You're welcome, Annie! 🎉

Nice one AnnieM - Enjoy your winnings!

Congratz AnnieM enjoy your win.

🎉 Congrats 🎉

Congrats AnnieM, spend it wisely. Will you tell your friend how much money they missed, & do you think they will they start checking again?

🎵Tomorrow, tomorrow,

You could win again tomorrow,

It's only........a day........a.........way🎵

Good for you!

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AnnieM - congrats on a nice win. Good luck for the next one…with an even higher bonus. 😊

Congrats AnnieM 🥂🍾 Thanks for posting, gives us all hope.

Well done Annie, here's to the next win

Congratulations on getting a win.👍😄💰

Well spotted.

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Congratulations! 🥳

Great result AnnieM. Enjoy your winnings :-)

Well done AnnieM, I always worry that I'm on autopilot when checking and will miss it. 😀

Congrats AnnieM enjoy your winnings!

Docsy, we're definitely not a scam! We've been running since 2011, are funded by advertising and now have over 62% of the UK's postcodes registered! We can't be a scam as we do not take a penny from our members.

Feel free to check out:

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A review from Money Saving Expert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/pick-my-postcode/. Martin Lewis features and independently reviews us. He wouldn't do that if we were a scam.

I'm sorry you think the prizes we offer are "pathetic". We actually think they are quite generous given the fact that we are completely free to enter. You don't have to answer any questions for the chance to win (apart from on the Survey Draw to reveal that particular postcode).

Of course, you are always free to leave if you wish you had never started. This FAQ explains what you need to do: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/26-i-dont-want-to-be-a-member-anymore

Sorry you are fed up Docsy but loads of us love the site for chat jokes and support if needed at times.The idea of a win is just the icing on the cake wether it happens or not.I hope you stay on.

How to publicly advertise one’s ignorance.

My retort would be..you don’t have to answer a single question to win. The surveys are connected to the draws.

And, the winner who took away over £11,000 didn’t think his prize was pathetic, he thought it was rather grand!

Of course if Docsy had read how the site works , as required when he was signing up, he’d have decided it was beyond him and not bothered.

As it is he’s calling a fab site with a brilliant reputation a “scam” as he doesn’t understand.

ooow! Are you Mexican by any chance, and feeling a bit miffed?

Try reading AnnieM's post above. She obviously knows how this site works.

You sure you're on the right site ??

No,sorry footballs not my thing. But had a great weekend with all the Silverstone coverage on Ch 4 🏎️

I watched (but I'm a night owl anyway). It was a good match.

I watched the highlights 1st thing this morning without knowing the score.

Well done England.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Great win in difficult circumstances.

From what I gather it was a good match against a very good team on their home ground so well done and it’s made lots of folk have a smile on their face today.

I watched something else until just before 3am, then turned over, thinking it would be nearly over (advertised as 1am kick-off, plus 90mins, plus 15 mins half-time… very pleasantly surprised to see were in the lead and watched it to the end. 11 mins extra time! The ref really gave the Mexicans every chance to equalise. What with putting termites outside afterwards (had to drag them off the bed), then Shadow lay down on the path and went to sleep and had to be hauled up to go for a widdle, then hunting round the garden to find Storm, who had gone to sleep under the conifer hedge, I was wide awake again and only dozed off until 6.30, when I had to get up for dog-walker at 7am.

I thought it was on tonight so surprised to hear on the radio this morning that we had won😁

I was going to then, when it was delayed, I decided not to. Then I thought I would watch the first half. That would be my normal bedtime anyway. Switched the tv off but followed the text commentary on my phone while I was getting ready for bed. When it said it was “all kicking off” my finger found itself on the “watch live” button. So I watched the second half on my phone in bed. Strangely, just as I was turning my phone off my husband woke up and said, did we win? Yes. What was the score? Then he went back to sleep. 🤷‍♀️

I was in bed by 10pm and fast asleep soon after. Husband wasn't sure if he would stay up but in the end he couldn't be bothered and didn't see any of it.

Nice to see you back Em.

I am not the least interested in football so no I didn't stay up.

I can prove my disinterest as one of the best days of my life was when my Son told me he didn't want to play football any more. Happy days.

So, so good to have you back Em.

No, I didn't stay up but have watched it this morning, just to show some patriotism while sewing a hem up, and have to say, England were brilliant and didn't rise to the dirty tricks Mexico were trying on!

