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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73238Post lutonlagerlout

we swapped in august to a new supplier
"scottish power"
brilliant new rate £104 per month for gas and electricty
got a letter today
"you have used more than we thought so from next month your direct debit will be £244"
i spoke to a lady there, and she said " you have used a lot of gas"
and i said "yep,its freezing"
i can swallow it ,but you can see how old people suffer
£10 cold weather payment wont help if your bill is £250 per month
LLL
:angry:




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Carberry
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Post: # 73239Post Carberry

Times like this that I'm glad I sell bottled gas. I have a few second hand heaters in the house and run them off gas bottles that still have a few hours left in them that I get back from customers. Biggest gas and electricty bill I have had was £150 (for 3 months).

DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73240Post DNgroundworks

We have no gas where i live! Still in the stoneage ha ha, run our cooker off a big bottle of calor :D

local patios and driveway
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Post: # 73243Post local patios and driveway

My gas was 300 this quarter! I nearly cried a little

London Stone Paving
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Post: # 73248Post London Stone Paving

I had an horrendous gas bill just after christmas. I'm still skint now because of it, had to have a word with mrs as she has this thing where she liks the house to be warm but with fresh air as well. Heating on with the windows open, I told her she should be the government energy szar

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Post: # 73250Post local patios and driveway

Heat and fresh air steve? Get her a coat and tell her to run round the block.

lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73255Post lutonlagerlout

mine does the same windows wide open and boiler rattling away full bore
i keep turning the stat down a degree or 2 ,but when i look its back up to 23
we were going to have a weekend away ,but i have paid scottish power £600 and agreed (under duress) to £190 per month
so there goes her shopping weekend
miss lout is a money pit
every week its 50 or 100 pound for summat at school
piano,swimming,film club,kung fu

when i was a lad (early 70s) when we finished school we just used to belt hell out of each other and play footy in the street till dinner
now the welfare are on you unless you can shell out a tenner a day for some new exotic entertainment for your spawn
said in jest of course .................
LLL :;):
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Mikey_C
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Post: # 73287Post Mikey_C

lutonlagerlout wrote:mine does the same windows wide open and boiler rattling away full bore
i keep turning the stat down a degree or 2 ,but when i look its back up to 23
we were going to have a weekend away ,but i have paid scottish power £600 and agreed (under duress) to £190 per month
so there goes her shopping weekend
miss lout is a money pit
every week its 50 or 100 pound for summat at school
piano,swimming,film club,kung fu

when i was a lad (early 70s) when we finished school we just used to belt hell out of each other and play footy in the street till dinner
now the welfare are on you unless you can shell out a tenner a day for some new exotic entertainment for your spawn
said in jest of course .................
LLL :;):
here's another money making idea, run at after school bricklaying club for only £8 undercutting the competition !!! :D

lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73291Post lutonlagerlout

you know the craic mikey
when she needs another installment she promises to shite wonders
next thing she is back on the couch/bed/floor with her laptop
"its homework!!"
she is 9 and she does her homework on the laptop and saves it to a memory card
i am struggling to get my head around that
LLL ???
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Post: # 73325Post local patios and driveway

Lout, wait till she gets heavily onvolved in all of the facebook bitching and fighting, its never ending aggro..

lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73327Post lutonlagerlout

CB radio was bad enough in the early 80s
10-4 good buddy bla bla bla
LLL :;):
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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73338Post DNgroundworks

lutonlagerlout wrote:CB radio was bad enough in the early 80s
10-4 good buddy bla bla bla
LLL :;):
Ha ha that mad me laugh!

lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 73363Post lutonlagerlout

anyone else here used to use CB?
it was the forerunner of mobile telephones
I had an Aeriel on a biscuit tin in my bedroom
used to talk to people from all over
LLL
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digerjones
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Post: # 73397Post digerjones

lutonlagerlout wrote:anyone else here used to use CB?
I had an Aeriel on a biscuit tin in my bedroom
yes my biscuit tin was in the loft, i had a am rig that used to interfear with the neibours tv. ha ha. 10 10
dylan

DNgroundworks
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Post: # 73398Post DNgroundworks

Reminds me of only fools and horses - uncle Albert 'back in the war' ha ha ha

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