As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

Gintotmelinda

back again...

Can anyone help? OH's Tom Tom stopped receiving the gps signal on Saturday. It keeps restarting and going round in a loop. He went into Halfords and they suggested he download updates which he did, reset it and followed the online instructions but no it keeps going round and round.

He is driving me mad with it and we don't know much about these gadgets.

Has anyone had this problem? At first we thought it was the solar flares that people were talking about, but it still doesn't work.

Any advice gratefully received before I stamp on it.........

Gintot

7_week_wonder

Hugs to JosieJump - I hope things get better for you.

HariboJunkie -I love your cooking journal, what a lovely thing for your children to have. We have something vaguely similar where I work. We have a Friday coffee and cake club, where everybody takes it in turns to bring in cake to share on a Friday afternoon. Most folk take great pride in producing something homemade and, as we have lots of international people here for short secondments, we an amazing variety of cakes. Then when someone leaves they get a card and a copy of the departmental cake book - basically a copy of all the recipes with a cover personalized to them. Cost to produce, next to nothing, but completely priceless.

I'm feeling a bit tearful tonight. It's a combination of being tired and talking to my mum. My nephew is calling in to see her tomorrow with his family. It will be the first chance for mum to meet her new great grandson, but then it occurred to me that dad never got to the new arrival. Bless him, dad loved being a great grandad: he had 8 great grandchildren and when each one was born he made an individual hand-made mobile featuring things special to that child. So the one with an Australian dad had a mobile with kangeroos etc - dad managed that even into his 90's!

Anyway to cheer myself up I've just been down the garden and harvested strawberries to have with our breakfast plus mint for my late evening pot of tea.

Pink.

Gintotmelinda wrote: »

back again...

Can anyone help? OH's Tom Tom stopped receiving the gps signal on Saturday. It keeps restarting and going round in a loop. He went into Halfords and they suggested he download updates which he did, reset it and followed the online instructions but no it keeps going round and round.

He is driving me mad with it and we don't know much about these gadgets.

Has anyone had this problem? At first we thought it was the solar flares that people were talking about, but it still doesn't work.

Any advice gratefully received before I stamp on it.........

Gintot

Hi Gintot,

If you ask on the Techie Stuff board you might find someone who is able to help.

Pink

Gintotmelinda

Thanks Pink will do.

Gintot

scottishminnie

kidcat wrote: »

have called trading stds but as it was after 5pm they were shut, but I will try again tomorrow. As far as I am concerned its fraud, plain and simple.

Kidcat - have you thought about posting this info on the "praise, vent and warnings" board. Maybe if you posted with a heading of "Customers who visited Ikea xxxx store on 30th June " it would alert some people who may have been there - then again maybe it's a nationwide problem.

I certainly wouldn't let it go either. That's Ikea down at the bottom of my list along with Boots (nothing to do with the Swiss thing, more to do with the moron in charge who quite frankly couldn't run a bath and demonstrated that very well by bankrupting a UK bank first).

smileyt_2

Hi ladies! Hugs to those of you who need them - Reverbe, your post sticks in my mind but I have been ill since then (very low with depression) and just skimming, but I know a lot of you are having a tough time. I won't insert the dodgy hug smiley though!

A question. Can anyone help my save my soup? It's horrible but I don't want to throw it away. It has: a few slivers of dried onion, passata, a butternut squash, a stockcube and haricot beans in it, plus of course water. Done in the slow cooker. On paper it sounds quite nice, but I just don't like it. It's too 'sharp' and oniony. Is there anything (vegan) that I can put in it that might redeem it? A pinch of sugar, or some kind of herb? I forced myself to eat some because I didn't want to waste it, and I was hungry, but I didn't particularly relish it. So if there are any soup goddesses reading this, please offer me some advice!

I am shocked at the IKEA thing - I thought they were supposed to be a reputable company! Could Martin put something about it in next week's email (who would be able to let him know about this?) or would he be open to being sued? Name and shame, I say!

lizzyb1812

scottishminnie/kidcat - I was thinking something on those lines too. The combined buying power of subscribers to MSE emails and especially those who come onto the forums must be enormous. And savvy high street organisations must be becoming aware of that. Whilst we can't say "Martin Lewis will be looking into this" we can say "I'm going to post on the Money Saving Expert forums about this". Big organisations are wary of adverse publicity. Ikea are currently running TV ads about their sale with up to 75% off and making you 75% happier - not if you're overcharged on your card and as a result go over your credit limit

I'm not talking about an organised campaign or anything like that - I'm just saying that as consumers, if we repeatedly show that we will not be trodden on like this, then there is an opportunity to make them change their behaviour.

OK - off soapbox and back to la la land :rotfl:

Lizzy

lizzyb1812

Smileyt - when I make BNS soup I always add curry powder and a teensy bit of sugar - sounds like your soup might benefit from them. Mind you I 'm not a soup goddess, more a soup dragon - remember her on the Clangers? :rotfl:

Lizzy

zippychick

smileyt wrote: »

Hi ladies! Hugs to those of you who need them - Reverbe, your post sticks in my mind but I have been ill since then (very low with depression) and just skimming, but I know a lot of you are having a tough time. I won't insert the dodgy hug smiley though!

A question. Can anyone help my save my soup? It's horrible but I don't want to throw it away. It has: a few slivers of dried onion, passata, a butternut squash, a stockcube and haricot beans in it, plus of course water. Done in the slow cooker. On paper it sounds quite nice, but I just don't like it. It's too 'sharp' and oniony. Is there anything (vegan) that I can put in it that might redeem it? A pinch of sugar, or some kind of herb? I forced myself to eat some because I didn't want to waste it, and I was hungry, but I didn't particularly relish it. So if there are any soup goddesses reading this, please offer me some advice!

I am shocked at the IKEA thing - I thought they were supposed to be a reputable company! Could Martin put something about it in next week's email (who would be able to let him know about this?) or would he be open to being sued? Name and shame, I say!

I second the curry idea. I would also add some red lentils bring it to the boil and simmer until they are cooked. Apple goes well with curried BNS soup too

lizzyb1812

Zippychick - was just going to edit my post to say try adding apple - thanks

lizzy