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    • The important thing to know is that MET - although they will send you threat after threat about how they will divert a drone from Ukraine and make it fall on your home - hardly ever do court. Even in the very small number of cases where they send court papers, if the Cagger defends, they drop the matter before the hearing.  They have no real intention of putting their rubbish claim before a judge.  The aim is to find motorists who are terrified of the idea of going to court and who will give in when the court papers arrive. Thanks for doing the sticky and well done on finding F18's thread.  Do what they did.  On the first page - I think post 19 - there is the address of the CEO of BP.  Write to them, lay it on thick about being genuine customers in the various premises, mention the small kids, the very short stay time, attach any proof of purchase - and request that they get the invoice cancelled.
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went into town this morning to look at something. I was told that if I bought this, I could get a £100 voucher to spend in their shop. One of the assistants said "you could buy £100 worth of jelly beans." I will pass on that, I think!

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I can finally eat "battered chippy fish"!!!!!!!!

 

I'm allergic to gluten and wheat, so have not have a delicious piece of battered fish for god knows how long - anyway, we found gluten free flour, and I've done loads of experimenting - last night we had battered fish and chips............OMG!!! It was even tastier than the regular, and cost a fraction of the price than if it was from the chippy...AND it's healthier!

 

My Husbands gone gluten free too now, he did it to support me originally, but said he'd never go back to gluten based products, even he is feeling the benefits!

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My Dad. Went in to see him in his nursing home, was dead chuffed because he ate his supper and managed quite a bit of water. When he was ready for bed, I helped him take his shoes off, only to have him stare at me in a baleful manner and say "You're not very good at this, are you? you'll probably get sacked...not to worry though, you'd probably manage alright behind a Bar". cheers Dad. :-)

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Back home after another lovely sunday roast at my mum and dads. Had a surprise as my sister was there with her 3 week old baby girl! What a little bundle of joy she is,,, that made me smile,, and she didnt cry when I was given her to hold. Still no rush to have one.. enjoying the single life too much!!

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My friend has decided to get two kittens when they're old enough to leave their mother in about 6wks time - so I was at her house this evening, and she held up pictures of two of them, and asks......"Boys or girls, or one of each"!!! I absolutely fell about laughing :lol:

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Hi Lexis I hope that nasty trickster woman gets her jugs cought in a revolving door somewhere during her ****** life and that you can hear her SKREEEEEEEECH from your living room ha ha

BB I got a couple of good things happen I'll let you know soon then we can chat about our fortunes or erm lack of lol

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Hi Lexis I hope that nasty trickster woman gets her jugs cought in a revolving door somewhere during her ****** life and that you can hear her SKREEEEEEEECH from your living room ha ha

BB I got a couple of good things happen I'll let you know soon then we can chat about our fortunes or erm lack of lol

 

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O/H getting a big fat PPI rebate from a missold loan PPI. :D

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O/H getting a big fat PPI rebate from a missold loan PPI. :D

 

That made me smile NO. Reckon you both deserve a treat out of that. :-D

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Again, my Dad. Don't know if his new medication is starting to kick in, but he was on brilliant form tonight...laughing and happy, eating and drinking. Can't really ask for more right now.

 

I can't say enough good things about the care home staff - they have some very challenging patients in at the minute (and they're not supposed to), but they still took the time to chat to me about how Dad is doing and clearly spend a lot of time with him. I know they're on a very low wage, but the job they're doing is brilliant. There's one young girl there who deserves a medal, in fact. Given how poor his care has been up until now, I'm not sure that there's a box of chocolates of a size that's sufficient to express my gratitude.

 

I can go to bed tonight tired, but happy. :-)

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That made me smile NO. Reckon you both deserve a treat out of that. :-D

 

Cheers Caro. Shant see any of it cause it will go straight into the account to pay off some of the debt balance, but still a good result never the less.

Keep up the fight against Bank Charges.

 

 

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seeing my younger son leave for college this morning dressing in a pair of converse baseball boots silvergrey basket ball shorts and silivergrey t-shirt.....and on top of that MY BIG white towling dressing gown and BIG maaaaaaaaaaaahusive boxing gloves.....last day of term so they were all allowed to go to college in sporting attire...he rightly said ...ok dad here's what I want to do ....seeing that everyone else is going IN in footy attire I want to be different....how different is this ha ha ha and i thought I had some neck when I was his age lol ....he's going to blow them away ha ha............I have NO idea where he gets he quirkiness from lol

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VJ82 Won his court case he was the defendant today in the high courts of justice against (TWITTER: scrooby tweets)mr chris mcgrath of milton keynes. If you look at both twitter id's scrooby tweets and mr chris mcgrath with links to mcg legal and the rants on there, you will see it must have been an stressful time for VJ.

 

I bet VJ and family will sleep well tonight well deservedly.

 

It was mr chris mcgrath against VJ and others.......

 

VJ had a lot of supporters :whoo:

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This silly link sent to me:

 

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This also made me smile today, just keep watching in the water to see what happens next:

 

http://elcomercio.pe/player/1384898

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This also made me smile today, just keep watching in the water to see what happens next:

 

http://elcomercio.pe/player/1384898

 

Deary me, lack of sleep is making me over-emotional - that made me tear up a bit. :oops:

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