London Socialite Sees The Light

Horace

Sorry to hijack @Erme have you though of visiting Approved Food? This website sells cheap fruit & veg as well as on date/end of lines stuff - useful for store cupboard items like flour, cereals etc.

LG - you are doing well, I had my 2 min silence this morning and switched the tv on so I could see Big Ben and hear the bongs. Some annoying little twit decided to ring me at 11am but I ignored my phone - some people have no shame!! I am wearing my poppy with pride today and nipped out earlier today to place two poppy wreaths on two graves (I always do this well before 11am).

TJ - you will be great with your nephew, I never had any kids and just don't know how to react to them..they are alien beings where I am concerned lol. I had to look after my cousin's little boy once and got roped into taking him camping for a long weekend in Dorset, he got taken to Monkey World and at one point when he played up I did tell him that I would leave him behind in a cage and take one of the orangs home with me:D Still he was taken to the shop and a toy monkey was purchased which he immediately christened Edgar. After that Edgar had to do everything that we did including going sailing because he screamed blue murder when I said that the man with the boats would look after him whilst we went for a sail - man with boats got a plastic bag and a bit of string and made a 'life jacket' for Edgar so that he could come too - thankfully Edgar did not fall in the sea:D This was at a time when his mum was seriously ill in hospital so I had been tasked with taking him away for a break...imagine my horror, what to do with a 3 year old that kept asking questions.:eek:

Erme

No worries horace...tis cool...

Yeah heard of AF before my frugal fall out (now 3/4 of them have iggied me. Least said the better. Part paranoia...part them glorying in how little they can spend and then chiding me for silly stuff when I know what I'm doing - eg. the e-cig cos it's different to the one x's daughter had or like the kindle I bought a year ago because I needed to reduce my library and most of the books in my library were free via archive.org) but it's actually no cheaper for than aldi....and aldi is just 15 mins on the bike...

I have M's, S's, Mr C, Mr A and Mr Al within a short distance. I should be able to get the late night bargains but so often I don't!! Unless it's Mr S local late at night (good for milk @ 25p or so a litre :j). Okay so Mr A and Mr Al are 15-20 minutes on the bike and if it snows I won't be able to use the bike but still. (I have good panniers that I need and a shopping trolley I sewed ladybirds onto from a cheap pair of PJ's. Had the trolley about 10 years. Gets near enough a whole week's food shop in)...

Also alas we've only had one lift for the last 3 months and it's minute so that's ruled out cycling (fearing the pushchairs. No way can you get my bike in with the push chairs. Not least when it's laden LOL like a horse)....Such is the joys of social housing tee hee....I think the lift is now fixed but last night it looked like the other one was down so I don't know..

I was bad last night and got two packets of frozen veg for £1.50 from Local....it was cheaper than buying a shrink wrapped (hate wrapped veggies...you pay for the cellophane I'm sure!!!) broccoli...leeks were even more expensive and well out of budget :eek:...

Need to go down Mr A and Mr Al this pm if the weather is good (and I can get my tyres pumped up ) for soup (tomato - cheap about 20p a can - cupboard staple), tinned pots (cos that's enough for one person and they keep longer than others and are cheap) and flour from Mr. Al for baking....

Anyhow have a party this am (free and free food) so must go now and make a card etc...

Blessings

E

LondonGirl252

It's all going wrong, I'm so gutted. This morning my phone was found at the bottom of a bucket full of water. I was so tired having been woken up during the night then at the yard by 6 and I was washing my horse and realised my phone wasn't to be seen. I must have but it in the bucket with the sponge or something.

Anyway it will be beyond repair. I'm tied in to a contract for another 18months at £25 pm, I have emailed friends to see if they have a spare handset and Im shopping around for deals but that phone has my whole life on it, calendar, pictures, contacts... Im hoping the sim card will work and most of it should be there but im just so gutted.

To add to my frustration, I came home to find my flatmate had used my all my washing liqui-tabs, I thought they had been disappearing so he's used loads and now i cant do my washing and i have to buy more thus ruining my NSD. In future Im keeping them in my room.

