Was surprised at how pleasant the National Express journey to Heathrow was this morning. Clean coach, comfortable seats, happy and helpful driver. Arrived about 10 mins late but that was due to traffic jams. Was good value too.

I had mentally ear-marked a good 30 mins extra to untangle them, so that was a bonus amount of time I got back for myself.

Was given a ticket when I had definitely paid. Looked online at the images and details and they had got the number plate wrong. Emailed council and the next day received a letter of apology 👍🏻

I’ve just bought train tickets for myself, my daughter and my two granddaughters to London on a weekday in January. Return tickets, including reserved seating, from Crewe to London Euston, cost just £100 TOTAL. I was amazed.

Final install cost was £2,440 after the grant, which given the boiler was totally knackered and not likely to limp through winter seems a pretty good deal.

I go swimming in a public pool twice a week, and have taken the time to learn the names of the lifeguards. I always have a chat with them on the way in and out. They now know that I go on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and if there is a closure due to staff shortages or anything else they will ring me personally to let me know. They have also let me use the pool on my own after it’s technically closed as I haven’t completed my usual number of lengths. For a little bit of humanity, I have reaped a number of rewards. And we have a right laugh . Be nice to people is my motto.

I like to enter a lift with about five or six people in it, stand facing up hem and say “ I expect you’re all wondering why I called you here today” Reactions are priceless! For context I am a 66-year-old man.

Haven’t had these for a good 30 years, and randomly found them while shopping for christmas lights.

My local Waitrose trolleys were rusty, had wonky wheels and lots of dodgy £1 coin slot chain things and had been for quite some time.

After losing £1 twice in a space of a week when they fell out, I complained to Waitrose, within 2 weeks that had replaced all the dodgy £1 coin slot chain things and removed rusty trolleys and (hopefully) wonky wheels.

Admittedly I don't know whether my complaint did the job or whether this was already work in progress but I'd like to think for the former.

Didn’t pay for the premium service. That as a standard service is just unreal. Kept informed the whole process by email and text. Absolutely amazing 🇬🇧

Found a woman having a severe seizure (4+ minutes) on the pavement, non-responsive, no one else around (except one old person ahead of me who just walked passed her and didn't help). Made sure her head was tilted down as she sounded like she was going to vomit.

Called an ambulance, got told it would take 6+ hours until she came around and passed out a second time so the emergency response bumped us up to a priority, 90 minutes wait time.

Ambulance never showed up after an hour and a half of waiting but she was coming round while we waited. Got a follow up call from a nurse who asked us a bunch of questions and advised us to arrange someone to drive her to hospital. She managed to call a friend who took her to hospital.

Anyway, I was proud of myself for being able to help and just wanted to share.

EDIT: she was about 20 meters away from getting home as well so it's kind of lucky this happened on a public road otherwise she could have easily choked to death without anyone knowing. What a crazy scenario.

Reported an issue with a pot hole / raised iron works on the Norfolk County Council website fully expecting it to take weeks to sort.

Fixed early next morning. No road closures, no weeks of cones just a chap in a lorry with a bit of stuff to fill the hole! Incredible! Won’t see that in the local paper!

I was on a crowded train yesterday, standing room only. I was thankfully sitting, the person sitting opposite me had a big bag on the seat next to him. People were giving him the evil eye and tutting but being British didn't actually say anything. Then the ticket inspector comes along. Asks this guy for his ticket which he produces. The ticket inspector then asks for "the other ticket" the guy says what other ticket. The inspector says "for your bag on that seat" the guy said he didn't have a ticket for his bag. The ticket inspector then replied "well, get it off the seat then!" We need more people like this!

Going through a remortgage and the initial decision for a little extra borrowing was no, because a DD returned unpaid.

Contested the decision and gave proof as to why it was not our fault and got the accept decision and mortgage offer this morning 🥳

I hated my teeth for so long. Got called gappy and made fun of as a kid. Finally worked up the courage to go after trying to maintain better dental hygiene for the past couple of years.

I can't believe all the crap is gone. I felt so scared going into this and well. I have about £1800 of work that needs to be done but that does not feel impossible to work towards.

