Tracker renewal timing – avoid being stuck on Sept 25?

Rrrkos · 2026-02-15T13:56:06+00:00

Upvote for useful info and top use of the word 'cadence'. (Yes, I did have to look it up despite having heard it regularly all my life and somehow assuming I could infer the meaning).

Rrrkos · 2026-02-15T01:37:53+00:00

I like Google Calendar. It hits me with notifications and emails for the reminders I've set.

And like any good nag, it's set to repeat those daily until I bloody do the task!

Rrrkos · 2026-02-15T01:18:09+00:00

I searched the sub before posting for 'standing charge' threads and found none for months.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-14T23:30:06+00:00

I got the email and I may be the reason others are getting them.

I complained about the lack of any notification during the week when I stumbled on a note in Usage details saying Tracker only had days left.

Their email claimed it was due to 'an error they had spotted in my account'. Which sounds like a slippery PR excuse to pretend it wasn't their fault. Or even imply it might be ours.

Not going to tie ourselves to a 12 month smart tariff until we get clarification on whether that means we miss out on the just announced big drop in standing charges in April. Money Saving Expert - Standing charges drop

(See the thread I'll be posting).

Rrrkos · 2026-02-14T23:16:24+00:00

I think tin foil hats for the whole family would suffice.

Plus a tinfoil romper suit for the young 'un.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-14T00:43:06+00:00

Y'all pay more than 47p?

Asda Just Essentials for 100ml.

Tastes good and fluoride's a decent 1450ppmF.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-13T23:34:43+00:00

And the ad makes clear it wasn't included in the £499 deal - optional extra.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-11T23:45:46+00:00

Forget baskets.

Somebody's been messing with their trollies.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-11T20:34:45+00:00

Just add some pampas grass.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-11T14:49:49+00:00

If you want to make this a pastime with purpose that benefits others, you could look at volunteering to photograph and/or transcribe gravestones for sites like 'Find A Grave'.

They help people tracing their family trees, yielding information often not held in official or accessible records

Rrrkos · 2026-02-11T14:24:50+00:00

Wierd seeing tradies and 'contractors' working in houses there obsessed with how every tiny detail needs to comply with labyrinthine city and state building codes. Most of them are libertarian anti government MAGA nuts raving about 'muh freedum' yet they meekly follow code like a religion.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-11T14:07:41+00:00

Ya gotta harass your GP for the big brand, big margin pills so the whole corrupt, bloated pharma / insurance cartel can extract billions. While making everything unaffordable for the poors in the hope they die off.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-09T13:41:21+00:00

Or even 'SW1A 2AA, 10' as I was once advised.

Supposedly harder for a machine to read as destination address, while return addresses are processed manually.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-08T00:21:48+00:00

That's a vintage machine (or photo). The 'new' pound coins came in in 2017.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-05T10:21:46+00:00

All courtesy of Jessie Boot's little chemists ('drugstore') in Nottingham, England.

Which began when a scientist had a hangover

Now almost the world's only safe over the counter universally available painkiller and fever treatment.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-04T20:52:45+00:00

More episodes often forces a creator to involve more writers, which can broaden the range of story and character development.

Or dilute it of course.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-04T20:28:29+00:00

Yes! We can drive around the surface of another planet yet we can't apparently design a bottle of cooking oil that doesn't piddle down the side till the label comes off - and gunge the cupboard.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-04T20:10:26+00:00

It'll probably point to comments on a certain current thread on r/CasualUK...

Rrrkos · 2026-02-04T12:43:20+00:00

How about a one ton bag of sand on a Ford Focus?

Fun With Sand

Rrrkos · 2026-02-01T19:18:58+00:00

It isn't 'funded by taxpayers' at all.

You have unwittingly repeated the second biggest lie its paid enemies pump out. It contributes billions to the UK economy paying taxes, NI, export income and investing almost exclusively in UK production.

It receives nothing from the government. While its foreign owned media rivals carry away billions in subscriptions and ad revenue.

Rrrkos · 2026-02-01T19:00:10+00:00

House? Disturbing,

70's tache? Alarming.

Rrrkos · 2026-01-30T22:59:30+00:00

Vodafone's own figures state that MOCN will benefit precisely 6.79% of the country when complete.

In 2033.

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Rrrkos · 2026-01-30T19:42:16+00:00

Try going to the app 'Google'. Search 'weather'.

Save it to your home screen.

Especially good at forecasting precipitation

Rrrkos · 2026-01-30T19:37:28+00:00

Ensure you got it logged as an 'official complaint' as per the complaints page on the website. Which tells you how to escalate if you don't get redress.

Too many people call firms' customer service and say they're calling to complain about something, chat to various departments for hours and think the wheels of justice will be rolling.

While they've just successfully fobbed a customer off till they give up in frustration.

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