One can imagine our sheer delight this morning when my wife received a letter (to her maiden name), from Spain (Malaga Postmark) informing her she had won 815,810.00 Euro in a Spanish lottery. Fortunately my wife and I are not complete morons and saw this for the scam it was.
Here is the letter.
For those not [...]

Thought some people may be interested in this. After the debacle about losing families’ details they decided to send a letter our which we received this morning. A personal apology no less. Makes me feel 10 times better of course.

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Someone said to me today, “we’re not going vat registered, it’s too difficult”. Our experience of this was that they are the friendliest set of people we spoke to in the year. Wonder why?
You suddenly turn round to them and say, “Dear Mr VAT man, we’ve decided recently that we’re going to add 17.5% to [...]