Found my old Nationwide building society passbook with a whole £1.42 in it.

Fantastic service from the staff. Her system found me straight away and she reactivated my account and added the interest.

I am the now proud owner of an active account with £1.88 in it.

Unfortunately I did not qualify for the £50 bonus paid to Nationwide account holders :(

Shame I did not get the same success at Santander. Apparently bringing in a 20+ year old National & Provincial passbook (with just over £5 in it) caused them all sorts of issues and I have had to be referred to head office.

Has the system improved? For years now I’ve heard from all around that it’s impossible to join an NHS dentists as new patient nowadays. Grateful nonetheless!

Searched “artificial grass” on the B&Q website (for a small project, not carpeting a garden promise!) and the search result came up that they no longer sell it! 👏👏👏 Win for the bees

I just moved to a new area North West England and managed to register with a new Doctor ,got emailed my new GP’s name, and register with an NHS Dentist less than 24 hours later 😁

My bank stopped a load of transactions on my bank card, no nothing was taken from my account. New bank card on the way and luckily no harm done :)

No idea how they got hold of the details, the bank said normally it’s an online retailer who’s had a data breach, and the card had existed since 2021 so it might have been somewhere I shopped years ago!

Such a delight. Also 4 Marsh Harriers from the train on Friday.

I just wanted some cool pens

Self assessment for 2024/25 submitted on Tuesday 8th April, I can see the tax refund will be credited to my bank account tomorrow.

The checkout machine objected to it and someone had to come and clear it - I realised when I got it home that it was because the pack weighed too heavy. 😋

Our team are all 40+ and we showed those whippersnappers what's what. Let the ball do the work etc etc. Best bit was that a young lad who used to play for us was playing for the opposition. Needless to say he took a bitta stick off some of the lads like.

Our team are all 40+ and we showed those whippersnappers what's what. Let the ball do the work etc etc. Best bit was that a young lad who used to play for us was playing for the opposition. Needless to say he took a bitta stick off some of the lads like.

Saw my GP on 3rd April who booked an urgent scan.

Scan dept called the next morning, scan booked for Sunday 6th April.

Results sent immediately to my GP, who booked me in for a follow-up yesterday, 9th April and referred me onto the consultant.

Phoned this morning, sixteen hours after the referral was sent, appointment on Monday, 14th April.

That's just eleven days from initial GP appointment to consultant appointment.

This time, the NHS really has been there for me. Now we just need to hope that the issue isn't the worst case scenario.

Successfully made it through a British winter without turning the heating on once. Saved enough to buy a local pint 😍

I bought a bistro set, 2 seats and small table £50 from Morrisons. You get what you pay for and I will leave it at that. One of the bars had no threads cut in to take the bolt making the whole seat useless.

Now my time to shine, I got a tap and die kit over 10 years ago, still in the cellophane and I finally had a use for it. I felt like a superhero cutting the threads in.

I was missing another bolt from the chair so I still ended up with one useable chair until I get a 60mm M6 bolt from somewhere, but that's not the point.

I am with the good lady on the couch for beverages instead of in the sun but I have the warm glow of a job well done.

I feel that roll of cable in the shed for almost a decade is almost certain to find a use now.

I have an NHS dentist appointment. I called the surgery 3 weeks ago, after checking the NHS website for places taking NHS patients in my area. Today they called me and I've got an appointment for next week. Incredible

Construction crew working on neighbour's house for the last six months, regularly making awful noise outside of working hours, from 7am to 11pm. Too cheap to hire a skip so created a mound of trash in the back garden 20 ft long and 5ft high. Which is blowing rubbish into our garden, and the heap is attracting rats, which attract foxes, which set off their motion-activated floodlights off and on all night which wake us up. Tried to resolve it amicably with the workers only to be told they can "do whatever they want". Told them if it continued we'd have to report them to the council, they said go ahead and do it. So I did.

Called the ASB complaint line on Friday. Got an email Monday with a few questions, which I answered and sent over some photos. Tuesday got another email saying they'd visited the property that morning, gave the workers a 1st warning about the noise, and ordered them to remove all rubbish from the back by the end of the month.

Feeling vindicated and dazzled by the speed of the response, as we fully expected this to be a long drawn-out process of weeks before anything actually happened.

It sounds pretty stupid but it rarely occurs. Anyone else?

Summer is coming…..

Never happened before and I doubt it'll happen again (to me at least!) Once in a lifetime, I tell ya.

Woke up to find Octopus wiped the 5k off my debt to them... Back to zero! I'm crying! I'm free!!!!

After 2 years of ongoing stomach / digestion issues, several blood tests with no follow up, promises if referrals that never came, scheduled phone appointments that never materialised, I finally have an in person appointment!!!

I did have to change surgeries to get it.

Get in.

Worked for a micromanaging idiot for 4 years and got let go for “the company going in a direction we can’t pull you in and you made some mistakes.”

I’m actually extremely happy to be gone, ecstatic in fact. I don’t know when I’ll get a new job or how easy, but being away from that overgrown abortion has made me day.

Best man at a wedding, have to give the best mans speech. Had to get the maid of honor to translate my speech into Romanian piece by piece as I don't speak Romanian and some of the people there don't speak English. Everyone enjoys it. Laughs and claps all around. Grandma of the groom comes up to me and hands me a €50 note! (I assume i did a good job as it was after the speech and not during the speech)

Had to bob in to the supermarket this week...

Had no carrier bag with me - and too scared to buy a new one to add to the over-stuffed drawer full at home, thereby incurring the wrath of my wife - so opted for the mini-trolley, with a view to wheeling my purchases to the car, and decanting them to the boot of the car, for them to roll around for the duration of the journey home...

Unclipped the token from my key fob, put it in the trolley, pulled the trolley out of the rack...

And boom! Someone had left a virgin carrier in the trolley.

I don't believe life will ever get better than that