The Good News Thread

[GrahamG]

After a year as a hideously over-qualified receptionist, a better job has come up. Application in, interviews a week today, fingers crossed.

[clarion]

a Mercian respray

What colour

Surely there is only one colour?

[ian]

Whoohoo, I have a tax refund. I just have to click the link the HMRC email and fill in my bank account details on the form.

[hellymedic]

Whoohoo, I have a tax refund. I just have to click the link the HMRC email and fill in my bank account details on the form.

Are you SURE this is from HMRC and not a phishing scam?

Great if it's genuine but do be careful...

[Tim Hall]

a Mercian respray

What colour

Surely there is only one colour?

Nope, time for a change. Details to be decided.

[Wowbagger]

a Mercian respray

What colour

Surely there is only one colour?

Nope, time for a change. Details to be decided.

Wasn't it magenta last time? Pink makes a nice change.

[Canardly]

Whoohoo, I have a tax refund. I just have to click the link the HMRC email and fill in my bank account details on the form.

Are you SURE this is from HMRC and not a phishing scam?

Great if it's genuine but do be careful...

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm


'HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will never send notifications of a tax rebate / refund by email, or ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email.'

[perpetual dan]

Given that this is ian, I like to think he's giving them their own bank details.

[Canardly]

Tongue very firmly in cheek no doubt.

[ian]

Yeah, I know.

It wasn't a bad attempt actually (right time of year, the manila envelope is due any day now), though it was tripped up by the fact that unlike most communications from the HMRC, it actually was, well, understandable. I normally have to read them twice to figure out who owes whom (actually, I've given up, I just look to see if there's a cheque attached to the bottom).

[GrahamG]

Ooh, that reminds me, I might have a small refund after an pay cut part way through the year....

[fuzzy]

He won't set a good time unless he sorts out some more aerodynamic clothing!

He has absolutely no intention of setting any sort of time, let alone a good one.

Having a good time however.......

 

[Regulator]

He won't set a good time unless he sorts out some more aerodynamic clothing!

He has absolutely no intention of setting any sort of time, let alone a good one.

Having a good time however.......
 

Give him my number.... 

[Pedaldog.]

He won't set a good time unless he sorts out some more aerodynamic clothing!

He has absolutely no intention of setting any sort of time, let alone a good one.

Having a good time however.......
 

Give him my number.... 

666?

[Pedaldog.]

I managed to get out of the Flat for the first time today, without using the wheelchair, in more than 8 weeks. I used a rollator for a wander round Morecambe and then later on I managed a short ride on my trike. The feeling of freedom, however limited it is, was ecstasy

[mcshroom]

[arabella]

Whoohoo, I have a tax refund. I just have to click the link the HMRC email and fill in my bank account details on the form.

Are you SURE this is from HMRC and not a phishing scam?

Great if it's genuine but do be careful...

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/examples.htm


'HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will never send notifications of a tax rebate / refund by email, or ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email.'

Yes, I got a similar scam, HMRC have a list of known scammers and ask you to forward your sacm so they can confirm it's a scam and add it to their list.

[Steph]

The youth of today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-29236252

 

[andrewc]

On my recent Belgian tour I was using my standard 3G data sim in my phone,  3/4 of the way though the tour they told me I'd reached my data limit & cut me off.
I've just got the bill & they appear to have made a mistake,  the data usage is all itemised, but has zero charge against it 

[Salvatore]

(continued from the good news/bad news thread)

I haven't got glaucoma after all. I saw the big cheese consultant today and he started examining my eyes from scratch, measured my pressures, looked through all my notes, explained why it looked to his underling a year ago that I had glaucoma

• HRT* showed an abnormal cup-to-disc ratio
• a (not very) dodgy visual fields test

Then he explained why it wasn't glaucoma, showing me the scans of my optic nerve disc and surroundings, and telling me what it all meant

• the HRT shows no change over the years  - I just have an abnormal cup-to-disc ratio 
• my last visual fields test was fine ( the opthalmologist I saw 2 weeks ago used the phrase "high reliability") - glaucoma would mean I'd get the same results or worse, not better
• my pressures are in the low teens
• "I've seen thousands of eyes, and know what glaucoma looks like. That isn't glaucoma."

He also put a note on my file that if I ever do get glaucoma for real (my father had it, and a predisposition can be inherited), I'm to get laser treatment straight away rather than eyedrops (seeing as how one sort didn't work, and the other sort made my eyes red and oozy).

So it's now back to an annual checkup, no more faff with prescriptions and pharmacies, no more having to remember to take my drops, no more strategies to make sure I don't give myself a double dose and no more stopping in the gathering gloom at the side of the road between Newquay an Llandovery to apply eyedrops because I've forgotten to do it at the Mariners Cafe.

*Heidelberg Retinal Tomography

[Butterfly]

That's fantastic news Salvatore 

[clarion]

Brilliant news. 

[Canardly]

Excellent news.

[Moultonaught]

fab news indeed

[bumper]

I've just sold 6 of my photos through Getty

I can see more bike bling on the way!