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Lazarus said:
Hi Fraus, I’m in a very fortunate position to be looking at holidays overseas.
we’ve been looking on Skyscanner for flights; does anyone have experience of using it? I mean actually booking through it rather than look at the front page?
We’re looking at flights to somewhere on 🌍 -one way it shows as £583 per person, but when we go onto the airline’s website for that exact flight it’s £1,283 each. The £583 price diverts to an unknown site.
Is it all just a big take on?
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Skyscanner will only show the very cheapest options usually through third parties, so then if you go straight to the airline and want to put things like luggage on unfortunately it will always be more expensive. It can be useful to give you an idea of when travel is cheaper/more expensive but I'd personally avoid using it to book through. I tend to go via the airline directly even if it's more expensive - just gives me the peace of mind that it would be easier to get a refund/claim my money via insurance than going through a third party.
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zetta buttons said:
Wow! That must have been … I can’t even think of the words. I was crying at the clip of the documentary during the news. She’s an icon of the most epic proportions.
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I felt quite emotional at times! I'm an angsty elder emo at heart but there's something about her I love.
 
Mr F tried using Skyscanner once and ended up with a subscription to a travel agent called eDreams, which I was highly suspicious was something else entirely when it popped up on the bank statement!! Which reminds me, I must try and cancel it before it autorenews in about 10 months' time.

I've had to remove TinyPony from the long grass three times today and I suspect, given I can't see him out of the kitchen window, I'm going to have to do it a fourth time before we all turn in for the night. Not quite sure how he's getting through three strands of electric fence tape (admittedly not with the zap turned on), but I've identified a possible spot where the ground dips a bit and filled the gap with the mucking out rake and hopper, so hopefully that might have done the trick.
 
Falkor said:
Mr F tried using Skyscanner once and ended up with a subscription to a travel agent called eDreams, which I was highly suspicious was something else entirely when it popped up on the bank statement!! Which reminds me, I must try and cancel it before it autorenews in about 10 months' time.

I've had to remove TinyPony from the long grass three times today and I suspect, given I can't see him out of the kitchen window, I'm going to have to do it a fourth time before we all turn in for the night. Not quite sure how he's getting through three strands of electric fence tape (admittedly not with the zap turned on), but I've identified a possible spot where the ground dips a bit and filled the gap with the mucking out rake and hopper, so hopefully that might have done the trick.
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Yes, too much grass and he’ll have laminitis *nods sagely*
been reading about horses. Never even ridden one!
 
CarmenGhia said:
There is a very cheeky escaping sheep at the bottom of the village at the moment. It's very cute, still at the stage of being a mischievous lamb rather than a fully grown woolly wally. Their brains fall out once they reach maturity, I swear.
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North Country Cheviots can be quite bright. My land is dotted round the village, so when I bring them in off the hill they might be going to the field opposite the village hall, the field next to our house, the field behind the holiday let or the field out on the point. They know which gates are 'theirs' and will go and stand at the first one they get to, wait to see if I open it, and if I don't they'll walk past all the other gates until they get to the next one that's theirs and wait there, rinse and repeat. They can pick out the sound of our quad bike as opposed to the six others in the village and I once had a flock leader called April (RIP) who would tell me when they all wanted to come in from the hill - she'd lead them to one of the hill gates, wait until she saw me on the road, either on the quad or on foot, and start all of them baaing until I looked up and saw them.

griftalo said:
I know pretty much nothing about horses, I’ve ridden a cart horse though, it was very high up! Apologies if there’s a proper name for them, it was giant.
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Probably a Shire horse or a Clydesdale if it was in the UK. The French and Belgians have some phenomenally chunky agricultural horses though,

Belgian Draught Horse
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Ardennes
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Comtois
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And my favourite, Percheron
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Falkor said:
North Country Cheviots can be quite bright. My land is dotted round the village, so when I bring them in off the hill they might be going to the field opposite the village hall, the field next to our house, the field behind the holiday let or the field out on the point. They know which gates are 'theirs' and will go and stand at the first one they get to, wait to see if I open it, and if I don't they'll walk past all the other gates until they get to the next one that's theirs and wait there, rinse and repeat. They can pick out the sound of our quad bike as opposed to the six others in the village and I once had a flock leader called April (RIP) who would tell me when they all wanted to come in from the hill - she'd lead them to one of the hill gates, wait until she saw me on the road, either on the quad or on foot, and start all of them baaing until I looked up and saw them.


Probably a Shire horse or a Clydesdale if it was in the UK. The French and Belgians have some phenomenally chunky agricultural horses though,

Belgian Draught Horse
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Ardennes
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Comtois
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And my favourite, Percheron
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I have a fantasy of having a black Clydesdale and pootling about the countryside in a cart.
 
Witchfinder Sargeant said:
I've also just opened a ticket to get a subscription refund, I'll report back either way, but I note it's quite difficult to get the help chatbot to give you a dialogue box where you can type things, rather than choosing from pre-existing options, none of which are "refund". I need to wait for the team to get back to me, apparently.
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So the chatbot referred me to a person, who messaged me yesterday asking for account details. As I was barely online yesterday I missed it but I gave them the info this morning, been given a free month of subscription and full refund processed back to my card, should clear in 5-10 working days.
 
Having one of those days where I've transcended the "I am so stressed I am non functional" and moved into the "I really do not give a tit, if you want me to do stuff above my pay grade then pay me more, until that is reflected in my payslip duck off x" phase and it is quite liberating.

(Sorry not sorry to all the people who have been unreasonable and/or tried to project histrionics onto me and/or are fobbing their busy work onto me even though they've been told not to, and it's not even midday)
 
I had those towards the end of my working life (I didn’t know that at the time, my health meant I was forced to leave).
It was indeed liberating. Especially as my salary was more than halved half way through to less than minimum wage (they were forced to make it minimum wage) as I was just ‘admin’ (my post required undergrad, postgrad and professional degrees as essentials) but the nhs didn’t recognise that for admin.

I left nearly 20 years ago.
My job has never been filled.

Can’t think why 🤔
 
lilykestrel said:
Having one of those days where I've transcended the "I am so stressed I am non functional" and moved into the "I really do not give a tit, if you want me to do stuff above my pay grade then pay me more, until that is reflected in my payslip duck off x" phase and it is quite liberating.

(Sorry not sorry to all the people who have been unreasonable and/or tried to project histrionics onto me and/or are fobbing their busy work onto me even though they've been told not to, and it's not even midday)
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Liberating and healthy! Just before I retired my employer pivoted to being very interested in wellbeing and mindfulness and sent out lots of surveys about how best this could be promoted in the workplace and I really enjoyed responding with "pay me what I'm worth"
 
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