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Post by barbados on Jul 2, 2024 20:10:48 GMT
Well this place is getting off the ground.
Knock yourselves out everyone.
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Post by amanda on Jul 3, 2024 7:19:36 GMT
Got some good news to share? Put it here
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 3, 2024 15:23:39 GMT
My head has felt like someone knocked me out last night. Vile headache all day.
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Post by celebaelin on Jul 5, 2024 23:32:57 GMT
H.A.P.P.Y. tets!
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Post by barbados on Jul 7, 2024 16:47:10 GMT
 I knew someone would get it in the end. Your prize? A free weekend in October, hope you enjoy it
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Post by amanda on Jul 10, 2024 6:04:20 GMT
While a bit broke before my next pay due on Friday, I've won two lots of $25 on lotto (yes, it costs to enter but these tickets are only $5 each) and I found a $50 note on the ground in my local area earlier today.
I looked around to see if the owner may have been around but there was no one.
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Post by jenny on Jul 10, 2024 19:41:58 GMT
Excellent! Finders keepers in that situation, I think.
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Post by amanda on Jul 10, 2024 22:39:19 GMT
Yes, had I seen someone drop it, I would have given it back, I saw a man running over the nearby road crossing but it wasn't his money. Still, I feel bad for whoever dropped it, not knowing.
Won another $25 (this brand of scratch ticket is really my lucky one!) Though I do have some losers that I enter in the monthly second chance draw, which I won a couple of years ago.
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Post by Guy Barry on Jul 11, 2024 9:59:38 GMT
Someone told me this morning that I sing like Noel Coward. Which has put me in a good mood.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 11, 2024 14:22:31 GMT
I would have thought his singing would have deteriorated quite badly in March 1973...
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Post by barbados on Jul 11, 2024 14:24:04 GMT
It wasn’t that great before that
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Post by amanda on Jul 12, 2024 0:16:58 GMT
Not short of money for a little while - just rang my phone banking to check my welfare payment was in and the tax return has gone in too. Not bad after doing the latter online a week ago.
The tax office here says to allow two weeks just from the volume of people doing it etc but I think that because mine is fairly simple, it just needs checking over and the funds released.
I will be paying off a couple of bills.
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Post by jenny on Jul 12, 2024 13:57:34 GMT
I got my two new tooth implants and my replacement crown fitted yesterday and am very happy (though my credit card is rather sad) to no longer be looking gappy when I smile!
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2024 7:47:56 GMT
Things are falling into place now
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Post by amanda on Jul 14, 2024 2:35:18 GMT
The building shifts for the Open House weekend officially opened up at noon my time and I've chosen a favourite place - the ANZ Gothic banking chamber. I believe my grandfather worked here at some point and a couple of years ago I missed out on a tour because the incorrect street number was published in the guide and those of us queuing at the building's main entry missed out, while those queuing down the street got in.
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Post by bigmartin on Jul 14, 2024 8:13:46 GMT
Not had any contact yet from the place I volunteer at for the Doors Open Days. I thought they'd booked it so it would be free of guests for this year as well. I suppose there's plenty of time yet before early September to hear from them.
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Post by amanda on Jul 14, 2024 10:08:34 GMT
Our thing only kicks off from mid June - if you've volunteered previously and want to again, fill out this form now, including a bit about if you're happy to be moved to another building if needed (I say yes, only because it happened to me in about 2018 and am considered experienced, would be getting my ten year badge if not for missing two years. This also helps the area managers know who to call on the day if needed for this)
Also included is do you have the pink vest that's now used each year. Each year used to have its own distinct colour, and the volunteer pack included calico bag with the logo, a scarf and other things but post Covid, they've stopped all that.
Once they've decided on the training format (live and/or online) those dates are posted and you choose what you want.
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Post by amanda on Jul 19, 2024 9:01:15 GMT
My friend who looks after my electricity account for me told me that because I'm so far ahead with my automatic payments ($50/fortnight from my government benefit) that they were issuing cheques/refunds for a bit of an amount.
Wasn't quite sure how much - but it's $219 which is ok. Will put it in the bank on Monday.
A bit more spending money for the Sydney trip the next week.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 20, 2024 13:01:51 GMT
My name is not unfamiliar in the letters pages of my biker mag, five appearances up until the latest issue which I picked up today. The total is now SEVEN! Not one, but TWO letters printed this month. I had signed them slightly differently, so they possibly did not realise they were both from me. Or possibly they were just short of correspondence this month.....
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Post by amanda on Jul 23, 2024 9:17:36 GMT
Awhile ago after wrestling a large cement pot out of the overgrown ferns garden bed and then getting rid of all the soil contained within said pot, there remained a piece of root that stuck out the bottom a bit.
I finally got my little saw and cut off the root from the base of the pot as close to the pot as I could get, then added a few bits of water, wrestling with an old pair of scissors and the bit of root finally came out.
