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20th February 2019, 06:20 PM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Hello Ivan
Nice to see you back again.
Thanks for posting above !
Cheers
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20th February 2019, 10:12 PM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Originally Posted by
Doc Vernon
Hello Ivan
Nice to see you back again.
Thanks for posting above !
Cheers
Thanks, just thought I'd pop in, having researched the subject (R) some years ago for someone else, thought it may help, and it seemed to be the consensus of officials I spoke to.
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20th February 2019, 10:49 PM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Good to hear your dulcet tones. Again Ivan. Hope alls well with you. Have you got to the walking stick stage yet I. Hope not.Thought it was sometime in the 70s that the UK prefix came out. No bad discharges then as no where to put them, only ones were from other places. All the best And a happy new year late as it is. JS
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20th February 2019, 11:29 PM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Hi Ivan
Thanks for that I have been on three MN sites but all had different ideas including moi, but reading your post has settled it for me.
Cheers Des.
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Originally Posted by
happy daze john in oz
Wise man Des.
With some English ex pat friends in Tauranga over the Christmas cruise and they were explaining how they have to pay tax on their pensions from UK even though they were taxed there.
Double taxation it sounds like.
Hi John.
Steering off course a bit, but in Kiwi land you pay tax from the first dollar you earn that includes pensions, the dole, banks interest, whatever.
Cheers Des
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21st February 2019, 05:28 AM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Originally Posted by
Des Taff Jenkins
Hi Ivan
Thanks for that I have been on three MN sites but all had different ideas including moi, but reading your post has settled it for me.
Cheers Des.
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Hi John.
Steering off course a bit, but in Kiwi land you pay tax from the first dollar you earn that includes pensions, the dole, banks interest, whatever.
Cheers Des
Yes Des, so they told me not a good way to go at 29% of all monies. It takes a big chunk out of your funds.
Double taxation as much of the monies in pensions etc has already been taxed at source.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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21st February 2019, 09:14 AM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Good to hear your dulcet tones. Again Ivan. Hope alls well with you. Have you got to the walking stick stage yet I. Hope not.Thought it was sometime in the 70s that the UK prefix came out. No bad discharges then as no where to put them, only ones were from other places. All the best And a happy new year late as it is. JS
Hello John, crossed fingers, no sticks yet, as have a four week dancing holiday booked in Tenerife, leaving in 3 weeks, not solely dancing of course, but at our age anything can happen, as we all know too well;had to cancel the last one because of gout and sepsis (bluddy painful), the latter caught in time by a very observant doctor in A & E, when my GP Surgery (I saw 13 different doctors) after 11 Xrays and 20 blood tests missed it completely
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21st February 2019, 09:39 AM
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21st February 2019, 09:14 PM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Really pleased to see you back here Ivan . What you say about sepsis going undiagnosed is actually a lot more common than any others think trouble is when they realise what it is it's often too late so I think that you're one Lucky guy
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21st February 2019, 10:35 PM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
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robpage
Really pleased to see you back here Ivan . What you say about I think that you're one Lucky guy
Believe me Rob, I know I lucky I am and also how stupid I nearly was, had been to see a friend in Wales who had had a stroke and his wife persuaded me to go to A & E in Torquay when I got home, so we dropped in upon arrival in Torquay, but the queues put me off, so carried on home. Got home the pain in my leg was intense and SWMBO gave me so much earache we went back to A & E, where they discovered the sepsis, so thanks to two women, an observant doctor, and a wonderful NHS I'm still here and dancing. It was only after the event, the doctor's conversation and reading up on it, I realised how lucky I was and to think it can all be set off by a scratch as big as a pinprick.
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22nd February 2019, 05:42 AM
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Re: The 'R' in front of Discharge book number
Ivan, welcome home.
Yes it does not take long for infection to set in.
Last year scratched by a Rose thorn and though nothing of it until a couple of days later when my leg came up like a balloon.
Two weeks of treatment and told scratches from a Rose can be one of the worst you can have.
Happy daze John in Oz.
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