A Big Plus

 So for once a little positivity , after 2 years more phone calls than a telephone canvasser , arguments , 600 pages of verification information , hours of my life on hold etc etc , the renewal for his disability benefits has finally come through .  He got the letter on Saturday and he just went white and i said i guess we are going to court yet again , hands me the letter and i find he really is a bit dumb , he has actually got another 5 years till his next review and a small increase in his mobility allowance . I havent told him that  this is backdated for the 2 years its taken to process it . 

This small increase will at least allow us to keep the vehicles on the road , we have been running just the one for the winter and barely running it at that .  Next fun thing will be getting his back payment out of the bank as soon as it lands before he gets to spend everything on rusty crap on the internet . Getting cash these days is hard work , we have no local branches and you can only take 100 pounds a day out at the not so local coop . ive got to take as much off him as i can because we have the change to Universal Credit this year and i dont want to take their loans which sentence you to a lifetime of debt while they take months to process the claim .

Id like to point out that being a benefit scrounger is a major stress , you spend endless hours on the phone you get endless threatening letters, nothing you do is ever right because they constantly move the goalposts , you have to keep up with all their latest tricks to defraud you .  In fact when dealing with them its better to view them as liars and tricksters at every turn , they are not there to help in any way . Consult every online forum you can find before filling in anything , keep copies of everything .  In fact its a shame they dont apply the same scrutiny to those in positions of power that are the true benefits scroungers 

Fed Up

 Today i made the effort and toddled into Lincoln to do our first proper shop since before xmas , the horrors of tackling Lidl without the munchkin have left me crippled , just for fun i ended up with the worse British cashier in Lidl , she was a pearler , smug sniggering to her mate sat next to her as she expected me to struggle with cases of items that she insisted must go on the belt , normally you just give them one item from each case . As i was walking away she says to her mate , Serves her right for having a cafe and coming in here !! in my defense i did snigger when the very posh eldeley gentleman who was behind me called her a cunt for slinging his box of eggs down the length of the till .  Oh i havent opened a cafe i just live in the bog end of nowhere and shop every 6 to 8 weeks .

 On the mumsie front despite leaving over 12 messages with different people at The hospital and council in a week we havent had a single reply , we have spoken to social services again . Mumsie has now taken to her bed because she says she has pneumonia , the home informs me there is nothing wrong with her .

On a plus side im spending more time crafting , just for the hell of it because its warm in the bedroom and 2 degrees in the kitchen with the heating on .  Himself is horrified because i told him im giving up on computers once my aged one dies , i wont have any income soon and im sure he wont fund anything for me  

2023 Mummy Update

 The one permanent fixture at the moment is mothers care situation . having being evicted from her bed blocking job into the poshest dementia care facility in the area , she has been reasonably happy and settled ,one or two interesting episodes i gather . they moved her there christmas Eve and they just left me  a phone message , Being ill and all the other events going on there was little chance to find out what was going on , but others have visited and said how nice it was and she seemed to like it . It was very secure they couldnt leave their rooms alone at night and everything was key carded to stop the residents going anywhere they shouldnt .

However what they didnt tell us is that she was only there for 6 weeks we found this out yesterday when my cousin visited !!! So we have spent all day trying to find out what is going on . It seems that the government threw some money at the hospitals to evict the bed blockers but they only paid for 6 weeks!!! so where do they go after that ? We cant seem to get an answer on that one . It would seem the plan is to send her home yet again with a couple of carer visits because shes physically in really good condition for her age apart from her heart being a tad wobbly . The fact that her brain is like a plate of half scrambled eggs counts for nothing it would seem / Shes so well at the moment because she has spent 3 months in care and her meals and meds are monitored there!!! plus they dont let her at the booze .  This ended up with us contacting social services today because no one would speak to us . They have no record of her anywhere which is pretty weird as i have spoken to them in the past , they think she may have transferred her across to the local council and her files may have gone there  . Anyway the result of all this chaos is that we are waiting for someone to contact us from half a dozen directions ...i await with interest  

2023

 so its over , the worst year ever , xmas was dreadful , i was ill through the whole of xmas and left to his own devices Mr BH has excelled himself and i think the whole family have realized just what i have to put up with , mother is now in her elder care prison .and raising merry hell . Im still struggling to think and breathe . Our grandson was stillborn on Xmas Eve and ive been no use or help to anyone . So not up to the whole blogging and internet stuff at the moment . I will be back once i feel a little more human