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  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Personally, just my thinking, it's probly a waste of time trying to make up pension contributions because they'll change everything again later on. It's like the carrot on the stick under the donkey's nose.. sods.
    I worked full time since youngest hit high school and my pension is £101.
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    :( On the downside it is apparently Very Cold outside. On the upside, it isn't snowing and hasn't snowed since yesterday, at least on the bit if the world visible from my window.

    I've got to go to work but not for a while so can plan around on the interwebulator for a bit.

    Folks are getting good use out of the Y*xTrax I got them for Xmas 2011, one of the many things I never heard of until hanging out on MSE - heard on the winter prep thread and checked them out then bought them for self and parents and the brother.

    Expect the city pavements will be glassy. What typically happens on the most trodden streets is that snow gets squashed down and then freezes and you have a greyish white icy surface which can stay for days without any further additions and is an absolute deathtrap.

    It's all ages at risk, too. Saw a man of about 20 the other year who'd slipped and banged his head. Blood pouring down his face. He was trying to get up and off and a load of concerned passers-by where trying to get him to wait til the ambulance could get there and check him out. Better to be safe than sorry with head wounds.

    If you're out and about by car or on your feet, keep safe, lovely people. And if you're indoors, best to stay there in the warm.
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  • Popperwell
    Popperwell Posts: 5,088 Forumite
    If I stay indoors today, I think I need to put my gloves on...its my hands that are feeling cold.
    "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson

    "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda
  • Hi all not feeling good today cant sleep at night and finding it hard doing the morning routine with the kids had 2nd interview at the job centre yesterday, another tomorrow then sign on tuesday! Claim still not srted and have bills coming out on the 28th so anxious about this, estranged husband was supposed to come and see the kids yesterday but didnt bother and said he would come at the wkend he has seen them less than an hour in 2 weeks. Ive got more job applications coming through the post and im ringing around this morning to look for more jobs. I posted on the benefits and tax credits board and received a helpful reply then a really rude one, how can people talk to other people like this from the other side of a computer when the dont even know them? x
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  • Own_My_Own
    Own_My_Own Posts: 6,098 Forumite
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    Hi all not feeling good today cant sleep at night and finding it hard doing the morning routine with the kids had 2nd interview at the job centre yesterday, another tomorrow then sign on tuesday! Claim still not srted and have bills coming out on the 28th so anxious about this, estranged husband was supposed to come and see the kids yesterday but didnt bother and said he would come at the wkend he has seen them less than an hour in 2 weeks. Ive got more job applications coming through the post and im ringing around this morning to look for more jobs. I posted on the benefits and tax credits board and received a helpful reply then a really rude one, how can people talk to other people like this from the other side of a computer when the dont even know them? x

    Try to ignore them. I posted on there once. Only said what I had been told at the benefits office. I never said I did what I was advised, and I got loads of abuse. One person was particularly nasty. I was accused of lying, being a scrounger, giving single parents a bad name. And I work, so god knows what abuse someone looking for work would get.
  • nuttyp
    nuttyp Posts: 2,035 Forumite
    hi missmucksmum, sorry youve had some nasty replies on another thread. Unfortunatly some poeple seem to get their kicks off being nasty. Would they say it to your face, i doubt it, they just have more brovado by using a sudonomous sp?? name and hiding behind it.

    I have to been on my own in the past with 2 kids, i also moved house some 6 weeks after he left me. New start and new house!! I only moved to be near my parents. Have you contacted any of the people you are due to pay, just to advise there may be a delay. If you inform then, maybe they will be a bit more understanding. Sorry i cant be of any more help than that.

    I think im right in saying, everyone on this thread is lovely and friendly. Also very helpful. Any problems we will try and listen and help if you need any.

    take care x
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  • katieowl_2
    katieowl_2 Posts: 1,864 Forumite
    edited 16 January 2013 at 11:19AM
    Morning....I'm home alone :j will stick the stereo of full blast in a minute and attempt to get my life in order! I'm still kind of moving stuff around the day after the market...cleaning my boxes and putting things away.

