Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

silvercar

Pobby wrote: »

I dunno. Just in plonker mode today. Got quite a decent pension in under 4 years, just don`t want to eat into it. I was reading the happiness thread about earning £35k a year. I was earning more than that a few years back. Mad , but I was bunging nearly 20k a year into pensions then and because of my wifes illness she was unable to work.
Ignore me, being silly.

Vent all you like.

Sounds like you have been sensible by putting into a pension. 4 years is not long if you know that the pension will be there waiting for you.

I too read the 35k thread. It may buy you happiness if you start out from that point, but if your lifestyle has been funded by a higher income it would be difficult to scale back.

Bills landing this week: water £480, council tax £2500, car tax + insurance £400 + £550 (OH's ego car). I know they can go on DD but they still need paying.

carolt

silvercar wrote: »

Bills landing this week: water £480, council tax £2500, car tax + insurance £400 + £550 (OH's ego car). I know they can go on DD but they still need paying.

Hefty bills!

Do you have a water meter? That sounds like a stupendously high water bill, unless you've got loads of lodgers or take several baths a day?

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

That and a bit more. Think of the anger...like...um...a bit of lemon in something you don't want lemon tasting. (this isn't going to be my best analogy, I can tell you that now)You can dress it up and use it for good flavour, which is like using the anger to fue something in you life, you can try and disguise it, which will never work, which is like not accepting but ignoring: or you can just...not put the lemon in what you are cooking: otherwise everything takes an oh so subtle taste of lemon...its a taste that pervades the dish and you can't really ignore.

see, not brilliant.

Hey!:(

Nowt wrong with a bit of lemon. Is there?:(

Pobby

Yes the water meter arrangement worked for us. Cut the bills by about half.

mystic_trev

Pobby wrote: »

Yes the water meter arrangement worked for us. Cut the bills by about half.

Me too! First thing I did when I moved in January was look at the water bill. Large drink then onto the Water company to arrange a meter. Apart from the cost, I've travelled to many countries, where water is scarce. It makes you think before leaving a tap to run!

carolt

Yes, it's worked for us two, despite having 3 (presumably rather grubby ) children.

If you've got a smaller family than the size of your house would suggest, I think you're definitely onto a winner with metering.

Davesnave

Pobby wrote: »

Yes the water meter arrangement worked for us. Cut the bills by about half.

It wouldn't work for us. We're setting-up a plant nursery on a free-draining, south facing site! If they put one on us, we will seek an agricultural exception, and if that doesn't wash, we'll either sink a borehole or abstract from the stream.

Trouble is, the water board got to the stream first. According to local lore, it once ran very freely until said organisation 'did something' when the new main went in. At dry times, like this, it is just a trickle.:(

JonnyBravo

Davesnave wrote: »

At dry times, like this, it is just a trickle.:(

Dry times like this??

Sure it's been dry a couple of weeks but we're hardly in high summer and it's been a wet winter. Sounds like you'd struggle to take any meaningful amounts from that "stream".

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Dry times like this??

Sure it's been dry a couple of weeks but we're hardly in high summer and it's been a wet winter. Sounds like you'd struggle to take any meaningful amounts from that "stream".

No, its dry. The fields are brown and yellow. We were all commenting on it on the way up to Birmingham at the weekend. In fact, to day I came past a little valley wih atrickle stream, that normally rages at this time of year. The grass around it seems dayglow green to the brown/yellow in the dip surrounding it, that is normally wet and marshy and verdant at this time of year.

Not that I'm complaining ATM, I've really needed the dry spell, and the freeze/snow was good for us here too. But it is very right what Davesnave says: for the area he and I are in anyway...

tonight its sarted to very lightly drizzle, perfect for me, a little growth should follow so long as its not too wet, when mud will be an issue, ruining the growth.

lostinrates

Did my bit for the spending figures today: in fact twice, I was buying something in , um...tk max, as a gift and got charged twice, once on one card which showed and rejected...went outside to find out what the problem was they told be it had gone through....seems to be a tortuous procedure to try and resolve...its going to take 10 days

sorry LJ, no boots, and of course I love lemon


this is what I bought for me (the main thing:)
http://www.kurtgeiger.com/online-shop/128173-carvela-geranium