Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

BILLIE

Hi Lilt am sorry to hear that your mum's follow up op has been put back, but she must have her strength. Is it possible that Jelly could have picked something up whilst up there - has she had chicken pox? Hope all is well with you both xxxand am sending lots of hugs for you both and your mum. Lovely photo by the way just precious xxx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Sorry to hear about your Mum, and I agree, watch out for the pox with Jelly. Wishing good health to all.

Lovely photo :A Xx

liltdiddylilt

SS I actually super love you. That would be amazeballs. Apparently you have to sign up to this 'Unidays' website but it gets you discounts on tonnes of stuff, and (afaik) is free to sign up.

Penguin the more the merrier!! Welcome, we love lurkers turned posters in here. In the words of Our Cilla, "What's yer name, and where'd yer come from' - obviously the name is optional, and the place come to think of it. But any news on you that you would like to share is greatly received!

BILLIE & Lucky omg never thought ot chickenpox. She has been like it over a week now and no sign of it in her nursery. I think it is the weather and change in clocks. If she doesn't kick it this weekend I will take her to the doctors on Monday when I am off.

Had some horrid news. A letter from HMRC waiting for me. A demand notice for £257.40. No explanation, just a cheque payment slip. So upset. I tell them everything, the same day. They have done a renewal since the so called overpayment, so why now, just before Christmas.

NSD again - easy not to spend when all you do is walk to work piled high with food and walk back much lighter on the way home.

How is everyone doing? xx

supersaver1000

Aww. Okay. Will look soon.

Nasty HMRC. Bah humbugs.

I'm feeling slightly less tired tonight. I think my growth spurt has stopped. :rotfl:

Hopefully another good sleep tonight. Am going to see mummy Supersaver soon. Just me as I have to venture near for a meeting. Will be nice to be just the two of us, but slightly scary too. Mama-SSK1 has been unpredictable in the past, hopefully she's mellowed and if not I know where there's a premier inn!

Righteo off to surf a little before beddy byes. :wave:

Purplepenguin88

Oh no, HMRC are the worst! I don't understand how they get it so wrong (over and underpayments) all the time!? A friend had a 3 grand tax bill come through to pay, and the next week they sent him a cheque for a 3grand refund for the following year but wouldn't let him say "well they cancel each other out", he actually had to pay in their cheque and send them back another one *madness*. Surely they'll let you pay it in instalments? They can't ask for it all back straight away can they?

I'm a 26yrold living just outside the m25 commuting into Central London every day, and my ticket is actually so extortionate that it makes me want to weep (that I spend that much on commuting!). About to move in with bf (eek, though it'll save us both money), and I'm trying to wrestle my post uni finances into submission to allow me to start saving for a deposit which will also make me weep coz house prices are completely ridiculous round here!

BILLIE

Lilt - you okay not like you to be so quiet - hope everything is okay - worried

liltdiddylilt

Hey guys

Sorry. I am feeling a bit down in the dumps because I rang HMRC and apparently the overpayment relates to changes I made through the year when me and Him broke up and he moved out. Plus my salary increased by £30 a month and I told them that as soon as it happened so every time I made a change they recalculated and didn't bother telling me there were overpayments, then claim them back a year later.

It knocks the stuffing out of me a bit, as they have already cut the tax credits down and my housing benefits cut too, until I am £380 worse off a month. It makes me mad that the system works so badly, but seems to benefit the people who don't work or have never worked far more than in benefits those of us who try to work and balance childcare at the same time.

Add to that I just watched an advert by Unilever regarding needing new public speeches such as those of Martin Luther King & Co, and following young people who are explaining how they want to combat hunger. At the end of the advert, it says that Unilever are working with Oxfam on #ProjectSunshine which aims to cut down on hunger in the UK. I cannot believe there are adverts about hunger in this country. I cannot believe there are so many food banks and people dependent on them. It hurts my heart to think of British children going to sleep hungry, not having warm clothes, comfy safe homes, advent calendars. The comedian Jason Manford has this year taken up the cause of a gentleman who is doing his best to encourage people to donate advent calendars and selection boxes to their local foodbanks as the parents who are having to go there to feed them will not even think of, let alone be able to afford these things. Jason himself has spent £500 on these items and dotted them around his local foodbanks.

I despair. I am sat here in a warm flat, with my nice warm bedclothes, and a ludicrous onesie on. My daughter sleeps nearby after an extra bottle of milk because she asked for one. I am moaning about owing people money that they paid to me and I apparently was not entitled to in the first place, but I have SAVINGS in place for such an 'emergency'. I am typing on a broken but useable laptop, debating hundreds of pounds on a new one. I moan about my stupid first world problems, when in my OWN COUNTRY, let alone some far off third world place filled with poverty and disease, there are families starving, homeless and alone.

It all conspires to make me feel very very dejected and quite naive. As if refusing to watch the news means that it doesn't happen but somehow I have been going about my life thinking that for a long while.

Tomorrow, I will be watching the Queen lay her wreath, and looking at the views of the incredible artistry that is currently Tower Bridge Moat. And remembering the millions of lives lost in pointless wars. And wondering just how close we are to another one.

So yeah. My diary for first world problems does not seem too important to me at the moment.

I love you all dearly and you have got me through what have felt like some of the worst times in my life in the last year. Throughout them all I have had far more than some can ever hope for so I just need to go away and think about that for a while.

Huge hugs.

BILLIE

I agree with you totally Lilty and don't get me started on the HRMC. Sadly there will alway be circumstances throughout this land that you describe, if only we could change things permanently. Hugs to you for being so sensitive at the mo. Watching the Remembrance Service in the Royal Albert Hall and feel very proud and inadequate xxx

liltdiddylilt

I actually sat and decided not to watch that. I am a bit too emotional for it today. I can't watch children in need and such like either. I think you sum it up perfectly. I feel inadequate today.

xx

please-let-me-be-lucky

Hugs right back at ya Lilty Xx

Just proves what a lovely person you are to be affected by these things. I saw the Jason Manford calendar post and I can't applaud him enough, whilst at the same time got so annoyed that some people were criticising him for doing it :mad:. We should all take a leaf out of his book.

Boo hiss to HMRC .