+++ Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++

PennysIntoPounds

Hope the transfers go okay, that's absolutely dreadful service!

One of my small pleasures in life is seeing the local windowbox cat on a walk, it's so content dozing there. The owners seem to have given up on planting anything in it 😁

beanielou

Dreadful service. 

redofromstart

@PennysIntoPounds  One of the late lamented original cats ('Goodie Whemper' - ' maysherestinpeace' for my fellow Pratchett fans) used to sleep in the tub of normal mint. Nothing kills mint, apart from an elderly ginger cat. You have to work with the animal, not against I think. The path up the garden has moved to reflect the dogs preferred route on the same basis 

redofromstart

Yes @beanielou they also failed to allocate AVCs from various council employees over the same period which must have been so stressful. Minimal compensation for complaining to the ombudsman, although Poo themselves probably got fined a lot. At least I hope so. 

I knew about the AVCs as I deal with LGPS funds for work

redofromstart

I had a rummage and found some old netting, elastic bands and a few jam jars for a run at sprouting. A cm of seed/lentils and a long soak followed by a morning and evening rinse till we eat them.  I've got green lentils on the go but will also try red lentils, chickpeas and some peas so I am not spending anything on this. Easy to get caught up and buy a special tub and mixed sprouting seeds but also pennies to try sprouting what lentils or chick peas you have in an old jam jar.  

redofromstart

All diets off for the weekend and MrM had 4 pints of whipping cream (in a milk container on the fresh cake counter) for £1. We had some with cake yesterday but the rest I am using for gratin potatoes and some baked lemon custards.  My shiny new heated propagator looks lovely, and the spare trays are the right size.

Sun_Addict

I’ve just bought my first ever heated propagator. Feel proper grown up now 😆

LadyWithAPlan

The propagator sounds fun 

I moved an isa from fideli** -to Vang  and  had deliberately switched all funds into Van ones before the transfer as I didn’t want to wait for them to sell - it took over  6 weeks for the bulk and then  they lost a fund !- about £1500 worth - showed it had left Fid  but never arrived on Van - all else had moved apart from one! 

 I had to keep chasing and in the end got a goodwill payment so I am sure you have got full records of every fund - they come over in drive and drabs 

(previously I had transferred an isa from Harg to Fid and where they had different classes of the same funds that also caused delay and havoc so that’s why this time I ensured I did all the transfers I could beforehand 

redofromstart

Thanks @LadyWithAPlan - will keep an eye on that. I did screen shot the values before we asked for the transfers. They are personal pensions rather than SiPPS so it may be simpler. 

Both the lower value pots are showing as policy closed, so presumably the transfer is on its way.  The bigger pot is with Poo and is not showing any update.  Why am I not surprised?

6 of the 7 little trays on the propagator are now populated with things that prefer heat, it's a little early but I have huge window ledges (albeit with furry hazards), a good sized cold frame, polytunnel and greenhouse so we can cope. Saving the last one for aubergine seed if I spot any when I am out. I do miss Woolworths, and Wilkos for garden stuff.

EssexHebridean

I am blaming you and SA that I now have Amazon suggesting I might like to look again at heated propagators...