make do and mend for tougher times

Mrs_Chip

Thanks Mar. Trying to put a brave face on - and it looks like insurance will pay out (we thought they might not as there is a sign that car park is liable to flooding), but we wont get a lot. Just so cross that we did not think it through and realise that we needed to move them sooner than normal :mad::mad::mad:.

Still I knoew a lot of peeps have had awful flooding of houses etc, so must count blessings, but I do wish I had bought some lucky heather!

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DENISE (Sunshine), I would be delighted to be called Lyn, it would make me very happy, Thank You so much, Cheers Lyn xxx.

fuddle

MrsC I've missed something, what has happened to your car?

mcculloch29

The day got better very fast after my last posting.

I had to apply for Disabled Person's Working Tax Credit again recently, I'd only just come off it after my income improved over the last two years.
Reading the small print, I didn't think I was eligible for exemption from prescription costs, but lo and behold a new exemption certificate arrived in the post today. I can only presume that my claim must have run on in some way. The other one expired in June.

I was avoiding my prescription painkillers and trying to manage the pain with diet and weight loss, (This is helping enormously, I should add). Now if I should need the stronger painkillers through the winter, I can now have them without blowing nearly a week's food budget on tablets. Also I can get dental treatment.

I was just kissing the certificate in the hallway (it's a credit-card sized bit of plastic) when the doorbell went. This was a free packet of posh biscuity-type things to test arriving (have to be a bit vague obviously).

Also on the doorstep was Vassily, my meerkat toy from Comparethemarket.
Vassily is the heavy metal meerkat and I'm thrilled with him. He has a 'Meerfest' t-shirt which features bands such as 'Vermin', 'Iron Meerkat' and 'Meertalica', a leather jacket and long fur over his collar, suggesting a mullet hairstyle. I've put him next to the bass guitar in my lounge (no room for it elsewhere) so that he feels at home.

I think my grandson might get him, as it's his birthday next month. That is, if I can bear to part with him.

Mrs_Chip

Was drownded dead Fuddle, in an exceptional high tide yesterday

katieowl_2

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Was drownded dead Fuddle, in an exceptional high tide yesterday

It was due to be the highest tide of the year anyway, and then there was all this flood water. Cardigan was flooded yesterday, twas the river by the castle, the highest water I've ever seen there... Sorry about your car :(

Kate

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Hello McCULLOCH, Hello VASSILY - how good is that for the new exemption certificate, congrats big time, and now be comfortable again. It's such an injustice that you have had to choose between pain relief and feeding yourself, so glad you don't have to do it any longer. And a free packet of biscuits AND Vassily!!! You must have done something good!!! Hope the rest of today is as good for you, Cheers Lyn xxx.

kidcat

MrsC - so sorry about the car but on a positive note better that you find out now when insurance can pay and not get it back for a few months and then have it die on you

katie - sounds like you are ready to fly with your little business

Fuddle - I hope you had a lovely cuddle with your nephew

Its been mega busy here again, was always going to be busy but DD6 came down with toothache. Which added loads to the list. It meant I took boys to schools, then did one meeting, left there picked up girls, dropped DD at college, collected DS14 and then we went to dentist. Dropped DS14 and DD6 at mums after dentist, raced back for another meeting, raced back again to pick up DD18 and down to collect DS8 from school. Back for dinner here and then another meeting at school tonight.

mcculloch29

Thanks Lyn (if I can call you Lyn?), that was very kind of you.

Vassily speak:- Thank for greeting, Madam Lurcherwalker. Since last posting by And, I discover new home await with DGS, as DD call on telemaphone. She have rehome meerkat teacher Maia also from Meerkovo and was disappoint not to have Vassily.

Back to me. It isn't quite an issue of 'drugs or food' to be fair, I think I would have got the tablets if I really needed them and given up the horse-share and cleaner, - which may happen anyway - but it's the fact that the tablets are so expensive that gets me.

We are lucky to have the NHS in any form I guess, and I shouldn't complain. I was just about to look into getting a yearly prescription certificate to save money and paying monthly, so I'm so pleased I didn't have to do that. I paid a fair whack of tax over the past few years, so I'm pleased to get back some of what I paid in.

Fuddle my DGD was talking about what she was cooking in food technology ("little cakes" apparently). They cook quite often from what I can gather. She also does quite a bit with my DD, and did some with me the other week That's at the comp. not too far from a certain very large Railway Museum (S, not D). Rhymes with 'moneyhail'.

A friend has just rung and is on her way over for coffee. Yippee!

missrlr

Hello Toughies.
First hugs to all in pain / unwell / under the weather and generally not happy, ear tickles and belly rubs to the animal lovelies in the same predicaments.
Doglet (JRT) and I had a morning under the duvet, I have lucked out and gathered a sicky bug. Feel a whole heap better this pm as I did this am thank goodness.
Took advantage and got a quiet appt at the V.E.T.s for Doglet for the annual jabs, those plus a pheromone diffuser thingy and some magic medicine for upset doggie tummies meant I walked out £90 lighter. Good thing the previous energy supplier has finally coughed up the credit balance of £54 today! Now to chase the £100 for the other energy type!
Other than that used today to mend a whole hep to bits on the side, so all clothes now have darns done, buttons replaced, holes patched as appropriate. Undoubtably something will not break tonight but for the exact moment of now, No Mending in the basket! Yippee.