The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

Memory_Girl

Wise words Souk - and sorry about the first one. The perfect one is just around the corner.

My breadmaker fell apart yesterday - the post that sits in the drive motor - well the end disc has come adrift. To replace the post they want more than I paid for the bread maker in the first place.

So I am taking this as my "Make Do and Mend" challenge - I think (from looking at the parts diagram) that I can reattach said disc with a washer and a slip ring. So I am off bearing my bread maker tin to a local motorbike repair shop where I am hoping they will have a box of bits for me to rummage through.

Daft thing is - its like one of my pets is poorly!!!

I am a woman on a mission - not spending £20 if I can fix it for a quid - £999 to go , remember? LOL

MG

groatie_queen

Lateral thinking, MG :T:T

Brought back a memory - years ago, a strut on my baby buggy broke, my husband thought it was for the bin but I took it to a garage and the guys pop rivetted it for me. It went on for years after that!

Well I'm now on annual leave :j:j. I've lined up a mix of nesting, socialising, and resting, so should get back to work on 3 Oct feeling I've made progress in the house, caught up with some dear friends, had a good time and fed my soul with some utterly delicious solitude too.

clairewop

Sounds like lovely plans Groatie

Good morning.

Well DH has gone VERY quiet since the mortgage application, didn't go as planned and I'm feeling bad that it's my fault, cause of my debts .

So today I'm going to have to evaluate my money and do some serious debt busting I think

Am needing some advice over the other side, will post in a minute, not about the house but another matter.

Firewalker

Guys, I do know that our personal woes are very important - to ourselves and to the Matrix. However, there is, I believe, a higher duty we have in this life and this is to our peer groups and to society as a whole.

Last night I found an article on the BBC website that enranged me enough to pulish the following on my tread:

"Did you read about that? The British Government intends to put a limit of 12 months to the benefits for terminally ill people; and this will get in force retrospectively. Which means that quite a few terminally ill people will find themselves without any funds either.

Have they gone mad? Have we become completely apathetic? We swallowed the increase in pension age (particularly for women; oh well, it make sense), we swallowed the talk about cutting funding to publicly funded services (NHS) without cut of front line services (yeah, right), we accepted the fact that our children will have to study abroad (our universities do not have the rpoduct to charge premium fees; our children will be much better studying in the US or Europe), and now we will not even notice the fact that Britain is sliding further into the abbys of primitivity.

What does this Government have to do for us to say 'this is enough!'? How long are we going to be fobbed off with tales of previous wrong?

Firewalker"

It is, regretfully, true and I believe we should colelctively do somethign about it. Living in this country is my choice and I refuse to watch the government passing under the radar disgraceful policies: we are all shafted but there are groups of people that are shafted much more than the rest. These groups also happen to be ones where the neo-liberal mantra - it is your own fault - doesn't hold. People dying from nasty illnesses not because of a fault of their own. !!!! just happens, and we pay higher taxes to ensure, as citizens, that single mothers, old people and ill people can be supported (and their families).

Writing to MPs is ineffective in this case - the bill is with the Lords. I suppose only a very strong, collective signal could make a difference.

How do you feel about picking a fight and how do we fight?

Firewalker

Memory_Girl

Erm I know a couple of Lords - shall I ask how we go about complaining? One is a medic and the other the ex-head of "5" so its worth a go. I wonder is the question we should be asking is "when are you going to open the Workhouses again?"

BTW - bread-maker fixed. 1 x 7mm cir-clip and a washer. Cost - pat on the head from the guy running the bearing shop for not running off and buying new machine.

For a working bread maker I am happy to patronised:D

MG

ETA Left a message for both. One is in Florence and no idea where Dr Bob is but hopefully he will get back.

clairewop

Thats awfull Firewalker, as you all know my BIL died of terminal cancer and if it wern't for dla and the other benefits, they wouldn't have managed. As my SIL took unpaid leave from work to look after him, he was ill for 2 years.

They are also cutting dla or trying too as well, so people like myself, who uses the money to help with care etcare going to be stuffed, Plus the people who are genuinly ill, who can't work, may be forced onto JSA.

Not sure how we fight it though, maybe a letter to them?

Bitsy_Beans

Wow so the fact that you've been given a terminal diagnosis isn't bad enough you really now ought to die within the 12 months before the money runs out. I have accepted that cuts were inevitable but this is not acceptable.

FW can you share the BBC link please, had a quick look on the main news page but couldn't see it.

clairewop

Shocking isn't it Bitsy

Memory_Girl

Found a human at the big Horse Bank to talk to - apparently I should have been receiving a schedule after every payment. He is off to take it up with the "Head Heid Yins" and hopefully I shall know exactly how much I still have to pay by the end of the day.

Fingers crossed for a low low number

MG

tellmeitsfriday

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Found a human at the big Horse Bank to talk to - apparently I should have been receiving a schedule after every payment. He is off to take it up with the "Head Heid Yins" and hopefully I shall know exactly how much I still have to pay by the end of the day.

Fingers crossed for a low low number

MG

I really can't believe someone just can't give you a number. It's almost like they were expecting you to fail so they didn't bother setting up a file for you!

Not good enough!

Do you perhaps feel a complaint of some kind coming on... maybe