Swings and roundabouts.

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You know that journalists have run out of newsworthy stuff to report when they major on the fact(?) that the rest of November is going to be cold in the UK. That’s what the BBC’s leading with and the papers are sure to follow. Temperatures are going to be between 3 and 8 degrees Celsius (that’s around 45 in old money) and there’s the risk of snow. What the BBC omitted to report is the good news story that the tax department owes me £762. Last week they insisted that I owed them £1000.52, and when I fired up the app today to get it sorted they had recalculated in my favour. I was tempted to claim the refund but I’ve decided to leave it as a down payment for what I’ll owe for the current year. Life really is a whole bunch of swings and roundabouts.