What are you all up to
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Woke up to blue sky and sunshine but it's clouded over now.
Done the Aldi shop, and now OH has taken himself off to the garage to work on "Daffy" . British Gas finally came to change our smart metre reader, originally told on the phone it would come back to life
not sure how???? Engineer who came said it had stopped working because they had updated all software and we should have had notification! Er no! Anyway nice new one fitted, but think I preferred not knowing how much we were using! 
Expecting a visit from eldest son this afternoon, not seen him for a while always busy. Offered to take us out for a meal, so expect we'll be going to local pub, cheap & cheerful
Enjoy time with your Grand daughter TG whatever you decide to do.
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Get your GD on Pintrest TG, looking at some hand made stuff, then suggest she have a go. Knitted stuff is booming at the moment, as are unusual wreaths for Xmas. Take a look at the Pom Pom rugs!
That combines screen time with practical have a go, and she’ll have a “cool rug’ for her bedside at school!0 -
I'm intrigued by the blurb that claim 'smart meters' save you electricity. AFAICS they would only do so if you heeded the information provided and cut down on consumption. I wonder how many have been conned by them.
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Probably only those who spend lots of time screen scanning, CY, to the exclusion of thinking !! Particularly since the "plug In " display unit does not always come with the fitting of the meter -- I was asked "Do you want one of these 'cos they are free {
}?" Oh yes, I'll have six ! No you won't you'll have one & lump it !!0 -
When we got waylaid in our local town by our own energy company, then advising us that we should have a smart meter fitted ,I said that if they could give me a guarantee in writing that it would still work if we changed supplier ,"I did not get that assurance" so we are now going to stick with what we have until such times as they can
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We are going tomorrow to pick up our little day van that we have bought recently. Hoping to be home early then take it out a drive in the afternoon. Also got to empty the caravan as it is going for its first service next week hoping it passes with no issues. Very wet and windy here today lots of fireworks going off too
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My Mum has it covered. She unplugs her Smart Meter daily to save electric!
cant argue with logic like that!
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The engineer assured us this new meter reader would work if we changed supplier, our old one wouldn't, they have improved them over the years.
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Hope you are happy with your day van Francis, sounds like you will have the best of both worlds
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Bit grey and drizzly today
Enjoyed a lovely evening out at local pub with our eldest son last night, good to catch up with all his news .
Finally got around to booking a CL to visit Wicken Fen next spring, I've wanted to go to Wicken for ages.
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Our latest tariff is smart meter based. We don't have a smart meter 😲. OH is adamant we won't and told them so at the outset, call handler agreed and we've not been trouble since.
No objection if it will work regardless of supplier. Our daughter in NZ has had them for gas and electric for the 11 years she's been there. Monthly bill fixed or variable if you want, all done by smart meter and paperless. So it does and can working with your mum TDA by themselves they do nothing except use electric 😂😂. That advert saying saves enough to.......... drives me to distraction, unless you switch things off, not standby which seems to be the norm these days, there is no saving. Like all things we are at the mercy of the designers and suppliers of equipment to be able to turn things off completely. As a child we never left the house without all sockets being in the off position. Lights an exception in the darker months!
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Just returned home from shopping in local arcade,all I heard was Christmas music banging out from various department stores !.Feel sorry for staff , must be driving them nuts .I love Christmas time but its only 4th November for goodness sake.🎄🎄.Bah humbug.😁.
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Have rejected "smart" too. I found fuel monitors were useful, even if it meant just looking at it and turning something off to see what happened.
The novelty wears off but the bills still keep rising despite our best efforts.Francis, I hope you enjoy your van, nice for local trips.
Helen, you have reminded me about next year, I'd like to go to the Burnham CL. I'm just packing to go to the Lakes, it has been very quiet here with son and grandson gone, I can't quite believe its happened, we are hoping they get their new house keys tomorrow. The present owners have taken everything to the wire, exchange repeatedly delayed until the end of last week.
OH is out fishing, it's damp and miserable, I'm glad to be in the warm.
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Agree Trellis , really wish the shops would wait to start Christmas until mid November at the earliest!
