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🔥 Stay Toasty for Less: Budget-Friendly Winter Readiness Guide 🔥
Over the coming weeks I'm going to be exploring a number of areas such-as keeping warm, cost savings, energy efficiency and support available. Heating spaces covers 65% of our overall energy use in the home so I’m going to begin by focusing on this area. Heat loss in the home There are 5 main places in which heat is lost:…
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New Funding to Support Independent Living for Older and Disabled People
£50 million boost to help more people live independently at home The government has announced an extra £50 million for the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) in 2025–26, helping around 5,000 more older and disabled people adapt their homes so they can live safely and independently. The funding supports vital home improvements…
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⚡️Staying Warm This Winter: Key Financial Support Schemes⚡️
We’re now a month into the Winter Season. It’s no secret that the cost of keeping warm is substantially high, unaffordable for many individuals and families. I have summarised some Financial Support available from a number of places for low-income households. You may have heard of some of these already. Automatically…
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Friends
I have noticed when I get older friends disappear. I am 50 . I don't have friends. I don't chat to anyone apart from mum and daughter. Being alone can get you down. So I listen to music. Anyone else feeling alone at times
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Lonelyness...
Any advice on combatting loneliness, currently housebound as my prosthetic is not finished
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Can you remember..
Put your pictures or thoughts of what you can remember..Like Adverts for Beer at Home means Davenports or toys or anything from your past. My first one is this: Old bus ticket machine
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The Football Thread
Talk about any team any league and country.
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Drugs doesn't help Anxiety-PTSD or anything else
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260319044656.htm
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Trumpisms
Here are some amazing quotes from the one and only Donald Trump Please add your own We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close. Our country is being run by incompetent people. When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the…
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Spinal stenosis group chat
Hello! Is this the spinal stenosis chat group? Thanks Spiceman for the suggestions. - Generalsciatica.
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Starmer and Downing Street Flat
Who would have thought it - Starmer has just spent £30,000, "refurbishing" the 10 Downing Street flat that they live in - all public money…….including a £1630 shower screen !! That's the maximum that a PM is allowed to claim but after he accused Johnson of wasting £200,000 on refurbishing his flat above number 11, 3 years…
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Don't Uproot, Leave It Wild.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/a-messy-garden-is-a-glorious-garden-stop-paving-over
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National Disability Card
This appeared on my FB feed: https://www.disabilityid.co.uk/ It this something of real use? I'd be glad to hear from anybody that has a card. How has it helped you?
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Hi, I'm Happyfeet2026! Any divorce mediators that are disability friendly?
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Data profiling
The goverment giving contracts to Dara profilie peoples predicted behaviour @MW123 your so good at understanding all this what do you think its so important to be aware not much been said aboit this or palantir
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Expert Patient training
Has anybody else trained as an Expert Patient? If so, have you found it helpful?
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Strange?
I was on a disability forum for around five years, I won't say what my user name was but I was wondering why someone else,(who was very confrontational not so much with me (only twice)but with a lot of others),was allowed the same user name.? They joined only six months or so before I left. So,Some people thought they were…
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The Samaritans
I've never had much confidence in The Samaritans but I've felt so anxious and distressed here alone today that I thought I'd give them a go. The volunteer did not introduce herself. In the brief time I tried to communicate all she could say was "wow" and "gosh". I feel worse for phoning them.
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Pensions and Benefits the main party targets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg735z447kro Reform say they will cut spending for councils and benefits to save the tripple lock in place, but they have no answer to keep the the tripple lock. Which means in the end, benefits, councils and pensioners would lose out. He doesn't have the answer. The greens say they…
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Then and Now
https://www.axa.co.uk/business-insurance/business-guardian-angel/then-and-now-how-has-your-high-street-changed/london/
