General Chitter Chatter & His Sidekick Captain Claptrap!

[Trixiebelle]

Hello Jeannine  ;D

Oooooh I've missed you .. but I've been thinking about you every day for the last fortnight whilst I've been trying to invent recipes for my giant pumpkin  ;D

Soap business is doing fine thank you! Getting ready for Christmas XX

Trixie XX

[Trixiebelle]

[Jeannine]

Oh Goodie, chit chat again, nice to hear from you all, and Star, I hope tomorrow is sunny for you.

I have had a productive day, remaking a down filled duvet from super king size to single size, it is all done but I fear we will be eating the down for a week or two despite several vacuumings, but I had no need for the big one and needed a small one and now I have a lovely down cushion as an extra. Tomorrow I will tackle the linens that fit it.

I am starting to think abbout seeds though..that is scary.

Good thing this week though, I just managed to win a battle with British Gas re a bill, for electricity, it seems I have been using 13 times the national average for power for a four bedroom house with a family since since Easter, and we are 2 in a 3 bedroomed house and no greenhouse heat since February, so I battled for a new meter and won,, having had all the bills adjusted it turned out that the £538 they said I owed,which was on top of the direct debit I had been paying monthly turned out to be wrong, the original direct debit estimate turned out to be accurate after allwhich they discovered after the faulty meter was changed, so if anyone out there is having ther same problem..challenge it !!!

I feel empowered if you pardon the pun.

XX Jeannine

[star]

My dear mum was with British Gas dual fuel, she was very unhappy with them. Remember the con a while back BG verbal agreements over the phone to join up with their contract, 2 years as I remember. She is 81 and didnt realise she had agreed to a contract, then it was too late.

Anyway she did get out of it with BG owing her money, till Thurs, her new supplier NPower rang her saying they were sorry she was leaving. And that her new supplier was BG again......poor love was beside herself as she had no phone call or contact with BG since they paid her £75 overpayment. That was months ago.

So what Im asking is....did anyone see watchdog on thursday? I caught the last few seconds to see British Gas was on.......yet again.

Good to hear you won your battle Janine, if my mum was younger she would still manage a good ruck. But not these days :(

[SMP1704]

Similar thing happened to us, but with Southern Electric.  We had an electric bill for the summer quarter that was so big, I wondered if we were also paying for the street lighting.............after much haggling and men knocking on the door to disconnect us :o :o they didn't, we finally managed to get someone to listen to us - it turned out that the meter reader had read the wrong dial.......................

[Esre]

I recently have had to give them a little bit of sympathy, one of the girls at work kept getting really high electric bills. Her property is all electric but she is in a 1 bed flat with husband and they are both out at work all day.

She queried the bill, had an adjustment as her tariff was wrong and still the bills were really high, at work we went through everything it could be, did she have high draining appliances left on at all etc. etc.

The electric board came out to check the meter several times, they even changed the meter for her in case it was giving faulty readings.

Turns out she has economy 7 (or something similar) and the unit was being left on all the time which was the reason for the really high bills as she was using it at peak times as well as cheap...oopsy.

[Trixiebelle]

I get really confused with gas & electricity things  ::) Just switched from British Gas to Powergen because the lad on the phone was really nice to me!

I asked if they had to come out and change pipes etc.  ::)

How's everyone's day been? I've been tidying up and it looks worse than it did before I started  ;D

[greenscrump]

had a good day thanks Trix,  no allotmenting but sent off my first open university TMA for the new course  and cooked up some soup for the week   :)

[manicscousers]

fed up with the plot situation so we went out for lunch, sitting watching star wars at the mo  ;D

[greenscrump]

doesn't have your full attention then.....  ;D

[cornykev]

Rained here most of the day, took my daughter ice skating with her school chums for her birthday then went out for dinner with my Mum and Dad.  ;D ;D ;D

[saddad]

Rained heavily this morning but turned nice this afternoon and planted out a couple of hundred winter onions that I had started in cells. Then did a bit of harvesting... pics on the main edibles  ;D

[Carol]

Yesterday, on our way back from Shopping we came upon a horrific accident.  Two cars on fire and in the hedge.  There was 4 cars in front of us and we stopped.  It looked like there was no panic and folk just standing around.  No Police or ambulance so we assumed things were under control apart from the cars on fire.   Today, I found out 2 young lads were inside one of the cars and had died and in the other car were 3 local folk who I knowand were later  taken to the Hospital.   I am now full of remorse at assuming everything was OK.  I know that no one could have done anything for the young lads but it was just horrible seeing it all and now knowing life was lost.

:( :(

[Emagggie]

Carol that's an awful experience for you. It's hard not to think about it isn't it. It did make me think about the lads who overtook the car behind me on a bend at speed yesterday and then did the same to me, missing an oncoming vehicle by a whisker on both occaisions.I don't expect them to be on the road for long. (Please don't think I'm assuming that the lads in the accident you saw were at fault.)

[star]

Carol.....you will feel awful, but as Emaggie says you were not to know. also you couldn't have changed anything if you had stopped.

I believe we are in different places at different times for a reason.......and you were not meant to be there (stopped at the scene I mean)

I was with my dad for 10 days, came home and he died that night......you always think ...what if.....I should have stayed longer. But I wasnt meant to be there either.......

[theothermarg]

ooooo my fav thread back up top um mmm right got to say something now
thanks trixi for starting it thanks jeannine for bringing it back (update on those lidle wellies best i,v ever worn but now stained by cow poo) and star I,m feeling down too not cuz i miss OH as he is olways under my feet (feet not thumb) I think it is the time of year . has its positives Iknow but I think I am a hibernating
animal! ever seen that e mail I wish I was a bear, I relate to that
marg

[star]

HEHE..... yeah Ive got that (bear)in my favourites theothermarg, its soooo true ;D

I hope you feel a little better tomorrow hun, it was sunny here all day which really helps. And after not seeing one bird the other day.......2 fat pigeons eating ALL the food off the bird table tipped it over and fell off, you had to be there. It was comical. :D

[theothermarg]

yea always bounce back me!! ;D got the bubblewrap down from the roofspace and insulated the greenhouse ! another job out of the way . just nipped in the shower and am wasting time cuz at 3.24 i,v got to have a boobscan def want that job out of the way it,s only a routine onebut you never know, got called back on the first one it turned out it showed the remains of a small lump that came and went years ago very worrying at the time
marg

[star]

I hope you're not kept waiting too long for your results marg. It is a worrying time, I will keep you in my thoughts ;)

Im having a greenhouse delivered tomorrow....I cant wait. Its been years since I was lucky enough to have one.

We were busy (I say we, I mean hubbly) doing the brake pipes on the landy today ready for the mot on friday. Everything else seems to be in good working order now. We've always said if you have a landrover you dont have a car you have a pet.......they're always needing some attention ::)

I have also applied to the council for an allotment pack.....gosh Im an allotment virgin. But i cant grow enough at home.

[theothermarg]

Star do you mean a allotment plot or patch? be prepared to get obsessed !! it,s not just the extra ground it,s the company. been to mine today, it took 2hours to do 15 mins work :-[ it,s also very satisfying to get things done when you are on your own. the scan is only a routine one every 3 years for over 50,s I know lots of woman who would rather not know if anything was wrong which i think is a bit daft cuz its got to be better to catch it early
marg

[star]

Oh....can you get an allotment patch? I havent heard that before, I applied for a plot not too far from home. We're going to look on monday.

I'll be honest marg, its the friendships that are the main bonus as well as the growing, I am really looking forward to all that, I feel obsessed already ;D

100% agree with you on the scans, I had my first one last year and I would rather know too.