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Me too, turned really cold again

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Sorry to say that no gas central heating here!
All electic with overnight storage, if a sudden drop in temperature overnight we put a cardigan on.
Touching wood SWMBO not complaining as yet.

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Lock Down beginning to tell on me , you waken up in the morning and forget what day it is, I keep telling myself there are two people in the house, some people are on their own, we can go out for shopping , some others cannot do this at all. People have lost loved ones, so I should be thankful for small mercies, Sorry but I just feel so depressed today. Maybe I will feel better after sharing with you all. Sorry. Take Care all

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I live in a world where my normal is social distancing so thought that I would be able to cope with so many other people being asked to do the same. I have seen all my family and friends adapt to the way I have had to live for the past 10 years but I guess I never truly appreciated how much they all protect me.

I want them to be protected as they protect me.

Seeing the numbers of people who now seem to ignore the need to control the spread of CV19 makes me want to scream with frustration. OK, so many have been infected and recovered with little need for NHS involvement but thousands have not been so lucky. I don't understand how many people can't accept what still needs to be done.

Altruistic self-interest and boredom seems to be taking over and I hate it.

Sorry for the rant.

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You are not having a rant jo l can assure you as l agree very much with the sentiments of your post 100%.:tu:

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I feel your frustration.I'm annoyed by this government's deciding to allow everyone out before the deaths were as low as single or double figures especially for shielding vulnerable like my husband.

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Been saying similar since lockdown began or so it seems and from what I've noticed people fall into two categories now, those that take it seriously and them that don't, trouble is the former won't prolong the pain for everyone, the latter will

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Our electric shower has stopped working (low pressure alarm). We have softened water so it won't be scale. We (should) have cover with Triton but getting through to them isn't easy. You end up at a mobile voicemail and leave a message. Later in day the box is full.
Fortunately we have another shower so can keep clean.

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Are you sure you don’t genuinely have a problem with your domestic water supply pressure? These things can be hard to pin down - they tend to be worse at the times of day you want a shower and not so bad in the middle of the day when you might run the tap. It might also drop to the point where it will bother one shower but not another (especially if one is upstairs and the other is downstairs).

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Worth checking with your water supplier in case there's a local low pressure issue. Website?

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Mains pressure doesn't seem to be an issue. The other shower isn't electric just on the mains and is a floor above the electric one and that is fine. Combi boiler, no storage.

Water is fine to other taps in same room, downstairs, garden and above the problem.

Wife used electric one fine, I went in 5 mins later, LP error. There doesn't seem to be any water flowing in at all.

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I guess the solenoid or the inlet valve within the shower casing could be faulty. If they don’t open fully when you turn the shower on that might trigger a low pressure warning. If you have cover from the manufacturer they’ll just send someone out who will probably just replace the entire internal guts (in my Gainsborough it’s called the “shower engine” - I’ve replaced it myself a couple of times over the years. In my case it’s the heating element that always fails first).

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I know what you mean, I haven't been to work since I went into self isolation then being furloughed on the 26th of March.


In that time I have rarely left the house, I only have done the weekly food shop and milk as required.

I did pop to see my mum in her nursing home via the exterior door to her room, but this has stopped, and I do drop off bits when required.


Today I was told I am at risk of redundancy as my job has been deemed part time, I did say I was willing to change my hours. I go back next Monday to find out my fate.


I am losing track of the day as well, the TV programmes I watch would tell me the day, but they have all finished their seasons, some earlier than others.

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It’s doing strange things to lots of people. Don’t worry - you’re not alone in that. We’ve taken to insisting on certain rigid routines at home so adults and kids alike don’t come completely adrift. The kids get their own breakfast and lunch but they’re only allowed to do so within certain times of day. They have online schoolwork to do; this must be done in the morning, before lunch.

Also, we’re miles from anywhere and have long relied on the Asda van for groceries, but since lockdown we have taken a recurring delivery slot, every Friday morning, and it always brings pizza for Friday dinner. I may be sick of pizza by the time this is all over but for now it’s the only hard and fast way to mark the passing weeks.

I’ve driven to our nearest village I think 3 times when the pub has been doing special takeaway dinners. That’s about 4 miles from here. Those 3 occasions are the furthest I’ve been from home and the only times I’ve driven my car in almost 12 weeks.

It’s all very odd. Here’s a virtual hug anyway. :hugs:

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My son's mother.

I can't and won't say I wish I'd never met her as that would mean I wouldn't have such a fantastic son but if it was not for him (and in NO WAY am I suggesting that I regret him) I honestly wished I'd carried on walking that day.

