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Sorry to hear that Hugh. :(

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Sorry for your loss Hugh, thinking of you :(

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All sympathy to you and yours.

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Thank you all for your kind thoughts - very much appreciated.

I still can’t believe he’s gone…

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Sorry to hear of your loss Hugh. Take your time and allow yourself to grieve.

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Go to print an important letter this morning and the printer shows the colour cartridge is out.

Half an hour of faffing about refilling the cart, resetting the chip and finally ready to print.

It's just black, why can't I just print that even if the colour is out? :mad:

I am so sorry Hugh -- 74 isnt that old :(

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Web sites [forms] that disable paste for email addresses, and even worse, passwords. :mad:

Complete idiots, its just not needed. :upyours:

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I get a letter inviting me to apply for the state pension and it gives me a code so that I can apply on-line.

I do that and fill in all the boxes and information asked for but at submission the site says that there's some information missing but no clue as to what that might be. :rolleyes:

Shortly after I get an e-mail inviting me to phone an 0800 number to provide what's missing.

I do that and get a long rambling recorded message followed by 4 options none of which are what I want.

I hold hoping that the de-fault might be to talk to some one but no. Just get the options again I press the button for the most likely one, get a short meaningless message and the system then hangs up. :mad:

And people wonder why I hate phoning up anywhere.

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I worked for the Government for years and even I have problems. Did they send you to the following site ..https://www.gov.uk/get-state-pension before you tried to get any sense out of the silly phone process?

You could do as I do and just try to go old school and fill in a form which you should be able to get by calling 0800 731 7898 ... but if you are being targeted by the DWP "Drive People Mad" programme that's probably the number you have already tried.

I always find a large Gin helps. :D

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That's the link I used last year, and (luckily) it all went through smoothly.

Only thing to bear in mind is the tax implications (if you have other pensions already being/about to be claimed) - when I went into my HMRC personal tax section after my State Pension was due to be paid (every four weeks), a figure of £220 had been put in for my amount of State Pension until the end of the Tax Year (when if fact it was just over £3k). I calculated what it would be, and put that figure in - what they then do (and it took about a week), is then total up all the pensions you are getting paid, and tax one of the other ones by the amount of tax due on the State Pension), so expect to have one of your other payments (if you have any) reduced.

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Yes that's where I filled in the on-line stuff

Yep. That was the number I phoned.

White rum and diet cola. :D

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Been in touch with a Vet to come out and put my old Dog to sleep and for them to come out do it and cremate her it is £750. They want £370 just to put her to sleep. I have to pay it as I want it as stress free for her as possible but dreading it

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Really sorry to hear about your dog (and you), Jay.

Awful when they pass…

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So sorry Jay, I know how much you have loved her. She has had a brilliant life with you and having you there with her at the end will help you both. <<<hugs>>>

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Just read this Jay, so sorry to hear about your dog. :sorry:


Heard a loud crack laast night couldn't figure out what it was, went into bathroom this morning, the toilet seat is split, how does that happen?

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Vet is coming out this afternoon. She is suffering so given the chance I thought best just to it save any more

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Really sorry to hear this.

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So sorry to hear about this as its awful when one has to decide to put a family pet to sleep.

You have my commiserations Jaymoss.

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What about the PDSA?

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All the best, try to remember the good times, you gave her a great life I'm sure

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I took the choice of the home visit to save the stress of any journeys on her. It cost more but to save on that stress I think it was worth it. Pulled £250 out of my Octopus to cover some of it, if needed I can add some back with the Springs cost of living payment

All done relatively peacefully but that is another story

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Sorry to hear about you loosing your pet. Always a sad time.

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The Firefox update appears to have erased all my bookmarks, some are important

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Can you recover from another device like phone or tablet assuming you had them synced?

Does this help?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...sing-bookmarks

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Surely that’s were?

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I’m so very sorry for your loss. Reading this brought tears to my eyes, I lost my best pal last year and it still upsets me to this day.

I’m sure she had the best life with you and she’ll be there at the rainbow bridge waiting for you.

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Firefox backs them up in your profile, daily, Ive recovered mine before.

That said, I also manually back them up at regular intevals, and my PC backups do of course save my entire FF profile.

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ASDA have seriously peeved me today with their delivery service being early and too many substitutions.Also when did it become so hard to buy ASDA products? I deliberately pick ASDA products because of price and now it seems the rest of the world has cottoned on..

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House insurance premiums - last year £319, this year £650.


