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@freeagent I'd like to have this bill paid TOMORROW (monday) ... Computer says no ... can't organise for a bill to be paid next business day (if it's a weekend)?! is this a @NatWestBusiness isseu or a @freeagent thing? (Natwest screen)

@freeagent strikes again via PayIt

I use @freeagent to manage the books of a small family business... but the barmy implementation of the Open Banking connection to my @NatWestBusiness account doesn't support payments on weekends... bonkers. Open to real reasons Free Agent / Pay It / Natwest can't work wkends?!

@GroundedBlue @anon_opin Gold, but old school 👍

@anon_opin Alt+E, S, V, return.

There should be a CTRL + <letter> quick shortcut to Paste Special (values) just as there is to Paste in general

@NatWest_Help literally right now

@Riksmithuk Hi Rik 👏 How are you today? Can I ask, was this a recent attempt or did you try this earlier on? It's just that there were technical issues earlier which may have impacted this process. Can you send me a DM with your full name, sort code and post code please? - Lauren. twitter.com/messages/compo…

@freeagent @NatWestBusiness Sure - this is what happens if i want to arrange a payment on a Saturday, to be paid on a Monday.... @NatWest_Help computer says no

@Riksmithuk @NatWestBusiness Hi there, would you be able to contact our lovely Support Team via the 'help' button in your account so they can go through this with you? Thanks!

@BMagnsson @freeagent @NatWestBusiness yes, i can make a manual payment, and then reconcile it later .... but monday to Friday, i can initiate the payment from FreeAgent avoiding the need to reconcile it later....

@Riksmithuk @freeagent @NatWestBusiness That's just weird, but banking app should work?

Just watched a man send a THREE MINUTE voice note.

@LifeInKilburn @SouthHampstead Yes. Seems odd doesn't it.

@Riksmithuk @SouthHampstead This 1917 boundary commission map might have been based on an older OS map?

Such an interesting map of the borough of Willesden in 1917. So little had been built! Look at the municipal wards of "South Kilburn", "Mid Kilburn" and "North Kilburn! No sign of Queen's park neighbourhood then....

@EngineerLondon How about the Isle of Wight? Head to Yarmouth in the west. Very good buses for access. Great as a walking holiday destination, pubs etc. I am biased, but can recommend accommodation options etc in Freshwater Bay.

The electrical widow and I are thinking of booking a holiday- (relax, my phone will be on in case of issues 📞) Question- Where do you recommend for about a week, autumn? Must have good craft beer scene and plenty of meaty food options. Ideally accessible by train from London 💁🏻‍♂️

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@IanBarkerBFY Requirement to pay it off? .. Simply to reduce the cost of the loan book, accepting high earners will pay it off...and everyone else won't. If it were a fixed period tax.... The high earners would keep paying. One could optimise for that, reducing cost for others

@Riksmithuk I’m not yet convinced it’s a tax, it’s more like an attachment of earnings order. But it’s not a hill I’ll die on for sheer intellectual curiosity 😂 If there’s no requirement to pay it off, then why bother charging for it in the first place 🤷‍♂️

On face value there appears to be a missing financial education piece here as part of handing out student loans for ~£60k. Just as compound interest is good for savings, it’s also bad for debtors… A thread 🧵 1/

@IanBarkerBFY It's branded incorrectly. Given the likelihood of paying it off before it's written off... It's just a graduate tax. Call it what it is, and the mindset around it will alter, debt vs. tax on a benefit. I believe It would also alter the approach to degree choice.

Again we’re seeing here the upside of compound interest through saving money vs the downside from debt. 8% interest while temporary does feel very punchy, and the mechanism of repayments feels ‘weird’ - 9% of income and it can also get written off… /13

@m_ashcroft @connerdelights You'll be horrified by the impact of a gas hob - particulates and CO2 etc. I'm pleased to say we did away with ours 4 years ago and haven't looked back- now an all electric London house.

@Riksmithuk @connerdelights yeah for now indoors = outdoors because I have big windows all open it’ll be interesting when winter comes in, might suddenly consider getting a dehumidifier also curious about what aerosols and indoor gas hobs do with windows shut

starting my caring about indoor air quality arc

@m_ashcroft @connerdelights Humidity also looks very low and healthy for indoors. UK homes end up closer to 70% normally. Very relevant in winter in particular re: mould and spores etc.. then you can get into dew point etc

this arc brought to you by stumbling upon @connerdelights talking about it on his blog

@ParentPay Hi Donna, thank you for coming back to me. As a user these email are critical, failure of the service = kids going hungry without lunch. Your tech team should consider this a critical failure and aim to understand why it took so long to identify and fix

@Riksmithuk Good morning, Thank you for your patience whilst we worked to rectify the issue with the low balance alerts. We are happy to confirm that this has now been resolved. Should you experience any further issues with this, please let us know. Kind regards, Donna **

@ParentPay Hi - have your 'Dinner money' email alerts broken? haven't received one on 2 occasions now

@KristjanByfield That's consumer /ism tech for you 🤣

Ok this is nuts… If, instead of buying each iPhone, you had spent that exact amount on shares in apple each time- your shares would currently be worth £22m!

Tough, typically thought-provoking ⁦@EdConwaySky⁩ piece on energy prices in the UK and what to do about them… thetimes.com/article/ad7036…