WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Box Brownie said:
other than reporting it to your local authority there is sadly squat to done about fly-tipping
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Its on the increase here also.
The main issue as I see it, the local council used to charge about a tenner, for most items.
Now they price them individually, some prices are approaching £100!

One unfortunate soul, traveled from St Albans ( about 30 miles away) to dump here,
being out of area, they didn't know that some areas are covered by CCTV, for just that problem.
That cost her over £800 :woot:
 
WAMT?
Well just slightly really.
I renewed my car insurance today, with a different company as the old one increased it 50% on last time.
This one was the same as last years price.

With the list of "stuff" was if you want to opt out of auto renewal, click here,
Yes please ..
The link takes me to customer service phone number or the live chat option.
Both not available today.

I'm in two minds as to whether to bother or not TBH.
The CC I used expires well before the renewal date :D
 
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RSPB ???
Had a letter out of the blue asking me to pay nearly double what I pay each month
( as a minimum increase ) , WT-
Err NO
It costs me a considerable amount a year to buy , seeds / fat balls / suet blocks / peanuts etc so I allready pay over the odds , This annoyed me :confused:,
And breath :)
 
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F1.2 said:
RSPB ???
Had a letter out of the blue asking me to pay nearly double what I pay each month
( as a minimum increase ) , WT-
Err NO
It costs me a considerable amount a year to buy , seeds / fat balls / suet blocks / peanuts etc so I allready pay over the odds , This annoyed me :confused:,
And breath :)
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I pay my annual amount and it is (in effect) a legacy figure as the monthly equivalent has not been that low a "minimum payment" for many years. Other than asking me to increase the amount 'they' AFAIK cannot enforce an increase.
 
F1.2 said:
RSPB ???
Had a letter out of the blue asking me to pay nearly double what I pay each month
( as a minimum increase ) , WT-
Err NO
It costs me a considerable amount a year to buy , seeds / fat balls / suet blocks / peanuts etc so I allready pay over the odds , This annoyed me :confused:,
And breath :)
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Haven't had my letter yet. I expect it's on its way. I did wonder if they'd be doing that considering how the cost of everything has soared. You're right re the cost of all that food.The squirrel eats most of the nuts...:rolleyes:
 
F1.2 said:
RSPB ???
Had a letter out of the blue asking me to pay nearly double what I pay each month
( as a minimum increase ) , WT-
Err NO
It costs me a considerable amount a year to buy , seeds / fat balls / suet blocks / peanuts etc so I allready pay over the odds , This annoyed me :confused:,
And breath :)
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JohnC6 said:
Haven't had my letter yet. I expect it's on its way. I did wonder if they'd be doing that considering how the cost of everything has soared. You're right re the cost of all that food.The squirrel eats most of the nuts...:rolleyes:
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Our next renewal is in November, so I wonder if the letter mentioned is something introduced in 2022.....time will tell whether it universal or more selective :thinking:
 
The bloke standing next to me in a Costa. He was too close for my liking, and when I stepped away he stepped into the gap, twice. I had to ask him to move away in the end, to which he seemed very annoyed about. Covid is still about and I don't know him from Adam, so I want him at least 1m away, if not 2m... His Mrs seemed to think I was strange, the manager apologised and asked the guy to keep his distance. Should have told him I have Monkey Pox or something...
 
I thought there was a 50% cap on energy price increases?
this is more than 100% increase.

EDF Over the last 12 months you’ve used 13,039kWh, which cost £452.88 including VAT. If you use the same amount of energy over the next 12 months, we project your costs will come to £1,016.64 including VAT.
 
Cobra said:
I thought there was a 50% cap on energy price increases?
this is more than 100% increase.

EDF Over the last 12 months you’ve used 13,039kWh, which cost £452.88 including VAT. If you use the same amount of energy over the next 12 months, we project your costs will come to £1,016.64 including VAT.
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Were you on a fixed rate and now will be on the standard rate?
Mine is going from £1218/yr to £2167/yr for the same usage as I am just coming off a 1year fix.
 
Suvv said:
Were you on a fixed rate and now will be on the standard rate?
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Correct, apparently its their best and cheapest one, the other one is around £250 but that includes boiler cover.
 
Jelster said:
The bloke standing next to me in a Costa. He was too close for my liking, and when I stepped away he stepped into the gap, twice. I had to ask him to move away in the end, to which he seemed very annoyed about. Covid is still about and I don't know him from Adam, so I want him at least 1m away, if not 2m... His Mrs seemed to think I was strange, the manager apologised and asked the guy to keep his distance. Should have told him I have Monkey Pox or something...
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I'm sure you posted about a similar incident that you had, also in Costa ,a good while ago when Covid was well embedded. I suppose in a place like that people are going to queue quite close to each other, also they think it's all over. I recall reading about altercations in supermarket queues..outside..as people waited in turn to go in on the instructions of the security guards.
 
Just back from having a mole removed from my inner thigh all was going well till the nurse said I'm now going to use an apple core like gadget to remove the move then two stitches in. All done and dusted but she then said it was 5 stitches, so have to totally rest up for 48 hours and not get my blood pumping.
 
