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Have a one pound coin from visit there in 2022, hope it will still be good in July this year.
But why are you paying tax John, some secret income?

We no longer have to pay any as all our pensions, super etc are no longer required to be put on any tax returns.
Have not done such in over 15 years.

But working for the tax office as he did he told some stories about gov members that would make a saint commit a sin.

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Mike found yesterday in my change from a shop a gold 1 pound coin. Was mistaken for an Australian 2 dollar coin . Are 1 pound coins still being minted ? Know when I was in uk a few years ago wasn’t worth much then so is probably considered shrapnel today, if still being minted . JS.
PS all during my early life an oxo cube was 1 penny. Come decilmalisation and it shot up to 2.5 pence rank profit making that’s when the rot set in . There must have been more self made millionaires made that year than ever before known to man. JS

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I profited from decimalisation, just as it got going, bought 2 pints at the Mayfair ballroom in Newcastle and got more change than the money I handed over. I did not feel guilty as the price of beer in there was exorbitant.

#72 Did the bartender get the sack Tony ? Or just water the beer a bit more . JS
Was it the afternoon tea dance you were at. JS

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#72 Did the bartender get the sack Tony ? Or just water the beer a bit more . JS
Was it the afternoon tea dance you were at. JS

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ha ha John, night time dance, never went in before 9.30 /10pm due to cost. Used to get a head start at the village club about 6.30 where the beer was much cheaper and better then get the bus out of the village at 8, get off at Worswick St bus station and then gradually work our way across the town, via Bigg Market then finish up at Mayfair. Usually had to walk home (about 9 miles) as skint after that, get home between 3 - 4 head down till my old man came in from work about 11.30 then down the club from 12 -2 for quiet session, walk up home for lunch then head down till six. Hard life in those days.

John
I haven't paid any tax since I retired from the Sydney Water Bord in 62, I immediately got a job on the South Steyne cash in hand, then in 2000 went to NZ were they hit me with tax on the pension, the Pension people here when we came back said you shouldn't have changed to the NZ pension as they tax everything there. haven't paid tax since.
Des

#75 So I"ve been paying it for you Des, its a bit more than 3/9d. JS

Back in the 60's here in Oz, buy a pint with a UK pound and te back an Oz pound, such was the exchange rate then.

I never got a pound for a pound John . I used to cash cheque’s at the bank and a pound was 26/- or was it the other way round . That would of been the 1960s. JS

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Back in the 60's here in Oz, buy a pint with a UK pound and te back an Oz pound, such was the exchange rate then.

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Probably get 15 pints for a pound then John, too p-ssed to count your change

On the ore carries in the 60s was 10p a pint of Tennants .Ashore if remember correctly could get 20 fags and a pint , and change out of a 10/- note. JS