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30K is a good wage in my books for alot of people, he sounds like he's doing well though.

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My Happy Thought is my works 3 year share save plan matured and the share price has increased 6 times in that time, I just wish I was able to put in more than £41 a month or atleast I should have thought ahead, and bought shares privately not doing so was a huge mistake but atleast I don't have to pay capital gains tax this year!

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Going to take the plunge in the new year and take up the offer to be formally released from my post to take on a bigger more formal role with the union. I'm thinking of 3 days a week for the first year then if it goes ok I might well decide to do it full-time. Now I've made the decision, I feel like a weight has been lifted.

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Good for you Grim, I like that, postive thinking.


My happy thought, Mr T won £398.42 on the gee gees today. :):):):):)
I reckon I deserve a bonus for puting his bet on for him.....no?

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Get him to buy the label printer you need! Lol

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Well done to him Tinky.:)

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Yes jumped the gun didn't I buying the typewriter. :rolleyes:

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you could always put it on marketplace

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I'll wait and see what kind of condition it's in, maybe tart it up a bit, type the labels, then flog it.:)


Can't believe it, our first ever card from one of our 7 grandchildren, now aged 22.:)

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Work is now finished for 2022, roll on 2023 chaos.

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Mum is being discharged from hospital today.

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Great news!

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:tu: That's a brilliant present for you all

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Fantastic news. xx

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Just got my pay review email, I'll be getting an 8% rise and a 1 off £500 payment in January, shocked is putting it mildly as I'm normally lucky if I get 3%.

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Well done, I'm getting similar in March

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Yep I've whined about this in the past so it won't be a surprise to some of you however here I am on Christmas Eve with my 8 year old son bouncing off of the walls about tomorrow.

For those who don't know, that might sounds like a fairly routine occurrences for this day each year however tomorrow I will wake up with him on Christmas morning for the first time ever.

In fact, seeing as my 19 year old daughter was never allowed to stay with me Christmas Eve night, it'll be the first time I'll have ever woken up with one of my kids on Christmas morning.

For those whose kids live with them on a permanent basis the full implications of that may inadvertently be missed but I will truly have the best Christmas gift ever in the morning.

Being woken up early by one of my kids, full of the excitement of Christmas.

Those on here who are also on my Facebook will know I don't smile very often, at least not publicly but tomorrow you just try and wipe that damn grin off of my face :D

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Happy for you Russ, I really hope you enjoy the day. :)

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That is incredibly special :) awesome stuff

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People take it for granted, I know I did for years until it was taken away, enjoy your day

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After being readmitted to hospital a few days ago Mum is being allowed to go home some time today as she has picked up quite a bit but the family have put some aids around the home to help her get around.

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Watching the London NY fireworks, pretty spectacular. :)

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Lovely to have your Mum back with you again Den, hope you spoil her rotten, we only get one Mum.


Won £10 on Thunderball. :hyper:

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She is improving slowly given her age but is eating much better now and we are communicating every evening.

Mum has looked after us all our lives and now its time that the family looked after her apart from one very selfish family member.



Well done winning £10 Tinky.:tu:

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Every cloud has a silver lining, because of my recent health set back, Mr T has, after 46 years together, learned how to answer the phone (yes really), use the washing machine, and the oven. :):):):):)

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You're never to young to learn new skills

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Back in Manchester for good, after 9 years 4 months in the US. Got to go back to the Royal Exchange Theatre where we got married almost 11 1/2 years ago to the day (7/7/2011).

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I can't believe that it was 11 1/2 years ago that I was sat wearing my big hat and watching the live stream broardcast of you beautiful wedding. Welcome back to Manchester both of you. xx

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Thanks Jo!

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Welcome home, just in time for the strikes and civil unrest

Blimey, remember the day well, I was hat less

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Welcome back, dude.

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Thanks, think I was hatless too...

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Thanks Hugh.

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Welcome home Cobby.

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Saw my two sons, my daughter and her fiance for the first time in 5 years. Covid got in the way since last time we saw them.

Now we're back in Manchester, we can see them regularly. :)

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Very happy for you. <<hugs>>

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Brilliant

When I was coming out of Whole foods the other day someone was there asking for $$$$$$$$,she said she wanted to get something to eat.....

I have her $11 and said "Here get something good" and I gave her a big hug :)


This is a mean world now,we all should try to help each other.....

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Happy homcoming Cobby and wonderful that you and the family are now able to see each other more regularly.




I am hoping to go out tomorrow for the first time in 3weeks, taking baby steps to try to get back to normal, still not pain free. :):):)

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Thanks Tinky. Hope you're fully recovered soon.

