Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks madvix - a girl, over 8lbs, and all are well, the hospital are very pleased with how things are going.  Her name is named, it's a classic, like all of her cousins on this side, all's well with the world.

My sister's coming along this afternoon to drive me to and from my booster appointment, because I'm still not feeling too perky, so I can give her her "new grandmother" card (yikes  ) and the cutie socks I bought from JL, as she's going to see her on Sunday - I can't tell you how pleased I am for her, the background stuff means that being able to see her so soon is incredibly important for her.

And there's financial news too, good heavens - I did a Pinecone survey and got the £3 credit yesterday, and apparently I qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment, £200 appearing at a bank account near me before 14th January.  All good.

badmemory

That winter fuel payment is going to come in handy for me.  It will pay the EXTRA costs for the next 3 months of my provider having gone belly up & having to go on the SVR (60% increase) instead of being fixed until Feb.  Then another increase in April.  With all the increases my finances are looking at being tighter than for over 10 years.  At least I will cope but some people must be heading for a real disaster.  I just can't see how the state pension is only going up by 3.1% when fuel is up 40% energy is up at least 50% & as for food well even milk has gone up by 5.5% & we know how the supermarkets screw the farmers down.

Are you looking forward to your £10 Xmas present?  That used to buy the turkey!

PS my WFP is in already so that is earlier this year than usual.

apple_muncher

Whoop Whoop! Congratulations on being a great auntie. Again!

beanielou

Congratulations 

beanielou

& great news on the WFP 

Karmacat

Thanks all!  Yep, I've had a few photos of the little family, all adorable, of course.  Haven't yet checked the bank account for the Winter Fuel Payment, just getting by is fine, what with all the stuff going on in every corner of my life (all First World, as we were saying, but yes, that's where I live).

badmemory said:

That winter fuel payment is going to come in handy for me.  It will pay the EXTRA costs for the next 3 months of my provider having gone belly up & having to go on the SVR (60% increase) instead of being fixed until Feb.  Then another increase in April.  With all the increases my finances are looking at being tighter than for over 10 years.  At least I will cope but some people must be heading for a real disaster.  I just can't see how the state pension is only going up by 3.1% when fuel is up 40% energy is up at least 50% & as for food well even milk has gone up by 5.5% & we know how the supermarkets screw the farmers down.

Are you looking forward to your £10 Xmas present?  That used to buy the turkey!

PS my WFP is in already so that is earlier this year than usual.

Well, I'm glad its in, badmemory - but things are very squeaky, aren't they.  I'm with Scottish Power, on their SVR, and I think it's fairly low in terms of cost per unit, as things stand now, but it's going to be bad: at the beginning of October, when I should have had oodles of money in my fuel account in credit, I actually had £4.  I try to be careful, of course, though today, carefulness has sort of gone out of the window, as I had my covid booster jab today, needed to stay warm.  So far so good, though I'm just looking at a few threads on here, then getting to bed.

debtfreeoneday

Congratulations on the WFP, the new baby and the pine cone survey. They’ve been so quiet lately. I happened to log in yesterday and then an hour later a survey appeared. 

Karmacat

Thanks debtfree - my word, you were up early!  

I slept well after the booster, less painful on the site than the flu jab!  Right now, I'm in the zone after the injection when both my brother and my sister collapsed - the closeness of the genetic relationship makes me take extra care, so I'm not moving from my armchair  

Note to self for Xmas pressies: joandsephs for gourmet popcorn for new parents up overnight, plus merlot wine for another household.

Seriously nothing doing today - after this "other people collapsed" period I might just get into the garden to breathe some fresh air, but really nothing big.  

themadvix

Take it very gently Karma - it can definitely wipe you out. Hopefully not though. Fresh air is good though.

Karmacat

Thanks madvix - I did take it really easily, though honestly I need to do a bit more today, it took me years to get to sleep last night   

Today: tidying, basically, including clean dry laundry, oops.  Very nice that it's clean!  

No matter how I'm struggling health wise - still important to be grateful for what I *do* have, because right now there's an ambulance outside my house for a neighbour with heart problems - poor man is averaging one hospital stay a month right now, since this issue developed a couple of years ago.  And even though my troubles are a *lot* less than that, two people have offered to come here and help me.  I'm too freaked out to accept the offers, but there you go