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I had the email tonight, there is a free phone number you can ring to cancel your delivery pass. I took mine out last September but I've never used it, just click and collect.
It was hard enough to spend £25 in one go, £40 would be impossible
The chap said as I'd not done an order recently so rather than refund me £5 he would send me a £5 code off an online shop - a bit odd
“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”0 -
springdreams wrote: »Although people pay tax on their income and on the goods that they buy in the shops, South Africa is not a welfare country and does not have a benefits system.
People have to pay for everything themselves - all forms of education, all text books, stationery and other study materials (even at primary school level), visits to doctors, the full price of all their medicines (we don't have a prescription fee system, so pay for each and every item), operations, giving birth, etc., and pensions are also self funded.
People who do not work or who are disabled are supported by their families.
We also do not have a student loan system in South Africa. Uni is self funded or you don't get to go.
That must be so hard for everyone, I find it hard to comprehend.
I feel so lucky to be have lived in the UK all my life. Especially with the access to the NHS that I and my family have had which I feel is not really appreciated enough.
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That must be so hard for everyone, I find it hard to comprehend. I feel so lucky to be have lived in the UK all my life. Especially with the access to the NHS that I and my family have had which I feel is not really appreciated enough.
We really do not know the half of it.
That is precisely my point for sharing the information that I have. People here in the UK get so much given to them, yet because they have mostly always been given these things, they take them for granted and complain when things must of necessity change.
A major source of the UK government's money is the UK tax payer. And tax payers are not bottomless pits of money who can just keep giving and giving and giving, sometimes to the detriment of themselves and their families, to fund all the things people are expecting the government to fund. The only way for the government to continue funding things is to increase taxes ... and I most certainly don't want to pay more tax than I already do.Smiles are as perfect a gift as hugs...
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I do think that child poverty will rise and the use of food banks will increase.
Sadly have to agree - a lot of family are living on a knife edge, just a tiny drop in income could send them crashing“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”0 -
hornetgirl wrote: »You will be £125.40 better off
Oddly it says £189 up for us - meaningless - if our electric DD, house rates, petrol costs rose, all highly possible - that would soon be obliterated ..
It will make a difference to youngest son though who barely earns £15 k when the personal allowance rises“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”0 -
Anyway on a less miserable note we have had a really nice day out.
It was wet and windy weather this morning at home so instead of mopping around the house, after we had caught up I took OH on a trip out- we went to Chirk Castle - no rain, lovely walk and I used our art pass so a free day out :j
We had a car park picnic - free emmi coffee drinks and Mr Kipling mini cakes - bought for cashback and with MOCS
Not been since the kids were little, mostly went to Eirdigg - but Chirk is closer to us and the gardens and woods are lovely .
Errant son out in Hong Kong posted 30 photos on his FB page, mostly of sea and kayaks but one photo has him in it so he is still alive :j“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”0 -
springdreams wrote: »That is precisely my point for sharing the information that I have. People here in the UK get so much given to them, yet because they have mostly always been given these things, they take them for granted and complain when things must of necessity change.
A major source of the UK government's money is the UK tax payer. And tax payers are not bottomless pits of money who can just keep giving and giving and giving, sometimes to the detriment of themselves and their families, to fund all the things people are expecting the government to fund. The only way for the government to continue funding things is to increase taxes ... and I most certainly don't want to pay more tax than I already do.
Well said :T:T:T couldn't agree more.When The Fun Stops Stop
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Evening paw sniffers:D
It's been a long working day. Jumper, jeans and raincoat day. Wet shoes went in the bin. Cheered up my feet with a splash of my new gel nail varnish from A
Hang on I'll just check the shade......
It's called Nude Pink and cost £3. Paid for with a womble.
I think it will make a very good holiday nail varnish....a sort of dark dusty pink.:)To do is to be. Rousseau
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