What are you all up to

Had a few dry days here 😀, similar today but some showers earlier.

Plans on hold owing to bending awkwardly and hurting my back 😤 most frustrating. Have to say wheat bags are working well. Hopefully resting/pottering as well will repair it for tomorrow.

Time to play on this site today - frustrating as so many server errors almost impossible to use it..........

We did our Powers of Attorney, health and wealth, last year after it was forcibly brought to our attention by events 😉, it had been in the list! We used solicitors was about £1000 inc VAT plus the cost of registering each one, so ready for immediate use if the need arises. Less than £1500 inclusive without checking. Good advice from solicitors about joint and severally, which we have as daughter lives in NZ, ours are each other and both our children.

We re did our wills too, another £1000 inc VAT, as not complex 😯, as things had changed, in law not our wishes, over the intervening years. Including the property allowance, will be one million I believe this year 😱, where property going straight down to offspring, not that ours is but property prices are silly here!

Sad to hear you've tweeked your back, B2 --  I've been having that trouble for yonks now, that's why I sit here with a fan heater blowing gently across my back .  Like you I'm hoping it's rather better tomorrow' cos the Ducky is in for it's M O T and service so I'll be needing to walk a couple of miles each way { AND it's forecasting to be wet wet wet grrrrr I just hate pop music  }.

I had to use the " unlogged in " method to get on here -- reading posts as I wanted to then selected " My Profile " which took it's time to open but it worked eventually, as you can see 

Hope your back improves B2, OH often has this problem, a slight move and then nearly immobile unless he has painkillers. 

We used solicitors for POA, I was grateful for the advice my late Mum received regarding POA so took the same route as it proved to be so useful when needed.

Will this post work I wonder?!

Visiting dog and me just having a break on the sofa, nice day weatherwise is fast turning into a not so nice one.

Hope all goes well for Nellie and re-using the injured arm/wrist.

We used our usual solicitor, he has a "standard" text which we read through and altered anything we wanted to be different, then they were printed up, signed and witnessed, and sent to Edinburgh to be registered, which is optional and can be left until you need to use them.

For the small extra cost, at that time, this was about 5 years back, we decided just to get it all sorted immediately to avoid any delay later.

We recently also did new wills, each leaving our share of the house and our savings, directly to the children, rather than to each other.  I think the charge for that was around £400, so we reckon all we have left to sort out now is clearing out  the loft and the garage!

KjellNN ........the loft......thank you for reminding me....😟😟😟😟

“so we reckon all we have left to sort out now is clearing out the loft and the garage!”

Blimey KJ, not planning on leaving us any time soon are you?!

We have moved from our second home to our home town, although as we are back at Ferry next Sunday we have gone on a pitch at Commons Wood rather than put the van to bed in the storage,for such a short time, and as I have a hospital appointment Tuesday (next door) it helps and the house can stay "mothballed" appart from a couple of visits to do some washing and pick up mail and my medication fron local Lloyds 

No plans Freddy, but nothing in life is certain!  My Mother lived to be 98, so I am hoping I take after her.

However, the loft, and especially the garage, will both be big jobs as we have been here 32 years and I am a terrible hoarder.  We have been putting off the clear out for years now, always something more interesting to do!

My mum was only 42, when she died (I was 17), so I guess I’m in credit.

I wouldn’t call myself a hoarder, but I do tend to hang on to things, just in case I really need to sort the garage out...

Thanks David, I'll read that and take note.

Thanks also to Kjell for your reply.