JohnC6 said:
I'm sure you posted about a similar incident that you had, also in Costa ,a good while ago when Covid was well embedded. I suppose in a place like that people are going to queue quite close to each other, also they think it's all over. I recall reading about altercations in supermarket queues..outside..as people waited in turn to go in on the instructions of the security guards.
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I have John, I'm quite particular about personal space since the Covid outbreak. What gets me is people just seem to think that it's over, done with; when it quite clearly isn't. I have a good friend who has been in hospital for the last 5 weeks due to Covid.
 
Fuji Dave said:
Just back from having a mole removed from my inner thigh all was going well till the nurse said I'm now going to use an apple core like gadget to remove the move then two stitches in. All done and dusted but she then said it was 5 stitches, so have to totally rest up for 48 hours and not get my blood pumping.
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Good job you had the foresight to get it looked at. Glad it's gone well.
 
Jelster said:
. What gets me is people just seem to think that it's over, done with; when it quite clearly isn't.
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As I posted elsewhere there are still 1.3 million cases in the UK and that is up on last month..
 
JohnC6 said:
Good job you had the foresight to get it looked at. Glad it's gone well.
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I never knew it was actually there in the first place till the dermatologist spotted it, have to wait on results but still have to have a scan on a big spot on the back of my left leg.
 
WAMT is another covid related thing (surely covid's all over...:rolleyes:) - our rubbish wasn't collected today allegedly due to staff shortages due to covid but the next collection will go ahead next week. Which will be recycling week. Next rubbish collection will be in 2 weeks. If it was permitted, I'd take the rubbish to the local depot but we're not allowed to do that, nor can we take domestic refuse to the local tip.
 
gjhill said:
Watching the ‘celebrations’ of the opening of the Elizabeth line on the news
only 18 billion over budget??
levelling up!!!!!
not
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Only about 4 billion over budget, total was about 18. Bargain

probably right about levelling up though
 
nog said:
Only about 4 billion over budget, total was about 18. Bargain

probably right about levelling up though
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Even £18.00p is too much, she never put bunting out when it was my birthday, or any other milestones.
So I'm certainly not getting involved in her's
 
Jelster said:
Bah Humbug!
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And its not even Christmas ( there I've gone and said it)
and at least I get presents then too, so as above.
 
Nod said:
WAMT is another covid related thing (surely covid's all over...:rolleyes:) - our rubbish wasn't collected today allegedly due to staff shortages due to covid but the next collection will go ahead next week. Which will be recycling week. Next rubbish collection will be in 2 weeks. If it was permitted, I'd take the rubbish to the local depot but we're not allowed to do that, nor can we take domestic refuse to the local tip.
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A follow up to this AMT... Having been told by the council that there would be no collection for a fortnight, we had put the bin back and resigned ourselves to a whiffy bin. at )7:00 this morning, I was peering blearily out of the window and spotted a couple of the bin men wandering down and saw the reflection of the lorry reversing down the road. Threw on my dressing gown and managed to get our bin out in time as well as our elderly neighbour's. According to the bin-man, it was a cover crew yesterday who couldn't be bothered to cover the side roads so just did the main road and a couple of drive through side streets, ignoring all the awkward cul de sacs.
 
mj4456 said:
As a retired person I won’t even get extra time off, she’s also not even my Queen Liz the second as I’m in Scotland.
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Surely she's descended from Jimmy 6?
 
Elizabeth the 1st was on the throne at the same time as Mary was Queen in Scotland, before the union of the crowns so the present Liz is the first for Scotland, probably Wales n N Ireland too?
 
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Talking about Scotland....:) Two moans.

We drove up here..to Scotland..today..M5-M6...A74(M74). Whatever happened to 'mirror,indicate,manoeuvre'..? Only three drivers did this. For the the rest it was a case of..'mirror-manoevre-indicate. Lorries included.

Moan 2. We're staying overnight..after a 7 hour journey..before completing the rest of our journey to Aberfeldy NW of Perth, in the morning.We were having our evening meal in the hotel restaurant and I looked across the road at a huge lake that has swans..a few species of ducks on it and a lot of Greylag geese that group on the surrounding footpath and grassed area.People walking past them cause them no bother..they're used to it. Unleashed dogs do bother them as you'd expect. I saw a whippet, running at speed, towards about 30 greylags which were sitting on the grass alongside the footpath. As one,they took off as the dog got to withing yards of them. Some distance behind the dog was the owner. Maybe I'm being too judgemental but he had the look of a stupid person about him. He just carried on walking and ,as far as I could tell, made no effort to call back the dog. He didn't have a leash either. Several other dog-walkers had their dogs on a leash. An hour later the geese still hadn't returned. :mad:
 
JohnC6 said:
Talking about Scotland....:) Two moans.

We drove up here..to Scotland..today..M5-M6...A74(M74). Whatever happened to 'mirror,indicate,manoeuvre'..? Only three drivers did this. For the the rest it was a case of..'mirror-manoevre-indicate. Lorries included.