    DD came over last night, she was feeling cold and miserable (Her BF works evenings) and she was complaining that none of her clothes fit!!! I said that I was a bit surprised she couldn't get her trousers done up so soon (IIRC)? Managed to dig out some long tops and leggings as I'm a size or two up from her. Hope she's not got twins in there!!!

    She's heading off to the CAB this morning, to see what she should do now. We're hoping that they might help her fill in a council housing form better than she can herself. They've only recently moved into this place, on a six month contract, and the LL didn't want DSS or kids, and now there's a chance by the time they were due to renew they could be both! By then DD will be 7 months pregnant! Fingers crossed for DD. Rent here is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the UK, but even so on a low/limited income a struggle.

    I was just looking at the helicopter crash...grim - poor bloke. That's just a couple of miles up the river from where my Mum lives. It was her that told me this morning.

    Kate

    ETA I heard from my friend w. mental health problems last night. She has repossession date for her flat for 14/2/13 She's waiting to hear from council re accommodation but has been classed as vulnerable adult. She's also finally got DLA awarded! So I suppose both of those are 'good news' under the circumstances!
  • Thankyou no they wouldnt say it to my face and if they had said it to me at the same point I read their post this morning they wouldnt of looked to pretty after! and im not violent in the slightest they must just have a small w**** :) my JSA claim wont be sorted till monday at the earliest then payment will be issued I hope ctc will cover bills next week and the week after but nothing left for gas electric food etc if it comes to it I will have to cancel the direct debits on my online banking and then pay them when I have some money x I just feel totally crashed emotionally and sick of having to deal with everything I dont feel like doing anything right now other than ringing my husband who doesnt want to speak to me, I cant just turn my love off for him but know we cant be together with him drinking, I just wish he would stop and get the right help but know he wont. I feel a bit like a little kid stamping their feet because they cant get their own way! x
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  • Softstuff
    Softstuff Posts: 3,086 Forumite
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    Thanks Sevenup01. It's a good job Mardatha doesn't have your cat or there'd be a fight on for the sweeties.
    Popperwell wrote: »
    Well, some good news that it was not aggrevated by the jogging. Now if they can get the tumour sorted(I did not know about that)Anyone believe the things happen in threes?

    Softstuff, Hopefully you've had your three for the time being(perhaps the the third problem is something not mentioned on here)

    Well, it was aggravated by, but not caused by the jogging. The tumour's there as long as the leg is Pops most likely, but it's not malignant and behaves relatively well. As for the three, I think I had more than thirty last year, but I'm not superstitious that way. I'm choosing to think of the knee as being a "preexisting 2012 condition" that I've accidentally carried over to 2012 :rotfl:

    7WW, the physio I'm booked into is the office of the guy who deals with a lot of the Australian Olympic Athletes. Though I'm not seeing him, I'll see the second in command. The idea being she can either rehab me for being active again or prep me for surgery. We'll see what her inkling is next week. I'm not against surgery if necessary, I've an arthroscopy before (unrelated) and know it's not bad.

    Only thing is, I'm starting to feel like the guy who was in the Brittas Empire, always getting something wrong with him..... at least some sort of whingeing hypochondriac.
    Softstuff- Officially better than 007
  • stiltwalker
    stiltwalker Posts: 1,319 Forumite
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    Morning all.

    Katie - I had that very same panic with my first pregnancy - I was into maternity jeans by 9 weeks!!! as nothing else sat right or was at all comfy. Turned out that DD was just sitting low and did throughout. Apparently if you are slighter to start with you can also show earlier and as I prefer fitted jeans and trousers I was always going to grow out of stuff quicker anyway. You can get button extenders for trousers - basically a figure 8 of elastic with a button on one loop, so no reason you couldn't make your own and you loop one over the button and then do up new button in button hole IYSWIM. Obviously you do need nice long tops to hide the result but stretches clothes a bit longer too.

    Waiting for the phonecall to say car is ready - if I don't hear soon I'm going to have to phone them as unless we set off soon we'll not be able to go until tomorrow as have to be back for the kids' physio this afternoon.
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