I didn’t had appointments this morning . Glad they won but not into football .

Definitely not, I wouldn't waste my time watching grown men fighting over a ball 😀

Welcome back Em! I was up but I can't stand football so I watched something decent.

I didn't stay up. The dog wanted to go outside at about 1.30. She decided to stay outside under the hedge where she has a nice, cool den. My neighbours are big football fans and I heard them at what must have been half time, but then went back to sleep.

Same as Happy

🤣MickMeDad🤣

Hello Em, welcome back

Did not stay up as like my sleep too much for that , also I am Scottish so saw the result this morning . I do have an English Brother In Law , so really pleased they won 🫶

Who stayed up for what ?

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Welcome back, Em. I was up late, but went to bed early because I was worried about the team playing at altitude and having to cope with the antics of the people outside their hotel. Hearing the news about Donald Trump's latest antics was the final straw. In the end, I think the late Queen sent some rain down to cool the players and I am glad they won - it looked like a great match (even though I don't follow football).

Way past my bedtime.

Nope, didn't watch the overhyped divas.

Got to agree with you Em. I see the orange one poked his nose in ??. You take care of yourself Em and it's good to have you back,lots of hugs.. xx

Coincidence is a mathematical fact.

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

ENVER, BETH,

THE GROUP WAS CALLED - ‘ABC’.

BETH YOU’RE THINKING OF DUSTY.

Don't believe in coincidence either Redz so what can I say?

Great minds? 🤣

The look of love is in your eyes…🎶

Was that Diana Ross? My memory is much better for male singers than female, for some reason.

Was it the E Ross band? (see what I done .... Eros👼🏹💗).

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KENNY,

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS COINCIDENCES. I WAS JUST TELLING MY FRIEND ABOUT THAT JOKE & THIS 1 -

CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS QUIZ I'M DOING?

WHICH 80S BAND SANG THESE SONGS?

A - THE LOOK OF LOVE

B - POISON ARROW

C - ALL OF MY HEART

Perhaps Indi was trying to check on her police puppy Beth.

A friend of mine used to throw his phone into the car as he was getting in. As I was top of his quick call list it used to phone me. He was very surprised when I told him later what day he had a person in his car, who it was and what they were chatting about.

If you call them accidentally they ask you to stay on the line and let them know it’s a ‘butt call’ as our colonial cousins so politely call it. If you ring off they have to ring back to confirm if you are injured, at risk etc, so you save them time if you let them know. Indi rang them once when she carried my phone and pressed the side button several times. It was quite a shock to hear a voice saying, ‘Hallo, this is the Police…. Can you hear me…’

That's odd, I don't get those popups since the site revamp. There have been several winners recently sharing the first part of my postcode and the first number following, but no "... do you know them?" popup like I used to get.

It was originally there to try to stop the hundreds of unsubstantiated claims that “nobody ever wins from my postcode area” posts/emails/complaints.

Don’t be alarmed, it wasn’t designed to personally annoy you, although, clearly it has!🤔

What an odd thing to be annoyed about! 😂 Pops up and goes with the change of page, only a few seconds.

That's the spirit maddadof, keep it up.

Indi thinks that’s a very good idea! The dustmen are her favourite callers each week, and pups are learning fast.

Someone who I grew up with is a delivery driver and he keeps a bag of treats in his pocket to share with the dogs on his route. With the owner's permission.

I was once selling door to door round London & Home Counties, came across a 4 foot 6inch high solid wooden gate with no handle on the outside, the only latch was halfway down the inside & a Jack Russell loose in the garden that would jump up & snap your nose off if you tried to reach it, No warning signs.

There are dogs and dogs.

There again, there are owners and owners.

None taken, Val1101 - I just thought amusing that the postie, who you might expect to be wary of the black termites who rocket out to the gate en masse, has bought their brother. Woody is doing very well, apparently.

I have seen the same. Our little dog greets everyone nearby with excited barking. We have a wire basket hanging on the inside of our fence for milk delivery (saves her barking in the night as the gate no longer clicks when the milk arrives) and we invite the postie and couriers to use it when we and the dog are outside.

Our friends have a similar dog who was rescued and he did bite a postman which had repercussions. They have a postbox on their gate.

