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Well an interesting day for me. Had a call at 9.00 from Mum to say she had no electric lights. I went up and tried to get it back on but to no avail. So I came home to get number of the electrician and called him out. However he could not come till 4.30 so I took her a couple of lamps to be going on with. He came at 4.30 and when I got there he said it was all ok and the lights were working and it could have been a bulb nearing the end of its life that made it trip. The electrician did all the work when Mum had her work done by the council last year so he stayed a few minutes to chat. As he was leaving it tripped again and he then ascertained it was one of the plugs and not the lights. We checked all the plugs downstairs and they were ok. We got to the last one behind the telly in my Mums breakfast room and it made it trip. So we moved the telly and found the floor was wet. Mum and Dad had a problem some years ago with a gutter on that wall and one of my brother's got it fixed. However my niece cleverly tied the grape vine to the gutter last summer and it had started the leak again. Whilst we were looking at the plug it started to spark so he disabled it to make it safe. I called my older brother and asked him to get someone to sort the gutter and the electrician will then come back. Really lucky he found it as that is the plug I use when I hoover up.
However my sister and husband had been earlier this afternoon and he supposedly had fixed it. But they omitted to tell Mum what they did and did not tell me. ( sis still not talking to me).
Came home had a bath and settled down to watch a film with DD when phone rang. It was Mum in tears as she had decided to go to bed early and got in a bit if a mess with her clothes. So I went and undressed her and left a note on the door to tell the carer she had gone to bed. She was very tearful and was crying for Dad and saying she was just a nuisance. I gave her a hug and settled her down and then came home. I had a few tears for her and Dad on the way home.
So 4 visits today but at least I care which is more than I can say for my brothers and sisters.0 -
What is your favourite nut DM?To do is to be. Rousseau
To be is to do. Sartre
Do be do be do. Sinatra0 -
Just got one of these myself. First time I've had a coupon on my APG. Hope they continue with this idea.
There's no indication that this has to be presented with the APG so I'm treating it like a PDF coupon that can be printed as needed.
Just a shame it's cheese! I don't even eat the stuff and I've just signed up to the Orchard programme!!!
Hope your right, last year £5 off £40 appeared for a few weeks.Not quite, you would pay £50 cash for 1st shop, then £40 cash+£10 PP for each shop thereafter, until you do a shop without a further PP.
So if you did 3 PP shops and one without, you would spend £170 cash for £200 worth of goods.
:T:T:Tit can't be counted twice tho...which is what happening!:eek:
you count it on the original shop but not the next:)
Locarr, you must so like hat !
My 1st spend was £20, but paid £18 after mocs( not pp's)
The pp from that was £9.
I claimed £2 cashback from apps, so my actual spend for the original £9 pp was £16.
So by recycling, claiming cashback and using mocs, the goods are coming in, and the expenditure is going down.
Which is why we are all here !
Anyway, despite that i've got a little glitch that is probably a good filler, if anyone is interested ?Back to square one, no apg, no comment.0 -
Bloomin heck savvy!
That's a big'un:eek:To do is to be. Rousseau
To be is to do. Sartre
Do be do be do. Sinatra0 -
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires0 -
To do is to be. Rousseau
To be is to do. Sartre
Do be do be do. Sinatra0 -
nighty nighty glitchy monkeys:)'It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'
Groucho Marx
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Well an interesting day for me. Had a call at 9.00 from Mum to say she had no electric lights. I went up and tried to get it back on but to no avail. So I came home to get number of the electrician and called him out. However he could not come till 4.30 so I took her a couple of lamps to be going on with. He came at 4.30 and when I got there he said it was all ok and the lights were working and it could have been a bulb nearing the end of its life that made it trip. The electrician did all the work when Mum had her work done by the council last year so he stayed a few minutes to chat. As he was leaving it tripped again and he then ascertained it was one of the plugs and not the lights. We checked all the plugs downstairs and they were ok. We got to the last one behind the telly in my Mums breakfast room and it made it trip. So we moved the telly and found the floor was wet. Mum and Dad had a problem some years ago with a gutter on that wall and one of my brother's got it fixed. However my niece cleverly tied the grape vine to the gutter last summer and it had started the leak again. Whilst we were looking at the plug it started to spark so he disabled it to make it safe. I called my older brother and asked him to get someone to sort the gutter and the electrician will then come back. Really lucky he found it as that is the plug I use when I hoover up.
However my sister and husband had been earlier this afternoon and he supposedly had fixed it. But they omitted to tell Mum what they did and did not tell me. ( sis still not talking to me).
Came home had a bath and settled down to watch a film with DD when phone rang. It was Mum in tears as she had decided to go to bed early and got in a bit if a mess with her clothes. So I went and undressed her and left a note on the door to tell the carer she had gone to bed. She was very tearful and was crying for Dad and saying she was just a nuisance. I gave her a hug and settled her down and then came home. I had a few tears for her and Dad on the way home.
So 4 visits today but at least I care which is more than I can say for my brothers and sisters.
Rose, your mum was probably stressed with all the goings on......and so are you probably! A few tears are fine and they're better than letting it get to you and having a meltdown.
The situation is stressful for all of you. Maybe it's no bad thing for everyone to have a little cooling off time. Not speaking to each other is only bad if you let it go on too long. You do the best for your mum, you can't do anymore.
Hope you at least feel better for letting it out :A0 -
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I was looking for chocolate ones. Did not realia that these were 1p bc ending 1136
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