As a mother, she is the most loving, protective and caring mother I have ever known. She will think of the kids 1000 times before she'll think of herself.

But as a person....

Destructive, demented, twisted individual.

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I know what you mean.


My cousins wife walked out on him when their daughter was 4 months old, she was into swinging he wasn't.

She told the daughter daddy had the affair and not her.

Now she has said she wants nothing to do with him he said OK then, bye.

She still wanted to see her step siblings, but her step brother said do one (He didn't say that but I can't say what he said)

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Thanks. Chris, Take Care .

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Check the inlet filter?

Turn the shower on, turn off the stop cock, then open it just a crack. That might clear any airlock.

Check the instruction manual on how to purge the boiler tank of air.

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I've ordered a solenoid which apparently takes a few mins to install (an hour for me) and costs around £7. I can electrically isolate the shower and turn off water.

Still no reply from Triton so I need to try something and £7 for an easy fix that seem to do the job in most cases won't break the bank. We can't find records for service cover but that could be buried in some option somewhere else.

We used to take cover off shower regularly before softened water to clean out the "chalk pit".

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Straight forward job to change the solenoid, hardest bit is making sure the knobs align to the appropriate setting.

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I just have been made redundant.

I get 12 weeks wages, 12 weeks notice and 88 days unused holiday.

So apart from getting the house into a position to get my mum home I need to fing a job in the most horrendous time to look for work.

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l am so sorry to hear this bad news Hom3r as my thoughts are with you as l hope sooner rather then later you will find some decent employment.

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Sorry to hear this bad news, Hom3r.

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:(

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Sorry Homer :(

Just an aside? Is it 12 weeks paid and 12 weeks redundancy or are they saying you'll get your salary for the 12 weeks notice? Because if it's the latter they're taking the piss.

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Sorry to hear that Hom3r. As you say not a good time to have to find a new job. Make sure you check with your union, if you have one, to make sure you are being paid everything you are legally due.

Thinking of you sweetie. <hugs>

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Sorry to hear Homer.

Assuming you have been there 12 years and you're over 40 you should be getting 1.5 weeks wages for every year.

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Yeah its

12 weeks notice (July, August, September)

and

12 weeks redundancy as I'm over 41 it 1-1/2 weeks a year I've done 8.

and

88 days unused holiday.

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Yeah, I've been there 8 years and getting 12 weeks money.

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Tough luck Homer. Hope you find something soon. :tu:

Supposed to have had a V6 delivered by Yodel ( :rolleyes: ) yesterday. Nothing so far and I've checked the wheelie bins and over the fences. Lord alone knows where that's ended up.

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Can't remember which firm it was, but I once had a parcel left in a safe place . . . underneath a neighbours car :spin:

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Sometimes these things lead to something more interesting and better paid. If not, don't worry as Boris is sure to look after us all.

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Good luck, hope you find something soon :tu:

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My doctor has become concerned about my increasing shortness of breath in the last couple of weeks so she wants me to have a chest X ray.

She has ruled out Covid 19 as she thinks its more related to my long term heart failure.

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Same boat as me den, I had a high res CT scan and found my lungs are calcified?
[Worked in the chemical industry for 35yrs]
So living with a 'blue spray' and waiting for another app with the breathing clinic.

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Went out in the car at 08:50 arrived at shop at 09:42 [1 mile distance] i thought i had been abducted by aliens or something like that and lost time;) ,when i got home it was 09:20 i thought what the heck is going on[didn't say heck] turns out the battery in my clock was duff :omg:

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I hope you will be able to get treatment for your condition,

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Hope you are ok Den. Take Care

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Well l have had my chest x-ray nash which has now been sent to my GP along with some blood tests results.

Now l have to go through the kafkaesque eConsult online platform system in order to make a appointment with my GP which they told me to do after my tests were done as they don't arrange GP appointments over the phone anymore.

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Ok Den Take Care

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Good luck

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Supposed to be going out tomorrow to look at motorbikes. I'll be looking for a boat instead if this rain carries on.

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Best decision i ever made, buying a boat has given me no end of pleasure.

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Don't tempt me

Inland or coastal/sea going?

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Inland /coastal but only used on Norfolk/suffolk broads.

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I’ve hired boats a couple of times down there - lovely area, really peaceful.

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From tomorrow i can stay overnight so i'm off there on monday for a couple of weeks cruising and boozing :)

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I had a summer holiday on the Broads back in 1981, we were on Oulton Broads for the Big Royal wedding.

