A great day on friday up at the London motor show at Excel - I took sprog1 and my dad up and had an excellent (if rather tiring!) day. Jake was pleased that apart from the Veyron (they had a couple but kept them locked up upstairs where you had to pay 100 quid to [...]
Off to London to visit HP and see what SAN shinys we can’t afford Also, plenty plenty of train time to play with the new wordpress iphone app - will it make me blog more? Will it just eat my battery at a scary rate? Time will tell (don’t hold your breath!)
just a quick update (as people keep asking me)
One of dads insurance companies has now paid out \o/. Still waiting to hear from the other.
In other news, he got a random phonecall from the pension credit people telling him they thought he was probably entitled to pension credit and did he want to apply. He [...]
Had the morning off today for an asthma clinic appointment which meant I missed the departmental fun day (the half-day-no-fun-fun-day). I turned up at work in time to get the departmental lunch….except hospitality had screwed up and not actually delivered enough food so I had a bag of chedders…
Back to the office where I find [...]
Hurrah! Dad has had a phonecall from the council - he is entitled to council tax credit. He will be able to get help towards the 130 quid a month council tax bill to the tune of 38 pence a week. Wow, that’s really going to be great help.
After he had finished swearing at them [...]
When dad got the letter from work saying that his sick pay had run out, mum rang “Job centre+” as you are meant to. They confirmed that incapacity benefit shouldn’t be a problem but would only pay 70ish quid a week and that they would need to top this up with income support or, given [...]
Good news: Dads critical illness insurance covers parkinsons as a payable illness
Less good news: It only pays out if you are under 60 years old….Dad turned 60 at the end of March so has potentially missed out by a few weeks :-/
Seems the prudential Norwich Union are being helpful and are actively trying to workout [...]
Spent a manic day in London up at Kings hospital today with my dad to collect the results of his DAT scan. It confirms the theory that he is suffering from Parkinsons.
Still, hopefully this is good news in many ways - at last he knows what the problem is and the consultant is now pescribing [...]
Today our generator turned up at work. This is pretty much the last component of a complete refurb that we have been doing of our main machine room (people who knew the old one will not recognise a thing now!). The genny was a tad larger than we thought!
I’m interested to see how quiet it [...]
-0.85 \o/ (or, for whinging gits^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HJibbler, -0.85)