Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

vivatifosi

LydiaJ wrote: »

My fire extinguisher course was unusual then. They had a huge tray of oil that they kept setting on fire, and then each of us in turn had to put it out with the CO2 extinguisher. Actually, come to think of it, I've done that twice - once at a university and once at a school.

My husband trains fire safety and he was appalled at the online course I took as he said there are certain fire extinguishers that you have to hold in certain ways or you can do yourself some damage. Fortunately these are not extinguishers I come into contact with.

However if I do come into contact with fire, being told to point the extinguisher at the base of the flames may have come in handy too.

He was similarly perplexed when I told him about the bomb threat info I got from one place of work, which said you should get close and smell the package - he said "have they ever heard of anthrax" - before pointing out that nowhere did it say to call the police:rotfl:. Putting your face up to a live bomb is probably never a good idea!

I wonder if the people who write this things are people that have desk jobs, rather than actually working with the practical implications of safety.

vivatifosi

GRRR!!!! HMRC....

As you know I did my tax return about a week before the due date. One of the questions was how much tax do you think you underpaid? I filled out that box as well as my rationale (ie I should have paid income tax on this at x%), they gave me a rebate and treated it as though I overpaid tax. I have re-read the form. It definitely says how much tax did you underpay? So I have now had to correct it and in taking the value out I now owe them money, but not what they gave me in error, much less. None of this makes any sense! The system is screwed. I guess I can look forward to spending even more time on the phone to them tomorrow when I can get to a phone in working hours. Oh joy!

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

My fire extinguisher course was unusual then. They had a huge tray of oil that they kept setting on fire, and then each of us in turn had to put it out with the CO2 extinguisher. Actually, come to think of it, I've done that twice - once at a university and once at a school.

Everyone should have a go at that

BertieUK

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, not entitled to those ... and because I have savings of £16k not entitled to anything. Could go down the WTC route, except I couldn't face the paperwork etc. No idea how much WTC would yield - I figure probably £5/week so not worth even bothering.

Our family have been caught in this situation for the past four years whereby our savings dropped below 16K due to the sale of our previous home at the time of the credit crunch, the time when my poor MIL suffered from Alzheimer's disease, where we had to use all of our savings to meet the price differences between the home we were selling and the one we finally bought (the one that we have up for sale at the moment) gets complicated I know.

So we had to fill in endless forms to varify where our monies had gone in order to get help with Council Tax etc.

It can be a very stressfull time having to declare all about your personal affairs by filling in these forms about your personal life and I can understand what you you are saying (pn) it is so annoying that people like ourselves who have never claimed a penny should be put through these difficult times when other people who have just spent every penny they have ever earned just have monies delivered by the postman every week. Grrr.

Doozergirl

I think you have a point there, Bertie. Perhaps, PN, you would solve a few problems by taking the decision to buy again. You would have security of tenure, not have to worry about finding rent and then have the option to claim some benefits, if the situation felt bad enough for you.

I worry that you put yourself in the position of a much younger person who can deal with uplift and turmoil, or even chooses it! Not to say that you don't cope, I have great admiration for you and I think you cope far better than many people without any form of speshulness would.

Some consistency would benefit you; would benefit anyone.

I'm saying because I do care and I know how living in an unpredictable situation for a while affected me a couple of years ago. It broke my heart, really.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

I can get that site, but it just links to iplayer, which won't let me watch directly.

Managed to watch live TV via the iPad and VPN, which is good enough for now. Will be buying a cheap TV and plugging the iPad into it soon.




This one now requires payment to watch tv in another country, which is effectively what a VPN does.

Can I suggest you check the software in this post here which might help?

Hope you have a good time. Is the TV system different over there ( I don't suppose that matters if you've got a lappy).

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

Cross posted.

It looks lovely, congratulations on the anniversary. How many years?

It's called Hartwell House. Owned by the National Trust. It's just over an hour from where we live in N London. It's not quite as countrified as it looks, as it's about 3 miles from Aylesbury.

33 years.

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

What did you do to get one of those?

I simply turned 60.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

I read it as the battery was specifically excluded....

Ah, because near the top it says "Non-Covered Parts" and then lists a number of items, not including the battery? Later on, the battery is specifically mentioned under "Electrical Accessories".

I'd give them an extremely unhappy half hour in the county court over that layout if they tried to defend an action.

Sale of Goods Act is a bit more problematic. The battery tottered along for a few weeks, and with a secondhand car like that you have to expect that a few of the consumables are near the end of their lives.

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

I think you have a point there, Bertie. Perhaps, PN, you would solve a few problems by taking the decision to buy again. You would have security of tenure, not have to worry about finding rent and then have the option to claim some benefits, if the situation felt bad enough for you.

I worry that you put yourself in the position of a much younger person who can deal with uplift and turmoil, or even chooses it! Not to say that you don't cope, I have great admiration for you and I think you cope far better than many people without any form of speshulness would.

Some consistency would benefit you; would benefit anyone.

I'm saying because I do care and I know how living in an unpredictable situation for a while affected me a couple of years ago. It broke my heart, really.

Obviously PN knows her own mind but in the same positon I would want to rely on myself and my own savings. Purchase a property and you are then tied to jobs in one area rather than able to travel to where the work is and with the savings tied up in property (less up to a max of 6k for benefits reasons if this can be afforded) there is not a very big cushion to survive on if employment and online income are not available. Plus I suspect benefits are probably lost almost 1 for 1 for any online income?