Another one for the grand kids to ponder over. Thanks Kenny b. :-)

I can't see that working. He'll probably have eaten the burger before he's finished rubbing it all over you.

I'm writing that down, it could be useful 🤪

Isn't it brilliant when we get such quick responses to PMP queries......unlike EE who just ignore a problem, or when they do, eventually, press a few buttons, the issue is ten times worse, and we now have to make a 40 mile round trip to the nearest EE shop! I'm already feeling sorry for the poor person behind the counter.

There, I do feel a tad better now!!

Oh okay, i just saw it. Thank you.

Hi Candy. Please double check your spam/junk folder, or your promotions tab if your inbox has one. Our emails sometimes get wrongly categorised.

I'm also happy to share a summary of the response my colleague sent you here if that's helpful. Is that OK?

Guess you were responding to Beth's post but started a new thread by mistake? FAQ explains ...

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/109-how-do-i-reply-to-a-comment

I'll try to get some pictures sent over now - finally finished my assignment today, so just the End of Year one (Big one!) to go next month, then there's a break until my final year starts in October.

Do you think you might end up keeping both of them Beth? They seem to have such fun together.

Puppies thinking "Stupid human. She'd lose that stick if we weren't here!"

That has given a much needed smile. 😊

They really do sound very happy.

How lucky you are to live in such beautiful surroundings. The pups are having a great life.

Happy B/Day for Sunday Beth. It's my Uncle's 91st. He doesn't want a gift, so we're taking him out for lunch. He has an appetite similar to Shyboy's!

Pretty sure I wasn't in the Bournemouth area in early November, and even more sure that I didn't buy a EuroMillions ticket.

My birthday! Did I buy a ticket then? No idea. Unlikely, but then, what would I do with all that money? I’d have to find something to spend it on. Can’t be bothered to look.

Thanks, Pickles. I've passed this onto my colleague who says it doesn't seem to be happening for everyone, but is monitoring it to see how it goes.

Thanks for flagging. I've passed this onto Tech.

It just goes back to this page.

You're right.

(Yes, I know you know you are. I just wanted to let you know I know you are too.)

@A Nick Name - No just umbrage

:-) :-)

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😂 I hope you didn't take offence.

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I shall probably just leave it - hopefully having three on there is enough, as most of it would fall to the one who lives with me here.

I would have thought you could remove him but probably a new POA will have to be done.😩

Maybe your family has strong views about where you should go, if you needed care, and it might not align with your views, so you don’t want them to cover that side, whereas you want them to cover your financial care. However, I can see that it would save a lot of hassle for those who do want the same people to do both.

One problem I am now facing - I named the three stepsons to act for me, with my brother as a substitute if needed. I said ‘any or all to decide’ not ‘all’ as otherwise they would have to confer and agree on every little point, but now eldest stepson has early onset dementia and unable to function, I can’t take him off the list.

Damsel, some people only want their attorney to deal with finance issues but not health issues or vice versa. For health and welfare issues an advanced decision is clearer than an LPA, but you can write an advanced decision and refer to it in the POA.

My husband and I did ours online without any difficulty. I don't know why you have to do two separate ones for finance and health, surely it would be easier to have everything in one document, but then there would only be one fee ...

I did both the Finance and the Health & Welfare ones on line - it was £82 each I think, but has gone up slightly now. Considerably less that the £760 that solicitors were charging! One tip - do it slowly - everything is saved, so you can go back and carry on again. You can also use the data from one to automatically complete the other - I think it offers the chance before starting the second. Be VERY careful who is eligible to hold what position - it’s not difficult but you can muck up the whole thing if you use someone as a substitute for example if they can’t be used, as it will get chucked back at you to be re-done. I helped neighbour do his, but unfortunately there was a b-up in officialdom, and they scanned a couple of page on the wrong side (it was admitted later) then they sent it back, saying he had not completed or signed them, with copies enclosed, which neither of us could understand as we had taken copies of everything and the sheets were there in our copies. After a lot of argy-bargy it took 3 years, then got done.

It’s fairly easy to do it online. There is plenty of help as you complete each page. Once it’s all done make sure you register it online and get a code to give to people so they can access it on line otherwise you have to keep copying it for people 😀

OH did it on line and it was the cheapest way.Hes done it for relatives as well.

If you need any more advice let me know.It took about three weeks.

Pray tell, did you use an expensive lawyer or did you go the DIY route?