Also I think Im going to be involved with a grievance with HR. I was bullied by my last boss in the same company and had raised it with HR but the manager at the time did nothing. I have since moved jobs and am doing really well and my boss is pleased with me. We had an anonymous employee survey this week where I took the decision to write my experience and I did name the team involved so I understand this will be traced back to me and I accepted that as I clicked send. Last night I was at drink with 2 of my HR friends and they feel that its wrong of them to know what happens in the team without taking it to a senior manager, and I do agree as I would do the same.

What this manager is doing is wrong and it does need to be escalated but I'm worried how this will impact me, i don't want to be dragged through a dispute, I just want to carry on in my new job learning and working hard for a good manager. Am I doing the right thing? I don't think I'll have a choice and I have and will continue to stick to facts and tell the truth but Im a bit worried now and wonder if i should have kept my mouth shut.

Sigh

satchmo1

Hi

Just to say, I escaped from an evil director boss (known in our house as QB = queen btch), being the 6th PA in 4 years to resign/move. QBs just been taken through grievance by 7th PA, CEO's decision was, on appeal, deemed to be too harsh, so she's still there. My current post is only until January, and I don't know what will happen after that. Everyone knows what QBs like, from reception to CEO, but nothing gets done. "We value people" is apparently on a sliding scale.

I'd keep my head down after that experience (I had to give a witness statement, but most people didn't stand up and be counted).

Satchmo

Erme

Och sorry to hear of your dead phone... and your horrid boss. Sorry I have no words of wisdom re the boss but I can offer hugs (((((((((((((((((((((((socialite)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))


Now re phone
Maybe pack it in rice and leave out to dry and it might work? I heard that on facebook a wee while ago.....I think that's what you do - someone correct me if I'm wrong...

Well sun is out and only one lift working but still am going to brave the pushchairs and get out to the shops on my bike :j...

Simply has to be done if i want to bake on Monday (which I do )...snickerdoodles (sugar cookies) or as I call them 'how to win friends and influence ppl cookies'. Google for a recipe...you can't beat 'em

Also realising my bubble bath is awfully low and need 3 cans of tomato soup and some cheap tuna methinks (maybe the tuna can wait till Tuesday

And some cheap lemonade (Mr Al again)... cos it's Sabbath tomorrow and like Sabbaths are always NSD's for me :T

E

LondonGirl252

Thanks for the advice Satchmo, sorry you've been through it too, it's horrible.

Thanks for the hugs Erme, phone is in rice on the radiator, I will take it out tomorrow and hope for the best. In the meantime a friend is bringing round a phone for me to try my SIM card in. I just need my calendar, it has my life on it!!!

Hope the shopping went well! I went to Mr S and stuck to budget, bought necessities so hopefully tomorrow can be a NSD for me too.

Erme

Half of A*** was down there!!!. Am sure of it...queuing to get to the main junction (on the slip road) pre Mr A then a queue after (which I just cycled up the centre line :j) to get into Mr. A...

And some numpty tried his luck on my bike again. This time trying to yank the seat off in 2 secs...fortunately it didn't come off that easily. Lesson learnt. Mr. A on a Saturday pm = bad news for my bike..

And the stuff weighed a tonne!!! Had a job carrying it to the bike. Also had such a sugar craving I had one of those caffeine drinks from Mr. Al :eek: ..sure I won't sleep tonight now

So this is what I got...

3x 40p (bubble bath)
3x 24p (tomato soup)
1 x59p (500ml of nice shampoo @ Mr Al cos they didn't have any cheap stuff at Mr. A)
2 x 52p (for 1.5kg ea of flour Mr Al)
2 x 39p (for Mr Al lemonade)

this is the end of me buying lemonade...weighs a tonne. On Monday or Tuesday I'm going somewhere to buy diluting squash :j....the double concentrate stuff....

