Morning, how's your day going so far?

SueHeath

you sound like a bize bee @Brenda1946 love it and nice to hear the hubby spoils you. 
Yep i always do this - think i'm super women sometimes (in my brain) but my body reminds me ha ha - i just keep taking the tablets and look at the clock to remember to move every 20mins so i don't stiffen up.
Lovely to hear about your clubs i can't wait to get to that stage enjoy the rest of your day and thank you for checking in on me x

janer1967

Oh poop @woodbine !!! 

Had chill day today catching up on TV and drinking cups of coffee 

Sandy_123

Hopefully they come soon @woodbine there are lots of tips on Google like putting  clingfilm on the loo then flushing it etc

SueHeath

hope the problem is sorted @woodbine nothing worse - till the next problem x

Lisatho11987777

Me and mum had another nice day we both had our hair cut we went into a second hand shop and I got mum a regatae coat can't spell it lol normaly 60.00 from the proper shop paid 7.00 and I got me a salt rock coat for 10.00 normaly around 80.00 or more so realy pleased and I got a jumper for mum we had a lovely day tomorrow we are cleaning out the small living room as my chairs have arrived and we xant move lol 

Lisatho11987777

my two new chairs for my little living room and I have two silver poofs aswel they are in my main living room at the moment causing havoc lol untill we clear the rest of the black bags out of the little room 

Lisatho11987777

I am originally from Wolverhampton lol and we always called them poofs lol after I posted I hoped that no one would be offended its habit one word I have always used now more Welsh  lol such as over by there  now in a minute  before gavin and Stacy lol  I say some  Welsh words that I cant spell lol but mainly used in frustration I think I used one word on here in Welsh when I first came on here didn't go down well because I spelt it wrong it meant something else 

Hope things are OK with you and your week got better I dont mind you correcting me I get lazy and font comas or full stops I don't write how I message I am pretty good at doing scary emails when I need to lol 

In my open University I cheat and use my spell checker  it changes all sorts lol

Lisatho11987777

@Username_removed I don't do the tag when I am speaking to you because I know you don't like only tagged you now to explain 

Sandy_123

 Morning all, chairs look nice Lisa, I'm just have a quiet coffee before grandkids land lol.  It's really cold today

androgynous

SueHeath said:

try to go with the flow @androgynous there isn't much we can do about it, the only positive thing about it is the biggest hike in fuel bills will be in Oct gives us a little time to try and save a bit extra. Hopefully we will have an early long hot summer to help us do this. x

@SueHeath

Thanks for the positivity, I appreciate it. 

Unfortunately, with all the increases I'm going to have with all my outgoings and no increase to my incomings, I've now got to apply for financial support. If don't get this, I'm considering what I can sell or 'manage' without to lower the cost of my outgoings. I've only got one thing I can get rid of which means I'll pretty much be housebound and I've been trying to avoid losing that bit of independence.

I seem to have gone from just about managing and having the things I need like heating and eating to wondering where i can make cutbacks this year.

janer1967

@androgynous if you are getting pip or other benefits there will be a rise applied in April around 3% I think 

I'm having good day cleaning all done now having coffee and chill 
Not cooking today having take away for tea 

Sandy_123

I'm having grandkids over why mom n dad have a might off and a lie in Sunday, they work hard all week.
Plus there dropping me a Costa coffee off on there way back from shopping. Win win kids have demanded they drop off chocolate too. All the art stuff is out on the table and the tablet  charged for two older 1s. Plus kids Netflix.

janer1967

Sounds great @Sandy_123 hope they don't wear you out 

androgynous

janer1967 said:

@androgynous if you are getting pip or other benefits there will be a rise applied in April around 3% I think 

I'm having good day cleaning all done now having coffee and chill 
Not cooking today having take away for tea 

@janer1967

Have a good chill and takeaway. I must finish my application for financial support this weekend as I'm told there's a huge backlog. I wonder why?

Yes, I'll receive a few quid for disability benefits but for my main benefit I won't see a rise in my income until my tp amount reduces to nothing. It's going in the right direction, whilst looking at my finances yesterday, I realised I'd had another £3 taken off me at xmas. I missed that one. It's literally just dawned on me it's because my income went up - I got the £10 xmas bonus, so they reduced my tp by £3? You couldn't make it up. That shouldn't have affected my 'rise' in income. In fact, my tp has now gone down by £3 every month, because of it. That was an expensive xmas bonus from the government and an excuse to make the poor, poorer.  This will happen to all severely disabled claimants eventually in my opinion and there seem to be more changes afoot and you can bet your bottom dollar they won't 'benefit' claimants, excuse the pun. I've just noticed something else which is changing in 2023 which will affect me.

Back to the present - Back to begging for charity, humph
Back to the Future - laters

SueHeath

Bizi day here for me and hubby we love our visits on Saturdays, 3 out of 6 grandchildren 2 sons and 1 wife ha ha lots of snacks eaten, bit of a mess and lots of washing up, but wouldn't have it any other way. x

janer1967

That sounds lovely @SueHeath

SueHeath

Really is, tiring but wouldn't have it any other way x

janer1967

@androgynous sorry about your situation I don't know your circumstances but could you reduce your outgoings.  If you have loans or debts often speaking to the lenders they will arrange a suitable payment plan 

You can also get advice from cab or step change 

I'm sorry if this isn't appropriate to you just trying to help 

androgynous

janer1967 said:

@androgynous sorry about your situation I don't know your circumstances but could you reduce your outgoings.  If you have loans or debts often speaking to the lenders they will arrange a suitable payment plan 

You can also get advice from cab or step change 

I'm sorry if this isn't appropriate to you just trying to help 

@janer1967

Thanks for your advice, janer1967. I'm done with form filling for another day.

I'm thinking of selling the item I have a loan for and settling the loan. The problem is, I will get the increase in benefits and increase in rent but it will be taken straight out of my tp meaning my income will be exactly the same as it was before I got my increase in benefits, I.E. static. There will probably be very little of my tp left after April. I'm trying to work out the logic of giving the tp when it will only be a year or two before it's gone. Of course, there is no logic, it's just a whitewash heralding the end of 'disability premiums'.

Sandy_123

janer1967 said:

Sounds great @Sandy_123 hope they don't wear you out 

Oh they do but there going home tomorrow,  I'm sure they'll be up early 😴  all demanding breakfast.