taxing time

After spending ages on Thursday evening looking for my Tax reminder so that I could get my new tax disc on Saturday I didn't. I considered renewing my tax online but decided against it as it takes 5 days for the disc to arrive.

But my plans to go into Blah and buy my tax disc from the local post office hadn't bargained on me staying up all friday night until 5.30am. By the time I had resurfaced and was in any state to go to the post office there wasn't enough time. After I had left Blah I considered finding a town big enough to have a post office that would be open all day as the main one in my town is.

As I travelled south on the M1 I took a slight detour into Dunstable, I know it isn't as big as nearby Luton but Dunstable had more of a pull for me. There had been a time 23 years ago when I had thought I would live in the Dunstable area. I even had interviews line up with Britannia Airways as Luton Airport.

There were times when I had stayed with my lover at his friend's home, we had visited other friends, spent sunday lunch times in his favourite working mens club. It was only later that we discovered that every time I had been there his friend's girlfriend has been running to Sandy to let her know I was there. She even came knocking on the door once, we were not aware that Annie had betrayed us.

All these years later the Dunstable I was driving around was not the same place I remembered. So I headed back to the motor way and headed off back home.

Today I went online and paid for my tax disc. It should arrive during the week.

Is it safe?

why is it that every time I put something somewhere safe where it won't get lost, I can't find it when I need it grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

my car tax runs out on saturday so I need to get my new tax disc on sat before I head back home. Insurance easy I knew where that was as it was only renewed this month. MOT not quite so easy.......found the ones for the last few years in the papers for the car, but the MOT was done in feb, but although it wasn't where it should be it was in the same drawer. tax form arrived a few weeks ago. I remember putting it away before it could get lost. I have looked everywhere, turned out each drawer it could be in. gone through each stack of post. Why does no one else in this house put their post away, why after 2 years do we still get more post for SF than the rest of us.......I gave up returning it with 'no longer lives at this address' long ago it was becoming a joke. I thought I would check out the on line tax renewal but it requires the reference number from the form.

hey presto, a ping on my laptop tells me I have an email, leaning across my bed to read it, the thought hits me like a sledge hammer, yes there it was all the time!!!!! Now I remember it was in the top of my bedside cabinet with my book, soduko puzzles and the jiffy bag containing the joke gift I bought for Romeo. Big sigh of relief.