Being woken up in the middle of the night because I was cold.
Ffs.
Had to turn the fan down to just 1.
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Back at work.
Auschwitz trip.
Israeli family.
Iāve been bollocked by other guides because apparently I didnāt tell them to respect the museum, they were rude to their guide smoking and eating IN the buildings and holding up the rest of the group.
What a bunch of ā¦
Youād imagine they would show respect here of all places, and obviously the whole trip here is about respecting the Memorial
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Tbf.
The trip had the family of 6 Israelis a Swede & his Son.
Dropped them back in town & both gave me Ā£20 tips!
So double what I got paid for the day!
Noooooooooooā¦
One of Mrs P_F s besties from the sandpit is in town.
They met up.
And her new Fiance was introduced
And she (we) have been invited to the Wedding in March.
In the Seychellesā¦
Iāve already had a dozen ābut honeyā¦ā comments on the phone.
Does GoFundMe work for this?
Asking for a friendā¦
Ffs
Tell them that they have to pay if they want you thereā¦
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No wonder our fucking power bills have rocketed. 
The cost of moving customers to new suppliers since September 2021, including buying extra gas at short notice while prices were at record highs, as well as replacing lost customer credit balances and green levy payments, was Ā£94 per household, according to the regulator.
Under current rules the new supplier does not get customer credit balances from the failed supplier, so the costs of replacing these balances are shared across all customer bills.
About 30 companies have gone bust in the last year. Their customers were automatically transferred to new suppliers.
But, while their credit balances were honoured, the cost of doing so was covered by increasing everyoneās bill.
How many of you knew this happened? I had about Ā£700 credit balance with Igloo when they stopped trading, and just assumed that the Ā£700 eventually credited to my new Eon account had come from Igloo repaying it. But apparently it was just added onto everyoneās bills.
Theyāre apparently trying to address this issue now, but itās not surprising that the energy companies are so keen for us to run high credit balances, if they wonāt even have to make it good when they go under. Iām genuinely shocked by this.
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Luckily, some years ago I got stung by British Gas to the tune of almost a full years gas bill.
Since then, I have never accepted any increase to my direct debit for gas/electricity that I have not worked out myself.
My current āproviderā (Octopus) had tried to increase my DD from Ā£165 pm to over Ā£250 pm a few months ago. I just changed it back - as things stand at the end of October I will probably be in credit for about Ā£50.
I will see what the increase is in October before I make any changes - bearing in mind government will put Ā£400 into my DD account, and in November the winter fuel payment will be Ā£500. So the majority of Octobers increases are already mostly covered for pensioners, and if non-pensioners stop spending money on crap and shite and fast food for their families, they might find it easier to manage with the money and tax breaks they are going to get.
I would suggest everyone do the same - do NOT accept any DD increase unless you have worked it out and are happy with it. If you are in credit, let this run down before you increase your payment.
I see no benefit in power companies holding the publicās money to cover future costs - the general public should not have to gamble on futures!
They are all a bunch of thieving Barstards.
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I read about this a few weeks ago and it didnāt sit well with me at all, how the fuck they were allowed to āinvestā customer credit rather than it being held in a protected account is fucking scandalous.
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And weāre all paying for it now. Iād like to know exactly how much of the price rises is down to that, compared to the cost of the fuel itself. It genuinely hadnāt even occurred to me, and I only came across the story by chance.
Iāve just received two emails from Eon, informing me that Iām in credit by over Ā£1000. Not on the whole dual fuel account, but twice over; Ā£1000+ on gas and Ā£1000+ on electricity. But they also tell me that they arenāt concerned by this, and neither should I be.
I fucking bet they arenāt concerned. Cunts.
Has was ā¬38 per mega therm last year.
Now over ā¬330
From beeb
Then I think you should stop paying DD until you are not so much in credit - you are being forced into investing in future cost with no interest, but the supplier is getting interest, or is probably āinvestingā your money!
Leaving the teabag in the cup and then getting to the bottom of said cup!!
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Iām going to tell them to refund the excess. Iām also going to try and change it so I pay for whatever Iāve actually used that month, because I have far more money coming in during the winter months anyway than I do in the summer.
But I suspect they will resist this, and I also suspect they will charge more for the energy than if I was just giving them carte blanche access to my bank account.
Good plan - I have had no problem getting money back from octopus, or changing the DD payment - I suspect you wonāt have any problem with yours, because they will still have thousands of folk overpaying at the moment, and they wouldnāt want any waves!
Yes, Iām pissed off with EON too and fighting to get my credit balance down. Iāve found once you get on the phone itās easier to make progress.
But thatās not important right now. Iāve had a wonderful day. 6:30 am phonecall to say grandson isnāt fit enough for his tennis school but fit enough to come to you to childmind for the day. Because Iām nice, 30 mile round trip to collect said grandson, who runs me ragged all day giving every impression of someone easily fit for anything. I have important Council meeting but now no time to prepare. Another 30 mile trip to return. On getting home, find freezer has failed. 30 mins to don Mayoral chain, meet VIP guest to meeting and make plans for large quantities of rapidly thawing food. Delegated to a delighted Mrs S.
And today is our wedding anniversary so we planned a relaxed day.
And now the freezer has spontaneously recovered and is laughing hysterically.
Wine engaged. Rant mode off.
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Well, if you hadnāt run for mayor and wonā¦
ā¦Just sayin
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Surely youāre not suggesting I should have rejected my civic responsibilities?
As Mayor of your local town as long as you dont exceed Borisās shite whilst he was in charge of London you will be doing well and un-indictable. 
Dunno. Never had any.