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  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Club Member Posts: 10,224
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    edited December 2017 #11582

    The driveway people have unloaded the mini-digger, an hour and a half later than stated and then promptly disappeared to get a supply of red diesel. I think they may have gone to the Gulf for it. Not an auspicious start to the project.

  • Oneputt
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    edited December 2017 #11583

    Great pic Brue, we only have large buds, think it will be a while till they bloom.  

    Despite the frost and snow etc. we do have sweet peas still blooming

     

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176
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    edited December 2017 #11584

    As soon as the final leaves fall  I'm on the look out for signs of Spring! There are catkins on our Birch trees and even flower buds on our early daffodils. The daffs are very early varieties but it cheers me up to see them. I know we might have snow soon but things keep moving forward on the ground beneath. smile

  • milliehull
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    edited December 2017 #11585

    Sounds par for the course CY.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited December 2017 #11586

    Surely not yet! This is just the start of winter!

  • DSB
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    edited December 2017 #11587

    In the top toilet block at Broadway CAMC Site is the 100 year old Wanderer Caravan.  Photos not brilliant because of the glass case, but thought some might be interested to see.....

    David 

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176
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    edited December 2017 #11588

    Is the old railway any nearer to being connected up DSB? I would imagine this will be a great attraction at the Broadway site. 

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176
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    edited December 2017 #11589

    Yes Malcolm, things are growing all the time. The winter wheat is already growing for next years harvest. Winter doesn't mean everything stops. smile

  • brue
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    edited December 2017 #11590

    Can Spring be far behind....? smile

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited December 2017 #11591

    How can anything grow, brue, when there's frost and it's dark by 4 p.m.? When it gets to evening there's nothing else visible except the TV screen! frown

  • Bakers2
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    edited December 2017 #11592

    😂😂😂

    That's a possibility he is pretty good. Been well trained 😉 but like all men of any age still a work in progress 😆

     

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11593

    Plenty things keep growing over winter Malcolm, here are a few.....

    http://www.daviddomoney.com/2016/01/19/the-21-best-plants-for-winter-garden-colour/

     

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11594

    Some sun here today, but also clouds.  Off to my woodturning club to borrow the pen making equipment, going to make some as Christmas presents.

    Kitchen worktop now ready to install so will do that this evening.

    Good visit to son and family yesterday, they had home made soup for lunch, plus sandwiches.  Helped him to change the opening side on their new tumble dryer, took us ages as instructions not very clear.  

    DD and her husband were there too so we loaded up both cars with the baby stuff she has "inherited".......pram body plus wheels, pushchair body that also fits the wheels, small folding buggy, folding high chair, some clothes, and a baby car seat.

    However, the current advice is not to use a car seat that is over 10 years old, this one is 12 years, so she will need to buy a new one.  Pity as the seat also fits onto the set of wheels.

    I need to  check whether her car, a 2002 Volvo V40 can have Isofix points retrofitted to fix a baby seat to before she decides which seat to buy.

  • Tammygirl
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    edited December 2017 #11595

    Lovely sunny day again here, some clouds but enough blue sky to keep me happy. 

    Decided we are going away this week for a break in the MH, off to Bury first (visit market) then across the Pennines to Penistone to see our youngest son and family for the weekend. Not sure where after that will wait and see what the weather is like, might be York, Durham, Harrogate or Bolton Abbey. Then possibly a couple of days stopping off at Edinburgh for the Christmas market before going home.

    Weather doesn't look good for the drive down on Wednesday but never mind its always good to be away in the MH. OH has got the portable solar panel sat out on the grass topping up the habitation battery in prep for going, water is in and primed ( no frost for next to nights hopefully) 

    I've been busy in the kitchen making soup and chilli to take with us and cooked off some chicken thighs for snacks.

    Diet (healthy eating) going well both have lost weight so happy at that, not easy at this time of year as we both love the winter meals, just finding ways to make them healthier.

    Off shortly for our walk before the sun starts to go down.

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11596

    My OH keeps trying, but she reckons I am pretty much a lost cause now!     embarassed

  • Tammygirl
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    edited December 2017 #11597

    Photos look lovely Brue, we still have a wall rose flowering against the south facing front of the house. Not got any Daffodil bulbs up yet but the grape hyacinths leaves are through, no snow drops yet either or crocus. 

    Malcolm, your wife won't get winter fuel as she is below the age for it.

     

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11598

    Apparently when the Christmas Bonus started back in 1972, the basic State Pension was £6.75, so £10 was indeed a lot then!

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11599

    I used to get £200 paid to me while my wife was below the qualifying age, not sure whether that has changed now.

    However I seem to remember that Malcolm said his wife had "no recourse to public funds" so that would mean he could not claim anything extra for her anyway.

  • Tammygirl
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    edited December 2017 #11600

    Yes Kj you are correct OH said he got £200 until I became old enough cry so it must be per household undecided Strangely Mum still gets £150 even though she is in a Care home.

    I'd forgotten about M's wife not being able to claim. 

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2017 #11601

    The railway will be through to Broadway by Easter next year,so it will become a real honeypot site with the trains going Cheltenham 

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11602

    Actually I thought that if you lived alone or with someone who did not qualify, you got the full £200 anyway.

  • KjellNN
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    edited December 2017 #11603

    https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/what-youll-get

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176
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    edited December 2017 #11604

    Thanks JVB, we have booked a few days there next year but looks like we'll be a bit early for the new venture.

  • triky auto
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    edited December 2017 #11605

    Took the "Concorde" in for it's MOT this morning ,all O.K except for an advisory on the tyers ,elderly walls cracking of course .Waiting for prices and a date to fit them ,could be this week .

    Very bright and sunny this morning here in Kent ,but cold wind too ,now clouded over this afternoon and very cold .undecided.

  • milliehull
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    edited December 2017 #11606

    wink

  • milliehull
    milliehull Forum Participant, Forum Participant Trusted Posts: 4,831
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    edited December 2017 #11607

    Yes you do.KjN  Mr H got £200 until I reached qualifying age and then we got £100 each.  It is £200 per household but now Mr H is 80 he gets an extra £100.  Whether he will have to share that with me once I reach 80 or I get another £100 remains to be seen - quite a few years off yet!!

  • brue
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    edited December 2017 #11608

    I think it's the household again Millie, two over eighties living in the same household get £150 each, so a £300 limit.

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2017 #11609

    And of course there is also the extra 25p on your pension at 80 laughing

    Ps I take it you fell for the much older man wink

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Club Member Posts: 10,224
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    edited December 2017 #11610

    The ongoing driveway saga. The mini digger has just ripped out my Virgin fibre cable although to be fair to him it was buried less than a foot down so we now have no TV, phone or broadband. This message is courtesy of two cocoa tins and a bit of string. Catch up with you all later.

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Trusted Posts: 9,412
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    edited December 2017 #11611

    Ouch!

    My theory is this - if you want a job doing well, do it badly first time, then the wife'll do it properly for ever after! winksurprised

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