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Back in the life of the living, at least thats what it seems like!
Computer failed when frying to load new Windows. Said it couldnt do it.

So gave up and bought new one. Great mistake, when it arrived it didnt want to work at all so sent back

Bought Dell insted. It works fine although it too a while to get used to it.

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My P C packed in last week , but my local shop transferred my things onto a new Dell machine, I am over the moon with it,

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Just been to see my GP after some concerns and she has several health concerns after examining me so much so l have to have a CT scan this afternoon on one of my calves as its much bigger then the other one and and there is some pitting as well.

Also she is concerned that have have become more breathless then l usually would be so l have a have a echocardiogram done as well but that won't be done today.

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Decided to dredge the pond today. So of course it is now raining so will try again tomorrow

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Ah the dreaded ECG testing!
My best ECG test was done on a treadmill, stripped to the waist.
O'k doing the walking bit, even when speeded up, what killed me off was when the treadmill was starting to be inclined!
10min on that I was not fit for anything, took a good 1/2hr for me to recover.

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No l will just have the scan done to see if the heart muscle is becoming even more enlarged as several of my worsening symptoms suggest this is a possiblity.

One thing it is not thankfully is DVT as they did the scan on my calves yesterday and there is no sign of DVT although their thinking given the my enlarged left calf and pitting edema suggest possible worsening heart failure according to them.

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Anything I write seems unhelpful so sending you <<<<big virtual hugs>>>> instead.

Jo xx

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I'm truly sorry to hear that.

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Your writings are always enjoyed jo :tu: compared to some others on here.:p:

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Hi Den, Hugs to you , Take Care

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Just had a WTH moment!

Just woke up at 6 lying on the sofa rubbed my eyes and thought it was 6am which would mean I would be an hour late for work.

So I rushed about thinking I had fallen asleep on the sofa 12hrs before but in reality I had only been asleep 2hrs!!!

*** No drugs were used in the creation of this message and as far as I know I wasn't abducted by aliens***

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lifting and carrying a cast iron bath down the stairs has just about killed me. The only slight good thing is that at least i wasn't carrying it up the stairs....

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You did not carry it down the stairs on your own did you?.:shocked:

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Should've given it a tap with a big hammer then carried it down in pieces ;)

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Now you tell him !

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Sounds like a job for Laurel and Hardy!

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Spitting Image is coming back later in the year, which is the most excellent news.

The bad is that it will be on Britbox, something I refuse to pay for as most of the content we already paid for.

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Find an alternative source, CinemaHD firestick app is the easiest, then stream the episodes, I use either that or Kodi for everything.

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Good news in a way, as in the original was hilarious side splitting fun.

Bad news is that, due to changes in how humour is presented & perceived, it will probably be a damp squib with no more of that sarcastic whit that made it so good :(

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Seeing no one has seen it yet l could not possibly comment on whether it is any good.;)

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If it is as good as it used to be, there will be a long queue of politicians and celebrities clogging up the civil courts for years . . you're not allowed to make them look as stupid as they are nowadays :D

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When it originally broadcast MPs were furious, but then people started to know who they were.

Best was the whole episode long there was no puppet of the Queen Mum. The end credits rolled on the screen, followed by a statement in which the makers of the show denied such a puppet was ever made. In a final scene, the Queen Mum's puppet did show up, expressing grief "since she looked forward to see it."

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I can't look at pictures of Mick Jagger without thinking 'spitting image' :D

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Was it full:erm:

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Brain fart moment, i some how forgot to pay my Credit Card off for July, first time ever that has happened!

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It's might be worth a phone call - I forgot once and the payment was a day late - phoned NatWest and they waved the late payment fee and refunded 75% of the interest as they could see we normally pay the balance in full.

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I can't be arsed with a phone call to be honest so I will just pay the £29 charges, and hopefully not forget next time. :)

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A direct debit to pay the full amount off every month is the easy solution.

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put a reminder on your phone calendar, and I’ve also set the Credit Card Apps to send me a reminder when it’s due.

Multiple redundancy... ;)

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I 99.99% of the time pay off in full, but sometimes I get a big month so pay some off then defer the rest until the following month.

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I would need to make sure i have enough in my current account for that each month, so i cant really do that when some months are huge where i would need to move some money about to cover it before i make full payment.

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I only have a credit card because for a while I had an employer I had to rack up fairly chunky expenses with. I keep it out of habit and just in case I ever do need a wedge I couldn’t immediately pay back but so far that’s never happened. I have a DD set up, with an instruction to clear the balance every month. That’s the norm, so if I needed to keep the money I’d go into the app and manually reduce the payment as a one off.

