welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I think that's the best bit about pension credit, not the amount you get but the benefits that come with it. Not having to pay council Tax is worth about £160 on its own.
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I think that's the best bit about pension credit, not the amount you get but the benefits that come with it. Not having to pay council Tax is worth about £160 on its own.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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It is his last appearance tomorrow night. I'll be sad to see him go... I remember him as an intense young reporter and watched him gradually age over the past 40-odd years.Jon Snow is leaving Channel 4 News at the end of this year!
He has had a long career as a reporter and I have always liked him, especially because he is a cyclist and wears silly socks and ties...
He is 73 now. He still has his wits about him but I have noticed him starting to make a few minor fumbles recently when reading the autocue. Maybe it is a good time to be leaving live TV? He will be moving on to other TV projects so he won't be vanishing from our screens for a while yet. Those of us who DO have TVs, of course...
My state pension will take me £2/week over the limit and I already have another £12/week from my tiny private pension.
I get full state pension.
Wife gets approx 85%
Plus we have savings.
So, no additional benefits for us.
Good morning folks,
Looking forward to family arriving today ❤️ The Edinburgh contingent are already on their way, and the Leeds contingent will be setting off later.
Milder this morning, Mrs Tenkaykev will be walking the six or so miles up to Wimborne shortly, she’s planning on dropping in to Eight Arch brewery for a “ carry oot “ 🍺
Stay safe folks ☕️👍
Looking forward to family arriving today ❤️ The Edinburgh contingent are already on their way, and the Leeds contingent will be setting off later.
Milder this morning, Mrs Tenkaykev will be walking the six or so miles up to Wimborne shortly, she’s planning on dropping in to Eight Arch brewery for a “ carry oot “ 🍺
Stay safe folks ☕️👍
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Good morning people, carer here at seven, another new one, she was very good and very bright and cheerful, our eldest is here later, I'll get a text when his trains leaving Birmingham to go pick him up at the station, shopping to do and we might be out to lunch.
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From my facebook memories this morning.
Lol! Pinched from elsewhere.
Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for farks sake!!! We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shoot load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking .
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor any other woman I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy
4. Vegetables... Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over
Merry Christmas!
P.s. I pinched this from another page so feel free to copy and share
Lol! Pinched from elsewhere.
Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for farks sake!!! We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...
1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!
2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shoot load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking .
3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor any other woman I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy
4. Vegetables... Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!
5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same
6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)
7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!
Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.
And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over
Merry Christmas!
P.s. I pinched this from another page so feel free to copy and share
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Morning. Much warmer today 7 deg. Woohoo. Of course it's raining as well. I'd rather have warmer rain than the colder rain we had yesterday
Stay safe peeps
Stay safe peeps
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Pentlands Midlothian Edinburgh
Good morning all, still dark. A day of rain is forecast.
Exlaser2
Veteran
Morning everyone. It’s a grey day outside and a grey day inside too, mrs exlaser and I both have covid. Mrs exlaser has booked a pcr test later today to confirm it, I’m not going to bother as I don’t have to prove it to a employer anymore lol..
Tbh none of us are feeling too bad, a few aches and pains , a cough and a bad throat is it
. Hay ho symptoms started yesterday so will be out six days with a bit of luck . It’s not the end of the world being shut it at Christmas, at least we don’t have to go to one of the sets of in laws now 😀
Tbh none of us are feeling too bad, a few aches and pains , a cough and a bad throat is it
. Hay ho symptoms started yesterday so will be out six days with a bit of luck . It’s not the end of the world being shut it at Christmas, at least we don’t have to go to one of the sets of in laws now 😀
Salad Dodger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kent Coast
Good morning, world!
Its dull and grey on Planet Thanet today, but its 6 degrees outside, which is three times as many as yesterday.
Today, I shall mainly be doing a little last minute provisions shopping, for things that I was not able to get from the local convenience store yesterday. (If you can't get what you want from a convenience store, does that make it an inconvenience store?)
I shall also top up the bait box for the mice, in hope that they eat it all and bother us no more.
Take care, everyone, and have a good day.
Its dull and grey on Planet Thanet today, but its 6 degrees outside, which is three times as many as yesterday.
Today, I shall mainly be doing a little last minute provisions shopping, for things that I was not able to get from the local convenience store yesterday. (If you can't get what you want from a convenience store, does that make it an inconvenience store?)
I shall also top up the bait box for the mice, in hope that they eat it all and bother us no more.
Take care, everyone, and have a good day.
Read that before but its still funny
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
Don’t forget to hide the biscuits.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Sorry to hear this and hope neither of you are seriously unwell. In our house Mrs P was still negative, she hasn't tested yet today. It's rather strange living separately in the same house.
I did the Test and Trace thing. No wonder there's a poor take up, takes forever to complete. The people I rode with on Sunday got pinged because we were in the same cafe.
The weird thing is the NHS contacted Mrs P and provided LFTs are negative she doesn't have to isolate. I don't get it. Tis great news though as if she can stay negative till Christmas morning she can spend the day with No 2 son who will otherwise be alone.
