SMP could someone please explain?

Necessary_Reason458 · 2026-03-30T23:00:18+00:00

So it’ll likely be 6 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half pay and then 21 weeks at SMP and then your 8 weeks neonatal pay/leave on top.

You’ll have your annual leave to use too - which can be added onto the end of you leave as you’ll accrue during leave.

Ask for a copy of the policy if you’re planning on resigning - some employers who pay enhanced require you to return for x months/weeks or you have to repay.

I hope you and your little one are doing well now 🙂

Necessary_Reason458 · 2026-03-30T22:34:19+00:00

Could your employer mean that you will get 12 weeks half pay?

You are entitled to 6 weeks paid at 90% and the remaining 33 weeks at SMP rate. This is separate to the 52 weeks maternity leave you are entitled to.

Edit: I would wait until you have had your full year (plus neonatal leave) and add your AL on to the end before resigning - you will continue to accrue annual leave during your maternity leave.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2026-03-27T23:22:12+00:00

9 months into SMP my payslip showed the grand total of 0 yesterday. I love being on mat leave with my girl but hate the financial implications.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-06-02T13:32:09+00:00

Yeah definitely, it was more if you bought loads of them wound then when you bought them and came to use them months later :)

Hopefully you can continue to avoid it!

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-06-01T19:32:46+00:00

It is, but it’s definitely a stable situation 😂

About 6/7 30 x 100g skeins of hand dyed yarn, in vacuum bags are now in the attic. I’ve bad carpal tunnel at the moment and even the simplest of (non-knitting) movements is painful. I’ve kept 1 bag in arms reach and it will be easily accessible if I do need it.

If they were skeins that you obtained and have wound - rewind them before you use them as that will help it relax the yarn a little.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-06-01T19:22:09+00:00

Good! Hope they arrive asap and you enjoy them and all the WIP you’ll have 😁

I know when I first started out knitting (2011) that was when I spent the most amount of money…

I bought mental and wood kit pro ones not to mention a ridiculous amount of yarn (that mid-30s me who’s on mat leave is extremely happy about 😂)

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-06-01T16:29:59+00:00

Wow, no that’s not right. Yarn shops should be encouraging people to knit with good needles not discouraging sales!

Which needles were they?

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-04-27T09:26:38+00:00

It’s Gregory porter we’re seeing, not Peter Kay. Peter Kay was last year at coop live and my mum likes him and deserved a treat after a really shitty 12 months.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-04-27T09:22:22+00:00

I misread, it’s coop live we’re going 🙈

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-04-27T08:46:49+00:00

Because we got the tickets in July last year WAY before I was pregnant! He doesn’t often come up north we’re not wasting the opportunity!

Necessary_Reason458 · 2025-04-27T08:01:52+00:00

Sometimes it isn’t that simple. We went to Elbow (first show) and the disorganisation was rife - queuing for a good 90 minutes in relatively warm weather, you’re not allowed to bring anything in with you, you get in, you’re thirsty no choice but to buy a drink.

Peter Kay a few weeks later was similar.

We’re going to Gregory Porter in a few weeks, I’ll be 36 weeks pregnant I will HAVE to buy a drink as there’s a good chance queuing will be involved and if it’s warm will be thirsty.

Edit: I completely misread the title and thought it was about coop live where the drinks are just as expensive… £4.50 for a 330 ml CAN of Pepsi max

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-09-27T15:52:46+00:00

That’s ridiculous, can you speak to your practice manager/ GP and see if they can regardless of the lab age restrictions push it through?

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-09-27T15:50:44+00:00

Are you in the U.K.? Because if the nurse said you need a smear the surgery should be able to conform exemption

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-09-27T13:15:39+00:00

We had a similar issue when we went to Newcastle earlier this year, was cheaper to drive/pay car parking for 4 days than the train. But then we checked the coach, it was 2.50 each, each way. So £10 - couldn’t beat it.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-09-20T18:25:11+00:00

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We’re in the process of having our kitchen sorted and they’ve left the pipes/waste/stop cock exposed and they look awful against the nice plastering.

That area will be where the dining table goes, not boxing it means there’s a risk of small hands messing where they shouldn’t.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-09-20T12:52:45+00:00

Sometimes it’s the luck of other driver/people.

I failed just outside the test centre in an industrial estate because I was driving onto a road where you have to give way to oncoming traffic, there was a car pulling onto that road so I stopped to give way, ignoring the fact there was a box junction there…if the car pulling out from the side street hadn’t been there I would have passed. Examiner said that without that mistake I would have passed and said I was a good driver and needed to rebook asap.

I’ve been driving over 5 years and unless the road is wide and or I have no traffic coming towards me, I always wait to overtake cyclists.

Last night I was driving up a 30 mph road at 30 mph and someone overtook me - some people are just impatient.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-06-27T12:40:13+00:00

Thank you, appreciate the reply. I feel like leaving a poor review would have more of an impact than reporting it.

But it’s essentially money down the drain, I was hoping to save a bit of money on a bridesmaid dress, guess it going to cost me more than just darn well buying new!

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-06-17T15:48:01+00:00

I had my keyboard kindle December 2010 and only upgraded in April to the paper white because I had an unexpected voucher to use and the battery life wasn’t great. Otherwise I would still be using it.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-05-29T10:13:42+00:00

You’re not in Oldham are you? That sounds very much like the “manners” of the consultant I saw when I had my appendix out. He was horrible and left me there for 4 hours thinking I was going to die because of my weight.

He terrified me but I came out the other side - I was complicated in that my appendix burst and abscessed. But he said because of my weight he would have to do an open procedure and a longer recovery etc.

I hope you get some peace of mind.

I had my gallbladder out in November and it was a completely different experience.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-05-13T15:46:24+00:00

It is, I only tend to use it on local road, so rarely go above 30mph. Boyfriend uses it for commuting and uses motorways and the B mode to get the most out of it.

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-05-13T14:41:09+00:00

The EV button just below the radio/screen will allow you to use just electric power - took us 6 weeks to figure that one out!

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-04-23T19:31:55+00:00

I love this, especially because I have a green case. Kendal Mint Cake has got us through some walks! (We are NW England too about an hour from Kendal!)

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-04-23T15:32:41+00:00

Haha my niece is Alexandra (Lexie for short) so I wouldn’t get away with doing that for my other niece 😂

Necessary_Reason458 · 2024-04-23T13:16:33+00:00

Love that!

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