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We pay everything by Debit card and DD as we used to have several credit cards when we were younger but its very ease to spend money one has not got imo.

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Luckily I've never had that problem so everything just gets put on the CC where I get Tesco points and it also helps a credit rating.

But I understand if times change and I found myself without a job the temptation may come to use the CC and not pay it back each month and that would be bad.

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I believe you can also do a DD for the minimum amount, and make an extra payment to pay the rest off if you can. At least then you'd never miss a payment.

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I forgot one time and it was a Bank Holiday. I had to pay the £20,for late payment. I always pay it in full every month. I was so angry with myself/ I only use it now if i have too,

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53850642


Why wasn't that ******* dragged to the court.

I'd have hog tied him and gagged him.

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Because we're better than him.

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Maybe because, like me, one of my biggest 'moans and pet hates' is people who have deliberately and consciously committed acts which go against the morals of society, and then brazenly claim their 'human rights' when caught.

Much like the offenders we see every day in local news, who have 50+ previous offences and end up with another 100 hours community service. Those people have long given up any rights.

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Once you start by taking away the rights of any section of society, you make it possible/acceptable to take them away from others - be careful what you wish for, as it may be used against you in the future...

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Adverts in the UK that use kilometres.

We use miles kilometres means nothing

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Well 1000 metres = 1 km; 1760 yards = 1 mile. Which system makes most sense? Same for other metric/imperial comparisons. Metric is easier.

Being an old fuddy I still prefer miles for distance, but it will change at some point as it's archaic. The only reason we didn't go over to km is that we couldn't afford to change all the road signs !

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Unless you’re needing to do calculations, the awkward subdivision of imperial units isn’t really an issue. The issue is whether or not you have a feel for how far something is. When I’m behind the wheel in a moving car, I have a sense of speed I’d instinctively relate in miles per hour. I have a sense of when I’ve driven about a mile. That’s not something anyone’s learned in a classroom for around 50 years now, but as it’s the way our roads are still marked up, we all learn it by experience when we start driving.

Conversely, while you’re taught metric in school, you’re never given any experience of using it at scale. You trot round the playground with a metre wheel, other than that it’s whatever you can measure with a 30cm ruler or calculate on a piece of paper. You only really get the chance to think in metric distances if you do map and compass work, and not even just on the desktop, but actually getting out in the wild. I think in miles in my car, but I think in km when I go out walking because that’s what I learned at the outward bound school.

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Given my age, I was schooled in imperial, but soon after beginning work had to adopt to both metric & imperial. No fun carting different spanner combinations around because you never knew what you needed until you got there :rolleyes:

Anyway, I'm still mainly imperial - I still measure in feet & inches, drink pints not litres/liters, my car odometer tells me how many miles I've done, I weigh a tad over 15 stone ;)

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Is "a tad" a multiple or a divisor of a stone? :D

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Back to work today after 2 weeks chilling out!

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I've set up with 17 job agencies.

I wish they understood distances, I put 20 miles from my town "Harlow" in Essex.

I've had jobs, in Surrey, Bristol and Glasgow.

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Sadly our stay at a caravan park is going to have be cancelled in late September.:(

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I put permanent jobs in Hampshire and offered contracts outside my field in places all around the world.

When I was looking for work one time I was advise not to go to too many agencies as many had the same jobs and likelihood of being pushed to the same wrong job was increased.

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I have noticed the same jobs do appear on several sites, but I do write down what jobs I apply for, location, company & sallary.

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Utility companies that ring as a 'final check' a few days before coming out to do some work . . asking a few questions:

Confirm name & address - yeah ok
Confirm phone number - erm, it's a landline, you've just rang it and I confirmed name & address :erm:
Do we supply any other services? - No, but why the silly question?
How do you pay your bill? - Does it not say on the screen in front of you? - Yes but we have to ask these questions - That's ridiculous :rolleyes:
Can you confirm the amount on your last statement? - Is that information also on the screen in front of you? - Yes, but we have to - Go away, bye *click*

Not fussed if they turn up or not now, will probably change supplier.
Getting absolutely fed up with having to go through 20 questions every time I answer the damn phone :mad:

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I must next time say when I get the "you've been in a accident".

I must say either "what the one where I hit an elephant" or "Do you mean the one I was killed in" :D
Or better still, "The one with a Circus Dwarf, the elephant and a tub od industrial lub?"