Countdown to Christmas 2021 (thread 2): the end of winter can't come soon enough!

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We stayed up watching Sherlock and now I'm wide awake. I'm unimpressed! 😂

At least we finally made it to thread 2...I doubt we will do as many this year!

Is crazy ok? I just had my second dose hope I don't feel awful tonight

We were asked if we wanted to opt into paperless billing, so said yes. The allotment bill is paper though. That arrived on pay day last March, I think!

It was 13 March last year, so I bet it comes on Monday!

Hi folks I am off till Tuesday now. I dreamt last night that I set my house up as a Christmas wonderland ready for Easter. Woolly was helping there were many garlands, loads of tinsel and 50 Christmas trees 🌲

50 Christmas trees

Will the there be mulled wine and little cheesy biscuits why? If so give me 10 minutes to unpack my Tesco shopping and I'll be down 😂

Of course there will Woolly. All the Christmas trimmings here.

I've cleaned the kitchen etc this afternoon. After making brownies and yorkshires. No point doing it before as I'm a messy baker!

I made a pan of vegetable soup yesterday (in the Pressure Cooker that I debated for ages if I was going to buy ) , darned fine it was too

I have rwo magazines to read in bed while I eat the Mothers Day Breakfast that I'm sure someone will bring me .

Then I've co-erced my OffSpring into making dinner .using naice crockery and the Christmas glasses - which aren't Christmas patterned , I just bought them then.

Our Council Tax bill is just shy of £2,000 , I knew it would go up , they have to claw back the money .

Our CT will be about £1600 if it goes up 5%. No doubt it will!

Ours is £1750 for our two up two down house. We don't get much for our money round here either.

£1,620.03 next year. That's a 9% rise. Interesting!

No, it's 7%. Has anyone else gone up more than 5%?

I thought 5% was the legal maximum? It is here.

It is for the council bit, it's the police commissioner and such like adding extra we think. It was £1512 last year. So definitely gone up more than 5%! Robbing bastards.

Belated happy birthday puss

Where were you arguing with people yesterday Fluffy?

Was thinking about the sexual harassment stuff that's being highlighted at the mo as DH and I have been talking about it and I'm 🤢 thinking about the amount of examples I could give, and even more annoyed at how much I brushed off because it was just deemed as 'normal / par for the course' then.
I think DHs eyes have been opened to a lot of things though which is probably a good thing.

I'm kind of ok Wreck thank you. By yesterday lunchtime I had a temp & shivers so basically sent myself to bed and although I'm pretty much back to normal, today has been spent taking it easy. Even DH feels a bit off and he's never ill but if he moans about his arm one more time I'm going to offer to cut it off

I love the idea of Christmas for Easter why

We haven't received our CT Bill for the new house yet. Old house was £1450 ish last year but we got almost nothing in return for that - it was a private road so they did no maintenance or anything, just collected the bins each week. I'm expecting it to be higher here.

Pleased you're ok crazy!

I think CT needs an overhaul as people with £10m houses only pay around £1000 a year more than I do and I don't really think that's fair (as it's based on house price)

We don't have council tax or water charges but we do have rates bills which are similar. Think ours is about £1800. I think it's up 2% on last year.

I found our 2015/16 bill and it was £1204. So it's a 26% increase since then! Seems a bit steep.

We got our letter this week and ours has gone up 5% to £2020

Happy that you're feeling a little better Crazy

Belated happy birthday Puss

Thank you for the birthday wishes. DH remembered 😂
Marshmallow that's very high! I'd expect to live in a castle with a moat for that much.
The council tax bit is £1400.
The bit I really object to is Police which has increased 7% to £225 😤Fire Brigade much more reasonably priced and more essential at £80.

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Once I get the actual bill I'll see exactly what's gone on. I just looked at the figures online. We get charged for the city region that we didn't even know we were a part of due to there being no discernible benefit until it was used as a lockdown area description!

I'm meant to be allotmenting today but it's going to rain so I'm not sure it's a good idea!

I've never looked at the breakdown of my council tax bill but I will when I get this one.

I've been up for half an hour - have wrapped up the gifts for my mum for Mother's Day and had a cuppa. DH is still in bed so I'm going to peruse Love Crafts as I've had an email about a 'Mega Sale' then maybe cross stitch a bit before going to see dm.

For now we have blue skies and sun but forecast says it's going to go grey soon.

I'm trying to avoid the Love Crafts sale. It's hard! 🙈😂

Ours is:

County council: 2%
Police: 7.5%
District council: 3%
Adult social care: 3%
Parish council: 3.8%

Total 5%