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Ta Coby muchly, bill from water board £122,13 in credit, not to be sniffed at lol! :D

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No sniffing, it's bad for your back :)

Glad you're on the mend

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Ta for that Daddy, I'm a great believer in positive thinking, still on 2 sticks but I will get there. :)

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My niece and her girlfriend have just got their first flat together. it's in a gated property, which has made her mum and girlfriend happy, as in May she will be working nights for the Police.


Now they have to work out what they need to buy for their first home.

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Just finished my on-line tax self assessment with HMRC. No extra tax to pay. :)

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A few weeks back I was told I had won a prize draw. Then I was told there was a delay in delivery. No problem. I have won these draws before, couple of Amazon Dots, smart plugs.
This morning my wife responds to a knock on the door at we take delivery of a LG 48" OLED TV. Now I have to find a stand and new DVD player. We also have to find someone to take our old 28" CRT away. It's a hard life.

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Sweet prize that

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WOW, congratulations. I have won a few things over the years but mine were more on the lines of ...a brick that went in our toilet system or a bag of jumbo dog biscuits when we only had a cat.

Enjoy your new TV you lucky man. Maybe you should consider doing the Lottery this week. :)

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Whew life's a bitch sometimes tweetiepooh.


My happy thought, sent for a TV aerial for our small 22" TV, been sat collecting dust on the top of the wardrobe for around 2 years, unbelievably we get all the previous channels and also our Firestick apps to watch. So now have TV's in all rooms. :):):)

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Octopus are sending me a free electric blanket

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How expensive will that be to use, isn't it better to use hot water bottles if needed?

But free is good. :D all Bulb send me is the Bill.

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3 to 4p per hour will only use it when it is really cold

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When I was at my parents at Christmas the boiler broke so putting the heated blanket on for an hour before bed really helped.

You could put it on a timer for the morning if needed too.

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You shouldn't actually sleep with them on anyway, use them to pre warm the bed only is the advice iirc

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these are throws to sit under not a traditional under blanket

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l have a hot water bottle every night as my partner does their last drink and the rest of the hot water goes into the bottle.

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Put £20 in the bandit and won £385 invested £5 on another bandit and profit was £6 time to come off. :):):):):)

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WOW well done! :)

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Well done. Glad you're strong enough to realise when to stop.

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Well done Tinky you notorious gambler.:):tu:

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She will take your gambling crown away from you soon. :D

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Well done :tu:

She already has, den's is the 'cheating at bingo crown' :)

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Talking about Bingo the 2 younger brothers are coming down today and after the battle of the dockyards tomorrow are going to meet us at bingo.:)

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My partner and l just received our individual 25 year insurance policy maturity cheques through the door.:)

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Oh wow Den that is brilliant :):):)

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Car passed its MOT today.:) One advisory: A wiper blade needs replacing. It actually wipes fine but looks a bit tatty.

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Just discovered our local (Leeds) libraries allow online access (using your library card) to hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and other resources (I already knew about the ebooks).

https://libbyapp.com/library/leedslibraryuk

Probably most local libraries have this - might be helpful during the cost of living crisis…

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I've just had a look at our Bulb energy account and it tells me we are £2698.32 in credit, surely can't be right awaiting ntheir response. :)

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Well if it is correct demand £2,500 back and treat yourself.

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Make sure you take copies from your Bulb account because you will lose all access to it VERY shortly like I did when they move you over to Octopus, your existing balance and bills will transfer over though but it'll be up to you to remember what your Bulb balance was before the transfer.

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Been a good day so far, Bulb have confirmed it is we are that much in credit and are going to refund the amount I requested back, also the plumber phoned to say he will be here on Friday to fit our new kitchen sink. :hyper::cleader::cleader::cleader:

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Awesome, but this means you had been paying far too much monthly how was that possible with monthly meter readings, I remember you posted really high figures which was questioned here.

Make sure Bulb reduce your direct debit asap as this direct debit will get moved over to Octopus which may happen any day now, hopefully the automated move won't happen before they refund you or it could get messy.

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Great news :tu:

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The start of another good day. Correct size sink was delivered, and the wrong sized one taken back, amazingly Plumbworld had agreed to swop sinks, this saved a lot of problems with couriers sending the wrong sized one back. Now to get the plumber to find time to fit it. :):):)

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Great solution and good will guesture which shows Plumbworld in a good light. Having you and your your plumber think they are worth recommending helps Plumbworlds reputation at very little cost to themselves.