We did make a small claim which was actually fixed by someone not sent by the insurer but is still open pending report from Dynoplumb on what was wrong so we can get damage assessed but I don't think we are likely to proceed as we will be refitting kitchen sometime soon anyway.
A neighbour did mention their premium had increased a fair bit too as "there have been claims made in the area".

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Thank you, I didn't know it backed them up.

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Even if you don't proceed with a claim if you've told the insurance company they'll treat it as an incident, and increase your premium. Any excuse for those guys.

They did if for me when I had a slight bodywork damage on my car. Decided to get it repaired myself in the end as incredibly they wanted to right it off. Got it repaired for £600, car is is worth £3.5k. Later learned they patch up these 'cat d' right offs and sell on at a nice profit.
Scam artists !

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Ok so I'll accept the toilet seat broke on it's own :rolleyes:, so where is the missing piece of plastic, since it is on the outer edge it would have fallen on the floor? :shrug:

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I can understand a rise in price but not that much. I checked the Meerkats using last years details amending with this claim (apparently it's cost around £1,000) and am getting quotes around half that. It wouldn't be so bad but although they did fix a damaged drain it was a water main causing the puddles in the kitchen and we got that fixed through Dynoplumb and BG. (The private plumber Admiral insist we call in at our own expense didn't find anything.)
If they had upped the premiums even say up by £100 we likely would stay with them.

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Everybody seems to want money off me at the moment. :(

Like Blackadder said "I feel like a pelican, every way I look there's an enormous bill infront of me."

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In case you forgot you owe me £25...... :D

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Never thought I'd see people panic buying salad products...
They'll not eat it if course, and never usually buy it but because there's a shortage, panic buy time !

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Strange thing is we had a online order delivered yesterday and all the salad items were on there as we expected most of them to be unavailable.

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When ever there's a shortage the panic buying starts. In this case frosts, snow and floods in Spain and morocco have impacted the growing of salad vegetables. The small 10% or so that would normally be produced in the the UK have not been planted as the suppliers cannot afford to heat the greenhouses.

It'll take time for normal supplies to be resumed.

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You may find this of interest...

https://twitter.com/chrislowndes/sta...170706434?s=20

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You're not saying Brexit's to blame Hugh? You're not allowed to say that. The thought police will get you ! It must be immigrants or Corbyn or remainers or civil servants or the weather, never Brexit, ever....

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Plus of course whenever there is a shortage of anything we'll be last in line because it's easier and cheaper to deliver to other countries first

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Bah! It's not salad season.It's stew,casserole,pie,soup and curry season.

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My work lunch says different.

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And some people have salad because of their dietary needs.

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But fresh tomatoes in a curry/stew etc can also be really nice and better if you only want a small amount and not lots of juice from a can.

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I'm sure my Alexa is deaf :D




Also I knew it was just too good to be true, Bulb are the pits, 3 agents have contacted me, 2 have told me different credit amounts, and offered refunds, and the 3rd says it was just a draft bill (whatever that is) and we are only £189 in credit. I have asked for a full breakdown of payments and fuel used. How long do you think I will wait for an answer? If at all. :rolleyes:

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If you log into your bulb account you will see all your break downs there.

Are you adding your monthly meter readings onto your account? I would recommend doing that on the same day each month so you know how much you have used and are able to adjust the DD instantly.

If you have a smart phone install their app to make it all trivial, although you will get moved over to Octopus in days or weeks.

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Bulb support are dreadful, thats the one good thing you may find when you get moved, Octopus are [apparently] so much better.

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I got swiped from behind by a lunatic on an electric scooter again. On the pavement, and he must have been able to see me for ages.

No ID possible as he was wearing all black with a hood up, and on a black scooter.

I emailed the local police, and they have replied that "Patrols will continue to monitor the situation".

Im so sorry buddy :(

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Totally fed up, seems everything I touch goes wrong, plumber arrived this morning 8am to fit our kitchen sink. It turns out that because I ordered the correct size i.e wide and long, I did not take into account the size of the basin. Bottom line, sink to be returned to suppliers at an exorbitant carrier price of £30+ still shopping round for cheaper carrier price, any suggestions?:(:(:(

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Could you sell it? Facebook Marketplace or a local board? You might have to take a small hit but not as much as paying to send it back

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Appreciate what you suggest Jo, but in order to sell, the reduction would be approx what it would cost for a courier, alas looks like I have to bite the bullet and accept the loss.:(

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Check if any local businesses do shipping as a sideline. There's a place near us whose main business is selling packaging materials, but they also do shipping. I guess they have a deal with a courier to send out large volumes of stuff, and they can add extra parcels at low cost.