So I then used the neighbour's heavy duty trolley to move the pot to the required part of the backyard, next to the Mother Aloe vera I wish to eventually replant in it.
Upon moving the trolley back through the unit to place in the garage, it hit my vertical blinds and one strip fell down, with a small bit of plastic broken off at the top.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 23, 2024 9:21:48 GMT
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Post by jenny on Jul 23, 2024 13:28:23 GMT
Ooh thanks crissdee - will check that out.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 23, 2024 13:33:48 GMT
Back in May, a bunch of 20 or so of St Mary's fans met up in some cottages in Lincolnshire for the weekend we had the aurora.
The woman who organised it mentioned that her family had promised her a balloon ride for her 21st. But, nearer to the birthday, a sibling decided to get wed, and the funds were not there.
I did a bit of research, and found that £10 from each of us would get her a ride. I mentioned it to a couple of people. Within an hour other people had thrust money at me.
So I arranged it.
I understand she is to take to the air this evening near Worcester.
Permission to feel just a wee bit smug?
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Post by jenny on Jul 23, 2024 13:35:34 GMT
Aww that's a lovely thing to do - how nice of you, tets. As if we didn't already know you were a lovely guy :-)
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Post by Sadurian Mike on Jul 23, 2024 14:29:44 GMT
Yes, had I seen someone drop it, I would have given it back, I saw a man running over the nearby road crossing but it wasn't his money. Still, I feel bad for whoever dropped it, not knowing. Won another $25 (this brand of scratch ticket is really my lucky one!) Though I do have some losers that I enter in the monthly second chance draw, which I won a couple of years ago. I had something similar happen to me the other week. I saw an elderly woman crying because she had lost her accumulated savings, withdrawn in cash to move to a new bank account. I felt really sorry for her and gave her £20 for a cup of tea and bun.
I wouldn't normally have been in a position to do so, but I was feeling quite flush after finding £5,000 in an envelope a few minutes earlier.
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 23, 2024 18:03:45 GMT
Aww that's a lovely thing to do - how nice of you, tets. As if we didn't already know you were a lovely guy :-) Thank you! I believe she is in the air over Worcester as I write! |
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Post by amanda on Jul 23, 2024 22:19:28 GMT
Yes, had I seen someone drop it, I would have given it back, I saw a man running over the nearby road crossing but it wasn't his money. Still, I feel bad for whoever dropped it, not knowing. Won another $25 (this brand of scratch ticket is really my lucky one!) Though I do have some losers that I enter in the monthly second chance draw, which I won a couple of years ago. I had something similar happen to me the other week. I saw an elderly woman crying because she had lost her accumulated savings, withdrawn in cash to move to a new bank account. I felt really sorry for her and gave her £20 for a cup of tea and bun.
I wouldn't normally have been in a position to do so, but I was feeling quite flush after finding £5,000 in an envelope a few minutes earlier.
If I had found that amount I would have given it into the police station first and here the law is after a set amount of time, if the true owner hasn't been found, then the finder gets it. Sometimes the honesty of handing it in means the finder is given a small donation from the amount found. |
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Post by tetsabb on Jul 24, 2024 9:23:19 GMT
Aww that's a lovely thing to do - how nice of you, tets. As if we didn't already know you were a lovely guy :-) Thank you! I believe she is in the air over Worcester as I write! And she landed safely. The trip was actually 1 hour and 40, rather than an hour, as there was nowhere suitable to land fir quite a while! |
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Post by Sadurian Mike on Jul 24, 2024 9:57:31 GMT
I had something similar happen to me the other week. I saw an elderly woman crying because she had lost her accumulated savings, withdrawn in cash to move to a new bank account. I felt really sorry for her and gave her £20 for a cup of tea and bun.
I wouldn't normally have been in a position to do so, but I was feeling quite flush after finding £5,000 in an envelope a few minutes earlier.
If I had found that amount I would have given it into the police station first and here the law is after a set amount of time, if the true owner hasn't been found, then the finder gets it. Sometimes the honesty of handing it in means the finder is given a small donation from the amount found. ('Twas supposed to be a joke) |
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Post by suze on Jul 24, 2024 12:24:58 GMT
There was actually a piece about this on the wireless a day or two ago. The presenters - I think there were three in the studio - were falling over each other to say that if they found a £20 note on the ground, they would of course take it to the police station, and if the £20 note were returned to them after six months unclaimed they would of course give it away to a good cause. I don't consider myself an especially unscrupulous person; I've never even been a Conservative MP. But sorry, not happening. If I found £5,000 in an envelope I would do that, but not if I found a £20 note on the ground. If I perceived a guy rummaging through his pockets and expostulating "What the flip did I do with that £20 note" then he's probably getting it back - but otherwise, it's mine now. "Finders keepers", as Jenny said a few posts up. When I was a kid there was a second half to that saying - and in things that I learned today, that second half came from an Elvis Presley song that is even worse than most Elvis Presley songs. |
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I knew someone would get it in the end.