My happy start is that I have finally come away from my detested Three mobile, donated the balence left to a favourite charity and, as of 5 minutes ago, I'm up and running with 1p mobile. £10 every 120 days and the £5 referral has been applied by 1p as a further 120 days so no top up needed until late October. Win Win Win Win. :)

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Great move Jo, after reading this I decided to see about swopping over to 1p mobile, however 02 says my contract is for 24 months and if I left before that date I would have to pay a penalty. So I am stuck with them for another 15 months. 02 is increasing their charges in April. :(

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My Tidal subscription renewed at 0.42 pence a month, no issues with payment and Argentina this month

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Had our weekly shop delivered only to find around half of our requested items had been duplicated, not complaining as over £50 free. Van man not concerned at oversight. :):):):):):):):):):):):):)


Plus Mr T won £151 on football coupon yesterday. Long may the good luck continue.


Just received text from plumber coming Thursday to fix sink.

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Just booked a summer break - me, my two brothers-in-law, and my daughter’s father-in-law, are going on a boys*[?) sailing holiday in the Ionian Islands first week in July.

*I’m the second-youngest, and I’m 66 ;)

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Oh wonderful Hugh, enjoy every minute. Jealous me? :D

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The joy of flotilla holidays is you have start and end points each day, but how you (and how long it takes you to) get there is up to the skipper (AKA my brother-in-law); we get to stop over in a different harbour each night, with 3-6 hours sailing each day, finding a nice isolated cove for swim/lunch, then find a taverna for the evening meal - some hydration may be undertaken… :D

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Here's hoping :tu:

Sounds really good :tu:

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Somebody up there loves us, the old car passed it's test, only extra that Mr T asked them to do was rear reversing light £63.48 in total. :):):):):):):):):)

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Good news Tinky. :tu:

Always a relief when the car gets her ticket.

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My niece, and her girlfriend, moved into their first flat, it is a gated community.

I popped in on Monday and had a cuppa, her girlfriend had joined the police and when she works nights she will be happy that my niece will have some better security.

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What's a "gated community" ?

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Hope they have a wonderful safe life together in their new home, Hom3r. :)

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Gated communities are residential housing areas — neighbourhood's, estates, and so on that have controlled access.

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I've heard of controlled access single buildings, but whole communities, thats new (to me).

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Most of the time it's just a gate that residents have a code or fob to access at the front of the street, not guards or anything like the American version and it's not going to keep out anyone who wants to get in, just deter opportunists

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I can understand them for vulnerable people but not normally in the UK. It's not like there are gangs of gun totting thugs running around and we shouldn't be acting like there are. We like the ability for folk just to drop round without needing to announce themselves.



Still all the best to both of them.

Very nice :)

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My car is being MOT'd today.

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Fingers crossed for you.

My happy is that I have just installed a bog standard £6.99 15 meter phone cable delivered over night by Amazon ( other suppliers and lenghts are available :D ) which fits into the supplied VM Hub3 adapter and can now have the landline phone where I want it rather than within a short distance from the hub.

Waste of a tech visit just to find out he was only allowed to fit a 3 meter extension which transfered me over to whater it's called now but left my phone in a position that wasn't where we wanted it. Maybe he was telling fibs and didn't want to be bothered .. hope not we gave him a cup of tea :D but he did confirm all we needed was a longer phone cable

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Plumber coming tomorrow 7.30 am, better set the alarm!:cleader::cleader::cleader:

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I'm happy because i'm off next whole week

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When I bought my BMW 3 years ago I thought it would be the best car I’ll ever own (and was up to that point) by the repair costs were astronomical plus the cost of fuel to Leicester and Leeds was kneecapping me each time so I sold it and went for a 308 GT which was still thirsty but not as bad. But obviously with it being a French motor the electrics kept playing up so I got rid of that and now I have the Mondeo, 2.2 TDCI Titanium X Sport which goes like the proverbial brown stuff off a shovel and being Diesel is cheaper to run. Loving the extra trim pack and in all honesty I’d say it better than the BMW. My son loves it (very important!) and my 20 year old daughter no longer thinks I’m driving a midlife crisis car :D

(The red mats were the first to go!)

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Nice one Russ. :tu:

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Got through notification of my full state pension entitlement. Been some faffing about but it's now settled. :)

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Just got back home after visiting relatives in Emsworth (brother in law), Winchester (nephew, his wife, & their daughter), Alton (other brother in law & wife, and had dinner with other nephew and his wife), and Pangborne (our son) - set off Tuesday morning, back this evening.

Any joint holidays for the foreseeable future will be in this country (with pooch), as pooch is too old/unhappy to go in kennels, so we thought we would try it with visits to family - five hour drive on the way down, and he was reasonable, four hours on the way back, not so happy.

However, we will persevere, as it was great to see/stay with family.

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Looking forward to a peaceful weekend after 4 medical appointments this week and the good news that l won't need a new ICD device implant until later next year rather then this year.

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The reciprocating saw I ordered yesterday is being delivered today by courier.

Yodel's on-line tracking service is the best one I've seen: It shows you exactly where the driver is on a map and how many drops before you. Updated in real time.