AmandaJR
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I think if you can get anti virals quickly the symptoms won't be as severe/last as long...
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I think if you can get anti virals quickly the symptoms won't be as severe/last as long...
Springveldt
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Council tax bill for the new year. Yet another near the maximum rise, the same as it has been every year since I moved into this house. Bill has more than doubled since 2007.
Having to pay this out of money I've already been taxed on is pretty annoying.
Having to pay this out of money I've already been taxed on is pretty annoying.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
I have lived in the same house for nearly 40 years. If my income had gone up by the same % as my council tax each year my income would be £250K a year by now .
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
we seem to have got maximum rise, and reduced services, we now have to pay for garden waste collection and even then they will only collect for 9 months of the year sigh
despite the last election promises being no increase and no reduction in services lol
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
I bought a new mattress 3 months ago.
Still getting 3 posts a day for new mattresses a day on facebook.
Still getting 3 posts a day for new mattresses a day on facebook.
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Eh??Depends whose face it is.
Wouldn't mind Keira Nightley
Springveldt
Well-known member
We’ve had to pay for garden waste for quite a few years now. You get an extra wheelie bin and about 12 collections a year I think. I’ve never used the service though.
Same with the tip. Got to pay for soil and brick disposal, last time I used it it cost me £12 a bucket.
And now my council tax is £3K a year.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Our Green bin subscription has gone up 20% this year to £84. Councils skint so trying to wring every penny out of us they can.
Slime
Tour Winner
I can't reveal my current irritations as it may be deemed political.
Springveldt
Well-known member
Just checked, ours is £52 so I guess good value? It’s also more regular than I remember, it’s fortnightly for 9 months from March through November.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Ours is fortnightly but it is for 12 months of the year. I always use it every time.
arnieboy
Challenge Tour Pro
Ours is £80 for 12 months, fortnightly collection, which I am happy with. Use it a lot and saves me lugging it all up to the tip.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
Ours is weekly, all year round apart from a 3 week period over Xmas and New year. It also takes the food waste, and it's part of the service.
Having said that, our council has recently got a loan from the Govt to stop them going bankrupt.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Same as fade and dies.
Funding to all councils has been very poor, they have no option but to cut services and put prices up
Sad times
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
I once treated a kid in the medical centre at Rufford pit.His dad brought him in. The kid was being given a backy or coggy. basically he was sat on the seat as his mate was cycling. His mate forgot he was there and went to sit down. He knocked the kid off the seat and the kids coccyx and Butt cheeks acted as brakes and he stopped the bike. Luckily just before his meat and two veg went under the rear brakes assemblyi remember a training ride in the mid 90 with a load of other racing cyclists. we used to head to to a tea stop out the other side of Buckingham from Hemel. going down Ivanhoe beacon my mate Russ bounced off his saddle after hitting the wheel in front. he landed arse first on the rider next to him's rear wheel. he ended up with two massive red burn marks on his cheeks and ripped shorts. luckily his crack was untouched and he carried on out to the tea stop some 30 miles away. he couldn't sit down in the tea room due to the pain , much to all our amusement. give him his due he made it home though in quite a lot of pain.
There was burnt rubber from the tyre between the kids butt cheeks. The top two layers of skin were gone for about 6” either side of his crack. It stopped about 1” short of his trapdoor. It was weeping and the kid was in agony. Am sure I used something called flamazine. He walked outta the medical centre like John Wayne had been on a horse for two weeks.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Why pay for garden waste? Just revert to what we used to do. Put grass into black bags and then into black bin. Got a hedge? Burn the cuttings on a mini bonfire or if you have one a firepit
bobmac
Major Champion
Apologies, I thought it said face paintingEh??
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Google maps recently
Leave my house 0540 today. Slightly later than planned
Route to work comes up 59 mins (should be 45 but traffic fair)
Finally get to near the A10 turn off "route available 18 mins quicker) well ofc I'm going to take it. Why wasn't it offered? It's always quicker than route anyways lol
Got in 0630 instead of the 0648 predicted in the end as the time kept rising on the normal route because of traffic
Leave my house 0540 today. Slightly later than planned
Route to work comes up 59 mins (should be 45 but traffic fair)
Finally get to near the A10 turn off "route available 18 mins quicker) well ofc I'm going to take it. Why wasn't it offered? It's always quicker than route anyways lol
Got in 0630 instead of the 0648 predicted in the end as the time kept rising on the normal route because of traffic
Mudball
Assistant Pro
The cart upon which our garden hose is wound is broken and lost a wheel.. so looking for a replacement. Most Garden hose Reel cart on Amazon seem naff. Equally I realised that it is cheaper to buy a new hose + cart than just a cart!! What do I do about 30m of perfectly good hose?
