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Forces sweethearts

If you have a family member in the Royal Navy, RAF or army, find support from other Mumsnetters here.

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Census

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penguin73 · 12/03/2011 08:39

Apparently advice has been issued to Service Personnel on how to complete the census but DH has yet to pass it on, has anybody seen it?

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MrsSnaplegs · 12/03/2011 08:48

No but as we're all so fick according to most of mn maybe it says we have to use a crayon

vintageteacups · 12/03/2011 09:17

Does it have to be a black crayon? I like orange

TalcAndTurnips · 12/03/2011 09:24

Ha MrsSnaplegs - crayons a bit advanced for us here, we just grunt a bit and sign form with smeared bodily fluids.

My OH will have just returned from deployment on the Census date - I will have the greatest pleasure including him on our form at home. It must be very complicated doing it for a barrack full of serving members, however; surely lots of people must slip through the net!

I wonder how many Jedi Knights will emerge from the woodwork this time round?

herbietea · 12/03/2011 09:28

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MrsSnaplegs · 12/03/2011 09:40

I only allow orange crayons for dh however being an orifice officer I am allowed a felt tip

jcscot · 12/03/2011 09:43

I wonder how we fill it in considering we're INVOLSEP. Will my husband have to fill it in as though he lives in the Mess or do we fill it in as though we're living together? It was bad enough trying to register our eldest for primary school and they simply could not understand how to classify our situation - there was no box to tick for "married and living apart but not separated".

jcscot · 12/03/2011 09:46

As I am a dim Army wife, does that mean that I not only have to use a crayon but also that it had to be one of those chubby triangular ones in case I hold it wrongly?

mpsw · 12/03/2011 09:57

jcscot: I've been wondering about what to do about my bean-stealer too!

But I'm too dim to have opened the envelope yet, and am hoping the form will be clear enough even for the likes of us.

Saltire · 12/03/2011 10:08

Well I am clearly not dim as I am an RAF wfe So I'll find out which colour crayons you all need and show you slowly and carefully how to fill it in

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penguin73 · 12/03/2011 10:15

Will nag DH again next time he phones and try to get some clarification.

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TalcAndTurnips · 12/03/2011 10:43

Ooh please show us, Saltire - by then we will have finished grooming the fleas out of each other's fur and flinging our excrement about.

(You don't think I'm taking the dim analogy a bit too far , do you?)

MrsSnaplegs · 12/03/2011 10:47

There is space on form for armed forces stuff like involsep it didn't seem too complicated < clearly clever enough to be 1st sea lord>

Saltire · 12/03/2011 10:51

talcandturnip no, not at all

TalcAndTurnips · 12/03/2011 11:20

Oh good.

jcscot · 12/03/2011 13:57

"There is space on form for armed forces stuff like involsep."

I haven't actually had a squizz at the form yet - we haven't received it.

vintageteacups · 12/03/2011 16:22

Well - just ocmpleted our online - very uneventful and boring really.

Tricky asking DS which religion he was but considering me and DD put no religion, I just put that for him too.

vintageteacups · 12/03/2011 16:23

DD had a look down the list and said asked if she could be Jewish?

vintageteacups · 12/03/2011 16:24

She thought only Christians believed in God

loubielou31 · 12/03/2011 20:12

We're currently posted in Germany so will we get a census? Haven't recieved anything yet.

mpsw · 13/03/2011 08:44

Loubielou: subject to greater knowledge by others, I believe the answer is no. We were abroad for the 1991 census and didn't do one.

The purpose is to give a snapshot of what is happening in UK, not for Brits overseas for many reason. If you're here that weekend, you'd be included on the form of your host as a visitor.

mpsw · 13/03/2011 08:45

PS TAT: your home sounds fun - can I join you on the tyres!

vintageteacups · 13/03/2011 10:23

Loubie - think it says if you're overseas for more than 12 months, you won't.

TalcAndTurnips · 13/03/2011 21:43

Be glad to have you over mpsw - there are some nice rocks to sun oneself on; some nice bendy branches for climbing and swinging; the aforementioned tyres, of course. I get a little tired of all the people watching however - cue some fruit-flinging or inappropriate sexual behaviour; guaranteed to be on YouTube within the hour.

scaryteacher · 14/03/2011 13:41

Loubie - we don't have to do one as we're overseas.

leaving the census alone for the moment - those overseas and who have kids over 14, so losing HRP, have you completed the form MODCA1 from the HMRC website? This lets you applied for NICs if your overseas and about to change appointments to eother back in UK or another overseas one. All the NICs count towards the state pension.

mumof2girls2boys · 22/03/2011 17:06

Did anyone else get upset about the bit about when you entered the UK if you were born outside it etc. My DS2 was born in Germany and we just spent 2 years in US it made me feel a bit like he was an asylum seeker How long do you expect to stay, well as long as my daddy doesn't go anywhere else didn't fit in the box

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