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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Lizzie27 said:
    @JennyJ, as Debs64 said, the new cheaper annual certificate at just under £20 for a year's supply of HRT is well worth looking into.

    Hopefully your pharmacy will have the necessary form or perhaps it's online now.

    I must remember to tell my daughter the new regime has started.

    At one prescription every 6 months it's just about break-even but if I need to change to a different one at any point I'll bear it in mind. I don't actually mind paying for what I have (the postcode prescription charge lottery is annoying but that's a different issue). I just find it annoying when they try to charge me double what I should pay and then are rude and treat me as if I'm on the fiddle when I politely tell them that it's just one charge.
    Anyway, life's too short to let it bother me for very long so until next time .....

    @Lyn,  I wouldn't have premarin even if it was suitable for me.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Grrr, the bindweed is stirring and waking up for world domination!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We have field bindweed @Lizzie27 with smallish flowers edged with pink.  It's very pretty in th egrass and I don't mind itthere but when it starts in my beds and climbs up ornamentals and veggies I do heartily dislike it.

    Nettles appear first here - fine in the designated wild corners but currently steaming through my dahliapatch and that's a PITA. 
    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)."
    Plato
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I'm not sure what to be more curmudgeonly about. 
    The 30 +  vine weevils  I found in a plant trough, under several dessicated Hucheras,  OR the fact  that we worked a long morning in the cold and gloom , as soon as we came in for a late lunch the sun came out.😡
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2023
    Sounds like the old kit kat advert @Allotment Boy
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Lyn said:
    Just looking up HRT,  I see that that they are still using Premarin!  What a cruel process that is 😢
    It's unbelievable they still use it, especially seeing as they absolutely can't  justify it now. 😢
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2023
    Have you noticed how many packages foods now have one item less (fewer?), usually making it an odd number e.g. 5 or 7 slices of bacon instead of 6 or 8. Makes sharing between two a little difficult. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    edited April 2023
    Yes, pleased you mentioned it. It's no better than subliminal advertising which I believe is banned in the UK. It's almost subliminal selling.

    There's a lot going on in the background that we've got no idea about. Such as:

    For some reason my OH factory reset the Amazon Firestick which caused the stick to lose the apps we had on it. On trying to download them to the stick again we kept getting a message to reset the permissions to download. From the internet we found we needed to tick the 'permission to download' box from the 'Developer's Menu'. But where was the 'Developer's Menu'? After searching and scratching our heads we discovered where it should be, except on our stick it wasn't there. 

    So now we're thinking that perhaps we need to replace the Firestick?

    Cutting the story short, I found a really helpful guy on YouTube who explained how we could get the 'Developer's Menu' back. It appeared we needed to click on the 'Allow Menu' link seven times (not 6 nor 8) - and it worked. 

    To me it's obvious that the software developers of the Firestick had 'built in' a potential problem with the software where people would say 'sod it, let's buy another'!  >:)
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @B3 Yup, it's being called 'shrinkflation' where instead of increasing the price they reduce the quantity.  Apparently Magnum ice cream boxes are still the same size but only contain 3 instead of 4 pieces.
  • B3 said:
    Have you noticed how many packages foods now have one item less (fewer?), usually making it an odd number e.g. 5 or 7 slices of bacon instead of 6 or 8. Makes sharing between two a little difficult. 
    Not just fewer items, but smaller ones too.

    Actually, having five instead of six, would have been far easier for our family of five. Now that there's just two of us, an odd number means I get an extra one!! o:)
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