Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator
It is also the result of annularity that in the past has been a silly season in February/March with a rush to spend unallocated funds
Ah, nostalgia; and the days before RAB. An instant source of General Stores that one had been starved of funds for all year. Unless the bright types with the big kit offered the money before the end of JAN, though, there was usually sod all chance of getting the eventual MOD 640 paid in the correct year. The Sea Cadets used to get most of their replacement boats from money not spent on big grey ships.