Sunday 3 October 2021

Dont Panic

 Despite what the press are blathering on about we are not yet starving in the UK , some random grocery items are hard to find and shopping on friday and saturday empty shelves will feature on your trip .  Please support your local foodbank , mainly because our benefit system is a shambles , latest scandal which they are trying to shut down in the media ,is those who have reached pensionable age and the state hasnt started to pay them their pension , it seems there have been thousands of people left in this mess , why is nobody surprised ? did not enough people die due to Covid ?   Then theres the fun with fuel , hasnt affected us much we are rural and our fuel station seems to just have four vehicles in the queue , unless its the night before his delivery and he posts on facebook he has fuel then they come from miles away . I gather its pretty chaotic in the towns . Other half hasnt grasped as i have that we are reliant on oil heating which is delivered by the same drivers that theire is a shortage of , so that could be pretty interesting if the weather changes .  Reminds me of the Join the Fuel Club conversations we had during Covid  when they set it up , i had a whole conversation with some middle class prick from the council , who couldnt understand that we couldnt afford to pay £80 a month for our heating oil all year round and that the money we dont spend on fuel in a summer goes towards building up food for the winter months . Poverty blindness is real and thriving in Rural Lincolnshire . I sometimes wonder what extra they think the disabled are getting money wise . I know we get £27 pound PIP . I know i get £67 for being a carer , then my partner gets single person rate ESA  and they take  £30 a week ofF him for me claiming carers , i consider us lucky to get this and it means we are a little better off than some but it doesnt go far . Apparently theyre going to send us all on government zoom courses on how to manage our budgets better . Cant wait i suppose it may show me where were going wrong , you know in choosing eating instead of heating . I see the press have took up the people will have to make hard choices about heating and eating this winter , idiots some of us have been doing it for years the disabled in particular , we have been lucky in getting a couple of mild winters so it hasnt killed to many .   Anyway im off outside to fit a big motorbike chain and lock to our fuel oil tank , i can already see that theyre going to be targeted by the usual thieves this winter. 

7 comments:

  1. Our kids can remember ice on the inside of the windows in winter. Our front room carpet (a square) used to billow up when it was windy from the wind getting under the floorboards. lol
    I know we could cope through anything so all this propaganda doesn't bother me.
    Briony
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    1. we had ice on the inside of the windows till they finally admitted we had pvc single glazing and didnt meet the letable homes standard ..finally got the new windows 2 years ago

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    2. We used to have ice on the inside of the windows too. By joves it toughened us all up didn't it. We never had central heating either ... no one did... Folk have grown soft over the years.

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  2. We're lucky, we can cook on our woodburner, it saves on gas!
    Steve's pension arrived on time, much to my surprise.

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    1. we cant have fires they filled the chimneys with concrete when theyput storage heaters in during the 70s thankfully they took them back out in the 90s because nobody could afford to run them

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  3. Yeah, having the likes of Johnson and Rees-Mogg showing "the poor" how to properly manage their budgets - that's what everyone's been waiting for isn't it!

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    1. The deliveries of posh ready meals for free to number 10 rather shows up the posh chav mentality of its occupants

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