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Zandranna
- Name: Sandy
- Age: 61
- Gender: Female
- Location: Dorset UK
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My Winters Tale
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Being the New Girl
11/15/09 09:51:28 | 0 Comments
I have been here now for exactly 2 weeks. Gosh, I can't believe it's such a short time as I am already beginning to feel like part of the furniture.
Mind you, I have been made to feel extremely welcome and comfortable by the residents that I have now met. Maybe I have been lucky and only bumped into the nicest, as I am sure there must be some miserable buggers here somewhere. If there are though, I haven't come across them.
I have spent the odd hour or two having tea or coffee, depending on their up bringing, with some, and have been shown around 5 of the other flats. So far only 2 ladies have ventured into my home, but as soon as my suite of furniture arrives and I have more comfortable seating, I intend to remedy that.
First of all let me explain that my flat (apartment) is of the studio kind. Meaning that the living room and bedroom area are in the same floor space, although the bedroom has it's own 3 walls and it's only the front... -
Moving - Halloween - My Birthday
11/02/09 04:36:55 | 4 Comments
This week has been an eventful one for me. Last Sunday I moved into my new flat. Saturday was Halloween and this Sunday was my 61st Birthday.
The actual move went really smoothly, but then it would as I had no furniture to move. Having moved out of a caravan where all fixtures and fittings came with it, I had to buy all new furniture for the new flat. All was in situ in the flat ready for the move on Sunday, that is all except the suite which is another story, so it was only a matter of moving the last few boxes in from caravan to flat.
The flat is sooooo very tiny that I had thrown away a lot of bits I had collected but never used for a long time. I say threw away but in actual fact they all went down to the Samaritans shop. I thought I had thrown away everything I could throw away but unfortunately on unpacking at the flat I had to sort out yet another big bag of throw aways.
Although everything now has a corner, it's a very crowded... -
A Little Bit of Silliness
10/11/09 04:01:24 | 5 Comments
Way back in 1969 when I was first married, my Husband and I moved into our very first home together with our Daughter Sarah, who was then 3 months old. Prior to that we had been living with my Mother.
In those days one didn't buy ones telephone but it came as part of a package with the rental of the telephone line.
The trimphone had not long been invented and of course as a young couple we wanted the newest thing on the market, so I chose to rent a two toned blue trimphone. The trimphone had a funny little warble as a ring tone, which at that time was also a great novelty because up until then there had been only the one ring tone in the whole of the UK for all phones.
Of course as the years passed and more and more choices arrived for styles of phones and as we started to be able to buy phones privately, at some point... -
A New Flat
09/09/09 01:25:05 | 32 Comments
Last Thursday I received a phone call to say that a flat had come vacant in the complex that I have been hoping to move to.
FridayI went along to collect the keys to go have a look see. As per usual it ended up as a family outing. The whole family, naturally, wanted to take a look see. By the time we had gathered together there were 10 of us.
You can imagine it with everyone looking and planning what I could do with it and what would be best here, there, or whatever. My head was spinning with everyone making suggestions at the same time, lol.
The flat is on the top floor of a 3 story block. I was very pleased about this as I have been saying "I hope it's on the top floor". I hate curtains and to live on the top floor means that I don't have to have any covering at the windows if I don't want to.
It also means that there is no one above me which is something I also didn't want. I have lived in flats in the past and have... -
My Poor Bayley
08/17/09 14:31:14 | 11 Comments
I took Bayley to the vets this evening for
a dental check up. The reason being, not because he is having any trouble with his teeth, but because he is getting old.
He is now coming up for 12 years old and I thought I would have his teeth checked again for him to have another scale and polish while he is still young enough not to be in the danger zone of going under anesthetic. I didn't want to wait until he gets older, starts being in pain, and then have to go under anesthetic as a very old man.
On the vet checking he found no bad teeth, but what he did find is that his gums in the front have so badly receded now that he is losing his front six top teeth. He is once again in bad need of a scale and polish anyway. His last was 2 years ago. If he doesn't have those front teeth out now it wont be long before they really give him big... -
Pension Service Have Actually Done Something Right
07/27/09 15:06:08 | 9 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I hunted out a letter that I had received from the DWP (department of work and pensions) about 5 years ago. That letter was a forecast of what my pension would be now if my circumstances didn't change.
