The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I will be resisting too. Hopefully, they will never force anyone to have one.

The idea sounds good but you hear/read bad things about them.
I will resist for now

 

[Tenkaykev]

A ride down to parkrun, Mrs Tenkaykev took part and I spectated whil catching up with friends. It is the Upton House parkrun, a lovely challenging course, there’s ongoing work to install new paths, someone has been at work correcting the warning signs 😁👍

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

The forecast rain has well and truly arrived now, really quite unpleasant out there. I shall be spending this afternoon warm and cosy watching the cyclo-cross on GCN.

 

[Mo1959]

The forecast rain has well and truly arrived now, really quite unpleasant out there. I shall be spending this afternoon warm and cosy watching the cyclo-cross on GCN.

Rattling down here too and windy. It says it might ease by afternoon. We shall see.

 

[numbnuts]

A ride down to parkrun, Mrs Tenkaykev took part and I spectated whil catching up with friends. It is the Upton House parkrun, a lovely challenging course, there’s ongoing work to install new paths, someone has been at work correcting the warning signs 😁👍 View attachment 616670

I hate that word it should be "Trucks"

 

[numbnuts]

I didn't know what to do, so I made some more mince pies, well you can't have enough mince pies

 

[Mo1959]

 

[welsh dragon]

It's hissing down here now.

I understand someone has been arrested for stealing that house belonging to the vicar and selling it. I can't seriously believe that the police didn't think it was a criminal offense.

And we might be having sausage egg and chips today

 

[numbnuts]

It's hissing down here now.
And we might be having sausage egg and chips today

That sound nice, with a few mushrooms on the side and maybe black pudding too

 

[Mo1959]

That sound nice, with a few mushrooms on the side and maybe black pudding too

She doesn’t like mushrooms! Lol. I do. Sounds good to me.

 

[welsh dragon]

That sound nice, with a few mushrooms on the side and maybe black pudding too

Mushrooms . Double . Black pudding

 

[ColinJ]

I believe it's possible to have shared ownership between a housing association and a private individual. I'm unsure of the details but thinks it's one of methods used to assist younger people in house purchase.

It sure is! My ex owns a 25% share of her house. A housing association owns the other 75% and charge 75% of what the rent would otherwise be.

How long this has been running for I don't know.

The 25% purchase went through in 1988. I don't know how long before that the system started.

Now British Gas. My energy supplier, People's Energy, went bust and we've been transferred to BG. This is painful. BG have requested meter readings and sent a link to do this.the link doesn't work. After failing to find a facility to submit meter readings on the web and in the app I went on to online chat. After a lot of palaver with the online chat agents and getting nowhere I made a complaint via the chat. During the complaints process I was told:

" you can't submit meter readings online until your account is set up."

"Errrr well OK but I can see my account"

"Yes, but we need you to submit meter readings to complete set up"

"How do I do this?"

"I'll send you the link"

The link doesn't work because "your account set up isn't complete. Please submit a meter reading to complete setup"

Oh and then I get the email telling me because I have smart meters "you'll never need to send us a meter reading." Yep, I have smart meters but they have never worked!!

I'm planning to switch as soon as I've got a working account to switch away from. Geez it's hard work.

The final wind up was I asked to set up a Direct Debit. This showed on my account within an hour!!!

Obviously the actual meters do work but they won't connect with the digital display unit which I understand is used to send the readings to the supplier.

I have been going through this kind of nonsense with BG for a year now! After 2 service visits remote reading of the electricity meter is working again but the gas meter is still not sending its readings. There is a comms box next to the electricity meter which is wired directly to it. There is a wireless link from the gas meter and that seems to be the problem now. The comms box must be working because BG are updating my electricity meter readings without me telling them but I am back to having to report the gas readings myself. I originally had the same problem of trying to tell them the readings, which initially they told me they couldn't accept because they would read the [MALFUNCTIONING!!] unit remotely!

 

[Dave7]

The forecast rain has well and truly arrived now, really quite unpleasant out there. I shall be spending this afternoon warm and cosy watching the cyclo-cross on GCN.

It has arrived here also. Very cold and unpleasant.
I am nice and warm while watching the footy.

 

[Dave7]

I didn't know what to do, so I made some more mince pies, well you can't have enough mince pies

I enjoy the occasional one and at this time of year will buy a box of Aldi's best......that does us for the next 12 months

 

[Dave7]

And we might be having sausage egg and chips today

now that sounds nice