I like a good murder!

 No, I don't like goodies to get murdered.

Ditto, on both counts!

*night owls*

I hope you enjoyed your naps & walks peeps

El, I'm afraid I don't know what constellation is it

 I was must about to sign out. Have you had a good day?

going to go night yogi velvet - hi and night summer

Goodnight Ros, I'm about to go too, I'm ready to nod off.

aww didn't realise you were here - night again yogi - CBB was boring tonight -been good but glad it is finishing tomorrow - cheggers to win

I agree with you, I can't wait for it to finish. Cheggers to win!!!

Yes thank you yogi just finished work late, walked dogs, cooked tea, ate tea, cleared up, washed my hair and the evening was gone!

I hope CBB is really good fun for you all tomorrow night

Sweet dreams yogi sweet dreams Ros happy almost Friday

You've ben a busy girl again.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, catch up properly tomorrow.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Velvet.

Sweet dreams velvet

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny, cold and frosty here.

 

The client who hadn't paid me for the 2012/13 accounts and tax return appeared yesterday afternno with cash and the records for 2013/14 after I sent him a letter suspending him for non-payment. I also said in the letter that in future his return would only be filed with HMRC once I had received payment for the work and it had cleared even if that resulted in him getting a penalty. Seems fair to me in the circumstances.

 

Good morning everyone.

 

Icy snow is still lying. We are going to need a rise in temperature to get rid of it!

When middle son was visiting last night, he said they haven't had snow since Saturday, and he only lives 6 miles away. We always get more snow than everywhere else and keep it longer!

 

 

No plans for today, apart from catching up on ironing and housework. 

 

Have a good day everyone.

Seems fair enough to me, El. 

Good morning everyone, the temperature is due to rise a teeny bit over the weekend I hope it will where you are too Yogi and that snow finally melts away.

 

Well done EL, quite right too, that client has a cheek and I hope he learns his lesson.  My grandson has been helping out on a local farm, a few weeks ago, he worked hard all week and on the Friday the guy said he had no money to pay him, he owes him about £100 and the work was very hard, fixing fence posts in the biting wind.  It is a very exposed location as you can imagine very high altitude and near the sea.  My grandson came over to help me yesterday and we were talking about lambing coming up soon, that guy will be managing all on his own because who is going to come and help him when he doesn't pay them?

 

Nice to see you back with us velvet My that was a very busy day Summer, I hope you have a good day today.

 

Last day on CBB, I will certainly be glad to see the back of Katie (the Horror) Hopkins, I just hope she don't win.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Aww Squiggle, your poor grandson. What a rotten thing for someone to do to him.

That guy should be ashamed of himself!

 

I completely agree about the awful Hopkins woman. The sooner she is off my screen, the better.

 

I went to Cheltenham first thing to bank the cash I got from that client and some cheques. On the way back I popped into the doctors to collect my repeat prescription. They didn't have it and found that it had been sent to Boots electronically. It turned out that anyone who had got repeat prescriptions from Boots had been switched to them being sent electronically. Boots were supposed to have got people to sign for this but I know that I haven't. Sometimes I go to Boots, sometimes the local Lloyds chemists. I hadn't been to Boots for at least 6 months.

They got another prescription printed off for me, cancelled the automatic electronic prescription to Boots and rang Boots.

I mentioned to them that I had been in Cheltenham town centre earlier and wasn't going back to Boots there just to collect my medication

They should have asked you first EL.  I had to opt in to the service, but when I order my prescriptions online I state where I want the prescription sent, I am lucky in that they then deliver it to me as well.

Squiggle, I agree, they should have asked me first. That's useful for you in that they deliver the medications to you as well. I know Lloyds provide a delivery service but as I'm fairly close to one I don't use their delivery, I think it's free if the value of the medications is £35 or more. Boots would as well but it's only free if the value is £45 or more.

(I don't know the value of mine as I haven't needed to pay since I went on thyroxine tablets for underactive thyroid)

 

 

Good afternoon we've had a drizzly rain here overnight which has melted the snow & ice. It's damp & cold but safer to walk around now

El, well done for being assertive being kind is great, but we mustn't allow people to take advantage.

I myself have asked a customer to leave this morning, for verbally abusing one of my colleagues some months ago. I can't believe he had the cheek to return after being asked to leave once before!

Summer, in the world of business we need to be assertive at times otherwise we will be taken advantage of, me with that non-paying client, you with that customer this morning. How to say no without feeling guilty.

 

I don't feel guilty and my colleagues feel more supported too

Mine is a bit of a leftover from my hubby really EL.  He needed nutritional drinks as his appetite was non-existent and although I cooked him meals that could be pulped - his swallowing was terrible following the stroke - and he loved milky coffee, it would have been well nigh impossible to get the nourishment he needed without them.  Needless to say for a couple of months supply they were extremely heavy so they included us both in their delivery service and just kept going.  I have no idea of the amount that the prescriptions come to, it's never come up.

 

You did well Summer, bad behaviour has consequences and perhaps he learnt something this morning, and it's good for your colleagues to see that you have their back.

Squiggle, not nowadays, but some years ago I was having nutritional drinks. I didn't like Complan, the best known type. I preferred the Nestle Nutrition Build Up chicken soup as that tasted like chicken soup.

 

Afternoon all.

 

Been out for lunch with hubby. That's the third time in a fortnight!

Hubby being on holiday is not good for my waistline. 

 

Well done Summer and El for standing up for yourselves and for your colleagues. 

 

Thanks Velvet.  You have a good weekend too.

For fans of Sherlock Holmes. the BFI are releasing a DVD box set at the end of March for a classic BBC series.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlo...ords=sherlock+holmes

This seems to be the 1964/65 series where Douglas Wilmer plays Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock plays Dr Watson. There was a later series in 1968 where Peter Cushing replaced Douglas Wilmer (but Nigel Stock was still Dr Watson).

Not all episodes have survived but there are those who consider that this series is the closest to the stories.

 

Hi peeps  

Hopefully be back again soon, so take care  

Evening Moonie. That's good news, hope to see you again soon.

The ones my hubby had were prescription only, you couldn't buy them over the counter.  At a push you could live on them alone as they had all the necessary nutrients.  Most of those type of drinks my hubby couldn't stand but a very patient doctor (his haemotologist) persevered until he found one my hubby could get along with.  As well as the other elements of his diet he would have 3 a day of those.  At one stage of his illness he was living on special milkshakes alone, when he was undergoing radiotherapy.  You couldn't get them in hospital so I took them into whichever hospital he was in, with the milk and glass and spoon.  He never could get the necessary nutrition from hospital food and he was in hospital a lot so it was down to me to get his nourishment in for 2 meals every day - he could get by with Weetabix for breakfast.

Good to hear it moonie

Squiggle you're such a sweetheart, I bet your hubby felt very much taken care of

Yay moonie I hope you're back soon

Yogi, what was for lunch?

Hi Summer. We went to a Buffet Word restaurant, which lets you choose from Chinese, Indian, Thai, Italian and Japanese. I mainly stuck to Chinese choices but hubby did a mixture.

Mmmmm I love a buffet what else did you do?

Mr summer is out tonight so I'm home alone until he needs picking up *puts feet on coffee table*

We had a wander round the shops beforehand, but didn't buy anything.

 

So, you're on taxi duty tonight? I rarely do taxi duty, now that all the boys have moved out.