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We had smart meters fitted years ago, and they have cut our bills down quite a bit. On our new reader we can set a budget too.
Brue, hope you have a lovely time in the Lakes.
OH has taken himself off into the garage, I am stocking up my kindle with books and doing a bit of research for next year's holidays
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Biting my tongue (and poisoning myself at the same time!).
MIL informed me on Saturday that she forgot to tell me that a friend of hers had rung when were out on Friday morning and is now giving her a lift to the funeral tomorrow! So we'll be happy to know we won't be needed.
The joys of having children or parents that rely on you.Just moving on without saying a word.
Had a nice long walk this morning before the sun disappeared.
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We picked up the little camper this morning. Have now taken it out a drive along the coast everything seems fine so far although being 25 yrs old there is no power steering so a bit of getting used to. Im currently sitting in it just now trying to work out how everything works.
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Not a dumb question, asked it myself
Budget can be set daily,weekly, monthly and as far as I can see the reader shows ticks if keeping within budget and a cross if exceeded
Hope power doesn't go off!
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We’ve been at Abbey Wood since Wednesday and enjoyed it very much .We are leaving tomorrow for a 4 night stay at Morton in Marsh which will be very welcome after 4 busy days in London.
Brian & Jo
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Dry but breezy day in North Norfolk,had visitors for lunch ,from West Summerton ,we have known them since the 1980s nice to catch up on the news, both now will not drive at night ,
Off to charity concert in the End of PierTheatre later
Great today's thought by wardens on site info shed today
"Is it okay to ask the Romans to come back, as our roads need doing again"
Friends arriving tomorrow untill we leave on friday
Ps hope our two neighbours do not need to many trips to site loo tonight as they are both "wizbangs"one backed in and one nose in
Pls the motor caravan opp arrived over half an hour ago is still getting "sorted?as now got ramps under the nose down front wheels and OH going to fill water barrel up
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Bonfire and Fireworks on Friday night + KFC tea went down well
Then being allowed to stay in bed until late Saturday morning another hit with GD, cinema Saturday afternoon and shopping for her friends birthday present (I got to pay of course) Last nights meal was prepared by GD and cooked by me another hit.
Today we have been for a walk, done some food shopping, had hot dogs for lunch and now roast Lamb is in the oven for later.
I have tried to show her how to knit and crochet but she has the concentration of a goldfish
she has however managed to do some cross stitch while I crocheted some poppies, she now has one for her school blazer.The mountain of washing has been done and ironed ready to go back to school, where she is going to put it all is another thing, as once again she has far too much clothes and other things to store in her wardrobe and 2 draws. Why her mother sends her back with so much stuff is beyond me, we tell her every time she doesn't need it. If she had less (crap) she wouldn't get into so much trouble for a messy bed space.
Moan over.Just need to do a bit of sewing for her now as her pocket lining (puffa jacket) keeps getting stuck in her zip.
Normality will resume here around 19.30 tonight
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Spent most of the day banging away at my Photo-slides. only left the house to get newspaper ( for the puzzle pages - not yet tackled
), and feed the birds. All this after a horrid, much disturbed night { Really must ensure my eyes are sealed when passing butchers displays - sossigis looked much better than they really were 
!! } Loads of slides translated onto P.C. from the old one, but Microsoft have much updated Word so it keeps telling me that the spellings and grammar can no longer be given markers, 'cos they are that bad . Dammit, I hate being blamed for doing an accurate transfer of others English, but at least I'm no longer getting Red / Green zigzags across my work.Hope you all are adjusting well to these dark evenings -- 17:15 in Cheshire and its jet black out there now - Must check torch / handlamp batteries are in good nick.
Back here later
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After TDAs enquiries about family History research on another thread I thought I'd take a look in Ancestry after several years break...well, it's awash with other peoples family trees that connect with mine and some are so bizarre I can't believe what I've seen! I suppose it's lazy research and any old person with the same name will do. Anyway that was a good way to spend a wet afternoon and one lovely result, a photo of a Gt Gt Uncle whose name has been used in our family and now I can see what he actually looked like.
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