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My parents are only part of it. Losing our daughter at 14 (after nearly losing her at 9) took its toll too.
Mrs AFB mother passed away in her 50’s. Her Dad is a waste of space. Not heard from him in 17 years or so.
Then my Dad’s wife doesn’t let us in the house. Doesn’t let me even see my Dad really. He only talks to me on the phone if she’s out or he is.
Then we don’t talk to my Mums husband for reasons I’ll not go into here.
There isn’t any extended family that I’ve seen or talked to in decades.
So yes I’d say cursed is the correct term.
A real shame that your Dad has let his wife control his life regarding his interaction with his son. I certainly would not stay with a woman who acted that way.

It seems it is similar with your mom. Although you have no use for her husband, it appears she has not for whatever reasons made the effort to maintain a relationship with you without involving her husband.

Very sad and unfortunate.
 
A real shame that your Dad has let his wife control his life regarding his interaction with his son. I certainly would not stay with a woman who acted that way.

It seems it is similar with your mom. Although you have no use for her husband, it appears she has not for whatever reasons made the effort to maintain a relationship with you without involving her husband.

Very sad and unfortunate.
You get used to it. Who needs family? At least we don’t have to worry about who we see at Christmas etc. We just don’t celebrate it!
 
Money saving day!

Renegotiated my Sky TV contract. Was paying £101 a month for TV, will now be paying £53 (and this includes Netflix).

Broadband; Was paying Virgin £57.50 a month. Now moving to Sky for £33 a month.

So in all was paying £86 as opposed to £172 so exactly half. Happy with this.
 
Money saving day!

Renegotiated my Sky TV contract. Was paying £101 a month for TV, will now be paying £53 (and this includes Netflix).

Broadband; Was paying Virgin £57.50 a month. Now moving to Sky for £33 a month.

So in all was paying £86 as opposed to £172 so exactly half. Happy with this.
Very good. But it is scandalous that good long time customers have to contact the providers and fight for a better rate while new customers get a better deal from day one usually. I am not in the UK so I cannot speak for the Sky experience but this has been my experience in various countries.
 
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My wallet is on my mind today. I was hopeful that a new groundbreaking drug that would make the lives of Type-1 diabetics easier and offer hope for a better quality of life would be approved by the FDA. Alas, it was not to be -- at least not yet. I remain hopeful, but a little poorer today.
 
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Very good. But it is scandalous that good long time customers have to contact the providers and fight for a better rate while new customers get a better deal from day one usually. I am not in the UK so I cannot speak for the Sky experience but this has been my experience in various countries.
I agree. It's dreadful. I play the same game every 18 months or so. Cancel then they immediately off a £10 or so discount. Say no and wait. You have to give 30 days notice and every time, about 14 days later they come up with a more acceptable offer. Most people don't like to cancel as they think their service will stop straight away. You have to learn how to play their game...
 
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I agree. It's dreadful. I play the same game every 18 months or so. Cancel then they immediately off a £10 or so discount. Say no and wait. You have to give 30 days notice and every time, about 14 days later they come up with a more acceptable offer. Most people don't like to cancel as they think their service will stop straight away. You have to learn how to play their game...
What a waste of everyones time.
 
2020 was a rather rough year for all. But, I have seen a serious increase in subscription services, for virtually everything, apps, cloud services, etcetera, etcetera. Will it ever slow down, or stop?

Merely thinking out loud...
I take out very few. If something is available only as a subscription, I’ll most likely pass.
 
Very good. But it is scandalous that good long time customers have to contact the providers and fight for a better rate while new customers get a better deal from day one usually. I am not in the UK so I cannot speak for the Sky experience but this has been my experience in various countries.
Its the same with car insurance, house insurance, car breakdown cover. New customers are enticed with the discounts that long term loyal customers are paying for.
 
When we go back to 'normal' in the UK on July 19th does that mean my free travel Oyster card will go back to being totally free rather than free after 9am when the pandemic started? Surely Boris really means normal right? I get to travel to work free of charge again. I somehow doubt it 'normal' seems to be more about face masks and pubs!
 
When we go back to 'normal' in the UK on July 19th does that mean my free travel Oyster card will go back to being totally free rather than free after 9am when the pandemic started? Surely Boris really means normal right? I get to travel to work free of charge again. I somehow doubt it 'normal' seems to be more about face masks and pubs!
So glad you didn’t refer to it as freedom day as the press have. What a stupid expression. My life won’t change one bit after the 19th. I will still wear a mask on the rare occasion I have to go anywhere.
 
Doesn't really matter a huge percentage of people on the trains and bus are already not wearing masks or wearing on the mouth not nose so the only 'freedom' they will enjoy is in a pub! I have been away from the UK since March 2020. 60 years old only had one vaccination second one is August 7. I will be wearing a mask until end of August at least maybe longer. I will try and protect everyone else even if they don't care about protecting me!
 
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Slight hiccup back in February think my (younger ) Filipina wife missed a few tablets during the stress of moving house.

I chose the name of my three girls over two marriages Jade 30 years old in the UK, Amber 10 and Sapphire 6 in the Philippines. All semi precious stones. I said to my wife you choose this time. If we have a girl it will be Catalina..................could be worse Big Sur???? Nice my wife went Apple :cool:
 
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