Moan 2. We're staying overnight..after a 7 hour journey..before completing the rest of our journey to Aberfeldy NW of Perth, in the morning.We were having our evening meal in the hotel restaurant and I looked across the road at a huge lake that has swans..a few species of ducks on it and a lot of Greylag geese that group on the surrounding footpath and grassed area.People walking past them cause them no bother..they're used to it. Unleashed dogs do bother them as you'd expect. I saw a whippet, running at speed, towards about 30 greylags which were sitting on the grass alongside the footpath. As one,they took off as the dog got to withing yards of them. Some distance behind the dog was the owner. Maybe I'm being too judgemental but he had the look of a stupid person about him. He just carried on walking and ,as far as I could tell, made no effort to call back the dog. He didn't have a leash either. Several other dog-walkers had their dogs on a leash. An hour later the geese still hadn't returned. :mad:
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We were at a wildlife reserve in Thatcham a few years ago, and a boy of about 8 or 9 was running up to the ducks & geese and screaming at them, while his parents watched. So I screamed at him, it made him cry (unfortunately), but his Dad got up to have a word. Before he had a chance to say anything, I told him to control his child, he was in the birds home, so he needed to respect them, after all it is a wildlife reserve.... He never actually did say anything, just look at me rather confused :LOL:
 
Jelster said:
We were at a wildlife reserve in Thatcham a few years ago, and a boy of about 8 or 9 was running up to the ducks & geese and screaming at them, while his parents watched. So I screamed at him, it made him cry (unfortunately), but his Dad got up to have a word. Before he had a chance to say anything, I told him to control his child, he was in the birds home, so he needed to respect them, after all it is a wildlife reserve.... He never actually did say anything, just look at me rather confused :LOL:
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You were lucky there,Steve. A risky thing to do shout at someone's kid. Not like the old days when if you did something like that the kid's parents would more likely support you. It really annoys me when I see kids doing that and other things they shouldn't do and the parents don't stop it. I recall doing the same at Slimbridge one day when a kid..about four or five..kept running at the very tame Hawaiian geese that stroll amongst the visitors. The parents didn't bother ,just kept on walking with their other kid. I didn't shout at the lad but quietly told him why he shouldn't be doing that. He stopped and went back to his parents.

I'll take a walk soon to the end of the 'wee loch' we're staying to pick up the bread thrown for the ducks by a family earlier on. As you'll know it's bad for them. I looked out just now and there's a 7 year old...not long arrived at the cabins..throwing bread to the family of two swans and their eight..yes..eight...cygnets at the other end. People need educating. They do it with good intent but.....

By the way. I mentioned our long journey up here on Friday/yesterday and the Tesco online food delivery driver came with our order at 4.00pm and /told us that he'd just delivered an order to a couple who had driven from Cornwall...in one journey..no overnight stay as we did. It took them 17 hours.
 
mj4456 said:
Elizabeth the 1st was on the throne at the same time as Mary was Queen in Scotland, before the union of the crowns so the present Liz is the first for Scotland, probably Wales n N Ireland too?
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IIRC, Henry VIII finally consolidated English rule over Wales in the C16th. Elizabeth I was his daughter, so the present sovereign is probably Elizabeth II for the Welsh too. They may see it differently, of course.

I remember a Hamish Imlach song from my students days about the monarch's position in Scotland though! I don't want to start an argument about this, so let's just say I have no particular opinion on the matter ... ;)
 
MartynK said:
so let's just say I have no particular opinion on the matter ... ;)
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JohnC6 said:
You were lucky there,Steve. A risky thing to do shout at someone's kid. Not like the old days when if you did something like that the kid's parents would more likely support you. It really annoys me when I see kids doing that and other things they shouldn't do and the parents don't stop it. I recall doing the same at Slimbridge one day when a kid..about four or five..kept running at the very tame Hawaiian geese that stroll amongst the visitors. The parents didn't bother ,just kept on walking with their other kid. I didn't shout at the lad but quietly told him why he shouldn't be doing that. He stopped and went back to his parents.

I'll take a walk soon to the end of the 'wee loch' we're staying to pick up the bread thrown for the ducks by a family earlier on. As you'll know it's bad for them. I looked out just now and there's a 7 year old...not long arrived at the cabins..throwing bread to the family of two swans and their eight..yes..eight...cygnets at the other end. People need educating. They do it with good intent but.....

By the way. I mentioned our long journey up here on Friday/yesterday and the Tesco online food delivery driver came with our order at 4.00pm and /told us that he'd just delivered an order to a couple who had driven from Cornwall...in one journey..no overnight stay as we did. It took them 17 hours.
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Oh I've done worse John.... A kid running around a restaurant was driving me crazy, his parents did nothing, so after about the 5th or 6th time I stuck my foot out. Problem solved.
 
The weekend was fine, decent sky and some good light in periods. I was busy.
Today I'm not busy and thought I'd have a camera day.
Windy, overcast and the flatest most boring light ever. ☹️
 
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