I'm looking for how to do it, how much it costs and where to go to do it. Yeah, I know I sound like a right newby!

Cheers!

But would they want you? 🙂

I want to move to Duck Hole Bottom.

@Anon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Beth, a girl at school with me was called 'Winters' apparently her mother refused to marry a bloke called 'Winterbottom' so the name was changed. Her sister in law had no such pretentious & so the cousins were 'Winterbottoms' & I never remember them being bothered by it. You can be called a lot worse.

A village called ‘Knockin’ in Shropshire - guess what the shop is called😉.

Noel Edmonds’ place?

Six Mile Bottom is on the A11, & seen a large metal gate with "Crinkley Bottom" above it (IIRC.when I was driving round the A25)

Stayed at Sandy Balls holiday park when the kids were small.

Isn't Sandy Balls a holiday park that they used to advertise? I've never heard of the others you mention but some people come up with weird names.

I had to be very careful when talking about the puppies, saying they had been fully vaccinated, wormed and microwaved… ( instead of microchipped, in case you are wondering.)

@Beth, something as easy as that doesn't always occur to people so it's a useful tip

My SIL turned her nose up at the notion of buttering bread whilst it was frozen. Honestly, she can't get her head around it. My late BIL would only eat that airy-fairy Danish stuff which is impossible to butter if the butter isn't practically melted. I don't think he ever saw a slice of bread which didn't look pre-masticated!

I.M.O. God created microwaves, she must have! Also shoes, handbags & washing machines. She made men so they could observe multi-tasking- because there's nothing like an audience when you're up to your neck in it!

Honey can be revived in the microwave even when crystallised - great machines

I do that with my jars of chocolate spread & clear honey, it always sets solid when I am using it.

I must try that. I love marmite - in a sandwich with cheese, in hot water as a drink, in scrambled eggs, gravy, stews etc.

Hmmm - I think Jaffa is a hater.

I would have solved the problem much sooner by just chucking it in the bin where it belongs 🤣🤣

Nick - I have spices in the cupboard from when we got married-1976! Still smell OK so still being used - very occasionally, as you can see.

Spices?

🤣First line I thought you were serious. I thought you want shooting. I made my own spice rack 4' x1' to fit 32 brown glass jars, all identical and made labels so if anyone switched them I'd go mental. Still not enough as wife must have more than a dozen small pots elsewhere.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks both!

😂😂to both.

@Kenny b - Rosemary and Dill are furious with you.

Love it 😂

Nice one!

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😂

:-) :-)

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Sorry about this. The unscheduled work by our 3rd party server prevented the majority of emails going out on Monday.

We have suggestions so that members don’t have to rely on emails, listed in this FAQ article:

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I'll pass on the issue of having to log in to Tech. Edit: The log in issue should have been fixed now.

Have you tried clearing cookies too? Alternatively ... https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/87-im-having-trouble-loading-the-site

I'm having to login even when I click on the reminder email. Takes me to the homepage rather than logging me in

Anyone else having the same experience?

If you really have to have a reminder, just keep a previous one to use in case a server issue occurs again. However old, it will only bring you to the current draw.

If you do use a smartphone, or any other handheld device, you can create a shortcut on your home screen that will take you directly to the site through your browser app.

Excellent price on BB, hope it doesn't change when Virgin/O2 take it over. I looked at Brsk which I've just found are in with You fibre, couldn't help me at the time but got a call recently saying they're now in my area and quoted good prices but I'm now in a contract. I'm paying £8/month for mobile but get 100Gb and unlimited voice and SMS with ID mobile.

Can we establish, is this EE broadband or EE mobile?

I'm with You Fibre for BB (presently £25 for 900Mb/s fixed for a year) and GiffGaff for mobile. (£8 / month for 5GB of data with voice and SMS unlimited.)

At least you are out of contract and able to escape, Kat.

@Rosy 2 cakes - Virgin have their own seperate lines, they're nothing at all to do with BT lines. Someone's telling her porkies🐄💩. She can claim compensation for no service during part of the contract.

My friend is with Virgin, today is the 10th day without any service for broadband, WiFi, phone and her Internet TV. She finally got directed to a supervisor yesterday who said the situation is complicated by a network fault affecting hers and two other houses. They are waiting for Openreach to resolve and he's no idea when that will be sorted!! Until that's resolved there is nothing they can do, but she can check the status of the fault online !!! To which she replied of course I would if I had Internet !!

