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Feeling better
Sep. 4th, 2008 11:13 pmI'm feeling much better after a really good night's sleep last night which lasted till 11.30 this morning!!
Charles has today received an invoice for his course for £230. He was expecting not to have to pay and he's declared that he's not going to do the course if he does have to pay, even though I've said I'll put it on my Credit card, and pointed out that £230 for 15 sessions is actually quite a bargain. I've persuaded him to contact one of his Mental Elves about it, but sadly, he's all too easily put off doing things by this kind of thing happening.
Charles and I went shopping at Lidl this afternoon and I bought some heavenly blue winter-flowering pansies for the pots in the garden, as well as some winter-flowering heather. Of course, by the time we got home it was pouring with rain, so they won't get planted till Glod knows when, because the forecast for the next three days is ghastly! At least it's a little warmer today than it was yesterday.
We had a notice of discontinuance of supply from the leccy company today. As it happens, John had paid the bill yesterday, but I think they have a lbooyd nerve, since it's only a couple of weeks since we had the bill and they haven't bothered with issuing one since February before that while they were still extracting money from my account every month without bothering to let us know where we stand.
We don't suppose we'll get a very much better deal, but John is going to U-Switch tomorrow to change us to a company with hopefully better customer relations and better communications with their customers. John is still unable to access our account on the Internet, in spite of all the e-mails and phone calls he's made to them about it over a six-month period. When we've switched, I'm going to nag him to complain to the ombudsman. John is a bit upset that I'm refusing to use Direct Debits because we get a reduction, but I asked him how much he thought he's spent on telephone calls to the company's 0845 "customer care" telephone number, and he had to admit it was probably quite a lot!
I also pointed out that if we don't have a Direct Debit, he can pay the bill if it comes when I'm broke. I'm not sure he sees that as a benefit............... To be fair, I am putting aside a suitable amount in my savings account every month to cover it.
The Local Authority hasn't made any fuss at all about my stopping the Direct Debit, but has merely sent me monthly payment slips for the rest of the year. This has the advantage of my not having to pay anything for another month, although the amount has gone up to compensate for the 2 missing months.
I still haven't heard from the Pension People about someone coming to help me with Pension Credit and Disability forms. I will leave it till Monday and then ring again, but I'm feeling rather cross about it.
I'm feeling very tired again, so think I will get to bed now, hoping to sleep well, but wake rather earlier than I did this morning.
Charles has today received an invoice for his course for £230. He was expecting not to have to pay and he's declared that he's not going to do the course if he does have to pay, even though I've said I'll put it on my Credit card, and pointed out that £230 for 15 sessions is actually quite a bargain. I've persuaded him to contact one of his Mental Elves about it, but sadly, he's all too easily put off doing things by this kind of thing happening.
Charles and I went shopping at Lidl this afternoon and I bought some heavenly blue winter-flowering pansies for the pots in the garden, as well as some winter-flowering heather. Of course, by the time we got home it was pouring with rain, so they won't get planted till Glod knows when, because the forecast for the next three days is ghastly! At least it's a little warmer today than it was yesterday.
We had a notice of discontinuance of supply from the leccy company today. As it happens, John had paid the bill yesterday, but I think they have a lbooyd nerve, since it's only a couple of weeks since we had the bill and they haven't bothered with issuing one since February before that while they were still extracting money from my account every month without bothering to let us know where we stand.
We don't suppose we'll get a very much better deal, but John is going to U-Switch tomorrow to change us to a company with hopefully better customer relations and better communications with their customers. John is still unable to access our account on the Internet, in spite of all the e-mails and phone calls he's made to them about it over a six-month period. When we've switched, I'm going to nag him to complain to the ombudsman. John is a bit upset that I'm refusing to use Direct Debits because we get a reduction, but I asked him how much he thought he's spent on telephone calls to the company's 0845 "customer care" telephone number, and he had to admit it was probably quite a lot!
I also pointed out that if we don't have a Direct Debit, he can pay the bill if it comes when I'm broke. I'm not sure he sees that as a benefit............... To be fair, I am putting aside a suitable amount in my savings account every month to cover it.
The Local Authority hasn't made any fuss at all about my stopping the Direct Debit, but has merely sent me monthly payment slips for the rest of the year. This has the advantage of my not having to pay anything for another month, although the amount has gone up to compensate for the 2 missing months.
I still haven't heard from the Pension People about someone coming to help me with Pension Credit and Disability forms. I will leave it till Monday and then ring again, but I'm feeling rather cross about it.
I'm feeling very tired again, so think I will get to bed now, hoping to sleep well, but wake rather earlier than I did this morning.
