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Reading some of the posts about builders brought back chilling memories.
We had a small single story extension built several years ago. A friend had a builder in and I got to know him as he needed a dog sitter for a whole summer. I adore dogs and was without one, so we took them on, and over the next couple of years we had his two lovely dogs regularly. He seemed the natural choice to do our work, and in that relaxed atmosphere we accepted a back of an envelope quote. It could be said...

My runner beans are sprouting in their pots. I live at 1000ft, and it gets quite windy, so I won't be planting out until the end of May at the earliest. Other veg already in are potatoes, onions, and carrots which are my staple crops, broad beans which are incomparably delicious when fresh as fresh can be, cabbage, kale, and sprouts which I have planted for years but have yet to crop as they always succumb to attack from either slugs, rabbits, goats, or sheep, salad veg - lettuce, spinach, rocket,...

Blimey! I didn't realise it would take courage NOT to take up a special offer!!! I was in my local Somerfield and they had a deal on some new Cadbury's chocolate peanuts - £1.65 a pack, or two for £2.50. The DH was due for his Saturday fix of chocolate, so I picked up one pack, figuring that if I bought two, there was a considerably high chance I would eat a fair few and also i would be sending 80p more than I wanted to.
At the checkout the MoStaff quite fairly poointed out the offer, but...

I have to say - Tesco Credit Card is bloomin' fantastic at picking up fraudulent activity. I have had calls from them in the past, checking out Etsy transactions. Etsy is an online arty crafty site and with an unfamiliar name and small amounts involved I guess it could seem dodgy. I am glad they check. Not so glad the time I spent a wadge and they called DH as the primary card holder, to ask whether the large payment was okay!!!!
Just had a call asking about a transaction that is fraudulent,...

Just registered here as part of my - sort your life out - campaign. The last few years have been 'tricky' with lots of emotionally challenging events - children leaving home, job changes, bereavements. All those things that you say 'when life gets back to normal' to and then realise that they are all part of life being normal! Anyway - I seem to have a welcome gap at the moment in those events that register high on the stress scale and I realise that I need to get several mundane parts of my...