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  • trix-a-belle
    trix-a-belle Posts: 1,532 Forumite
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    Thank you for the energy reminder, i'll add it to my list.
    I hope you have an afternoon out planned to remind him that he is a pup parent too & what you have been through :lol:
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  • Suffolk_lass
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    No need for that, he has got up the last two mornings to let me sleep late. He's good like that!

    A bit of bee activity yesterday, some planned, some unplanned! We were planning to move the small swarm from the nuc they are in outside our back door to our friends who are about 6 miles away, so that they orientate away from the back door. The forecast was rubbish and he had changed his shift so that we could go early. Mid afternoon, however, and the phone rang with someone from the next village asking if we could help with a swarm. So we collected it - my first solo into a skep, but then DH had to walk them into the hive (a nuc) as I knew my Mum was going to video call. I offered them to someone on the BKA WhatsApp group and some novices came to collect it. Their equipment and ours not compatible so they have taken our brand new nuc, wrapped in sheets and a strap, which they will return (hopefully) when they have decided what they want to do.

    Normally our swarms involve sharp thorn hedges or ladders but this was lovely - about 6-7 foot up a tree on a whippy branch so it was a text book collect.
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  • enthusiasticsaver
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    I'm sure everyone who reads this will have seen Martin's alert that today might be the day to fix your energy bill price but I'm just putting it out there in case anyone has not got round to reading the email yet!
    Thanks for the reminder.  I briefly read the weekly email but the current fixed rate deals are still quite a bit more expensive than our existing SVR.  I  get why some people would fix still given the inevitable price hike in October.  It is a bit like anything at the moment in that it is all guesswork and how much leeway in your budget. 
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  • Suffolk_lass
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    I'm sure everyone who reads this will have seen Martin's alert that today might be the day to fix your energy bill price but I'm just putting it out there in case anyone has not got round to reading the email yet!
    Thanks for the reminder.  I briefly read the weekly email but the current fixed rate deals are still quite a bit more expensive than our existing SVR.  I  get why some people would fix still given the inevitable price hike in October.  It is a bit like anything at the moment in that it is all guesswork and how much leeway in your budget. 
    I think £40 or so extra on a fix now, beats the £100-£200 per month extra price cap prospect in October. When you look at fuel costs it isn't going to be better than a fix now. We are on a fix until next July (a two year one) and I'm dreading when that finishes!
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • Karmacat
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    You're one of the experienced bee keepers now!  Wow :) 🐝

    Fixing a rate ... oh dear.  I don't currently have the headspace for it ... I wonder if the deals are all gone now?  Maybe over the weekend.  I'm a rotten moneysaver!

    Hope the pup parenting is still enjoyable for you both :) 
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  • beanielou
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  • Karmacat
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    So busy, and so productive!  Sorry about the HRT meds, though - and as you say, ill-thought through policy with many fewer experienced ones to put their oar in, has led to this situation.   Grrrr.
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  • greent
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    HRT supply issues have been going on  too long in this country and really need resolving :(.  I had problems with several patches before finding an OK one- the ones I managed ok with (no problems skin wise) were Estradot - but last time I checked (last Dec) there were huge supply issues with those too, as they were being prescribed as an alternative to lots of women who were having supply issues with their original.prescription. I don't think it's taken seriously enough :(
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  • badmemory
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    Perhaps they should prescribe HRT for a few men, that might get it sorted.  They don't seem to treat it as seriously as they did 10 to 20 years ago.
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