Winter fuel allowance

Caterina

Nothing yet for DH.

Reading about the debate on grey/white/red/salt and pepper hair made me smile! Since I stopped tinting my hair a few years ago I have had so many compliments, one young woman, DD's friend even told me that these days people pay good money to have hair like mine, go figure...but I am very pleased, quietly. Ah, vanity! And the feeling of liberation, from the curse of roots, of overpriced hairdressers, of the worry about chemicals on my skin, all gone. Wouldn't change it for all the tea in China.

Candy53

My husband's went in this morning. No letter though.


Candy

moneyistooshorttomention

Caterina wrote: »

Nothing yet for DH.

Reading about the debate on grey/white/red/salt and pepper hair made me smile! Since I stopped tinting my hair a few years ago I have had so many compliments, one young woman, DD's friend even told me that these days people pay good money to have hair like mine, go figure...but I am very pleased, quietly. Ah, vanity! And the feeling of liberation, from the curse of roots, of overpriced hairdressers, of the worry about chemicals on my skin, all gone. Wouldn't change it for all the tea in China.

It was the financial angle stopping me dying my hair back to its "own colour" - or a different one of choice. Thankfully, finances are starting to ease a bit (about blimmin' time too:cool:) - but I still don't want to use chemicals on my hair. I've read too many accounts of people having a reaction to hairdye. I swear there "must" be some natural hairdyes on the market by now and have a vague idea of there being a few hairdressers that use them - but talking to the one I have here I can see I'd have to supply it myself (as she swears there are only chemical dyes or henna). I don't think she's correct on that....:cool:

Good to hear that there are people that are just finding the money is there in their bank account without actually having had the letter first. Maybe my next bank statement will reveal that it's gone in okay - despite no letter (I know I have had a spell here of not getting all my post for a while - though I think that's sorted out after I told the local post office what I thought of them basically:rotfl:).

mumps

mumps wrote: »

I have the curse of the read head, 63 and my hair is darker than it has ever been. I absolutely hate it. I wonder why this happens to so many red heads, all the red gone and just a dark lifeless colour with a few bits of white. My grandfather was the same until he died at almost 80.

That should be red head.

mumps

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

It was the financial angle stopping me dying my hair back to its "own colour" - or a different one of choice. Thankfully, finances are starting to ease a bit (about blimmin' time too:cool:) - but I still don't want to use chemicals on my hair. I've read too many accounts of people having a reaction to hairdye. I swear there "must" be some natural hairdyes on the market by now and have a vague idea of there being a few hairdressers that use them - but talking to the one I have here I can see I'd have to supply it myself (as she swears there are only chemical dyes or henna). I don't think she's correct on that....:cool:

Good to hear that there are people that are just finding the money is there in their bank account without actually having had the letter first. Maybe my next bank statement will reveal that it's gone in okay - despite no letter (I know I have had a spell here of not getting all my post for a while - though I think that's sorted out after I told the local post office what I thought of them basically:rotfl:).

How did you get on with your worries about thinning hair? I think you were trying some natural remedies or is that my imagination?

moneyistooshorttomention

mumps wrote: »

How did you get on with your worries about thinning hair? I think you were trying some natural remedies or is that my imagination?

I've been taking an iron supplement for a while now (and the accompanying supplements to help absorption - ie lysine and Vitamin C).

I'm a bit undecided. My hairdresser and a friend have both commented on my hair being thicker. I'm a bit undecided personally as to whether I think it is. It's still on the wispy and flyaway side - though I'm aware it's difficult to tell for me whether it's more so than it used to be. That being because my home area isn't a particularly windy one and my current area is a very windy one - and so my hair gets blown around a lot more than I'm used to iyswim.

I am finding I have a bit of diarrhoea at the moment - and suspect this might be the iron. So - a combination of I've taken it for over 3 months now and that and I reckon the iron must have pretty much "done its thing" (ie achieved anything it's going to achieve) by now and so, when my capsules run out shortly, I shall stop taking that and have a re-think and a re-read of the books I've got on hair loss.

Currently contemplating whether to highlight my hair - having just googled and found a hairdye advertised that says it's more natural (doesnt contain this/that/the other) and whether that would help. I'd rather have a nice hair colour than my natural hair colour (as fashionable as it currently is) and maybe that would help the texture of it a bit?

mumps

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I've been taking an iron supplement for a while now (and the accompanying supplements to help absorption - ie lysine and Vitamin C).

I'm a bit undecided. My hairdresser and a friend have both commented on my hair being thicker. I'm a bit undecided personally as to whether I think it is. It's still on the wispy and flyaway side - though I'm aware it's difficult to tell for me whether it's more so than it used to be. That being because my home area isn't a particularly windy one and my current area is a very windy one - and so my hair gets blown around a lot more than I'm used to iyswim.

I am finding I have a bit of diarrhoea at the moment - and suspect this might be the iron. So - a combination of I've taken it for over 3 months now and that and I reckon the iron must have pretty much "done its thing" (ie achieved anything it's going to achieve) by now and so, when my capsules run out shortly, I shall stop taking that and have a re-think and a re-read of the books I've got on hair loss.

Currently contemplating whether to highlight my hair - having just googled and found a hairdye advertised that says it's more natural (doesnt contain this/that/the other) and whether that would help. I'd rather have a nice hair colour than my natural hair colour (as fashionable as it currently is) and maybe that would help the texture of it a bit?

Well looking on the brightside it sounds like things definitely haven't got worse so that is promising. I think my hair is getting thin and I think it is stress due to relative with dementia. Like you I find it hard to tell but it does seem thinner to me, no one has commented but I have had a very stressful few months with her. Oh well just one more thing to worry about and then that will probably make it worse.

moneyistooshorttomention

Your hairdresser would know - assuming you have a regular one that is.

It was my last hairdresser who duly went "M...O...n....e...y! Your hair!" when it started going thinner. Though - with those awful harsh lights they tend to have in hairdresser salons - it was quite easily possible for me to see in her mirror for myself. She knew me quite well enough by then to feel quite free to "tell it like it is" and I had been going to her for some years - so she was very familiar with it. I guess some hairdressers are more "tactful" than others - and she wasnt tactful. However, if you ask her/his opinion on this - then they probably are aware (one way or the other) and will tell you what their verdict is on that.

Come to think of it - the very cautious quick peak I take in the mirror at current hairdressers and I think it looks thicker to me. Though - admitted it's not easy to tell when they have "fluffed it up" etc with their hairdryer the way they do.

They say that the body's demand for nutrients is higher in times of stress - so maybe you need to up the nutrient levels (at least whilst all this is still going on) to allow for that and perhaps things will normalise?

I'm getting more and more conscious of what nutrients my body is getting and steadily increasing the amount of fruit and veg. Today, for instance, my morning porridge had flaxseeds, bee pollen, strawberries (frozen from the summer) and maca powder added to it. Lunch was just grabbing what was quickest to hand and has included half a persimmon, half an apple, some dried strawberries, a slice of pineapple. Dinner will feature vegetables heavily.

mumps

My body is hungry but then if I eat more than a small amount I feel sick. I don't have a regular hairdresser, I hate having my hair done and only go when things get desperate.

I have been overdosing on persimmons, they were on special offer at Aldi, 3 for 59p and they were beautiful. I daren't tell you how many I had last week.

margaretclare

mumps wrote: »

My body is hungry but then if I eat more than a small amount I feel sick.

I know the feeling!

About winter fuel allowance, it hasn't arrived yet but what I did get was a very nice letter from HMRC saying I paid too much tax in the year to this April. £298.80! Well, that will come in useful.

I've claimed it online via the Government Gateway.