make do and mend for tougher times

westcoastscot

Charlies Aunt I asked here about discretionary housing benefit for my clients when the BT was first mentioned, most of whom will be affected. Been told its a finite pot and very small :-). We're planning to support all our clients to apply - the paperwork process is lengthy and time-consuming for councils, so if nothing else it will "highlight" the scale of the problem. We've already been told though that just because you are willing to move and a smaller house is not available does not make you eligible. Also, for us the benefit is time limited to a short period to get over a particular hurdle.
I think for us it will be a case of pointing out that taking in a tenant would be a risk, leaving us with no other option. Of course the fact that folks I work with are losing their benefits hand over fist isn't going to help that arguement.
Don't mean to be a damper, and of course well worth a try.May be different elsewhere

WCS

GreyQueen

Good morning campers.

My gosh, but the thread was busy after I logged off last night. I find I have trouble sleeping if I run screen-time righ up to bedtime, so have to chill with a book or summat for a while first.

((((SDG))) that poor man, and his family and friends. Words are so inadequate at these times.

Jennie, what a shock with your daughter but it sounds like she had the A & E team thoroughly charmed. Fingers crossed that she will outgrow this without giving her parents any more grey hairs.

:j Fuddle - good woman. May your order be replete with peas at preferential prices or preferably predicatably pressaged on pricier peas at.....OMG, I can't alliterate at this hour, haven't had brekkie or my medication. Just ignore me, OK?

I'm going to have to get out along the cycle paths and commons on a blackberry hunt. I don't want shedloads as don't do jam but would like to have some for the freezer to flavour apple pies. I had high hopes of the season as the blossoms were prolific but something seems to have befallen the crop and there are a lot of wizened green ones which seem to have forgotten how to ripen.

Today's cunning plan involves working for most of the day and braving leg-pulling (OK, probable leg-pulling) by taking Jiffy into work so that I can head straight up to Sains afterwards. S isn't on my regular loop as it isn't on my route to anywhere else, so by going to work I will be part the way in the right direction.

Having ME and only your own two feet or a bicycle which has a maximum range of 2 miles (my energy quota) concentrates the mind wonderfully on energy-saving tactics. I could probably work in logistics.

OK, going to get some food down my neck now, hope everyone has a good day. Laters, GQ xx

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GQ - I have, thanks to your and Fuddles brave example decided to unearth my trolley from the depths of the understairs cupboard and join that valiant few, that band of brothers, those enlightened pioneers of 'non gorilla arms' and go to Mr.M's today for (hopefully) more YS items than lil ol me can carry!!!!!!!!! Ladies I have decided to come out!!!!!!!! Wish me luck, knowing me I'll get so much that I won't be able to lift the darned thing onto the bus!!!!! Have a good one all Cheers Lyn x.

mardatha

Hi and sorry I missed a WHOLE DAY and then I had to sit through 19 pages
- god you talk a lot. I myself am a very quiet wee thing
Fuddle, sit doon and STAY! on the internet you can be talking to anybody, people are not always what they seem and it takes time to suss out. I am 100% sure that we've had at least 3 posters in here over the years whose lives were entirely fictional. If anybidy has a go at me I answer once then totally ignore them cos I got much nicer folk to talk to and better things to do.
Hi Irish Mom, I envy you. I would move to the west of Ireland in a minute. Galway is the most fabulous place I've ever seen & my mum was from that area.
I got so tired of the RV being depressed and grumpy that I hauled him to a friend of mine who is a good medium and does sittings. He wasn't at all keen and I had to use a good deal of sneaky underhand deviousness but I very good at it :rotfl::rotfl: He came out a lot lighter and happier, got all his family up to and including his wee dog he had when he was 5.
I am staying in here ALL day today, on the floor knitting my sock and leeping an eye on you lot.

westcoastscot

Good advice Mar (you quiet wee thing ) - I try and ignore certain strands of conversation but then find I take umbrage on behalf of those I work with and out comes my soap box - not so bad as I used to be mind!

Going to try hard to stick to the personal. So, enjoy your day thread-watching - I shall be joining you today as I get ready for my road trip - off tomorrow up to Inverness and then over to Aberdeen - home on Monday, via a big supermarket (very exciting!). I was once in a supermarket in Dundee (T's) that sold sofas!!! I kid you not I just stood there with my jaw dropped - never seen anything like it!!!! You could buy anything there!!!! - must be so tempting though to part with your money.

Enjoy your day folks, WCS

mardatha

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Great visuals of us lot, formation flying down the road to the music of "633 squadron" with oor trolleys..

Mrs_Chip

OK, time to come clean! I am not a fat fifties with a new career in chip frying in the lovely west of Wales - I am in fact a gorgeous twenty-something with a figure to die for, living in the penthouse suite of my sugar daddy in Rio - sorry, my life is so shallow I had to create a more interesting life so that you lot would take me in!:rotfl:

Off out on a sort of jolly today, we have to go to Tenby to meet the organiser of the bash on the 19th, to check the location and sort out logistics. We are taking Mr & Mrs OG, so after business is done will spend the day swanning around like tourists . The weather is lovely at the mo, sun forecast for the day, so the knees might get an airing.

Might even have a fish and chip lunch - there is a famous chippy in Tenby, can't miss the chance of some research!

Hope everyone has a good day,whatever you are doing.

(((hugs))) for those who are going through it.

Sunshine4

Morning all,

Fuddle glad your staying.

Had a phone call from my aunt last night mother of the bride,by the way the bride is 35 aunt is 65 my dear dads youngest sister who is lovely.
She rang to say she was sorry how her daughter spoke to me.
I told her she does not have to do that she wasnt the one shouting down the phone.
I had been the fourth one to ring and cancel the room, so by then she was fed up and I got it.
I have sent a card to say we wont be going to the wedding, I will get a card and a gift voucher and sent that. As she had a list of presents she wanted in the invitation but all very dear so she can use the gift card towards one of those. Some of the presents were 500 pounds :eek:
Feel alot better that we have decided not to go.

The yellow ball is out this morning so washing is on the line and now bedding in in the WM so that will go out when done.
Have started to write a list of what food I would like to have in my cupboard and try and get some each week to build it up, most things seem to be going up weekly which is very scarey.

Mar My OH went to a medium last year but I dont think she was very good or was a real one. She keep asking him questions and never really told him anything he was so disappointed.:(

fuddle

19 pages in one day?! :rotfl:

You lot do make me laugh - where else can you read about testicles, mushy peas and 633 squadron in the same place

It's ma birthday today but better still Wartime Farm starts tonight :j I have the book as a prezzie from DH and the girls

House is an absolute tip (why does that happen in the 90 minute rush to get sproglets to school?) So I'm about to set to, then I'm getting a birthday lunch paid for as a treat by my friends and then back to take my mad mutley for a walk and try to get more blackberries for the freezer.

Think I must be hard hearted. All the other mams are crying 'cos their babies are going to school. I am not. My little one bounded in there full of excitement and looking forward to eating her packed lunch. I just can't be sad when I know she's so happy. Yes it's an end of an era but that's a good thing for me. Time for news chapters in our life - plus, more to talk about on an evening.

Off I go, Alfie is licking my new caramel and chocolate scented candle :cool:

Sunshine4

Happy Birthday Fuddle Have a lovely day

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Will being joining you tonight watching the Wartime Farm
Enjoy your book.