Good luck with that, Kat.

I live in an area (The Norfolk Fens), where the only provider that gives a good reception.

I was with Plusnet originally, who moved me then to EE. I got brassed off with EE putting their prices up, most of the time higher than inflation, for nothing extra in the service. You do not need me to tell you that EE is owned by BT, who I hate with a passion. A large conglomerate, with no care for anything other than profit, profit, profit.

I went onto Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert website, and found a company called Spusu. Half the price of EE, and they use the EE network.

To date, touch wood, I have had not the slightest issue in using them.

They run a 30-day rolling contract, and have no hesitation with recommending them, if you wanted to give them a go.

Mine too 👍 Many thanks.

Yep all working today

The log in issue should have been fixed now.

Thanks Marie.

I'll pass this on to Tech. Thank you.

Edit: They're looking into it now.

... and again this morning. Can't understand why this has suddenly started happening - have not had to log in for years!

Ditto as above

Same as YogiK.

I always sign out when leaving the site and I always use the email link which logs me in automatically - apart from this evening! The usual page flashed up briefly and then the page requiring the manual sign in.

Just posted about this above.

I've cleared the cache it makes no difference?

It is cookies which enables people to remain signed in to websites between visits, so this is to do with the cookie settings in your browser. For example, if a browser is set to clear cookies upon closure, that would log you out.

Please check your browser's cookie settings. It might be that a cookie has expired and that clearing your cache and forcing your browser to store the most recent cookies and the most up-to-date version of our site might stop you being logged out between visits.

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I managed to fall flat again yesterday morning in the woods - turning round to check on the termites and tripped over a tree root. Hey-ho, no damage done, just a sore hand. It still took me five minutes to get up, with Indi’s nose in my ear, seeing if I was OK, and two very excited termites raiding my now-accessible pockets, taking shortcuts over my head and stomach while I vainly mutter, ‘Gerroff..pphhhff.. getyerpawoutmymouth,youmonster…’

Of course @PA, I hadn't thought of that 😁

@samandi - we'll have to go back to reading about all the mischief Beth8it! gets up to... 😂

Your stories help cheer me up Beth it will be a shame when they are all grown up.😆

Love the stories. What will we read about when they are all trained and there is no mischief to report?

Barbara Woodhouse was a favourite in my house. 😁

I'm not joking though Beth, being a bit (?) different is a good thing. I've revelled in! it! I can envision you as a teacher of doggy etiquette. I imagine them sitting & you dinning it in. 'Puppies, you are the absolute upper echelon of your species!! Now, pay attention! Get to it! Chop,chop!

Maybe like attracts like, Beth 😂(only joking, of course!)

The name Barbara Woodhouse just popped into my mind!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Woodhouse

Because you write so well I never needed to see photos from the start (have had a litter of labs in the past)... So it went on, and I was thinking that I should have signed up for the pup photos... But I'm glad I didn't now. Your writing about your pups and Indi are all I need to envisage it all 🙂...That is creative writing at its best...I've always been one who likes to read the book before seeing the film.. And if you fail on that one, you've definitely got a 2nd late career as a dog trainer!!

Thanx folks.

@PacMan - Yes i saw him but I had to take my glases off so he could look deep into my eyes. Because my pupils had been dilated my vision wass unclear though.

Sadly there will be appointments at the GP's though.

Always a bit concerning when an ophthalmologist says he can't see you.

That’s good news,Barrie. 🤓

Great news Barrie

Good, you can relax for the summer now.

More importantly Barrie. Did you see him ?

👀

Glad to hear the good news Barrie

Great news Barrie.

Barrie .... Nice to hear some good news, I'm pleased for you.

That's good news, Barrie.

Good to hear Barrie.

That's really good - eyesight is such a blessing

Great. A summer of freedom from appointments Barrie. :-)

Keep going Barrie..

Glad to hear you’re doing ok Barrie.

Barrie, that's good news 👍

Samandi. If you're not logging in until midday you could lose out on the 9 am Stackpot.

If you wait for an email reminder your neighbour may have already beaten you to the prize.

I’m wondering how people manage to check all 9 draws as there’s only one reminder.

I usually log in when I stop for lunch and then again before bed. Works for me but won't for everyone of course.

If you use the reminder email to access the site keep the last one received till you get the next. That way you can always log in and it doesn't matter how old the email is it will always open the current draws.

