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by goodlookingone
Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:28 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: November but sunny
Replies: 3
Views: 7163

Re: November but sunny

Oh... an oddity here..... For the first time in years, I stopped for a Fish and Chips dinner at The Wimpey Bar in Basildon Bus Station, here is a sparcity of buses so getting a meal there was an easy option (well alledgedly shortage of drivers not buses). The same bloke in the shop as usual, but He ...
by goodlookingone
Mon Nov 01, 2021 9:04 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: November but sunny
Replies: 3
Views: 7163

Re: November but sunny

Hi... Feeling dead beat, Not sorted lots of things, so I'm going to, have a nearly night and catch upon the sleep (one thing to catch up on is How to drain my NBG washing machine when it expired when full water - made more difficult is where/how I can move my ill/old pussycat wont move from where th...
by goodlookingone
Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:46 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

Yes, I have two accounts ..... it dates from my "working days". Often I worked in places where one is not supposed to have any money of your own in your pocket (if one has access to the Wages office, the Tills or till-clearing (Boots, or Supermarket) - or, more especially, if you consider ...
by goodlookingone
Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:56 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

Hairdtressers.... Something I remember from My Childhood was being in a Barber, awaiting my turn, when an even younger urchin was in the Barbers chair misbehaving. The Barber (with a fearsome scottish accent) explaining to his victim, that he had previously had a Miscreant who wrigled so much that H...
by goodlookingone
Tue Oct 26, 2021 8:28 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

No, no progress, only regress..... Council still "pending" re repairing the Rainwater Drainage. But Have sent me a notice of lack of Council Tax ... Seems that CAB hadn't concluded their work of re-instating my Medic ailments exceptinng me from Council Tax.(Peabody taking it up, but it nee...
by goodlookingone
Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:23 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

Thank you... As you can tell from my last Missive, that I did eventually get through. Sorry - A handfull of problems here - just a lot of "old stuff" catching upwith me... I got "some" of one of my pension backlog paid - only part?? Possibly to stop that Income would attract the ...
by goodlookingone
Mon Oct 25, 2021 7:42 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

Why does trying to connect with this thread keeps telling me that It Doesn't exist... Is anybody there.....
by goodlookingone
Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:29 am
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

Odd thing then... My mind went blank (or even "blanker") and couldn't work out how to respond... Not too keen on the "fasting"... but I'd be quite happy to Hibernate until the Spring. It's Damn cold when a bit of ceiling has collapsed - and a howling "ventilation draught&quo...
by goodlookingone
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:16 am
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

There is a "Help Agency" called Peabody. Got Laura phoning me today to make a "three person phone meeting" today. Peabody seems to have overtaken several different Agency (I first "met" Mosaic When I was discharged from Hospital after myn Stroke, Mosaic is now absorbed ...
by goodlookingone
Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:36 am
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

Hi! Barbara Windsor.... She was the actress who slumped (I mean"sat") in the bar in Chelmsford Market... The Popular Actress here-about was the Staionmasters Daughter (and went to school with my Auntie Eadie): Joan Sims, Carry-on . I have heard much of the Corruptors Play before. The young...
by goodlookingone
Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:48 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

There seems some discussion about whether the Pipe is solely mine until it is Joined by another Flow... There also seems some discution if that applies to Guttering or only the to the "used" water-drain discharge (in fact, my Gutter is joined with neighbours gutter - there is no downpipe o...
by goodlookingone
Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:32 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Re: Oh not another new month

For some considerable time, I have been awaiting "authority" to pepair a broken Surface-water Drain - in particilar, the one that my Gutter downpipe discharges into. It had been leaking into my roof..... Part of the ceiling the ceiling collapsed on Sunday Morning...... The pipe passes unde...
by goodlookingone
Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:18 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

Just seen this .... Will catch up soon, But I must put a new Bulb in the light - in daylight.
by goodlookingone
Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:50 am
Forum: The Bull
Topic: Oh not another new month
Replies: 22
Views: 18291

Oh not another new month

Never mind - A new summer just six months away.
Is it possible to hibernate?
by goodlookingone
Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:29 am
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

Hi! Being "Bus-bound" at the moment the petrol shortagewas not am imediate problem - BUT (life always has a "but") Thhe quesof vehicles at Petrol stations has combined with the Daily closing of the Main roads (to rebuild bridges to widen the Motorway beneath), The more frequent d...
by goodlookingone
Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:50 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

My Mobile Phone has got a bit sulky,... Sometimes it just lookes at me blankly, until I took it back to vodaphone, whereupon it started...??? On the last attempt it remained silent... The Bloke in the shopwas dubious that it was a "cheap phone" (His shop had sold it to me?) but He needed t...
by goodlookingone
Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:12 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

Hi ! Not much to add; Not much Happening..... ......But now that I have retreived Some of my Pension (when I worked in a London Borough), I'll be looking at some domestic maintenance. I'm not getting re-started on some major repairs - new windows and doors - until I can get The local gov to fix the ...
by goodlookingone
Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:44 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

Was there enough sun to cause problems? It is certainly not that warm here... A distant Hospital on Friday, for a Covid tounge-swip before I can go to the REAL Hospital on Monday. .... Must travel by Cab, and stay in the Cab for the test... I think I'd better raid the bank because I don't know how p...
by goodlookingone
Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:38 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

Sorry - still have problems - Local Council (whom I'm also claiming re Citizens Advice), Age Concern, Police... And when I've sorted NHS problem???, - I'll start on my House Insurers Legal paragraph.. NHS problem?,,? Yup - Got a phone call that I missed - By calling back resulted in an answerphone m...
by goodlookingone
Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:40 pm
Forum: The Bull
Topic: September
Replies: 15
Views: 11675

Re: September

I missed your last post in the previous month... Nothin' personal: just that I'm overloaded with "a lot on my plate". Not the least of which is that one of my pensions has ceased paying me... Wait for it ... Four months of the last fiscal year (i.e, Apl 4th, this year) and nothing since - ...