Ah, but you’ll have the joy of getting the tax free £10 Christmas bonus on top of your State Pension. So exciting each year wondering what I’ll spend it on!
The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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The helicopter pilots' mantra: If it hasn't gone wrong then it's just about to...
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What about the winter fuel supplement? Does Bots qualify?CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:53 amAh, but you’ll have the joy of getting the tax free £10 Christmas bonus on top of your State Pension. So exciting each year wondering what I’ll spend it on!
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An inch of snow. OAT -2.3°C. Nil wind. CAVOK.
Guard Dog Three is going nuts. He loves snow.
Guard Dog Three is going nuts. He loves snow.
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Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:56 amWhat about the winter fuel supplement? Does Bots qualify?
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Because we are so far from London the storm damage up here on Friday has fallen off the TV news desks. Just counted 267 individual power cuts in NE Scotland, most of which have been in place for coming up to 48 hours. We are surrounded by them but amazingly still have our leccy supply. The timetable to fix the worst keeps slipping - supposed to be 2200 last night, now estimating 1800 today.
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Ah, but there were power cuts in Yorkshire
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They’ve got electricity in Yorkshire
When all else fails, read the instructions.
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Morning all.
6c when I surfaced still only 9c.
As is becoming normal crystal and cloudless.
Main PC is poorly, no wireless, no mouse, does not "see" both external drives.
Floors first then big I think
SM has no improvement, thanks RIS
It's distressing as she won't do anything to help herself.
Sent on phone. Thinks might get a tablet for Christmas.
6c when I surfaced still only 9c.
As is becoming normal crystal and cloudless.
Main PC is poorly, no wireless, no mouse, does not "see" both external drives.
Floors first then big I think
SM has no improvement, thanks RIS
It's distressing as she won't do anything to help herself.
Sent on phone. Thinks might get a tablet for Christmas.
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Snow on nearby islands this morning but none here
(Photo by Shani-Lee Fox-Hall)
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Our official address for financial investment reasons is Greece. Greece is exempt for winter heating allowance. Apparently it is supposed to be summer all.year around. What *****.
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When I was working for Air UK at LGW in the late 70's, I requested a few days off, and at the time I lived in Lytham St Anne's. I was asked what I planned to do with them, since it was mid-winter. An ID 90 to somewhere warmer perhaps? "No," I said, "we're having electricity fitted. I am sure from the sympathetic looks I was given by a few staff members, that they took me at my word!
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I can testify to waking up to snow in Thessaloniki one January morning, and snow certainly falls on the surrounding hills to quite a low level at times. Also got caught in a snowstorm near Volos (halfway between Athens and Thessaloniki) one winter afternoon and with Greek driving being less than responsible at the best of times, opted not to play dodgems and stayed overnight.
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I has been out for a walk on the paseo with Ed this morning.
Looking across the bay towards Wodrick's domain, can see snow on top of the mountains.
Shops are now open Sundays until New Year, so visited Lidl and Iceland which both had more staff than clients, rather than fight my way round tomorrow.
Looking across the bay towards Wodrick's domain, can see snow on top of the mountains.
Shops are now open Sundays until New Year, so visited Lidl and Iceland which both had more staff than clients, rather than fight my way round tomorrow.
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We have had snow on the beach on Amorgos.
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I was a very regular pax on the AirAngleDangle F27 from Ayburrdeen to/fro Embra in the 70's.
I always sat, if I could, on the Stbd side next to the emergency exit. Not for safety reasons, but because I like to stretch out my legs.
One time, late afternoon in summer, I noticed that there was a stream of what looked like water vapour (water meth?) from the trailing edge. I'd never seen that before, so I brought it to the attention of the trolleydolley and suggested that she might mention it to the steering attendants.
A short while later there was a sudden yaw and a feathering of the #2 donkey. It had been a fuel leak which the front office boys had been wondering about.
No big deal. Nuffink, actually.
Were you, perchance, one of the yokemonkeys on that particular, otherwise unremarkable, sector?
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No, UP - I was responsible only for the weight and balance and that the aircraft left on time, oh - and that there was in fact an aircraft available to operate the route! I did visit ABZ quite frequently and having visited Siberia, I think ABZ could jut be the coldest place on earth! Air UK in those days had some of the best chaps and chapesses that I have ever worked with.Undried Plum wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:52 pm
I was a very regular pax on the AirAngleDangle F27 from Ayburrdeen to/fro Embra in the 70's.
I always sat, if I could, on the Stbd side next to the emergency exit. Not for safety reasons, but because I like to stretch out my legs.
One time, late afternoon in summer, I noticed that there was a stream of what looked like water vapour (water meth?) from the trailing edge. I'd never seen that before, so I brought it to the attention of the trolleydolley and suggested that she might mention it to the steering attendants.
A short while later there was a sudden yaw and a feathering of the #2 donkey. It had been a fuel leak which the front office boys had been wondering about.
No big deal. Nuffink, actually.
Were you, perchance, one of the yokemonkeys on that particular, otherwise unremarkable, sector?
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I worked for Jim Crampton and his wife Barbara in the fifties in my school holidays when they flew Auster's giving pleasure trips from Cleethorpes beach, they eventually went on to become joint founders of Air Anglia. Jim Crampton was a gentleman.
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A Roast Beef and Yorkshire Sunday Lunch for us and friends today. Plus dogs, of course (always welcome). Limited by size of table and number of chairs. Mrs OFSO did her usual superb job. Some excellent wines served. Dishwasher currently on third cycle. One more should do it. Should our Christmas trip to London be sabotaged by Beastly Boris the Bounder, we have enough guests on the roster to last out the Festive Season.
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Back in September when my sister was in hospital and I was keeping her house running and picking up the mail, etc., she received notification that she was due for a Winter Fuel Payment of £300 being over 80 years old. When she died in mid-October, I notified all the authorities (HMRC, DWP, Passport Office, DVLA, Local Council,etc., etc.), using the Tell Us Once system.
Last Thursday I received a letter from DWP expressing their sympathies at my sister's death and telling me that the £300 WFP would be paid into my account in a couple of weeks (err...what???). I checked on my Bank account yesterday and found a payment for £100 as my half of my WFP, 'er indoors getting the other £100, and, sure enough, another payment for £300 WFP referenced my sister's NI number.
I fully expect another letter from the DWP in about 12 months asking me to kindly re-pay the £300 I shouldn't have been paid in the first place. In the mean time I shall use it to pay for heating her unoccupied house over winter until we can sell it.
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Last Thursday I received a letter from DWP expressing their sympathies at my sister's death and telling me that the £300 WFP would be paid into my account in a couple of weeks (err...what???). I checked on my Bank account yesterday and found a payment for £100 as my half of my WFP, 'er indoors getting the other £100, and, sure enough, another payment for £300 WFP referenced my sister's NI number.
I fully expect another letter from the DWP in about 12 months asking me to kindly re-pay the £300 I shouldn't have been paid in the first place. In the mean time I shall use it to pay for heating her unoccupied house over winter until we can sell it.
GG