Sorry about this. The unscheduled work by our 3rd party server prevented the majority of emails going out yesterday. There's a belated send going out at the moment to those who missed out.

I don't use the reminder, I just check in at 9am and then again throughout the day. Good luck though on future draws.

The emails don't work like that. They just contain a simple link to our site. It doesn't matter which email reminder that you use, it will always take you to the site as of the date you are clicking on it. You could use one from a year ago and it would take you to our site today.

As mentioned above. It doesn't matter which reminder you use as they always take you to the current draws.

After not receiving an email at all yesterday, I checked manually. but today I received one email titled 'Monday belated draw' and then a couple of hours later received a second email titled 'Tuesday Draw Alert' but the postcodes on both are identical ??

All email users - read my comment on next post above.

I never receive my email until late evening. I've never won anything, so it's sort of no big deal.

Sorry about this. The unscheduled work by our 3rd party server prevented the majority of emails going out yesterday. There's a belated send going out at the moment to those who missed out.

@JennieS you appear to be incorrect. 🤣

It’s Monday and I haven’t had my email from you today

But it could prevent the many 'I haven't had my email reminder' posts that would inevitably arrive.

I think if people have made it to the comments page and read the message they probably don't need the reminder...

😂

Made me smile.

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:-)

Ha ha 🤣🤣

On our overland (apart from the Adriatic ferry) trip to Albania years ago, I was the driver of our old van, towing a small wobbly trailer, for too long at a stretch. Having taken over the wheel near Arras in northern France and crossed the Alps at night I was still driving on the autostrada by Turin. The auditory hallucination that I then experienced was my prompt to insist that someone else drove for a while.

Well done Trekker22 i applaud you 👏, i love these films, but dont think i could manage watching them one after the other. Gosh you did have a very long day, hope you have recovered 🖖 😄

That is madness! Wish I could have gone with you.

That is dedication.

Wouldn't do that if you paid me !! but each to his own 🤣

Hi all.. Perhaps I should’ve stated that I actually went to London at just after 10am on Saturday, (I was up @8am courtesy of our dog wanting his morning noms…😋!) and took in a couple of exhibitions at the Science Museum (Star Trek @ 60 - couldn’t NOT do it, could I…😉!), so by the time I got home I’d actually been up for just over 27hrs - no wonder I was hallucinating…😳!

LLAPZZZZZ🖖😴!

I think the farthest I've got, whilst trying to watch, is about 15 mins. No matter what time of day, I always fall asleep so, I've not seen any of them 🫤

Well done on your feat of endurance, Trekker!

I too used to work in London SW1, out the house at 6.45am, town hall by 7am, 25 bus to Victoria by about 8.45am. On way back on the 25 bus I was dozing by the time we reached High Holborn, & after Aldgate it was a straight road to Ilford, so I woke as we went round the corner by Ilford staion where it terminates, & caught another bus home by about 6.45pm.

I had an annual bus pass, so could hop on any London Transport bus any time, have some fun at weekends & vary my route.

Happy you survived Trekker.

Many years ago I had to regularly go to work in Central London. On the train going homeward I fell asleep quite often finding myself at a station miles from home. My wife used to laugh when I got home told her it was a lovely evening in some place or another while I waited for the next train back.

Glad you enjoyed it Trekker22, it's not my sort of film so I would definitely have fallen asleep!

Yeah!

I am not depressed so it made me smile.

I think the security team were asleep on the job, letting the guy in, and having shot him they they evacuated the wrong VIP first (or not) then tripped over each other trying to put things right and Trump fell over. But maybe I’m wrong. 🐷🪽🪽

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BETH,

I KNOW HE HAS TO HAVE HIS SECURITY DETAIL SURROUNDING HIM - COVERING ALL ANGLES WHICH CAN MAKE EXTRACTION TIGHT & IT MAKES SENSE THEY’D WANT HIM LOW OUT OF ANY FIRING LINE.

AS I SAID PREVIOUSLY MELANIA WAS ALREADY ON THE FLOOR EXITING THE SAME PATHWAY.

DO YOU THINK IT LOOKED ‘STAGED’ LIKE IN BUTLER, PA?

🍿🍿 - 🎥

I heard on BBC News when it was first reported that Trump appeared to trip and fall, which is certainjly what it looked like, but according to him the security men all leapt on him and put him down while they protected him. I wonder which was correct?🤔

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BETH,

SHE’S THE SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR CBS NEWS & SHE IS CURRENTLY THE PRESIDENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION - WEIJIA JIANG.

