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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:12 am
by 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
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:15 am
by 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).
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:16 am
by DNgroundworks
We have no gas where i live! Still in the stoneage ha ha, run our cooker off a big bottle of calor 
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:19 am
by local patios and driveway
My gas was 300 this quarter! I nearly cried a little
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:15 pm
by 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
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:50 pm
by local patios and driveway
Heat and fresh air steve? Get her a coat and tell her to run round the block.
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:59 pm
by 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 :;):
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:08 pm
by 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 !!!
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:26 pm
by 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 ???
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:53 am
by local patios and driveway
Lout, wait till she gets heavily onvolved in all of the facebook bitching and fighting, its never ending aggro..
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:29 am
by lutonlagerlout
CB radio was bad enough in the early 80s
10-4 good buddy bla bla bla
LLL :;):
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:49 am
by 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!
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:48 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:44 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:48 pm
by DNgroundworks
Reminds me of only fools and horses - uncle Albert 'back in the war' ha ha ha
