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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    GardenerSuze said:
    @wild edges Guess you have read The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Enspiring.
    I'll give that a look thanks. I need some escapism at this time of year.
    The school is on strike tomorrow :|  Even worse they're planning to strike on Valentine's Day too which might throw some spanners in peoples' plans :#

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've just had to spend an hour weeding hundreds of tiny allium seedlings from my wisteria bed, some of them all tangled up with the bearded iris rhizomes - tricky! I dug the originals out about three years ago and they're still coming up. Beware anybody thinking of planting allium sphaerocephalon.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    wild edges said:
    GardenerSuze said:
    @wild edges Guess you have read The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Enspiring.
    I'll give that a look thanks. I need some escapism at this time of year.
    The school is on strike tomorrow :|  Even worse they're planning to strike on Valentine's Day too which might throw some spanners in peoples' plans :#


    With the tales you tell of your offspring such spanners may be welcomed. :D
  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    Went to look at the new bit of fence my neighbour had put up. The workmen squashed 2 bramble stems between a panel and post. Honestly you'd have thought they'd at least shoved them back on his side.
    Southampton 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Wait. Where did January go? :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Went to visit oldest daughter Monday, she moved just before Christmas. It's a HA swap, one bed maisonette. I would think built in the 30s or 40s. One up one down. Sitting room, kitchen, bathroom,hall. She's all electric, cooker isn't wired up. She works full time, quite a long commute. Uses air fryer and microwave,has economy 7. In the south facing sitting room Monday,sun blaring in,I was cold,and you know I rarely get cold. Are you sitting down,her electricity bill for the month £280!!! Curmudgeon on her behalf.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Well going back to my previous post about my energy bills. I told the supplier that they'd been over charging me by about £10 a month and that I wanted a £120 refund for the year plus my bills dropped by £10 a month. They told me that my bill would go up by £10 a month instead but have now come back and agreed the £120 refund. Work that out :/ Aren't they basically trying to get me to pay extra to cover my own refund?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    In a word, yes. Why don't you read your meter every month and only pay what you owe?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @wild edges, I'd go back to them and ask for the monthly reduction again. Keep badgering them until they give way.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Uff said:
    In a word, yes. Why don't you read your meter every month and only pay what you owe?
    Partly because it's been easier for me to budget for a fixed monthly payment while we were living on one income. Now my wife is starting to earn money again I can probably afford to loosen the purse strings a bit.

    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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