation of language and culture is necessarily the same as nationalism.
But it can be as in the guy who taught me about the Welsh language. His national or nationalistic pride in being Welsh led him to learn or re-learn the Welsh language. And move back to Wales. His parents spoke Welsh but he never did. After devolution I think he got serious about Wales, moved back, learnt the language, read as much as possible about culture and origins of Welsh. Both the people's and the language.
It coincided with his very defensive Welsh nationalism. The idea Wales is best but he wasn't the prejudiced type of nationalism in that he never saw England as an enemy or occupier in possibly the way some Welsh and Scottish nationalists seem to. He never had the support any team playing against the English team attitude and could support England against any team they played against so long as it's not Wales.
Nationalism IMHO can be benign pride in your nation right through to prejudicial or hatred of the others. Looking in to only what's good about your nation but looking out at only what's bad about others is possibly where it's going wrong.
Whose are they? Why is Bojo showing them to the camera? Why are they stained? Are they a metaphor for the state of the country
His Because he cannot resist a photo opportunity however bizarre Because he had to wait until the last minute to ensure England's victory - no time to nip to the loo More than likely Or - in a word - balls Let those who enjoy the football do so - I doubt they need the PM's knickers to improve their experience.
I have a friend,born in India, now taken British nationality,my grandaughter, now 11, calls her 'my brown friend",she thinks it's hilarious. Having worked most of my 40 years nursing in the NHS,lots of different colours of skin. Before we said "person of colour",quite light,"dark skinned"ladies said I had to call them black,"colour" was insulting.i had an African bloke, screaming at me one night,'you while people have stolen all our land,and given us AIDS".I'm not white, pinky beige maybe in winter, pale honey now.
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I'm tempted to suggest she's probably learned a valuable lesson but I doubt it very much.
England fan sacked for pulling a sickie to go to game says 'she'd do it again' - Mirror Online
Whenever I put a tasty morsel out for the birds, something swoops down to get it almost before I'm back in the house.
It coincided with his very defensive Welsh nationalism. The idea Wales is best but he wasn't the prejudiced type of nationalism in that he never saw England as an enemy or occupier in possibly the way some Welsh and Scottish nationalists seem to. He never had the support any team playing against the English team attitude and could support England against any team they played against so long as it's not Wales.
Nationalism IMHO can be benign pride in your nation right through to prejudicial or hatred of the others. Looking in to only what's good about your nation but looking out at only what's bad about others is possibly where it's going wrong.
His
Because he cannot resist a photo opportunity however bizarre
Because he had to wait until the last minute to ensure England's victory - no time to nip to the loo
More than likely
Or - in a word - balls
Let those who enjoy the football do so - I doubt they need the PM's knickers to improve their experience.