Welcome from me too Slacker - and Emmz 

Judging by its colour, I'd say it was worth a bob or two.

If they've simply thrown it away, I'd say they'd dropped a clanger!! 

Have you seen the latest posts on the portal page - riveting! 

"Will the father be present at the birth" asked the obstetrician?

"No" replied the mother-to-be "him and my husband don't get along!"

Not sure if this is the right section for this post - but here goes:

My Mother went into permanent residential care in December 2010 and she had to sell her bungalow in order to pay the care home fees (she is fully self funding).

I don't have a particular problem with that, but what has got my goat is this, because she is in receipt of pension credit and is in residential care she doesn't qualify for the winter fuel allowance.

I'm unhappy about this in two respects:

1. Although she doesn't pay anything directly to the energy companies she does indirectly via her care home fees. Any increase in heating costs etc paid by the care home is taken into account when the annual fee reviews take place.

2. How come someone with limited income/savings isn't eligible, when it's bandied in the news that several 'OAP' celebrities (eg Joanna Lumley/June Whitfield et al) are donating their winter fuel allowances to charity? 

I didn't even know he was il.

He was - but now he's Kim Jong Ded! 

Thanks - it's nice to be here