Bloody hell it's actually snowing here in South Staffs🥶🥶

Wrong! Flower leaves from plum tree...yeh I know, SPECSAVERS

Today at 03:07:40 PM

Quote from: Raven on Today at 01:52:47 PMAye, it was taken last Autumn.

Nice. 

Anybody else get fed up with this?



Four small items from AliExpress total outlay maybe £20 and not only do they always ask for reviews but so do the company who delivered it. This is on top of the continual emails about every one as each item generates email when ordered, confirmed, shipped and every stop on the way to me too. I must spend more time deleting this junk than I do finding the bits and placing the order.

Amazon are nearly as bad.

Quote from: Michael Rolls on Today at 02:24:17 PMNot happy. Ok I am over 35k but hardly rolling

I know what you mean Mike.  Now you have carers coming in I hope you are claiming Attendance Allowance? 

Those on higher incomes in retirement are likely to have paid more into the pot while working. Of course it isn't a pot though - NI is just general taxation disguised as something else to hide the true tax rate.

The real problem is the way it was implemented. If it was decided that the pension was insufficient to pay for winter heating then the pension should have been increased not some ad hoc payment made which must cost extra to administer and worst of all never attracts a cost of living increase despite energy running at way higher rates of inflation than anything else. Had it been a pension increase there is no way it could have been stopped and now clawed back.

Think yourself lucky though Mike - you get to keep your generous £10 pensioners Christmas present and can even spend it how you like although a letter to your MP complaining about the winter fuel allowance would put a serious dent in it.

But so true

Not happy. Ok I am over 35k but hardly rolling

Quote from: Vlad on Today at 12:32:25 PMIs that a new pic of you Raven?

Aye, it was taken last Autumn.

Quote from: Raven on Today at 11:08:11 AMGood job he filled up the Clydes and the sheep's water troughs yesterday. You never realise how much water you actually use until the supply is interupted. I have my supply of bottled water so we are ok for drinking too, but everything else is screwed till whatever the problem is, is fixed.

Is that a new pic of you Raven?

You surely don't expect government departments to communicate?  Seems mad, doesn't it.

Thanks Granny.  

How ridiculous though,  that it is paid out and then has to be clawed back!
If they know your income,  I wonder why they even pay it in the first place.