Unfortunately, not everyone lives in an area where they have responsible dog owners. The drug dealer types usually have unregistered dogs which cause problems.

I only wished to show you , what the Royal Mail is now using so as not to deliver some people’s mail . No malice intended at all 😊

Don’t think this applies to me - postie bought one of my puppies! The delivery drivers for Evri, DHL and Royal Mail all love the pups - one stops to play with them, another chats about the spaniel in his cab… only one is scared of them and I think putting a sign up would scare him even more!

One of our Evri drivers was badly bitten last year. I don’t know whether the dog was roaming the gardens or rushed out when the door was opened. There was no indication that a dog was present.

Redz, I really don’t think he has the brainpower to be that devious. He’s just plain stupid and nasty. His chickens are coming home to roost, now that he’s about the same age as Biden was, when he was telling Joe he was too old and should go.

He doesn't want to cause controversy ... 😂... the man thrives on it.

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HELP ME,

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU BIDEN WAS ‘NEVER’ POTUS?

LOOK AT THE WEST COLONNADE. THERE’S A PRESIDENTIAL WALKWAY OF FAME (GALLERY). THERE’S NO PICTURE OF BIDEN, JUST THE ‘AUTOPEN’.

IT’S NOT A JOKE… IT’S COMMS.

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT THE ‘CHARACTER’ TRUMP HAS ALWAYS WORKED ALONGSIDE THE LIKES OF OBAMA, BUSH, CLINTON… & THAT THE PUBLIC NAME-CALLING IS PURELY FOR SHOW?

IMAGINE THEY ALL WORKED TOGETHER TO RID THE WORLD OF THE MOST EVIL & CORRUPT.

AFTER ALL, IF YOUR ‘REAL ENEMY’ BELIEVES YOUR FOE IS THEIR ALLY, THEY’RE MORE LIKELY TO GIVE THEM THE VERY INFORMATION THAT CAN BRING THEM DOWN - RE ART OF WAR PLAYBOOK.

THERE HAVE BEEN MANY COMMS PUT OUT THERE RATHER THAN JUST WATCH EDITED HIGHLIGHTS ON THE NEWS.

#FROMDARKNESSTOLIGHT

EDITED TO ADD -

I’LL QUOTE MARK TWAIN AGAIN - ‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.’

Apparently it was a very, very long, rambling political speech about his own greatness, the danger of Communism, something about a third term (I didn’t hear it, just a reference on Laura K this morning). It was not well received - supposed to be a celebration of the country’s 250 years of Independence, not a political rally. He also sounded very stupid with his usual pomposity and exaggeration, saying they were the greatest country there had ever been, the people were the most successful, there was no country ever that had the power and greatness … the Roman Empire springs to mind, Alexander the Great’s conquests?

Thanx help me! - the problem is that trumpazees aren't intelligent enough to understand.

I agree about the cap Redz. I assume that's a deliberate attempt to belittle Biden.

If anyone watched or heard about Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore I recommend listening to Bill Clinton's critique (which I assume isn't AI). It's unusual for a previous president to respond but he clearly felt this was too important to ignore. Edited highlights are on YouTube

https://youtu.be/c6wZ4bky3jE

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BETH,

I WAS GOING TO HIGHLIGHT THE SPEECH THE ‘CHARACTER’ TRUMP GAVE LAST NIGHT REGARDING THE NUMBER OF TERMS HE’S SERVED.

DID YOU HEAR HIM MENTION HIS ‘3RD’ TERM, THEN QUICKLY SAY, ‘I DON’T WANT TO CAUSE ANY CONTROVERSY’?

ALSO, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT QUITE A WHILE BACK I MENTIONED TO EITHER YOU OR KAT TO LOOK AT THE CAP HE WEARS.

‘45 - 47’… HYPHENS MATTER!

🎥 🍿

He failed to change the name of the Kennedy Centre so I am hopeful that good sense will prevail.

Today, playing a board game with my family there was a question about a cartoon character who was the richest man in the town (it was Montgomery Burns). My niece said, "Donald Trump" and I said, "Well he is a cartoon character!".

When he was running for his second term and trying to court voters who seldom turned out he told them, "Just vote this once. In four years we'll have fixed it and you won't need to do it again." Scarily it may have worked.

https://youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE

He mentioned something today or yesterday about a third term in power - I warned that he would do this! He will try to change the Constitution to make it feasible; if he can’t, I bet he says it’s his idea not to stand, just so he sounds generous. No way will he say ‘I want another term but I’m not able to rig it.’