The amount of Government Pension I was told I would receive would be in the region of £101 per week. The basic pension today is approx £97 per week. The minimum amount today the Government says one can live on is £130. Therefore if one has no private pensions the basic pension of £97 is topped up to £130 by what is called pension credits. As I have no private pension my pension is topped up to £130 per week.
On first receiving my pension back in November last year, I was awarded only £70 per week. Although I have known this figure was completely wrong, being as how it was topped up by pension credits I was in no hurry to fight a battle with the DWP until I was actually receiving my pension regularly as I should be.... -
New Plans
07/17/09 10:23:39 | 12 Comments
Since moving down to Dorset in the April of 2007 I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. Living in a caravan has been fantastic, and seeing how my girls are all now settled and happy, I can now breath easy and know this move was one of the best decisions I have every made.
Living in a caravan as I say has been great, but I also have to say, "up until now". There is much now that I feel I am missing by not living in bricks and mortar and by living in this location. So I have decided it is now time for me to soon leave the caravan behind and move into a flat.
I am now beginning to feel a little cut off living in this location. The nearest supermarket is a car ride away or a fairly long cycle ride and because Sarah's work hours don't allow her to pick me up and take me to a supermarket where food is a lot cheaper, I am buying all my groceries at the local corner shop. We all know how expensive that can be.
Now that Sarah has moved, when I visit... -
Vive la France
07/06/09 11:18:32 | 6 Comments
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has decided enough is enough regarding Muslim women wearing the burqa in his country and is all set to ban it.
I can't tell you how thrilled I was to read this and my only disappointment is that it isn't our British Government that have the balls to do this.
Putting it very simply first. If we wore T Shirts and Shorts in any Muslim country we would be put in prison. If they expect us to follow their dress codes then they must expect to follow ours.
The Burqa, as Nicolas Sarkozy puts it, is a prison. Women are forced to wear it or get a beating from their husbands, and in their own countries imprisonment. Those that wear it voluntarily are more often than not extremists. By banning the Burqa it is one step towards shouting "Your way of life will not be tolerated in our civilised societies".
The Burqa has absolutely nothing to do with the Muslim religion, so they can't come that old cry.... -
Bloody Pension Service
06/21/09 16:50:54 | 12 Comments
Ok, the government pension is my right. It's not something that I am claiming. It's a pension that I have paid in for all my life. It's a set amount that I am entitled to. Even if I'm continuing to work, I am still entitled to my pension. No if, but, or maybe. It's my money. So please tell me how the heck it can be stopped being paid to me.
On Monday the 8th of June I checked my bank account only to find that my pension had not been paid in. No worries it would surely be there the next day. Even though that Monday was not a bank holiday so the money should have gone in on time.
On checking again on the Tuesday, and I might add on the Wednesday, still no pension. So on the blower I got and asked why. No one knew why it hadn't been paid, but I was assured that it would be in my bank within 3 days.
The following Monday I checked again, and bugger me if not only the previous Monday's money wasn't there but also no... -
The Horror of Being off Line
06/10/09 03:44:49 | 6 Comments
On Tuesday May 26th my web card, which I now know is the equivalent of what we call in Britain, a dongle, decided to pack up on me. I rushed it into the shop for repair or replacement and was told it would take 14 working days, (3 weeks). Horror of horrors.
My Sarah having just moved was, and still is, having trouble getting broadband wireless installed due to the fact that she now lives in the New Forest.
Having broken my ribs a couple of weeks before, I was staying with her so that I could be waited on and looked after. The frustration of having the whole family with no Internet has been horrendous. Then yesterday I was looking through the Argos catalogue and discover that there is now such a thing as a pay as you go web and walk dongle. The cost is £25 to set ones self up with one. Yesterday I bought one of these and it was a simple matter of replacing the pay as you go chip with my contract chip in order to get me up and running on the web again until my...
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