Total (correct me if I'm wrong) 4.33 + 0.3 for the caffeine drink - so total =4.63...

I had £6 to last me till Tuesday so that leaves £1.37 for any extras I need for baking

And a very tired me...

E

ZTD

LondonGirl252 wrote: »

It's all going wrong, I'm so gutted. This morning my phone was found at the bottom of a bucket full of water. I was so tired having been woken up during the night then at the yard by 6 and I was washing my horse and realised my phone wasn't to be seen. I must have but it in the bucket with the sponge or something.

Anyway it will be beyond repair. I'm tied in to a contract for another 18months at £25 pm, I have emailed friends to see if they have a spare handset and Im shopping around for deals but that phone has my whole life on it, calendar, pictures, contacts... Im hoping the sim card will work and most of it should be there but im just so gutted.

There are 3 parts to your phone. There's the SIM which gets you onto your network provider, an SD card which holds (usually) all your pictures and ringtones etc, and there is the phone itself.

The SIM should be fine - they're cased in a small slab of epoxy resin, so simple imersion is unlikely to damage them. The SD card is the same. I believe someone recovered somebody's holiday photos from one via a journey through the intestines of a shark, so they're pretty tough.

The phone is a different matter. Strip it down as far as you can (battery out, case off, if it comes out, it's out) and stick it somewhere warm (like an airing cupboard) for at least a week. Go in every day and shake the water out of it.

You might get away with it.

LondonGirl252 wrote: »

To add to my frustration, I came home to find my flatmate had used my all my washing liqui-tabs, I thought they had been disappearing so he's used loads and now i cant do my washing and i have to buy more thus ruining my NSD. In future Im keeping them in my room.

Can you not leave them where they are and inject urine into them?

LondonGirl252 wrote: »

Also I think Im going to be involved with a grievance with HR. I was bullied by my last boss in the same company and had raised it with HR but the manager at the time did nothing. I have since moved jobs and am doing really well and my boss is pleased with me. We had an anonymous employee survey this week where I took the decision to write my experience and I did name the team involved so I understand this will be traced back to me and I accepted that as I clicked send. Last night I was at drink with 2 of my HR friends and they feel that its wrong of them to know what happens in the team without taking it to a senior manager, and I do agree as I would do the same.

What this manager is doing is wrong and it does need to be escalated but I'm worried how this will impact me, i don't want to be dragged through a dispute, I just want to carry on in my new job learning and working hard for a good manager. Am I doing the right thing? I don't think I'll have a choice and I have and will continue to stick to facts and tell the truth but Im a bit worried now and wonder if i should have kept my mouth shut.

Sigh

Actually if they call it an anonymous survey, and it isn't then the Office of the Information Commissioner would probably be interested.

LondonGirl252

@ Erme you deserve to put your feet up now!!

@ZTD

Thanks for your post. Will do exactly as you say re phone. We don't have an airing cupboard but it is currently in bits on a towel on the radiator. A friend is bringing an old handset of his round later so hopefully my sim will work in that for a week. In the meantime i have something new to save my tenners for! I can get a more basic blackberry for around a hundred (broken one is a blackberry torch) so i have a new challenge to save ten £10's

I actually laughed out loud at your second comment! Cheered me right up

Thanks, I really want management to realise what a problem there is in that team (in the space of a few months 5 have left, one girl lasted in my old job for just 3 weeks) and in my survey I stuck to facts, kept it objective not personal, didn't name names other than the team name and just stated the worst incidences and what it was like to work in the team, so I don't feel I can get into trouble but I just don't want to be dragged through a complaint. We'll see

Thanks for your post

ZTD

LondonGirl252 wrote: »

A friend is bringing an old handset of his round later so hopefully my sim will work in that for a week. In the meantime i have something new to save my tenners for! I can get a more basic blackberry for around a hundred (broken one is a blackberry torch) so i have a new challenge to save ten £10's

Make sure you're janked your SD card out (It's probably under the battery next to the SIM) and give that a try in the new phone as well. You may have all your photos on that.