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Re: Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻
Indeed - understandable but rather vexing. Anyway, I didn't write my list, and here I am in the Internet 😬 but the day is still young! MORNING ⭐ yoga ⭐ washing on & hung up ⭐ banking and…7 -
Re: Winter Wonders
The winter tomato plants 😁😊5 -
Re: Parking stories in the News/media
Another day, another faulty ANPR set up trousering money in breach of the DPA 2018, GDPR, the KADOE rules for 'reasonable cause' and the ICO Camera Surveillance Code. And oh look, it's…6 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
Hi folks, I am still reading but no decluttering with the exception of lots of money. Mehefin, wow! what a cautionary tale. We have a fire ( which has been lit twice) which came with a state of the a…15 -
Re: February 2026 Grocery Challenge
Evening all, I'm miles behind in reading but a quick congratulations to @thriftwizard's mother and commiserations to @jivjules1 over hospital visiting. A quick and dirty roundup updating my…8 -
Re: Starling bank gave details of my finances in an unsecure email
I think the claim that you need to include transfers between different accounts in your name as income is nonsense. The complaint about their failure to process your personal data in accordance with …8 -
Re: February 2026 Grocery Challenge
So 2;x Aldi shops this week to top up snacks for GC really. £47.00. Basically I have been throwing money at getting us through me and DH being poorly and having 3 Grandsons staying. Mad really. DH an…6 -
Re: Starling bank gave details of my finances in an unsecure email
It's only 16 months since the FCA fined Starling £29M for "shockingly lax" failings in their processes around screening their customers and their transactions. Maybe they are being rat…6 -
Re: Starling bank gave details of my finances in an unsecure email
Your complaint about financial information being sent by email seems justified, and being happy to accept email correspondence doesn't signify acceptance of sensitive data being included therein…5 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
Good Morning MFW'rs Well, our planned day out with a chum today has been curtailed, due to the weather. We haven't had anything like the weather forecast, but we have had a little more rain…8