Some would get you banned from PMP.

There are also many other terms that spring to mind. 🤣

The term Megalomaniac springs to mind.

He's on record as saying he thinks it would be a good idea because of his towering legacy which outstrips any other US president.

I would say that's not how you spell ego.

Fortunately the geologists say another head can't be added as the remaining granite is too fractured.

I would say that's not the grey matter that's too fractured.

Me also Em.

Yes please Em. 😁

Once we're on top of our tasks I can share with anyone who wants to read them.

File forwarded to Admin.

Luckily the coursework has finished now until October, apart from the weekly voluntary session I have started going to, where we just read a piece of our own work for peer-critique. Good fun so far! I am trying to get all last year’s paperwork into order - it’s got really muddled.

I’d say you maybe got an hour of dozing but I’d say no to a good nights sleep! I really don’t know how you do it especially with your studying. I hope they don’t find the gap but I’m not going to hold my breath 🙄🙄

Goodness Beth, you must I shattered.

Very good both.

😂

Good one Redz 👍

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I HEARD HIS BODY UNDERWENT A SHOCKING TRANSFORMATION WITH LIGHTNING-FAST RESULTS! 😉

😂

Choc, Niall has emailed them and included a screenshot, so the Ad partner knows what it looks like.

thanks. I meant the members but good.

@ Niall, if reporting any ads using 'Contact us' on the Comps site, there's no option to attach a screenshot.

Thanks Liz we have reported it directly to our AD partner, who is trying to track down the advertiser to ban then from bidding.

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It would be worth hanging onto Scotland if we could use the oil ourselves, but apparently it’s no good for fuel or heating, just heavy industry.

@Alley1940 - absolutely nothing to stop us bringing him up the Thames by boat and offloading him at the Tower of London? You know the gate to which I refer ...

"A very big gate. A bigly big gate. Despite the media covfefe probably the bigliest gate in the world. "

See also, "Equalizing" (his spelling, not mine!)

Of course, if we decide he's outstayed his welcome, we could deport him to Nambia.

Only because the UK government wants to hang on to our oil supplies, which are still plentiful despite what they say, but they're stopping Scotland from utilising them...

Here, don’t start trying to get them back - we haven’t got rid of Scotland yet!

No, certainly don't want those colonies back. Nasty, horrible places at the best of times.

Might accept a contrite Ireland or Malta, but nowhere else.

Some of their beer is perfectly palatable, certainly better than carling, Madri or Fosters..

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LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS 🎥 'S CREDITS 🤯

‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.’

😁

:-D This reminds me, my husband came up with a good joke the other day. He said: I hear they've published a new dog training book in Russia. It's called How to Train Your XL American Bully.

Definitely not having your nasty bully-boy gang-leader here. He can go and stand in the corner and face the wall on his own. His mother did not do a very good job of teaching him to play nicely.

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Love it 😀

I agree with all that Chris says and maybe their "leader" would like a nice holiday in the Guantanamo Bay resort.

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🤣🤣 as long as you don't want to exile the leader here!

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😂😂😂

:-)

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Yep, no way you commit a crime and get away with it. Too many fingerprints to compare with. Similarly if the granddaughter decides to become a gang matriarch, remind her you have the evidence!

Very funny Kenny.

No brushmarks or bristles but lots of finger prints Beth.

:-)

At least you didn’t have any brushmarks or bristles in the paint.

No worries at all, good luck with the comps!

Thanks a lot Niall, it nearly scared me off, I'll keep away.

Hi Rambo, these are likely Google ads, whilst the site is new, slightly more spammy ads are likely to be shown. Having said this I'm working with our Ads partners to put bidding floors in place to make it harder for rubbish ads to come through.

I would also like to read anything that came after the first two. The puppy tales have been enthralling so I'd be happy to receive anything else you have written/will write.

I’d love to read these. I did read the first two that were send out around a year ago and still have them on my computer.

If you don’t mind, Em, I have put them all into one folder on the computer, so I will send it over. Just a warning, though - there is another on there, called Tree of Life, which is also not suitable for some people, as it deals with suicide. There is a warning on the beginning of it, but I would hate to upset anyone who may have lost a family member or friend to such a fate. If you think it will affect you, please don’t read it. It was written after a prompt to write about strong emotion.

