Category: General

I think this year is our best year for money wins on the National Lottery, with two three balls wins for 2x£30 wins.

Earlier in the week, the big gas oven decided to stop igniting up. Everything else on the oven was working and after searching around on the Internet, it appears that the thermostat had stopped working.

So today we went to Currys to hopefully purchase a new gas cooker.

We had the help of a great sales assistant and ended up buying a Montpelle gas cooker.

Whilst we were looking around, we noticed one gas cooker at a price of £9,999, we looked at it and the read the information and couldn’t understand why and asked the sales assistant and he went what and we showed him.  He said oh that shouldn’t be out as it’s a return and should be out the back and not on the shop floor.

Luckily we will not be at home for Christmas, because due to the gas fitting of the oven, it wasn’t going to be delivered until January 2^nd.

What a star and friend he is.

The last couple of days this blog had been updated behind the scenes but had a massive change on the website.

I tried some stuff which helped a little bit, but the website still looked awful.

I contacted Mark and within 48 hours the website is looking as if nothing had changed apart from the changes that I wanted.

Thank you Mark for rescuing me. What a FRIEND!!

Claire today picked up her new IPhone 16 from EE.

So after all these years, I upgraded my IPhone 8 to her 14 that she handed down.

The moving all the apps and details from one phone to another was so easy and was done in less than hour.

Crazy, not long back from our fantastic holiday and were ordering food for Christmas.

Already some of the options were not available, were only just into October.

The good thing, was the sizes and prices were virtually the same as last year, so M&S were helping people with doing that. Well done M&S

This morning I received an email from the Office for National Statistics regarding the older people in England and Wales.

Here are the main points.

“In 2023, the estimated population aged 90 years and over in England and Wales was 551,758; this was a slight increase of 0.2% from 2022, compared with a 2.1% increase in the previous year.

There were an estimated 14,850 centenarians in England and Wales in 2023; this is more than double the number of centenarians in 2002, but is a 0.5% decrease compared with 2022.

The large post-First World War birth cohort, aged 103 years in 2023, accounted for 9.7% of those aged 100 years and over; as this cohort ages and decreases in size, the effect on the size of the centenarian population continues to reduce.

There were just over twice as many females than males aged 90 years and over in 2023; this gap between males and females continues to reduce over time, from more than three times the number of females than males aged 90 years and over in 2002.

The sex ratio at the oldest ages continued to narrow in 2023, with 4.5 women to every man aged 100 years and over in England and Wales, compared with 4.6 in 2022.

In 2023, Wales had 26 people aged 100 years and over per 100,000 population; this was a higher proportion of centenarians than in England, which had 24 centenarians per 100,000 population.

These statistics are for England and Wales only.”

As always appear to be the case, women are still living longer than men.

The figure that caught my eye, was the 551,758, which against the whole population of England and Wales is very tiny.

So again make sure you enjoy your life.

Another 3 ball win on a ticket that covered us whilst we were on holiday, which a nice little surprise.

Will there be a bigger win?

This afternoon we attend the burial of Ziya dad.

Thankfully the weather stay dry as the whole service was done outside and most of it in a foreign language, which was unusual to say the least and first for me.

It was a lovely service and good to see how a different religion does a service.

RIP.