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And in th meantime, older pensioners lost their free TV licences, most of them will lose the winter fuel payment, and now there is talk about the free bus pass as well.
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Battiola73
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Has the £10 Christmas bonus been stopped too? It’s been £10 since 1972 when £10 was equivalent to nearly a married couple’s weekly pension. I know because I used to collect my parents pensions and Mum used to use it for Christmas dinner and all the added treats. I use mine for a bottle of sherry or Baileys!
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Also talk of 25% council tax reduction for single occupiers being abolished, inheritance tax changes ( in their favour, obvs) and abolishing tax free lump sum pension. Isn't life grand ?!
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I remember a woman I know said that the £10 way back actually paid a week's rent for her mum and got Xmas dinner.
Here in N.I. they did a consultation over free bus passes, disabled also get half price bus fares here. You have to apply for the pass and get a doctor's signature on the forum. The free pass you get at 60 you can travel all over N.I., once you hit 65 you get to travel all over the Republic as well and can even use the Dublin city bus service free. Oh, and this includes free rail travel. We get to keep them.
Here in N.I. they did a consultation over free bus passes, disabled also get half price bus fares here. You have to apply for the pass and get a doctor's signature on the forum. The free pass you get at 60 you can travel all over N.I., once you hit 65 you get to travel all over the Republic as well and can even use the Dublin city bus service free. Oh, and this includes free rail travel. We get to keep them.
No the magnificent £10 Christmas bonus will be paid. It must cost more to process and pay it and we must all be sooo grateful for it.
Of course we must be extremely grateful and we are!!!
Can someone please tell her those Joe 90 glasses she wears aren't flattering.
I'm just looking at Morning Style and Katy looks better in the clothes than the models
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Huge glasses are a big thing with fifty-ish women. I'm not sure what kind of statement they're making by wearing them, but they're becoming more and more popular. I don't like them, especially in bright colours.Can someone please tell her those Joe 90 glasses she wears aren't flattering.
I'm just looking at Morning Style and Katy looks better in the clothes than the models
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I don't mind big glasses but they don't suit everyone and Melissa's look like joke shop ones IMO.
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Ve been wearing glasses for 70+ years so have got to know what suits me. Worse ones for me were when you could only get small frames, absolute nightmare for varifocals.
Have been asked on many occasions why I don’t wear contact lenses. My glasses feel part of me and I’d look odd without them. Also I just can’t bear the thought of putting them in and out everyday.
Have been asked on many occasions why I don’t wear contact lenses. My glasses feel part of me and I’d look odd without them. Also I just can’t bear the thought of putting them in and out everyday.
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Yes, they should have black bushy eyebrows attached and be supplied with a black clip-on moustache.
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I used to wear glasses, or contact lenses if I could be bothered with the palaver of putting them in.Love that! My glasses will never be part of me. Everyone I know says "oh! you wear glasses!" which probably means "Yikes". I honestly look a **** in glasses but I need them so hey ho
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But at the beginning of this year I had cataract surgery in both eyes and the results have been almost miraculous. I need readers for close-up but how marvellous it is to drive, go shopping & socialise without the double glazing.
I’ve also been prescribed hearing aids - I’m almost a new woman !
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My FIL has just had cataract surgery on both eyes.
He asked his wife what she had been doing to the grass in the garden to get it so green.
The answer, of course, was nothing. He just hadn't been seeing it clearly for a long time.
My sister who is 70 has worn glasses since she was 18 months old until she too had cataract surgery last year, no glasses now, she feels great loves it, I am constantly shocked when I see her.
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On the rare occasions, I do switch on (there is only so much make-up and clothes shows a heterosexual male can stand), all I ever see at night is that odd Franks woman. Oh and sometimes Popeye Arms Peters and his deeply unfortunate manner. Is Halliday still on there? The only presenter on there long-term I had any time for.
Well yes! Jilly is one of the more real presenters and one of my favourites.
At the moment I'm watching "look at me, look at me" Alison Cork who is wearing leopard print trousers over her super skinny figure and which are drawing unwanted attention to her crotch. Nuff said. Not what you need to wear to sell christmas trees.
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At the moment I'm watching "look at me, look at me" Alison Cork who is wearing leopard print trousers over her super skinny figure and which are drawing unwanted attention to her crotch. Nuff said. Not what you need to wear to sell christmas trees.
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