Yawn.... Wakey.. Wakey...!!!! MK3..

Good morning Shiney and everyone,

Looks like you couldn't sleep either then Shiney:hehe:

Sorry to read about your injury,but if you will insist on leaving piles of papers all over the place you get waht you deserve:flag::DHave you tried cold water on the stain?

I don't vote Labour either Shiney so nothing surprises me what Gordon Brown and co did when he was in power,but I have never forgotten what Thatcher did when she was in power,re the high interest rates on the mortgages and the defence cut backs so we both lost our jobs,oh and the Poll Tax when our rates went from £143 a year for a pre war bungalow with no garage to £1,000 Poll Tax and now i see I have to wait until I am 66 till I can get my bus pass or state pensionMy generation will never draw it as they will keep moving the goal posts further away so we will be dead before then.Perhaps we ought to live in France where the standard of living is better than here and at least they retire at a sensible age,...but perhaps not:p

Hope you keep warm today.:yez:I haven't got the heating on either so we can shiver together:hehe:

Have a nice day

 

Good morning everyone,

Its cold here, and we had flurries over night, that have now changed into a wet snow, with the rain (drizzle).....

Thankfully we did a tuneup on the furnace and changed the filter, so its ready to go.....we have the stove on in the living room though.

 

Hi Shiney,If you have used wine then the stain might have gone pink!!I can't think at the moment as to waht to suggest unless you talk to one of those proffessional carpet cleaning companies as to what you could use.Is the carpet a new one like the one in the lounge?

No the rates didn't go back down to £143 because they replaced the poll tax with Council Tax so everywhere i think was revaluated{not sure if that is the right word}so we were in the same Council tax band as Mr Kandies sister who lived in the same village but they were in a three bed semis{1960's}and they had more bedrooms plus a garage.I am not sure but wasn't the banding done on the value of the house?so as bungalows often fetch more than some houses we thought that it was right.We moved here in 2001 and a couple of years ago we had a letter informing us that the two wrinklies that bought our bungalow had contacted the council of the town the Council tax came under and said they wanted the bungalow tax looked into and they got it put down and we recieved notification that we were due either two or three hundred quid as we had overpaid on the banding.

This village where we live now didn't even exsist in 1991 when the new banding was done so we all seem to be paying over the odds as they are basing our Council Taxes on the value of what the houses were worth in the nearest town to us,but all that was here was fields and not a lot else:p

Do you know Shiney what the idea of the Poll Tax was all those years ago?

I read somewhere that the goverment sent cars up and down streets a few years back and banded everyone roughly the same instead of doing it one at a time so that they could see how many rooms people had in their homes,but not sure if this is correct

I probably have all our old rates letters somewhere up in the loft as we don't throw much away,but don't know if we still have the ones from the 1980's when we first bought the bungalow

 

Hi Shiney,

Sorry to be late getting back to you but a family member phoned so have been having a long chat and have only just got off the phone:DHope the blood tests go ok for you.The phone call I had was from a cousin of Mr Kandys who has had a Big C scare so is waiting for results to see if it has gone any further

I heard many years ago that the Poll Tax was brought in because there were homes where you had a dozen or more people living in the same house.Husband Wife,Kids,Aunties Uncles,Cousins etc etc,but not sure if that was just a wind up.

I can see what you mean though about it not being fair for a lot of people,but then I think us paying for schools out of our Council Tax is a con when we haven't got kids but that is something else.Mr Kandy has already had a pay cut of £360 a month,we don't need to lose any more:(

 

Good morning Woo and everyone,

Lovely photo as usual Woo:yez:

Cold here this morning and as it was dark wehn I got up don't know if there was a frost last night:p

Mr Kandy is back home this teatime all being well with the traffic so it will be nice to have him round the house in usual grumpy man mode:hehe:

Hope you all have a great day

 

Hi Shiney,

Yes Mr Kandy losing all that money{Market Supplement} a month is hard but at least it has been done in gradual stages over two years so that he/we can get used to not having so much money to splash about each month or save.The others are lucky in one way because they are quiet young so can still look round for another job and have husbands on good money{privately educating their three kids etc}But the problem is that when money has to be saved then the employers look at ways of saving money so things have to be cut back.:(He was advised though to make sure that he had pension protection so he trotted off to see HR and they got the forms he needed to fill in so his final salary pension was taken from what he was earning before the pay cut.{I think that is how it works}

We shall survive though as I have got good at flicking the heating switch off as soon as I push Mr Kandy out of the door of a morning and then turn it back on an hour before he gets back home.:yez:Neither of us drink or smoke we don't play bingo and very rarely go out for meals now.{The last one was at The Sun two years ago:D}We also don't own a dishwasher or a Plasma TV...

We have our allotment so have nice fruit and veg to eat {when we are not giving it away that is:hehe:}we go out for free walks every night,still help out with your charity support and have the greatest gift that no amount of money in the world can buy..Each other and our health,cough cough...

Oh, and I still keep in contact with distant friends through snail mail as it is cheaper than keep phoning their mobile:yez::D and batch freeze cottage pies etc so we save money there.It is amazing what you can do without when push comes to shove and we have never been materialist people and always lend a hand to people much worse off than ourselves.After all that is what we were put on this earth for:yez::D

Enjoy this sunny day from your office window and hope that there is nothing too seriously wrong with your leg.:D

Please send my Love to Mrs Shiney and Oscar Doodle and hope that they are looking after you and visa versa:luv:

 

Good morning everyone,
Here is what we woke to today, snow...........uggggggggg!!!!!!
This was taken with my cell phone, and it was quite light out here yet, so sorry it isnt the best.

 

Good morning Woo and everyone,

Nice pic of the snow Penny:thmb:.They are saying that over here we might have a white Christmas so I wait in anticipation:D

Woo we have rain here as well.Typical now that Mr Kandy is back home and we need to get over to the lottie:p

Anyway,Mr Kandy is now home but it took him over three hours to get back from Manchester what with all the traffic,but at least he made it in one piece:yez:

Only problem is I am used to my own company this last week so could watch the telly and fall asleep in peace,but last night after we had had our walk I couldn't shut him up so I missed half of what was on the box:hehe:

Hope you all have a great day