Afternoon all. Once I had read Beth's writings and PMP members stopped asking for copies, I deleted them from my work laptop I'm afraid. If anyone wants to read anything, Beth will need to email it to me again, which is not a problem for me.

I don't think I read Last Dawn but would like to please and any others you write Beth.

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BETH,

THAT SOUNDS LOVELY, THANK YOU.

I’M GLAD TO HEAR YOU’RE GETTING BACK INTO CREATIVE WRITING, ALTHOUGH, HAVING READ YOUR PUPPY TALES I DON’T THINK YOU EVER REALLY STOPPED. THEY’RE ALWAYS ENJOYABLE TO READ – EXHAUSTING 😁, BUT VERY ENJOYABLE.

I LOOK FORWARD TO READING YOUR STORY.

@Beth8it! - I remember that story, it was very good.

On 22nd December the sun rises and dawn breaks between 8:42am and 8:45am, depending on your exact location in Scotland. .. So Miller was actually hanged BEFORE dawn at 08.12am.

Good one Redz. I wonder if you would like the short story I did that Em sent out to various PMP members? It was set around the Legend of Glastonbury. Anyone who read it, do you think Redz would get on with it? I am currently getting back into the creative writing module now, and just done one complete and one partly finished, plus found one that I don't think I sent out last time. Did anyone read the one about the last prisoner executed at Barlinnie Prison, called Last Dawn? Bit of a sensitive subject, and not suitable for all, but it's there if anyone wants it. I can send it one to admin if there are any takers.

😄 to both

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DO YOU THINK THE REASON YESHUA APPEARED WAS SO THE MONK COULD ‘SPREAD’ THE WORD THAT ‘MAN CANNOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE’ ?

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🙂 before it all starts, I am not offended.

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If one postcode is entered more than once it is more likely to be selected (like names in a hat). If a certain postcode area (eg. BA1) appears to not win often that is because there aren't many entries for that area. If a postcode area seems to win more often it must mean that there are more entries from that postcode area. Each postcode area comes up on average in line with its population size and the number of active accounts registered with it. It may be that more populated areas come up more often, but the winners results show that the postcodes are different and not the "same city postcodes".

Where possible we ask members to use their current postcode. This is because some prizes and features on the site are only available to members using their correct address. This includes the golden postcodes referral competition and the survey integrations, but there are likely to be others in future. We strongly prefer that members use their own postcode.

The system completes the draws from a database of active account ID numbers using a random number generator and the parameters of the smallest ID number to the largest. It then displays the postcode on the chosen account number as the winner of the draw. All it ‘sees’ is the account numbers of active members, it is not influenced by any other data or outside factors and is as random as a computer can be.

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The lottery doesn't choose postcodes from a list; it draws individual member numbers.

Because big cities have huge populations, they naturally have a lot more members than a small village does.

Every single entry has the exact same chance of winning.

But because a big city has thousands of entries in the draw and a village only has a few dozen, you will see a city member win much more often.

You dont need to move there, thats a bit drastic, just change the postcode you have registered if you feel you will win "if it keeps coming up" me personally sees lots of random postcodes coming up.

Why Brighton ? It not like BN1-3 postcodes come up more than any others, and I am looking out for them.

Not that the actual postcodes are used to pick winners as pointed out by others members.

The draw is actually taken from the database of active member's account ID numbers

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/14-how-are-winning-postcode-selected

Oh don't move, just change your postcode if that's how you think this works 🤔🤔

I would have thought that parents and step-parents were much higher than 43% of suspects - probably in the 90% range. However, they may well be only 44% of those people found guilty. Luckily I was rarely tempted with my four stepchildren! Well, I say rarely, more like ‘not too often’ … or maybe ‘only now and again’ ….or in reality, ‘not more than once a day’…

@Barrie - it's the difference between real and perceived risk. The chances of a child being abducted and abused by a stranger is minute compared to the risk they face from family members, trusted friends and those in authority with legitimate access to the child. But that's an uncomfortable concept for parents and so we teach them 'stranger danger' rather than accept the fact that, when a child goes missing (or worse), it is almost certainly down to someone whom the child and the parents know and trust, or to the parents themselves.