So I passed my driving test in February this year. Only ever practiced emergency stops then.

Tonight on the way home from uni (and an obligatory trip to the Chippy (uni is hard guys)), I was coming down the road and saw not 1 but 3 dogs run across the road from behind a car. Saw a woman talk to someone (assuming it was the other dog being told to stop where it was), so I proceeded incredibly slowly.

The dog only decided it would run out from behind a car (incredibly hard to see a black dog when it’s getting dark btw). Queue my emergency stop. I stalled of course because I was in second gear at the time, but the dog that ran out didn’t die!?

I’m taking this as a total success! The woman who almost got her dog killed didn’t even react which was strange.

There are therefore two morals to this short story…

1. Keep your dogs on a lead near roads. This entire situation would have been avoided if that happened.

2. Take your driving lessons seriously! You never know when you might need to actually use the safety measures you’re taught.

Thank you for reading friends, I just wanted to share this small success with you all 🫡

From nothing to 2 times their hourly rate for boxing day and NYE.

I am clearly good at this negotiating lark. Anyone else need me to get them extra cash?

Carl Sagan - The Planets (1977)

David Attenborough - The Language of Animals (1973)

Richard Dawkins - Probability and Perfection (1991)

Was late to driving starting at 30 and this feels like a milestone moment!

That never happens

Delivered yesterday evening, OH took delivery and unpacked so didn't realise until I came to help put it away. I am an honest soul and called the customer line, after being kept on hold for 15 mins I was told the store would call me back to arrange collection, heard nothing so now assuming it's all mine 😁 Over £50 of meats, veg and fruit. This week we shall eat like kings!

Condenser tumble dryer had been making an intermittent low pitch whirring noise when the water pump was activated and had been like that on and off for months. It was getting progressively worse but had been too busy and dreaded the ball ache of calling out some slack jawed repair guy to bill me an eye watering fee, to then suck his teeth and spend another 10 days ordering the parts and me chasing up another appointment to get it fitted, time off work..etc

The family motto should be, ‘How hard can it be….or what could possibly go wrong!’

I got the part number, found it on Amazon. Next day delivery. Best £14 ever spent! Watched a quick YT clip on how to remove the cover and the rest was easy enough to figure out. Job done. Silent, functional tumble dryer. Happy wife. Happy life. 👍

We’re having some ‘weather’ in the UK at the moment. I’m in the South East of England, so getting mainly wind (snow didn’t materialise in my area). I live on quite an open hill where the wind will whip up bins etc at the best of times. My bins are tethered and all my fall-y over bits have been moved to safety or secured.

I feel sorry for the neighbour whose gas BBQ cover has flown off again and for those whose bins are at the bottom of the hill - please gather and secure your stuff as best you can, it’s much easier than attempting to retrieve it later!

I had an issue with urticaria (hives) showing up with no rhyme or reason. Have had this before but not for a number of years.

Told the pharmacy tech about the list of OTC antihistamines I've tried this time around, they suggested one and also a trip to the GP if that one's ineffective. All and all in and out in 5 minutes, and best of all, the new meds are effective!

I originally thought it was from my neighbours house so it was quite the surprise to hear the frantic beeping as they got closer to my meter. There was no apparent danger as it was only a 300ppm leak and it can't ignite until it hits 5000ppm. Maybe 4 months back Cadent had replaced all the gas mains in the area and moved my meter outside for me for free, it seems that they'd made a small error when crimping it leading to the leak and that very day I smelt gas and reported it but nothing was found.

And my new waterproof snow boots that I ordered yesterday just arrived with the courier who was out battling the weather like an absolute trooper. Best bit? I didn't even pay the extra for next day delivery.

British and live in New Jersey. Miss lots of British stuff. We do have Cadbury here, but they messed with the recipe and it's nowhere near as good. Anyhow, neice and boyfriend arrive for a visit and brought me 2 big bars of dairy milk. Huge win. (They did not have room for shreddies, but that is a story for r/britishFailure).

Oh, and they also got engaged in NYC, but let's focus on the important stuff - the dairy bars....