The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning folks.

 

[welsh dragon]

Coooooeeeee. Its dark. It's dry. Its calm. That's it from me.

Stay safe peeps

 

[Paulus]

God morning all.
The washing machine is doing it's stuff as today looks like being a good drying day.
A bimble out on the bike later for some essentials from the local shops.
The usual dog walking, and two of our moggies are going to have their booster jabs this afternoon.
Time for the second mug of tea

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Picked up a load of house moving boxes from a guy in the village yesterday. They were going free on FB, so that saved a bit of cash.
Off to the caravan this morning to turn the wheels and give it a check over.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. Not long back a little jog. Even taking it easy I was sweating as it's still incredibly mild.

Looks like being a decent day today then it's back to a day of rain tomorrow. Everything is getting a bit soggy underfoot now.

 

[Tenkaykev]

How much do the monitoring plugs use?

I did consider that, as I got a 3 pack I’m going to stack them on top of each other and check the quiescent current 😉

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Carer arrived on time this morning, washing machines on, sheets and pillow cases are out on the line and I've got bits and bobs on the clothes horse in the back bedroom. Next job is to look for a handyman to sort the shed roof.

 

[Dave7]

@dave r the auntie has to pay for her care and at £1000 per .onth it ain't cheap. They still turn up at whatever time suits. However, at least I can make a phone call and get that cost deleted. Pain in the ar*e though so often not worth the hassle.

 

[Dave7]

It's my 'visit the auntie' day.....its getting seriously hard work as I look after MrsD as well.
Our daughter is here later and will cook us a chicken dinner/lunch.....with mash, carrots and brocoli.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

@dave r the auntie has to pay for her care and at £1000 per .onth it ain't cheap. They still turn up at whatever time suits. However, at least I can make a phone call and get that cost deleted. Pain in the ar*e though so often not worth the hassle.

How many carers does she have during the day? Thats expensive.

 

[Dave7]

How many carers does she have during the day? Thats expensive.

4 visits per day. Only 2 on certain days as her niece showers her and washes her hair.

 

[pawl]

The system is broken, they don't pay the carers enough and there are not enough carers.

I worked for Leicestershire Social Services Home cares we’re paid a monthly salary plus a mileage allowance if they were using their own vehicles plus there was a car lease scheme A lot of calls were.rural
Home care offices were situated in towns throughout the county . Most of the time service users had the same carer the exception being cover for days off.Even then it was usually the same carer carer covering on those occasions Retention,.Recruitment was rarely a problem.

My daughter worked for a private care company Salary was poor.No mileage allowance She could clock up fifty plus. miles per shift .Jobs that needed two carers very rarely happened

In general and I’m not blowing my own trumpet has gone down hill since my days as a social worker for the elderly care team

 

[welsh dragon]

I worked for Leicestershire Social Services Home cares we’re paid a monthly salary plus a mileage allowance if they were using their own vehicles plus there was a car lease scheme A lot of calls were.rural
Home care offices were situated in towns throughout the county . Most of the time service users had the same carer the exception being cover for days off.Even then it was usually the same carer carer covering on those occasions Retention,.Recruitment was rarely a problem.

My daughter worked for a private care company Salary was poor.No mileage allowance She could clock up fifty plus. miles per shift .Jobs that needed two carers very rarely happened

In general and I’m not blowing my own trumpet has gone down hill since my days as a social worker for the elderly care team

Everything has gone downhill.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Everything has gone downhill.

As it's nearly panto season...

... oh no it hasn't. 😁

 

[Dave7]

Everything has gone downhill.

Its ever since that Rishi sunak became pm imo.