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Post by willien on Dec 3, 2024 11:27:55 GMT
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Post by davem399 on Dec 3, 2024 11:32:08 GMT
I’ve just checked the banking app and we got ours a couple of days ago too. The big decision is what to spend it on! Put the electric/gas on for 3.8 seconds? We’ve just blown it all on a cup of tea. |
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Post by spinno on Dec 3, 2024 12:02:30 GMT
Put the electric/gas on for 3.8 seconds? We’ve just blown it all on a cup of tea. Wastrels...  |
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Post by MJB on Dec 3, 2024 12:07:16 GMT
I think it's pretty cool looking. |
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Post by andy on Dec 3, 2024 12:11:20 GMT
Harry Metcalf just did a longer video about it... |
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Post by aitch on Dec 3, 2024 12:16:45 GMT
Just a minor gripe...
I've just spent two hours traipsing round Staines searching for the last four snowmen. My back, knee and feet are definitely giving me gyp. Especially my knee.
And I only found three of the four!
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Post by dorsetmike on Dec 3, 2024 13:06:42 GMT
Just a minor gripe... I've just spent two hours traipsing round Staines searching for the last four snowmen. My back, knee and feet are definitely giving me gyp. Especially my knee. And I only found three of the four! Last one is probably melted by now! |
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Post by aitch on Dec 3, 2024 16:13:35 GMT
Just a minor gripe... I've just spent two hours traipsing round Staines searching for the last four snowmen. My back, knee and feet are definitely giving me gyp. Especially my knee. And I only found three of the four! Last one is probably melted by now! Ho ho, it's the way you tell em! 
Anyway, I've found out where the last one is. Funnily enough, it's somewhere I pass close by quite regularly - the Library. I hope it's BY the library, not IN it. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Dec 3, 2024 18:43:36 GMT
I'm newly qualified I was last year but I still got it |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Dec 3, 2024 18:49:24 GMT
* I think the last time it was increased, it was actually worth something. But I could be wrong.
It has stayed at £10 since it was introduced in the 1970s. I was issuing the £10 Xmas bonus when I worked in what was then the DHSS in 1977 Back then yes it was a tidy sum given iirc a single pensioner got something like £22 a week so it probably paid for a decent Xmas dinner. a few cards and a couple of drinks etc but it has never been changed since I expect I will get mine in the next few days and I might just push the boat out a bit and get a small box of mince pies |
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Post by spinno on Dec 3, 2024 18:50:00 GMT
I'm newly qualified I was last year but I still got it Mrs S (I'm her toyboy) had hers last week |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Dec 3, 2024 18:56:22 GMT
British Gas again. They attempted to fit a smart meter last Tuesday if you recall but as both I and the previous engineer told them it can't be done. As they then followed it up with an email headed "Now your new smart meter is up and running" I gave them a call and was told it was being escalated to a manager and I would hear from them within 24 hours
Of course the only thing I have had in the week since is a nasty letter from their legal people about the bill I owe them (which now includes 3 months estimates of about £140 a month!) so I phoned them to say I can hardly come to an arrangement to pay my monthly bill plus something off the arrears when I still after 7+ months have zero idea what my actual monthly bill is supposed to be!
They put me back to British Gas where the person I spoke to said she couldn't help me because my complaint is with a senior manager who will get back to me in the next 24-48 hours!!!!
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Post by geoffr on Dec 3, 2024 19:08:36 GMT
British Gas again. They attempted to fit a smart meter last Tuesday if you recall but as both I and the previous engineer told them it can't be done. As they then followed it up with an email headed "Now your new smart meter is up and running" I gave them a call and was told it was being escalated to a manager and I would hear from them within 24 hours Of course the only thing I have had in the week since is a nasty letter from their legal people about the bill I owe them (which now includes 3 months estimates of about £140 a month!) so I phoned them to say I can hardly come to an arrangement to pay my monthly bill plus something off the arrears when I still after 7+ months have zero idea what my actual monthly bill is supposed to be! They put me back to British Gas where the person I spoke to said she couldn't help me because my complaint is with a senior manager who will get back to me in the next 24-48 hours!!!! Lesley, I suggestthat you email the chairman of Centrica, it worked for me with my Mother's gas account. |
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 3, 2024 19:08:37 GMT
British Gas again. They attempted to fit a smart meter last Tuesday if you recall but as both I and the previous engineer told them it can't be done. As they then followed it up with an email headed "Now your new smart meter is up and running" I gave them a call and was told it was being escalated to a manager and I would hear from them within 24 hours Of course the only thing I have had in the week since is a nasty letter from their legal people about the bill I owe them (which now includes 3 months estimates of about £140 a month!) so I phoned them to say I can hardly come to an arrangement to pay my monthly bill plus something off the arrears when I still after 7+ months have zero idea what my actual monthly bill is supposed to be! They put me back to British Gas where the person I spoke to said she couldn't help me because my complaint is with a senior manager who will get back to me in the next 24-48 hours!!!! Ahh - the famed efficiency of private enterprise...it will save us all from the evils of government... |
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Post by willien on Dec 3, 2024 19:15:09 GMT
I think it's pretty cool looking. And we have such similar tastes in music...  |
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