SHE’S REPORTED ON MANY SHOOTINGS & MURDERS LIKE THE ‘SANDY HOOK’ SHOOTING & ‘BOSTON MARATHON’ BOMBINGS - NOT FORGETTING HER INTERESTING EXCHANGE WITH THE ‘CHARACTER’ TRUMP DURING COVID.

HER PLACEMENT NEXT TO THE ‘CHARACTER’ TRUMP WHILE THE ‘MENTALIST’ PERFORMED HIS TRICKS IS WORTH NOTING - MANY FIGURES ARE OFTEN PUT FRONT/CENTRE TO DRAW OUR ATTENTION BACK TO SPECIFIC PAST NARRATIVES.

I’M SURPRISED THIS ONE SLIPPED PAST YOU - ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU USUALLY HAVE SUCH A CLOSE EYE ON THE ‘CHARACTER’ TRUMP & WHAT HE’S CURRENTLY UP TO 😉

@ Beth, that was White House Correspondents' Association president Weijia Jiang. She was the one behind when Trump tripped and fell. Not the first time, his coordination is getting worse. 🤞

Who was the pathetic female then, totally ignored by security, in the tight silver dress, who seemed to be trailing behind Trump’s group? If she had any delusions of grandeur, she would have been well and truly deflated by her obvious expendability!

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

MELANIA WAS WEARING A BLACK PANTSUIT?

SHE DUCKED DOWN UNDER THE TABLE WHEN SHE HEARD THE SHOTS & CROUCHED AWAY.

WHEN THE ‘CHARACTER’ TRUMP WAS EVACUATED HE STUMBLED OVER MELANIA WHO WAS USING THE SAME PATHWAY.

I DID ENJOY HIS SUBSEQUENT TWEET WHERE HE SAID - 'THE SHOW MUST GO ON' -

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I agree with Grumpy Gran.

Normally, the safety of the President takes priority over everything else - he has the nuclear codes, he's head of the military and so on.

But it's pretty obvious this this particular president is close to the point (if not already there) of being physically / mentally incompetent. So the Secret Services' orders have probably changed to 'Protect the Vice-President!' I've suspected for a while that Vance has already taken over some behind-the-scenes presidential duties that Trump can no longer perform.

I did find it strange that the Vice-President was taken off stage before the President. Surely Trump would always be the priority in situations like this?

Well he'd better take his own water, ... "After decades of warnings, a five year drought & political mis-management the city of Corpus Christi, (the 8th largest in Texas which is home to 500,000 people & various major gulf industries) will be the first to run out of water in 2026".

Pretty much my answers to similar surveys, except I have never been able to force myself to vote Reform, or any other establishment liberal party supporting the current failed system.

The only surveys created by us at PMP are the ones which reveal the winning postcode of the Survey Draw – https://pickmypostcode.com/survey-draw/. Anything outside of this is a survey made by another company. You will notice the different URLs indicating an external survey.

Sometimes you’ll be screened out of a survey because you do not meet the demographic requirements. These could be anything such as age range, gender, location, employment status, where you shop etc. Or it could be that the bracket that you fit in to has had enough responses. The external surveys like to have an even amount of answers from each and each bracket type does not get completed at the same rate.

As the external surveys are advertised across many sites, there could be many people completing the surveys at once and it is possible that your bracket could reach its quota while you are in the middle or even at the end of the survey.

That is just the nature of market research. It just means that you didn’t fit the demographics it was looking for, or that your demographic had already been filled. The answers from non-completed surveys are not used, though of course it is up to you if you want to give them a go or not.

Our FAQs explain more about external surveys, including how we can help if you have reached 80% completion or beyond:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/89-surveys

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/category/102-surveys

I have added a 10p screen out bonus for you now as you say you didn't receive any reward for this.

It's good to see the discussion on here maintaining its progressive liberal reputation.

The only surveys from PMP are those that reveal the Survey Draw postcode. All others are external ones. I think the one you're referring to is the £2 Opinium political one, which appears on a regular basis, not only on here but also on many other insight platforms. They feature frequently to assess the changing opinions of the population. It's likely that you were screened out because either you didn't fit the demographic or it was already filled. All data is anonymised.

There is no obligation to complete them, they have no impact on the draws.