Thanks for your good wishes @Obelixx. It is beginning to sink in. I have been given a couple of weirdly flavoured gins as presents ( home flavoured) they've been knocking about in the back of a cupboard for a few years. I haven't opened them yet.
((hugs)) @B3 nasty business for you both. I've been awol for a couple of days so just catching up. I don't get on with gin - makes me cry. I can bring my own beverages though
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I was waiting for a gardener to come to help do some pruning that has got out of my reach He's just texted to say his van was broken into last night and he's still waiting for the glass people to come, so won't be able to make it. Seems as though the villains are catching up from the past 2 weeks.
The birds are eating our grapes. You would have thought with all this hot weather,they would have ripened early. A picture popped up on FB mid September last year, they were ready. And to think....I bought the b*****s,meal worms which are really expensive. Neighbours (you know the ones,who bleat poverty) came round the other night, asking us to put the bins out....as they're going on holiday,yet again. It did give hubby a chance to nip out and cut down the flaming blackberries coming over from there, ruining our garden!
I wish they'd just send me my F******* gas bill so that I had some idea what was going on. We got a letter explaining how much each unit or whatever would cost. This means nothing to me. I got fed up being cold and put the heating on 2 and then reduced it to 1 when the house had warmed up a bit. I know we can afford it but what about the people feeling a bit cold who can't afford it and what happens when it gets really cold?
I've just been sent all the details of my revised bill for next month and I still don't understand it. They reckon that instead of an extra £1600 a year on top of what I'm paying now I'll only have to pay an extra £500 a year, so £40 a month. However I've been overpaying by £30-40 a month all summer anyway and have about £300 in credit. Apparently they add the £40 to my bill whatever happens and the credit is already factored in It's hard to believe that this situation is real sometimes, especially when taxes are cut and no one is paying windfall taxes on the huge profits being made off this. We're contemplating turning off the main freezer for the winter and washing the children less. I can live without a stockpile of frozen stewed fruit but children can be awfully sticky.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I have been given a couple of weirdly flavoured gins as presents ( home flavoured) they've been knocking about in the back of a cupboard for a few years. I haven't opened them yet.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
He's just texted to say his van was broken into last night and he's still waiting for the glass people to come, so won't be able to make it.
Seems as though the villains are catching up from the past 2 weeks.