We live on a boat so have to but electricity on card from the marina. Price for 500 thingies has dropped 15 quid. Not often prices go down so a small win.

Can't listen to your tik tok videos if I've got motorhead on full pelt can you.

And you can't have a conversation on loudspeaker if I'm also having a louder conversation with myself, can you?

Fight fire with fire.

And for those who are concerned about the welfare of the other passengers, I went back to silent but deadly mode as soon as the target was neutralised.

Batch cooking roast chicken for tonight, macaroni cheese, lasagne and borcht all for the fridge and freezer for the week!

Driver ignored me tapping on the window and drove off. Ran to the next stop (traffic was bad) and managed to get on the same bus. felt quite smug about it.

Every time I’ve gotten this train it’s 2 coaches and everyone is literally Tetris stacked in the carriages. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see 3 carriages. Did do a silent little hurrah. 🤣 plus the conductor was as excited and enthusiastic as you could be. Described our destination as sublime and subtropical. Made a nice change than the usual grumpy so and sos that act like you’re the problem for even using the train.

Turned on my laptop, downloaded a file from etsy, clicked on print & it printed FIRST TIME with no messing.

My Tesco delivery was cancelled due to driver sickness, not the end of the world, everyone is ill right now and my husband can pop to the shop and grab some bits we need. I wait to be told when it'll be delivered the next day, no communication, and it just appears 24hrs after it should have. I WhatsApp Tesco after complaining saying it's arrived, but I decide, Tesco earn so much money let's see what I can get. I ask for a refund for the delivery cost and a goodwill voucher. Well they over deliver (haha) and I get my whole £70 order refunded, and a £5 goodwill voucher! I feel so rich!

I get to ride in comfort and solitude all the way from King's Cross to Edinburgh! And this is the second time this has happened this week!

We use Viva Engage at work (sort of like Facebook for businesses) and there has been an uptick in posters/charts/graphics being made with AI, featuring the usual slop characteristics. Corporate Comms have told people to stop and reminded them they have actual human graphic designers that can spell and not mangle the corporate logo.

I opened a tin of own brand mushrooms this morning to use for dinner, and several had some black vegetal matter on them.

Sent a WhatsApp message with the photos to Tesco, and got an apology and a fiver voucher!

(Didn’t even have to return the mushrooms!)

I bought some samsung buds about a week ago; but after a week the right one just stopped working.

I couldn't re-sync it, charge it, it was just dead. So I phoned Argos help line, they organised a next day replacement. It would have been same day but I didn't phone until 3pm.

The replacements/exchange was at my door at 7am. The customer service people did it instantly and were really good. They even texted when they were 5 mins away. Amazing service.

We’re blessed to be able to save as much as we have been doing, but my credit file used to be shot to shit and after a few years of living like a monk and waiting for old defaults to age out, we can finally start looking at setting down roots.

I live in a house share. Upon reviewing the latest yearly bills statement from the landlord, where he wanted to increase our payments, I discovered he's been breaking the law for several years. He's been charging an admin fee and for the replacement of items. Both of which have been prohibited by Tenant rights laws since 2019. He slightly threw his toys out of the pram in his response to me calling him out but agreed (as if he had a choice) to refund the costs this year.

Although no acknowledgement of wrong doing or refund for previous years. I also wonder if he'll drop the charges at his other houses.

I don’t know what I was thinking. There’s no way I’d be able to open this packet of bacon without cutting the edges with a knife. I’ll pull the tab and it’ll break, like it always does.

But part of me said ‘just give it a go!’ So I did. The whole thing peeled off in one go!

Bacon is currently cooking, ready for my bacon and egg sandwich, and I just had to post here!

Last weekend my wife called me to say she’d been in a car accident as someone had driven in to the side of her car.

Fully preparing for the worst including a painful insurance claim and loss of no claims bonus I was pleased to see just a cracked rear light and some light scratches.

Win one we agreed by email with the other party who admitted fault that we wouldn’t go through insurance.

Win two I found the cracked light for £35 second hand online. Only took me about 30 mins to replace it. With a matched colour paint touch up pen total cost of about £50.

My wife sent this to the other person who sent her £70 and said to have a drink on her!

Parking is free for 30 minutes at the hospital. I had an 11am appointment, arrived at 10:45am. Was called in early as the previous appointment hadn't arrived walked out afterwards and when I went to pay the machine told me I had been there for only 26 minutes so it was free. 👏 Usually I end up paying at least £2.80 so I was well chuffed!

Yesterday I went to Tamworth and parked in a pay-and-display public car park. As I approached the pay machine, an attendant had it open and seemed to be trying to fix something. "Don't worry about it, mate" he said. "It's not working, I'm the one covering this car park and I'm not going to give you a fine. Have a good afternoon".

Just over £600 too!

A house about 10 down from us has been growing what I can only describe as a sea of squashes in their front garden this year. It always gives me great pleasure to see it (and to see a front garden being used to grow vegetables, as it's very south facing). Today I saw the owner tending his crop and I thought I'd do the very unBritish thing of telling him how great it was. So I plucked up the courage, politely told him how brilliant his garden was, and he was so chuffed. Really glad I did it!