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  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community Member Posts: 17,441 Championing

    Hi @Elvisdog - saw these today when visiting an arboretum with my son & his wife. They showed flying displays of owls, & later some hawks. It was quite something as they swooped overhead!

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  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community Member Posts: 17,441 Championing

    Here's one of the hawks we saw later. My son was sat beside me, & actually had to duck as it swooped in to land just above him

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  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @chiarieds beautiful picture's. I hope you and your son and his wife enjoyed seeing them, they are so magnificent close up, especially with their wings open, i would have ducked to. If you ever get the chance to hold one they are heavier than you expect, I held a Haris Hawk at a garden centre, I had a picture taken, but it's on an older sd card. I love watching them.

  • somedays
    somedays Community Member Posts: 21 Connected

    Good morning all. It’s not the start that I wanted today. Had a dispute with the neighbour over him blocking the driveway to my house. Some people are so selfish

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing
  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing

    Good morning everyone

    More mouse droppings on my kit work top

    Grr

  • somedays
    somedays Community Member Posts: 21 Connected

    mine too. I just wish they’d be more considerate

  • somedays
    somedays Community Member Posts: 21 Connected

    I know exactly what you mean. It’s the same here. Everyone is parking near a blind corner, then they wonder why there’s accidents. I lost it with him. The way he spoke to my wife was disgusting. He knew she was on her own. Once I came outside he wasn’t as mouthy. He’s a coward

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 4,541 Championing

    Good morning.

    I have woken up to a beautiful day and a sea view here in Cornwall.

    Its looking like a good day and I am going to have a look at a beach that I have never been to before.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing

    It's very dull in Sunderland

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    Sunny and cloudy here today. Pleasant 🫠

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @somedays my son argued with my neighbours next door a month ago, as they block a shared entry and left rubbish (Birmingham has ongoing bin strike) outside our house. I try to get along with them, and keep the peace. it's a love hate relationship. Both my son and the neighbours wife are very hot headed. My other neighbours are all lovely. It's hard with troublesome neighbours, nowadays it's very common, as we fight for space and peace.

  • somedays
    somedays Community Member Posts: 21 Connected

    that’s right. There’s really no need for any of it. All it causes is stress, and that’s the last thing any of us need with these welfare cuts going on

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering
    edited July 2025

    i am still waiting for my UC call…. and they are not calling. They are late. and my anxiety is over the roof.. maybe they are very busy… i just do not understand… anyway. is it normal for them to be late. I do not want them to say they did call.. as i have the phone on my hand. ….. i hate all these… this is just too much to bear…… i hope they will call… i got the pone on my hand…. i mean literally. i just do not understand.. they will probably make me wait all day ……. this is awful

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Schildpad it's very hard for you, but they most probably are just late, they could overrun on previous calls.

    Just try to remember you are not doing anything wrong. You are anxious because it is a big thing for you. I was exactly the same in December, but you will get through this. Just make a point of answering any of the questions they ask, be honest, and tell them how you are finding this very difficult and confusing and that you are anxious this is a part of your difficulties, you can't help this, you need the support from them to complete the transition.

    I hope everything goes accordingly and you get through this call and start to feel alot less anxious. Good luck.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    @Elvisdog thank you.. i had the phone call but system still said i have to provide with more stuff… like a tenancy agreement etc.. and probably the will come up with more stuff. i got an appointment to the job centre to provide for these information and i hope all that will suffice because i am having enough… all these really drain me.. so tired….. mentally.

    right know i can not do much.. got an appointment on 21st July so if i provide that info hopefully will be all done. but i just do not know.. so so sick of all these.. and always scared always …. my mind can not rest .. also feel everybody specially from the job centre, DWP etc.. are against me.. so i am always scared they are there to get me…… this is not life…. so afraid all the time.. now i will go for a stroll and i hope i will calm down a bit.. in any case ca not do anything till the 21st july…

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Schildpad I know job centres can be hit and miss, but my job centre sorted my son's new claim and they were very good, you should have a tenancy agreement if you haven't contact your landlord they can provide you with one, I must admit I took everything from his birth certificate to my bills, hospital letters, tenancy agreement etc and they was great.

    I hope your walk helps you to relax.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    @Catherine21 @Elvisdog

    I find all this so hard. I feel overwhelmed by everything.. i got the tenancy agreement and I hope it will be ok. It should be ok. I find the world so hard to deal with. I can not cope with everything. I hope it will be ok. She did not ask as much as I thought . But it does not mean she will ask for more. I would love if it will be all sorted in one visit.

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Catherine21 i know, it's terrible we have all been put in this situation. My eldest son still has to go through it too, im still dreading it. I just hope his money doesn't change. He is generous and hasn't really grasped the whole situation, he has mild learning difficulties on top of the Autism, he isn't good with money, a prime example of this is, if I give him money for say three items he struggles to work out if he has enough money, I have to break it down and walk him through the maths, he will still struggle in understanding. Without family support he just wouldn't cope or understand, the transitional transfer. There must be so many people who are in the same or worse situations it's just not made easy. I had hoped labour would change the transfer but they have only came out with even worse changes. A fight for us for sure.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    Another day passed. Soon going to bed. And tomorrow will be another day. I hope I will be able to sleep as yesterday I could not breath . Awful feeling.... Hopefully I will sleep better ..

    Hope you have a good night.. it is getting hotter again. Anyway . Good evening.......soon...