What are you all up to
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Our forecast is for 70mph winds Tuesday afternoon, so the school run should be interesting.
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In our part of the SW we've got strong winds now with gales on the way.
Our elderly neighbours have finally let their sons do a Power of Attorney so I had to witness the signatures this morning. As we're involved in an emergency POA for a relative in Warwicks (an urgent request to the Court of Protection) I was glad to put my signature on the documents. It saves so much work and worry as it's bad enough when someone suddenly becomes ill and incapable.
Still on the eye drops but not so frequent for the next few days, eyes are starting to feel a bit better, lots of people here with this rotten virus, roll on Spring!
Are you going away DSB or are you hunkering down?!
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Yes it’s coming up from SW, so going to be bad on those coasts. Breezy here, bit cooler than it has been, but thankfully dry.
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Happy to share😀
It's a bit blowy here but I’ve known far worse.
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Hope your neighbours did joint power of attorney . mother wanted joint for my brother and i .He got us to have seperate . He did things behind my back , and has now died at the age of 63 , leaving me and wife to clear up the mess . Just a tale to be careful .
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Hi David , my moms meds come in pre boxed weekly dispensers ,monthly . ( sorry not all ) saves a lot of hastle , just a thought . Derek
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Whilst that sounds a very convenient idea I think they only agree to that for patients who might not be capable of preparing their own medication? At least that was the case when Margaret asked the question!
David
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This is something that we should do. I am not sure I fully understand the process. I think (only think!) that Power of Attorney is based on the individual and they can add as many many people that they think fit. So Margaret and I could elect to look after each others affairs if one became incapable but we could also add our two sons if we both became incapable. Have I got that right?
David
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It's been a bit blowy here today, and we managed a couple of dry walks this morning, but I got good and wet during this afternoon walk...too windy for me to struggle with my brolly, especially with my plastered arm. Rain has stopped at present so perhaps tonight's walk will be in the dry again.
Tda, the arm seems to be coming on fine, touch wood. We'll wait till after it's removed before deciding on when and where we'll go, but as the forecast for next week isn't very promising I don't think that we'll be setting off till a week on Monday at the earliest. As for where...well we wait and see what the long distance forecast is, but we could be heading towards East Anglia and make the trip a full 2 to 3 month trip, getting home just before Easter....but then maybe not!
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Spent a while today playing with my new C.D. / Radio to get FM & DAB stations all neatly set up so I can get the Test Crikkit on Talksport 2 from next Thursday morning. Had to spend a few minutes reading / re-reading the hand book 'cos it's totally different from the lovely old set I've had to junk. Why, with all the great improvements in technology, can they not standardise the blooming controls. After all they tell us they only think of our welfare ggrrrrrrrrrrrr !!
Rant over, at least 'til I want to get the early overs of Test Match 3 South Africa V England { By Sunday lunchtime I might regret getting this stuff sorted
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Possibly slightly different in England to Scotland, but we did ours several years back and have POAs for each other, and failing that our children will take over. We have either one to act for us as our DD lives closer, has more time, and is more financially aware than her brother.
We have both financial and welfare POAs.
We also decided to register them so they were ready to use, total cost around £200.
We also recently made new wills, as the old ones were from around 1990, so we hopefully have everything covered now.
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Our meds are 8 weeks at a time, and we can get an extra 8 weeks for holidays, so we used to order slightly before it was necessary and tried to build up a surplus. This was essential when we went abroad for up to 4 months at a time, but now we are confined to UK, we are a bit more relaxed on the ordering.
DD bought me a 14 day box, so I sort my pills out on a Sunday, only 4 different ones, but one of them is 3 times per day.
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Did you do them yourself, Kjell, or go through a solicitor? I must get round to doing ours sometime soon.
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Nellie
I have just found this on the Which website which might be a useful guide. It seems you can do it yourself but there is a registration fee or you can do it via a solicitor but you will have their fees on top which are not inconsiderable!!!
David
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Had a few dry days here 😀, similar today but some showers earlier.
