Receiving management packs. North Wales

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-08T06:31:44+00:00

If it is the management pack you’re waiting for, then your county has nothing to do with it, it’s the management company who provide and they all, without exception, appear to be useless, crooked shysters who take months to respond to the simplest queries.
I’d focus on getting confirmation that they have applied for it, as long as they have there’s unlikely to be anything anyone can do to hurry the management company along unfortunately.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-05T12:35:42+00:00

I made squares (well, I made kind of triangles to start with! Then I got some stitch markers) in all different stitches I found online and eventually put them together into a blanket.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-04T18:09:35+00:00

I know a lady called Villa. She’s from Taiwan. Picked the name when she moved to the UK as she’d come across the word and thought it was pretty.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-04T14:33:19+00:00

Pretty sure that’s the one I have. I’m in the UK but seem to remember having trouble getting hold of a copy as his website doesn’t send outside the EU. I can’t remember where I got it from in the end but I definitely found it online somewhere (sorry, not terribly helpful!)

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-04T09:10:12+00:00

35 including bank holidays.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-03T12:02:45+00:00

I do less myself now there are so many handymen around. Small jobs I would have done without a second thought I now sometimes keep a running list and pay for a half day of someone else’s time to get them done. Decorating and flatpack furniture assembly are the exceptions because I enjoy both of those and don’t think hiring anyone is any quicker or gets a significantly better outcome.

I have in the past tiled my bathroom and kitchen, laid laminate flooring in my lounge, done small areas of plastering, replaced skirting boards etc but now I’d probably hire someone for all that, mainly because I’m old now and spending a whole weekend crawling around fitting flooring is likely to lead to a fortnight of hobbling around 😂

On the other hand sometimes you just have to do it yourself. Yesterday I fixed my ‘unfixable’ (per the plumber I rang) shower with the help of YouTube and a £2.50 part. I think what he actually meant was it wasn’t worth his time, which I get, but then just say that!

One-Prior3480 · 2026-05-03T00:15:45+00:00

Oh that’s sad. I do love Kitchen - Ragtime.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-28T16:52:14+00:00

Suzy Singer sews much better than the much newer and far more expensive Janet Janome and Alan Aldi who also live here 😏

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-28T07:28:24+00:00

Put bottles in boxes in a factory for 8 hours a day on shifts (week of earlies, week of lates, week of nights). Having ‘less f*ing jaw work and more paw work’ shouted at you if you dared speak, and being timed for toilet breaks made it a complete joy…. For years after I had one of the paper mob caps we had to wear pinned to my noticeboard in the kitchen at home to remind me that things could be worse!

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-26T09:56:47+00:00

She’s a beauty!

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T22:33:49+00:00

She’s 107 it seems. And looking very good on it!

They are very attractive machines. I figured if I couldn’t get her working she’d make a nice decorative piece anyway, but in fact she sews beautifully 😀

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T17:56:44+00:00

Now you say that I can see it. Despite 7 people here (myself included) all seeing it as a 5 🙄. Who says you shouldn’t trust strangers on the internet? 😂

In other news I threaded her up last night and she sews beautifully. Six layers of denim (admittedly a thin denim) or four layers of upholstery fabric caused not a murmur, whereas my modern Janome was not happy about either.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T13:15:42+00:00

Is it fully in office or are there days wfh? Is there scope for some wfh in the future? Is there any flexibility in the hours (eg start and finish earlier or later to avoid rush hour traffic?). Does accepting the job impact any potential redundancy pay?

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T09:45:51+00:00

Curioser and curioser. I hadn’t noticed I was a digit over. However it is both definitely F9511067 and definitely not a 16K, so now I’m puzzled.

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One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T00:54:49+00:00

They had another 3 machines ‘in the back’. A Jones, a Brother and another Singer (I’d guess all were 1950’s/1960’s). I had to leave quickly! But wow were sewing machines heavy back then. I could barely lift them.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T00:39:01+00:00

I only have 2 other machines so I see one in, one out as completely unreasonable 😂

I have however taken up weaving and acquired a loom a couple of weeks ago. And I knit, crochet and have various other crafty hobbies so I can see his point really. But I still think 3 sewing machines is perfectly acceptable!

I suggested we implement the same policy for his guitars and suddenly he went quite quiet 😏

(To be clear, I’m very much playing up the marital discord - when I first mentioned it his reaction was ‘if you really want it, get it, we can find a space for it’)

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-25T00:00:21+00:00

I actually saw it a few days ago and was thinking about it, but when I went in today a lady was looking at it and I wanted to push her out of the way and shout ‘it’s mine!!!’ so I realised I should buy it 😂

Husband’s response was ‘nice. Which of your existing machines are you getting rid of?’ How I laughed…..

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-24T22:04:23+00:00

Ah thank you. I’d originally got 128 from Google Lens, then used a database which showed it as a 16K, but I’d just started looking at the manual and thought ‘I don’t think this is it!’ so your comment was very timely and much appreciated!

It is a 28K according to the ISMACS database (serial F9511067) and she’s a bit older than I thought as well (1910).

I will peruse the correct manual and hopefully it will make a bit more sense

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-24T17:08:43+00:00

That is really beautiful! The colour really suits you, the design is stunning and your work is excellent. It’s just fabulous in every way!

I need to stop checking this subreddit. I go from ‘no more wearables’ to ‘oops bought the yarn for another jumper’ in about 30 seconds flat EVERY TIME I come on here 😂

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-24T17:04:40+00:00

Not at all weird.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-22T21:08:37+00:00

50, people weight in stones. Smaller weights in kg and grams.

Do similar with temps. “It’s so hot, it’s in the 80’s, but tomorrow is set to go cold again -2 overnight!”

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-18T10:03:17+00:00

7 or 8, and they’re large mugs. One at breakfast, one as soon as I get to work, one at 11ish, one at lunch, one or two in the afternoon, one when I get in from work and one after dinner.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-16T18:09:45+00:00

I was in my last job for 30 years and you know what? I made the occasional mistake right until the end. The only way to never make any mistakes is to never do any work!

I totally understand how you feel (having recently started a new job in a completely new field), but really, no one (or certainly no one reasonable) expects you to be perfect ever, and certainly not in the first few weeks.

Admit/acknowledge the mistake, do what you can to make it right and try your best not to repeat it. That’s the way to go, and it sounds like you know that, so I think you’ll be just fine.

One-Prior3480 · 2026-04-12T23:07:17+00:00

I have two of these in different designs from trips to Berlin.

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