To quote from the ONS website, courtesy of Google: " In England and Wales, parents or step-parents are the most common suspects in the homicides of children under 16, accounting for 43% of cases where a suspect was recorded. A further breakdown shows that for children under 12, roughly 44% of homicides are committed by family members."

No citation offered but many of the other victims were killed by other children, as in the tragic cases of Holly Newton and others.

Too many kids are molly-coddled nowadays. A lot of us lived through the time of the Moors murders & realise that mistreatment of youngsters happens but our parents let us live our lives.

@csikijanos - I did exactly the same with my children, and a whistle was a lot less 'intrusive' in a rural setting than having me shouting their names at the top of my voice. And a whistle (a metal one, not fingers in mouth) carried a lot further and so they had a 'freedom to roam' of anything up to a mile.

My view was that - apart from the small risk of an injury - they were a lot safer on the fells than they would be in a city, even though some people were horrified that I was so willing to allow them out of my sight. When I was a child, I had that freedom, and those were the days long before mobile phones and GPS tracking. Why would I deny my children the same freedom? "They'll come back when they're hungry."

My French penfriend and her mum has a ‘peewit’ call for each other if they got separated, which I think was quite a good idea, and different from the usual.

Years ago I agreed on a two-note whistled recall with my children. Some might say that it was demeaning to 'treat them like dogs' but it worked well when we were outdoors and allowed some freedom to roam.

A whole day without them going in the pond! Poppy did, but I wasn't responsible for her at the time. The boys went out in the stream in the woods on both walks, so maybe they decided that was enough.

Good idea!

I might buy a whistle to call my OH back, then again I’ll save my money 😁

It's very cathartic and calming. Gives you something else to focus on.

Hope you find the art group helpful Em

Hope it helps you Em, Big hug from me to you.

💞💞💞

Just keep busy and interact with others and let time take its course.Good to hear that you are doing things outside the home.

It’s good to see you making a start, Em.

Hope it helps and you enjoy it, Em

Take care of yourself Emma.

That sounds good, Em.

Do whatever you want, Em. Don't bother about routine. most of us don't anyway. See you in the afternoon.

I hope you remembered your rocket boots in case you feel the need to climb El Capitan while you are there.

I trust you know row, row, row your boat?

Sounds great so far, enjoy your trip Trekker.

I'm sure you will have a wonderful time across the pond. I'm also very jealous.

Have a great time with your friend.

Thanks Trekker22 - I have 2 Nephews (middle and youngest) and their families in San Antonio. Middle Nephew is a cop there now living in his late Mother's house (my Sister). His younger brother lives in the sort of house I can only dream about.

I don't know how long the Tartan Army have been using the 'No Scotland, No Party' slogan, but the Walker's Crisps campaign using the 'No Walkers, No Game' tagline isn't new, it first aired in 2024.

It's copied from the "Tartan Army's" slogan "No Scotland No Party" they were singing all around Boston and the Bostonians were putting clips on Facebook and Instagram etc...

Am I missing something here? I haven’t seen the advert but no idea what the catchphrase implies.

The crisps will be more successful than the team that's for sure.

Agree. Just trying to jump on the band waghon.

GrumpyGran. Some believe witches are driven by an evil spirit or substance inside them,. This couple are obviously evil people, and what did they used to do to those believed to be witches? They'd be bound and thrown into a body of water and if they float they were witches. Seems the perfect punishment for this couple's crime, (do as they did), rather than what seems to be completely getting away with it.

When I worked in Saudi it was not unusual for entire families to go on the Hajj pilgrimage and leave the elderly by the road rather than take them back to their home country. It’s a honour to die on Hajj apparently, so they routinely wandered about in the traffic. I never drove into Jeddah for the two weeks after Hajj finished

IIRC there was a legal limit to the fine that could be imposed on Animal Theft cases of £75 ? Something like that. Different subject, I know, being theft, not cruelty, but this is now being changed to accept that stealing a pet is no different, for the one who has lost them, than losing a family member - in fact, knowing that the pet is unable to speak for themselves, may have medical needs and may be hidden from sight and used for illegal and horrific purposes, it would scare me even more than losing one of my family. For example, my brother in Ireland has rescued lots of cats but can't let them out as they will probably be stolen as bait for dog-fights. He has had people knocking on the door, saying, 'We've got a fight on this weekend, can you sell us a cat.' God knows what will happen to them if anything should happen to him - I'm sure there are some lovely people in Ireland, but there seem to be many with an absolutely medieval attitude to animals.

