@Moonie posted:At least you’re back up and running so that’s good
I am feeling better thanks my friend
I second that Renton 
@velvet donkey posted:The fox is going mental. Calling out for her pals
Which fox is that? One of the locals?
We're going to have one of our garden walls rebuilt and I happened to be passing by the recycling place near me so I asked if I could bring bricks and how many would they tolerate? I thought there would be a limit
Was told I could bring as many as I wanted - so that's going to save me £200 for a skip!! I'm champing at the bit with me Dad's old masonry chisel to knock it all down!!
@Saint posted:We're going to have one of our garden walls rebuilt and I happened to be passing by the recycling place near me so I asked if I could bring bricks and how many would they tolerate? I thought there would be a limit
Was told I could bring as many as I wanted - so that's going to save me £200 for a skip!! I'm champing at the bit with me Dad's old masonry chisel to knock it all down!!
Awwww that’s good news Renton
@Saint posted:We're going to have one of our garden walls rebuilt and I happened to be passing by the recycling place near me so I asked if I could bring bricks and how many would they tolerate? I thought there would be a limit
Was told I could bring as many as I wanted - so that's going to save me £200 for a skip!! I'm champing at the bit with me Dad's old masonry chisel to knock it all down!!
Any savings has to be a bonus Saint
@slimfern posted:Ukraine Eurovision winners sell trophy to buy drones for armed forces. Ukraine's winning Eurovision entry, Kalush Orchestra, have sold the contest's trophy for $900,000 to raise money for the country's war with Russia.
Yes, I saw that on the news ….what a sad state of affairs .
The shooting in Philadelphia overnight is the 239th mass shooting in the USA so far this year.
@Former Member posted:The shooting in Philadelphia overnight is the 239th mass shooting in the USA so far this year.
@Former Member Why do people think all these shootings occur, what's America's general consensus?
Do your energy bills cost anywhere close to £4,000 per annum?
We pay between £50-60 a month for electric and around the same per quarter for our gas = less than £1,000 per year (although our standing charges haven't been applied yet as our bills have not changed over the last year)
@Saint posted:Do your energy bills cost anywhere close to £4,000 per annum?
We pay between £50-60 a month for electric and around the same per quarter for our gas = less than £1,000 per year (although our standing charges haven't been applied yet as our bills have not changed over the last year)
You’re lucky Renton ….mine went up from 120 a month …to 252 a month in April ….but since I’ve had my smart meter I’ve managed to get it back down to 200 . 
@Baz posted:
It’s not a problem Renton
So you pay more for gas p/m than electric?
We pay three times more for electric!! I hate chatting money so what on earth am I doing LOL 
@Baz posted:
Last message about finances LOL - I used to leave that all to the adults but now I'm meant to be the adult and it's awful. Our hot water and central heating is gas too.
We pay £50-60 p/m for electric and £55 a quarter for gas - although the bill for the previous quarter was £150 which we assumed was the standing charge addition (never knew there was such a thing!) and now it's back to approx £55 a quarter.
Wonder why ours has barely changed?
@Saint posted:Last message about finances LOL - I used to leave that all to the adults but now I'm meant to be the adult and it's awful. Our hot water and central heating is gas too.
We pay £50-60 p/m for electric and £55 a quarter for gas - although the bill for the previous quarter was £150 which we assumed was the standing charge addition (never knew there was such a thing!) and now it's back to approx £55 a quarter.
Wonder why ours has barely changed?
Per quarter ….are you sure you don’t mean per month ?
@Baz posted:Wow
thanx - I thought our electric was quite high - now it seems not - our gas has rarely been above £70 per quarter - thought that was a typical cost, but it's not. Odd cos we live in a very ordinary house (especially for someone born on Jesmond) 
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/pr...60#/?channel=RES_BUY <<< this is quite nice ... for Gosforth
POST OFFICE said if for any reason they can't deliver something then they rely on a RETURN ADDRESS being inside or outside the item to help them at least return it to the sender.
They said ALWAYS write your return address on any posted item
@Saint posted:POST OFFICE said if for any reason they can't deliver something then they rely on a RETURN ADDRESS being inside or outside the item to help them at least return it to the sender.
They said ALWAYS write your return address on any posted item
I’ve received a card with my mail to say they are holding an item that had the wrong postage on it ….
Anyone else sick to death of hearing the postmortems on every sport/radio/television channel on Manchester United’s poor start to the season?
Two games, 2 loses. Gee, what a disaster. I’m sure they will be relegated, said with more than a hint of sarcasm
They’ll probably end up in the top 6
Then there’s the Joshua/Usyk 2 fight in Saudi Arabia. Boring, boring, very flippin boring
I hope Usyk goes through him like a dose of salts and ends him
For Ukraine - plus he's a true sporting eccentric.
Joshua revealed his true colours on that BLM march - "only shop in black shops". Racist 
@slimfern posted:Ukraine Eurovision winners sell trophy to buy drones for armed forces. Ukraine's winning Eurovision entry, Kalush Orchestra, have sold the contest's trophy for $900,000 to raise money for the country's war with Russia.
Guess where Usyk's earnings will be going tonight 
@velvet donkey posted:Guess where Usyk's earnings will be going tonight
Joshua showed himself up a bit when he lost , eh Velvet
Bad behaviour packaged as 'passionate' - crying too - it aint weakness it's 'passion'. There's too much of both nowadays.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Dad - Jack. Methodist and gentleman who would have been 88yrs young today.
Never to be forgotten.
