I've just done mine [car insurance]. Saved well over £100 quid, especially as I've dropped the mileage. I odn't expect I'll be doing as much travelling this year either. I do it every year without fail. Same with utilities.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mine renewal's due in a month or so. I didn't bother dropping the insurance mileage during the lockdowns etc (I did actually check earlier this week when they sent me an email - they'd have refunded about £13 so I didn't bother). But my employer and clients are now much more relaxed about working from home, holding meetings online instead of travelling etc, so I'll reduce the mileage this time.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
This, from the supposed leader of a nation is beyond belief, and to my mind little short of a criminal act. The First Minister of Wales has stated that the roll out of the vaccine is being slowed down so that staff don't stand around with nothing to do. Clearly, to him, it is more important that people can pretend to be busy than it is to protect lives.
It's frustrating enough when you know that the whole of Wales (all 3.1 million of us) could be vaccinated within a few weeks in ideal circumstances but there's no chance of me getting a shot until the Autumn. My sister and her whole household have just tested positive and she's in the No2 priority group still waiting for her jabs. My retired in-laws will be jabbed months before me even though they don't need to go anywhere this year and I have to go out to work.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I am 68 years old, and have always been in very good health. I haven't taken it for granted; I have always tried to follow a healthy lifestyle. I weigh 8 stone, and have never weighed more. I don't smoke or drink, and I use very little salt in cooking or at the table. I've never had oedema or high blood pressure. Can anyone tell me why I've just been diagnosed with heart failure?
You're still breathing I take it so not heart failure, which is fatal, but maybe a heart problem such as weak or irregular rhythm, narrowing of valves, or even, as my SIL aged 75 discovered a couple of years ago, a hitherto undiagnosed wee hole in a valve.
Or maybe the doc concerned doesn't know his or her arse from their elbow.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Any history in the family? Sometimes you can't fight your genetics.
Not really. A lot of my uncles had dicky hearts, and dropped off the perch in their 50s and 60s, but their sisters all made old bones. My mum is still going strong at 97. Ah well, I'll just have to put up my feet and become a career invalid. I hope I'm going to get strong enough for gardening.
You can live for years with mild heart failure. It just means that the heart is not pumping as well as it should. You probably get swollen legs as a symptom.
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I do it every year without fail. Same with utilities.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
You're still breathing I take it so not heart failure, which is fatal, but maybe a heart problem such as weak or irregular rhythm, narrowing of valves, or even, as my SIL aged 75 discovered a couple of years ago, a hitherto undiagnosed wee hole in a valve.
Or maybe the doc concerned doesn't know his or her arse from their elbow.