Get a grip woman!

trix-a-belle

SL i've just seen the headline that Scottish power are to taken on those of you cast adrift when Yorkshire energy went bust, fingers crossed your transition is smoother than my parents who ended up there after Tonik went bust, its taken 2 months for them to get their final bill from Tonik but their account with Scottish power is still not set up

Suffolk_lass

trix-a-belle said:

SL i've just seen the headline that Scottish power are to taken on those of you cast adrift when Yorkshire energy went bust, fingers crossed your transition is smoother than my parents who ended up there after Tonik went bust, its taken 2 months for them to get their final bill from Tonik but their account with Scottish power is still not set up

   I think it is marginally better than if it had been British Gas given press and forum feedback. I did read my meter as soon as the news broke and submitted it and make a note of my amount in credit (which was over £300 ready for the winter months when the electric range is on all the time) in preparation. Hopefully it will resolve by Spring and I can move as the tariff offers on here start to show. I've always been out of step to be able to take advantage of them and also many are for both gas and electricity and of course, we don't have gas here!

Suffolk_lass

I have been quiet - lots going on locally and I had to write my cards and get them posted, prepare my Christmas cakes, ready to ice today, set up dummy accounts for my Mum and get the portal at least part set up - so I can post these by Wednesday (2 cakes, soaps, and portal to my Mum, maybe a bottle of gin for my Sis).

I also made my Christmas wreath. In true fashion it is a bit rustic, not symmetrical and not trimmed to a neat shape - but better than last year's. Here is a pic

Karmacat

That's lovely, SL!  I've seen you on other threads, but always glad to see you on your own, chatting about your own comings and goings  

Busy_Mee

Love the wreath SL. I made one too, for the very first time this year. My Friday's off are allowing me to have some quality faffing time this Christmas 

enthusiasticsaver

Lovely wreath and very festive.  My head hurts from the trying to work out Christmas arrangements too.  My DD1 is in a bubble with her friend and her family as DD1 lives 100 miles away from us and is in a single household. However she is now isolating for a week and then comes back to spend Christmas with us and DD2 and her family.  We have been in a childcare bubble with them since June so no difference to us.  All in all 7 of us over Christmas day and comprising of 3 households, us, DD1 and DD2 and her family. We are foregoing our usual Christmas and New Years eve parties although we may meet up with our best friends between Christmas and New Year or leave it until a week after the festivities as they will have mixed with their DDs and families too. On the plus side my mum and stepdad get their Covid vaccines this Wednesday. 

rtandon27

SL - such a lovely wreath! The cinnamon & oranges make me crave a mulled cider

Suffolk_lass

We will have our bubble person here for New Year - sleeping in his van as usual
Other than that, If the other couple who might come (possibly in their Moho) do so, we will set up the canopy outside with a newly purchased fire-pit and curry kept warm under the hood of the BBQ, and five chairs with rugs and hot water bottles. If it is just three of us, I will suggest we do a bit of advance of midnight "first footing" with a pump-flask of mulled wine outside the doors of one or two neighbours I know will be staying home - that will be after dark but before 9pm so we don't frighten anybody - then back for a curry for three of us. I think the afore-mentioned couple might join us for a walk on New Year's Day, if the forecast is not rain or snow, and I will do some refreshments for under the canopy outside after that. If we are in Tier 1 they could come in

If the guidance changes, we will deliver dinner to DS and his housemates. He is in the part of Essex not going into Tier 3 today and we are hoping ours will stay the same or get better - the data suggests one hot-spot in our county, a district within a town where the care homes are concentrated. The nearest town is showing 0-3 cases for the last 4 days, having got clear from the care homes. Just a bit in the local high school impacting our cluster of villages. You can't be complacent though, can you? We just need to be as safe as we can be

Karmacat

SL, that sounds really well thought through, and still keeping an awful lot of the connections intact, good for you.

DiscountDuck

SuffolkLass you’ve inspired me to dig out my January sales Christmas card bargains and actually write some for the neighbours! 

You sound like you’re being very organised and super responsible over the Christmas Covid arrangements. Hopefully everyone’s sacrifices will be worth it and next year will be better.