Very broad interests but perhaps focused more on BR Midland - Derbyshire, Notts and Lincs areas in late 50s/60s - Wirksworth, Buxton, Cromford & High Peak in particular - Also GC Main Line around Nottingham + any Industrial railways (NG and Standard). Old enough to remember C&HP in working order, Trent Junction Station, Derby Works in full flow, Windcutters at Nottm Victoria, prototype Deltic at Grantham and a few other things I miss.A believer in modelling to capture the feeling/atmosphere of the time/prototype even if some details are not correct and of the right to run what I like.
HMRC - VAT returns - What can you say? All sunbmissions done correctly weeks ago. Chasing gets answers like "maybe", "it should", "Yes, we know it's wrong but it should self correct", "Should sort itself out", "a glitch in the system", "We will do it urgently" still not done 4 weeks later.
This is a "Final" VAT settlement and they owe us money. The system keeps wanting more "final" returns even after The "Final Return" was input weeks ago. So now a Final with "0" in every column has had to be entered. We know we are not the only ones with this problem.