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Unfortunately Spiderplant there is no such facility in this part of the woods, many thanks for the suggestion.

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Sink problem solved. Notification yesterday from Sky who are putting up their prices £7+ per month. :rolleyes:

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£10 for us.

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Mobile phone has gone on the blink.

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4 scam phone calls in 3 days supposedly from Sky and the bank security, we are registered with Telephone Preference Service so don't understand why. :rolleyes:

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sold list most likely

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TPS only works if companies in theuk abide by the regulation. It sounds as though the calls you have recieved are from spammers who spoof numbers to hide their identity. A better explanation is given by OFCOM.......

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-tele...one-spoof-scam

Im so sorry everybody :(

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1 piece missing from a lego set. You Danish bar stools.... :mad:

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You probably know about buying missing pieces bet it's not cheap though.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/service/r...ssing/location

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/service/r...backfrom=en-GB

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It's actually free for the odd piece here and there. Just inconvenience mainly as it'll take 7-10 days to get the replacement .When kits cost a few hundred quid it's just really annoying.

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So my health and ability to look after myself has become more of a problem recently so I have had to make the move and try to claim PIP.

I have always avoided it although on paper I should be able to claim if it was done fairly but it is not. The idea of an assessment and the inevitable need for a mandatory reconsideration and then tribunal causes me anxiety just thinking about it, but I need help with mobility as I have not been able to go further than my front gate this year (and pretty much the last 3 years apart from the odd appointment) and also could do with some help around the house and garden.

It is not really the money I need but the extra support that would come available to me if I manage to claim it

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Do you not have one of those electric scooter things ? You see a few around here.

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That is one of the reasons I am applying for PIP. I need a large one and I also will need a ramp fitting so I can keep it secure. Without PIP the council will not do it :)

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All I can say is back up everything you say with evidence, as much as you can get. And use sites like BenefitsandWork for guides on how to fill in the forms. Unless you already know and understand how those forms work that is. If you answer their questions literally, then there's a high chance you'll fail. Well worth going for it though, so good luck.

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cheers bud.

I fully expect it to end up at tribunal. TBH a reasonable person just needs to look at me and see me walk from the chair to the room to see the score but you know the assessors job is to give 0 points even if the claimant is almost dead

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One key point in your case, is that ask for a home visit for an assessment. You might need help from your GP with this. If you can make it to the assessment centre then you most likely automatically fail.

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Yeah I was aiming for some sort of home visit or video call or whatever. It will be ages anyway apparently

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Wrestling on the sports channels, when it clearly isn't a sport, but scripted crap aimed at the brain dead.

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I sincerely empathise with you Jay as I am more or less in the same boat, however I am lucky to have Mr T, who is now having to do most of the chores I used to do apart from cooking. Also I have a shopping trolly with basket, and this has given me a degree of freedom.


My moan for the day is the plumber phoned to say he can't come to fit our sink till Tuesday.:rolleyes:

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When filling in the forms, make sure you put how difficult things are, as my wife (who used to be a DM before she retired) said that too many people tried to be "brave" on the forms (it’s not that bad), and they have to score on what’s on the form (there are QC checks).

tldr: better to over-egg the pudding - put your condition(s) and abilities on your worst day, not your best.

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Just had yet another another scam phone call purporting to be from bank security, to notify me that there had been 2 unusual requests for payments from our account. The first was from Amazon for £300 and the second for £1100, to sort this press 1 on your phone to speak to security. :mad:

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Good advice there Hugh.

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yeah that is how I did it cheers

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I'd always be honest on all forms. I've had situations where to answer questions from the other parties doctor. He tried to guide the responses to make me seem worse than I was so he could report that I exaggerated the replies on my forms.

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Oh Jay <<<<hugs>>>> I hate seeing people having to go through the all the stress of claiming PIP. Never, ever, ever give them a good day scenario.

Like Hugh's wife I too was once a decision maker, well before PIP, and with certain benefits I just knew some people were downplaying their condition but had to make a judgement on what I had before me and on many occaisions I underlined the option to appeal in pencil in the letter that I had to send out.

One of the main reasons I transfered over to being a DM on serious fraud cases.

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As long as you've got evidence to back up what you put on the forms then they can't dispute anything. Yes you put everything down as if it's your worse day, that's a given, even though you're still being honest.

