MSE Parents Club Part 11

tiamai_d

Are you going to tell him when it is?

My BIL failed 6 times due to nerves, so in the end the driving instructor booked it (his mum paid) and just announced one lesson 'test time!', he passed because he didn't have time to get nervous.

I'm so awesome that I passed first time Though I have a wee suspicion that I really just blew him off and forgot about it...

SusanC_2

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

The systems are woefully inadequate in general...and a case such as yours would need an experienced Benefits Officer to work on it...potentially for days at a time (these things aren't as easy as they seem) but they are there nonetheless and I hate the idea that there are millions and millions of pounds going unclaimed because people are distrustful of the system / find it to be too much hard work as much as I hate the millions and millions of pounds that gets claimed fraudulently each year.

What concerns me is all the people who aren't as belligerant and articulate as me who get diddled by the system. That was the main reason I made such a fuss when they stopped our benefit without telling us - we were okay because we had enough savings to ensure that cashflow wasn't an issue but a lot of people on those benefits probably don't have any kind of buffer. (And I would agree that ours was a particularly complicated case.)

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

It is just a sad state of affairs - the money doesn't go anywhere more deserving if it doesn't come to you, the government use it to pay bankers bonuses

:rotfl: But you're probably right.



Cheese - Alice would eat cheese till it came out of her ears given half a chance. Brie is her favourite. (Which is good when you keep picking it up reduced in the Coop at £2.45/kg.)

tiamai_d

vsh, I can't even get logged in to PP to check my order status! Those !!!!!!!s!

Buttonmoons

Yeah lol Tia, I told him and he's moaning about it not being within 6 weeks, but hey, you get what your given, if he is that bothered he can go invent a time machine and go back 2 months ago when his instructor told him to book it in the first place!

elle_gee

Just spotted these online - Asda maternity nursing vest, only £5

tiamai_d

Was he not told it's a 6 week wait? I was told that so I booked it, that way I just had to get good enough.

Buttonmoons

He was indeed told it was a 6 week wait, but it's more like 9 weeks now!! Actually more like 10! That's shocking really!

He has been good enough for weeks, he is just utterly bone idle and has no iniative to do anything off his own back.

Told him he'd be a fool to be taking lessons EVERY week until the test, waste of money? But no no no, he doesn't want to "forget" anything, I said well do a lesson every fortnight. Nope he says. Fine, waste your money. I don't care.

elle_gee

Free sample and voucher for a full pack of Pampers Underjams, anyone?
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Krystaltips

Mfd, I have samsung wires if you wanted to fetch one? Although the fairies might get to you quicker than I can be bothered to hunt one out

Had a letter from the NHS inviting me to a health promotion thing about services I've accessed... I spoke to a bunch of people, had my voice recorded and was video'd... Still not entirely sure what it was about either!!

Caitlyn's in a rotten mood... She was asleep until we got to the front door and then the gob!!!!! next door woke her up... How long until bedtime?

And my fresh chicken breast is slightly icy in the middle... Am I going to give us all salmonella if I bung it in the oven and cook it to death? (The cat tried to run off with a little chipolata... I'll give that one to Dave )

Becles

SugarSpun wrote: »

Becles our butcher does everything but the knocking the animals on the head bit on his premises but will order special meat in if you ask, and makes a [STRIKE]killing[/STRIKE] fortune. It's all organic, completely traceable, and word of mouth plus all the awards he has displayed in the window means that he has lots of regular business. It helps however that we're in a city centre location and a relatively affluent city at that; I can't see his shop succeeding when his entire client base are on benefits and trying to stretch the money further than it wants to go.

That sounds like what the farm I was looking at for meat supplies do, but their farm shop is in the countryside and at the end of a very long track, so they don't get passing trade.

Was writing as if I was opening the shop in our village, which is mainly owner occupied housing and working families.

Benefits - claimed Income Support when my ex left me until I found a job. I had no idea about benefits, so I went to the social security office and asked what I could claim. They said Income Support, so that is all I claimed. It was an incredible struggle as it wasn't really enough to live on.

It wasn't until I registed on here later that I realised I could have claimed all sorts of things like council tax benefit, mortgage interest, free school dinners, free milk as James was under 5 and so on. It's a shame the social security office people didn't tell me about all of that as it would have really helped. Luckily I got a job within 3 months though.

That's awful about the dead body story. Must have been awful for the airport staff when they realised.

Cheese - we all love it here, the stronger the better. Craig prefers cheese to dessert so he loves a cheeseboard for special occasions.

My doctors phoned and I'm going to see the ENT consultant on the 7th May. Hopefully they'll be able to find out what is causing all the snot and sinus pain.