Make what you will of the politics of Hungary's recent prime minister Viktor Orban, but there the law requires families to care for ageing parents. A different society.

OMG! Derek.IDC just looked up Earl Roger Currey and read the itv.x article.

His wife and son brought him here from America (suffering from dementia) to dump on the NHS. Unbelievable.

I totally agree about a "ban for life" penalty along with naming and shaming these dreadful people, but I've always wondered how effective it is? Do any authorities follow up and check out these people from time to time, especially if they move out of the area where they've been caught?

My cynical mind thinks probably not, with the usual excuse of "limited resources" :-(

All I can say is thank goodness I am able to look after myself to a reasonable degree even at my age.

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

USA IS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE THIS HAPPENS.

ANIMAL ABUSE/ABANDONMENT IS A DOCUMENTED GLOBAL ISSUE.

ELDERLY ABANDONMENT ALSO OCCURS WORLDWIDE, ESP. DURING HOLIDAY PERIODS AS BURNT-OUT FAMILIES CAN’T LOOK AFTER THEM.

FREQUENT SITES WHERE THE ELDERLY GET DUMPED ARE POPULATED AREAS/CHURCHES/BANKS & PUBLIC TRANSPORT STATIONS.

THE RISING COST OF LIVING DOESN’T HELP - MANY FAMILY MEMBERS FORCED INTO FULL-TIME WORK JUST TO SURVIVE, SO NO 1 TO PROVIDE THE ACCESSIBLE, 24-HOUR CARE THAT INFIRM RELATIVES NEED.

LOOK AT CHINA UNDER THE ONE-CHILD POLICY, MILLIONS OF BABY/INFANT GIRLS ABANDONED BECAUSE SYSTEMIC PRESSURES & CULTURAL PREFERENCES FORCED FAMILIES TO SAVE THEIR SINGLE PERMITTED BIRTH QUOTA FOR A BOY.

HUMANITY ROUTINELY ABANDONS ITS MOST VULNERABLE WHEN SEVERE ECONOMIC, STRUCTURAL & SOCIETAL PRESSURES PUSH PEOPLE'S BREAKING POINT.

SO NO - NOT ‘ONLY IN AMERICA’.

More likely people who think pets are a good idea until they need feeding or make a mess.

Anyone doing this should be banned for life from having pets.

"They sound like witches"

What does that mean?

Unfortunately not only in America. A couple who admittedly I don't know but the article says they live pretty near me were seen throwing a bin bag in the canal just down the road from me, telling a dog walker nearby it contained clothes. When a witness saw it moving they jumped in and saved it, finding it was a dog, which unfortunately was found to be hypothermic and developed neurological symptoms and had to be put to sleep. The RSPCA found seven kittens, 4 were hypothermic and a corn snake also in poor condition. The couple have been banned from keeping animals for 10 years, and received 8 weeks in prison suspended for 12 month. There was no other punishment mentioned in the story I read, so in fact they have completely got away with it. They sound like witches so maybe it should have been checked to see if they were.

Look up Earl Roger Curry, Nov 2015.

Let’s hope Trump’s family don’t send him here😳🤪

Hopefully only in America!

Good one.

Just wait till your body gets to the flush stage.

:-) :-)

😂

I took several packets & the dishwasher still doesn't work, ...my kitchen's so smelly even the flies are wearing gas masks. 🦟🦟🦟🦟

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We are also having an issue with an ad blocking the top navigation again on the competitions site which DMRi (the company running the site on our behalf) are looking into.

Always a few wrinkles to iron out.

There is one ad which we are working to get blocked. Please note, PMP Competitions, like our main Pick My Postcode site, is free due to the ads shown. We don't ask you to "verify" your account on PMP Competitions, so if you are seeing prompts for this, they are likely Google ads. Please ignore them, we are working with our ads partner to track them down and block them.

Ad above worked for me thanks, have already entered some competitions!

Thanks for letting us know. It should be working now, but you can also reach the comps site from the "more from us" bit of the navigation menu.

All sorted now 😁

Have emailed with screenshot.

Update : Ignore the email as it's sorted