You have to look and try to answer every question on the form because they are 'loaded questions' designed to make you fail if you answer them all as the form expects you to. This is one of the main reasons why people fail, that and not supplying enough evidence. The size of the boxes you write your response in are small because they want to you write yes/no or 1 sentence to fit the boxes. You will fail if you comply to that. 1 question should be half a page or more, more the better so ignore the space, just put continued on page xx. etc etc etc.

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Evidence is an issue in as much as it is all on record but not in my hands. You can see my issues with your own eyes and I can provide far to many ESA assessments finding me unfit for work on the first visit plus my anti anxiety meds but there is nothing I can provide.

As someone who also suffers clinical depression I have also kept myself isolated. It is only now my health has declined I have no option but to seek 3rd party help. It will be months before anything comes of this so I am trying not to get anxious about it

My mental condition stems from having Encephalitis when I was 6 years old which basically left me susceptible to these conditions and I guess what they would call PTSD now from being physically abused by my mother. So it has been a life long battle. My earlier issues on this forum with how I interacted with a couple of members is also part of it

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With my GP practice, I order my prescriptions online using 'SystemOnline' also with this I can look at all my notes from my GP and consultants. Using this I can print out all I need and use as evidence, this really helped my case.

From what I can gather is whatever you put on the forms, if it isn't backed up with evidence it gets ignored. So if you put you have anxiety, if you GP doesn't know this or if it's not 'diagnosed' then you don't have it in their eyes.

If you don't have access, then you can pay to get all your medical notes printed out and use that if it will help.

As with depression, you should be diagnosed and given a proper diagnosis, with a code number. For I have F33.2 and diagnosed. Too many people state they have depression and anxiety but never seen a GP about it let alone a mental health professional, then wonder why what they've said doesn't get taken into account.

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I was first diagnosed with both conditions way back in the early 90s but this was just a Doctors diagnosis. I have had counselling and CBT but tbh my Doctors over the years have been pretty useless in getting me any real diagnosis ie through a Psychiatrist. The last time they tried to "help" I had to call a number then get triaged over the phone which I find unbelievable and ended up in CBT which helped a little but then the pandemic hit and all the good it did quickly vanished. I guess from what you say there then I am pretty much stuffed as far as points for mental health so I guess I will have to hope my physical health will be enough

I would have pressed 1 and given them all bogus info :D

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You may get charged for pressing 1, never do anything like that.

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That's why I didn't press 1

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Judging by Jeremy Hunt's budget, it looks like those with mental health issues and bad backs will be helped (forced) back into looking for work and the usual penalties for those that can't (or won't in their eyes). It's not looking good either ways.

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Anybody that says they're 'reaching out to you' or says you're 'reaching out to them'. What the feck is all that about and who started it? They need shooting, not 'reaching out' to !

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"Hands, touching hands...
Reaching out, touching me, touching you..." - All together now....

I bet you're singing it now... :D

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Removing old silicone.

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Been all day on the phone and internet trying to find out why my prescription for Salamol inhaler had not been filled, starting to get paranoid now. :(

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Yet another scam phone call purporting to be from Bank Security, saying there had been 2 requests for money from our account. :rolleyes:

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Good you can see through them

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I never answer the phone if the phone doesn't tell me who's calling.

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Same here..

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My parents have a service on theirs that answers for them so spam never gets through as they always hang up.

For some reason it's broken when I call, it asks me for my Name then I guess parents get an automated ring saying I called do they want to answer.

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I no longer have a house phone since VM decided I no longer need one.We all have our mobiles now.As a consequence I just don't get nuisance calls anymore.Much easier to block idiots on a mobile.

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Need to get a pack of wood cutting blades for the saws all. It came with a wood blade but if I only have the one it's guaranteed to break the moment it touches anything. If I get a pack of spares it'll last forever. :rolleyes:

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The Last of Us PC version.
Possibly the worst optimised game I have ever played. When I can play it. Latest graphics driver and the game crashes. It also crashed on the driver I had before which was 2 versions earlier.

When I can play it I move through the game and then randomly I get a "please wait" notification and the screen freezes and loads to catch up. I am sure this will be fixed in an update and I hope NVidia release a new driver asap. Their last but 1 driver killed Hogwarts Legacy for a large number of people

Been really looking forward to finally playing this game

Edit lots of people on Steam are crashing which is a good thing because it means it is not my end

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Just when you think things couldn't get any worse, youngest son already suffering from depression, phones to say he 'has done his neck in' woke up with horrendous pain in the neck area. Saying it must be because he was lying the wrong way in bed? :(:(:(