Good morning everyone.

Its dry at the moment but cloudy and grey.

I'm thinking of wandering down to Age UK if it stays dry. 

Afternoon everyone. Another hot sunny day here, so been out cutting back the tall perennials that have finished blooming which half filled the big brown wheelie and then decided to prune one of  the apple tree that's gone into triffid mode 

I've one a prize from Travelodge. One night in any hotel anywhere in the uk up to the value of £100. It's a bit useless to me as I don't think I'd use it to be honest all on my own, I can leave Lily at home overnight but I'd have to take Dora with me. So I thought I might sell it for £50 to go towards my new porch as I need some extra money for that.  I have to book somewhere before this Friday for any date between now and end of September.  I don't suppose anyone will be interested and it will go to waste unused. 

 

starry wrote:

 
Quite by accident we discovered that a solicitor my mother and I used about 20 years ago was struck of about 10 years ago , Paul and I spent most of yesterday trying to find out what has happened to the paperwork the solicitor had of ours and why was I never informed about this neither was my mother. We tried everyone we could think of and have now been advised to see another solicitor to re do things like power of attorney and some other things my mother had done !  talk about fun and games! So we are doing that next week 
 

The same thing happened to me Starry. When my Gran died I was the only person she left everything to and I was also the Executor.  However, my mum and Gran both died around the same week, mum was in Cornwall with me and Gran was in Kent. I'd not seen my gran for about 6 months before her death as I was caring for my mum who had cancer, apart from when I was notified she was in hospital after suffering a really bad stoke, so I had to dash up there but she died the day after I arrived, although I did see her, she was in a sort of coma so I hoped she knew I was there. 

I had to go to her solicitor who she'd had for donkeys years since I was a child, if not before to let him know as he had a copy of her will, and it turns out my father's cousin, Mabel, had befriended my Gran during that 6 months I couldnt get up to see her and got another solicitor to change her will leaving everything to her (Mabel).  I told him I wanted to contest it but he said it was highly unlikely I'd win the case as my Gran was dead and I'd have to prove she was not of sound mind, so I didn't take it further. I went around to empty Gran's flat and it was empty and the warden came along and asked who I was, she was a new warden as the previous one and retired. I told her I was my Grans only granddaughter from Cornwall and she said no I wasn't as the granddaughter had been and emptied the flat and had been visiting my gran every day for the last 5 months. I told her that was not her granddaughter. So I went back to my Grans old solicitor and he made a few enquiries and the solicitor that had got my gran to sign a new will told him she was capable mentally of making decisions and there was nothing underhand going on. 

However, 4yrs later my Godmother came to Cornwall to see me and told me that 'new' solicitor had been struck off for several offences involving falsifying documents and things like getting old people to change their wills in favour of a different relative for assumed cash payment. But I didn't take it any further as the money would all have been spent by then and I was going through a very violent divorce from my ex psychopath husband. I should have though as my gran had about £250,000 in her big bank account as she called it and another £10,000 or more in the little bank account.  It still riles me to know that solicitor changed my life for the worse and fiddled me out of my inheritance but there was nothing I could do and circumstances in my private life at the time prevented me from being strong enough mentally to go after him. He's dead now. 

Well today is another really hot sunny one. I've got the AC on as it's so hot indoors. The repair man is coming today from the insurance to fit 2 new bulbs in my little chest freezer, the alarm and the power bulbs dont work. I dont think they ever did so rang Candy up to find out how much to get an engineer out as its something I couldnt do myself and they said about £180 with the call out fee. So instead of that I took out insurance with D&G for £4.50 a month, I've had the insurance now 3 months so put in a claim. So the repair has only cost me £13.50 the cost of 3 months insurance lol I'll cancel the policy in another month now. 

Then later this morning I have the surveyor coming from Sanctuary between 11.30 and 1pm to have a look where the porch is going. Well he's coming because I did ask permission for a conservatory but seeing as that would cost me thousands and thousands its now going to be a wooden porch. So I didn't cancel the appointment I'll just explain when he gets here. I'm hoping he'll give me the go ahead as the last guy that came out to estimate the cost from St Austell gave me a good price for a fully insulated porch with DG door and window.  I've also decided to put the money to it that the cowboy refunded me plus some of my savings, or get a loan for all of it over 3yrs and keep all the other money in my savings account. I'll probably go for the latter as my car is paid for in 6 months so I'll only have to watch pennies until then and it won't leave me really hard up before then. 

If I die within the term of the loan I won't care cos I'll be dead but hopefully I'll be able to enjoy the new porch for a good few years yet lol 
 

That's really bad news for you Starry.  Sounds expensive and a long job too

Good morning all. Likewise, its extremely hot here already, you can feel the sun burning you. I dashed round and fed the birds and checked their water bowls, then watered the containers as some of the flowers were looking a bit wilted, did the containers out front too and now sat indoors with the AC on to cool down. 

Heard on the radio that most of the internet is collapsing, the part thats dependant on Microsoft, banks, hospitals, airlines, councils, etc etc. I've often wondered why they always choose Microsoft over Apple because Apple is far superior and much more difficult to hack into.  Perhaps this will teach them a lesson and they'll diversify and look into Apple systems. They're probably too tight to pay the money if truth be known. But you get what you pay for as they say.

Finally got the email from Dora's insurance and they've paid out what I was hoping they would, by BACS but due to the internet outage it's not showing in my bank yet pffft. Typical. I want to move it out of my current account into a high interest account asap as it's going toward the new porch.

Enjoy your day everyone!