Plans on hold owing to bending awkwardly and hurting my back 😤 most frustrating. Have to say wheat bags are working well. Hopefully resting/pottering as well will repair it for tomorrow.
Time to play on this site today - frustrating as so many server errors almost impossible to use it..........
We did our Powers of Attorney, health and wealth, last year after it was forcibly brought to our attention by events 😉, it had been in the list! We used solicitors was about £1000 inc VAT plus the cost of registering each one, so ready for immediate use if the need arises. Less than £1500 inclusive without checking. Good advice from solicitors about joint and severally, which we have as daughter lives in NZ, ours are each other and both our children.
We re did our wills too, another £1000 inc VAT, as not complex 😯, as things had changed, in law not our wishes, over the intervening years. Including the property allowance, will be one million I believe this year 😱, where property going straight down to offspring, not that ours is but property prices are silly here!
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Sad to hear you've tweeked your back, B2
-- I've been having that trouble for yonks now, that's why I sit here with a fan heater blowing gently across my back . Like you I'm hoping it's rather better tomorrow' cos the Ducky is in for it's M O T and service so I'll be needing to walk a couple of miles each way { AND it's forecasting to be wet wet wet grrrrr I just hate pop music 
}.I had to use the " unlogged in " method to get on here -- reading posts as I wanted to then selected " My Profile " which took it's time to open but it worked eventually, as you can see
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Hope your back improves B2, OH often has this problem, a slight move and then nearly immobile unless he has painkillers.
We used solicitors for POA, I was grateful for the advice my late Mum received regarding POA so took the same route as it proved to be so useful when needed.
Will this post work I wonder?!
Visiting dog and me just having a break on the sofa, nice day weatherwise is fast turning into a not so nice one.
Hope all goes well for Nellie and re-using the injured arm/wrist.
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We used our usual solicitor, he has a "standard" text which we read through and altered anything we wanted to be different, then they were printed up, signed and witnessed, and sent to Edinburgh to be registered, which is optional and can be left until you need to use them.
For the small extra cost, at that time, this was about 5 years back, we decided just to get it all sorted immediately to avoid any delay later.
We recently also did new wills, each leaving our share of the house and our savings, directly to the children, rather than to each other. I think the charge for that was around £400, so we reckon all we have left to sort out now is clearing out the loft and the garage!
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We have moved from our second home to our home town, although as we are back at Ferry next Sunday we have gone on a pitch at Commons Wood rather than put the van to bed in the storage,for such a short time, and as I have a hospital appointment Tuesday (next door) it helps and the house can stay "mothballed" appart from a couple of visits to do some washing and pick up mail and my medication fron local Lloyds
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No plans Freddy, but nothing in life is certain! My Mother lived to be 98, so I am hoping I take after her.
However, the loft, and especially the garage, will both be big jobs as we have been here 32 years and I am a terrible hoarder. We have been putting off the clear out for years now, always something more interesting to do!
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Thanks David, I'll read that and take note.
Thanks also to Kjell for your reply.
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David, I've read through the literature and see that Which have an offer of 50% off their normal price for assistance in preparing the POAs. The cost using that service and the registration fees for a couple for both forms of POA works out at just under £900. Guess that it would be a lot more if done by solicitor.
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When I did my mums I just downloaded the appropriate forms and info from the government website. Although a bit laborious, it wasn't that difficult to prepare the forms and register them. I did it for both wealth and health. When they were needed in anger both POA's worked as intended.
I must get round to doing ours. Given the cost is only £164 to register both, so £328 for both of us. I think given some of the costs mentioned above, I will be DIY again.
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My garage is a bit of a tip at the moment. It's another of those mañana jobs.
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Yes, I've heard of this, but not sure if this would work I my case.... At least one of the drugs on my repeat prescription is a little more flexible. I have a basic daily dose, but I sometimes have to tweak myself, so each month I actually get more than I regularly need. If I find I have too much in stock, I just don't order it for a month.. 🙂 My GP's know I do this..
Judging by the fees mentioned above, in any case, I think I'll do it myself. 👍👍
David
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