Recent content by boogie man

Sod’s Law isn’t it? There’s been a fundraising event for our local church planned for months. It was an outdoor event held at a really lovely medieval house in our village … actually I think most people wanted to go just to have a nose around the owner’s gardens :D Weather has been beautiful for...

My mum had a simple no frills cremation last year. Not much change out of £6k.

He was in Scarpetta recently on Prime, playing Nicole Kidman’s husband. I hadn’t realised he’s actually Australian.

I wouldn’t complain about that. I bought the max amount 7 months ago… have won nothing 4 out of the 7 months.

Nothing (again) this month. But just to show it’s pure luck, the £1 million winner this month only bought their bond in February of this year and is “only” holding £8300. Jammy git!!!!

See my post ^ (# 1548). It’s very good…the series, not my post. :D

Not having Anima is a big plus!! Part of the problem here is our nearest surgery originally had four GPs when we moved here. Now there’s only one, plus a locum who comes in occasionally. Most of the appointments are being farmed out to either a walk in centre or a sister surgery (which are...

We’re in Kent too, the NHS service here is getting more and more awful. It’s almost impossible to get a GP appointment and the Anima service they use for triage doesn’t seem suitable for a lot of cases (for instance when the GP just asks you to update them, you have to go through pages and pages...

Depends entirely on the driver I think. We have a couple of regular Amazon drivers who are both very conscientious…. they’ll ring the bell and usually wait for an answer. At busier times like Xmas Amazon obviously take on extra staff and we really notice the difference, you’re lucky if they even...

Legends. Netflix. Based on a true story of how the UK Customs Service broke up a £multimillion heroin smuggling racket in the 90’s. Steve Coogan is excellent playing the customs manager who coordinates things. Tom Burke, the chap who played Strike, and Hayley Squires are a couple of his...

I agree, it’s brilliant!

We live not far from Headcorn. The roads are absolutely terrible round here. We’ve also just had a major road out of village shut for 14 weeks while SE Water did some so-called improvements to the water mains.

True story. Donkeys years ago my ex wife worked in a John Lewis department store. There was a small Waitrose within this particular store, and my ex knew the manager from a previous JL store where they’d worked. It was customary for the Waitrose manager to write off damaged or out of date goods...

Get used to it. I’ve had two wins in the last 6 months, the rest of the time : zilch. Premium Bonds are generally not a good investment vehicle. If you want a guaranteed return that you can’t touch you’d be much better off sticking the money in a long term savings bond. The only real benefits...

I’m aware there isn’t such a department, it was meant sarcastically. ;)