Originally Posted by ElizabethK

you've probably lost another 5lbs with all the walking and bus trips and general rushing about

Thank god for those all week bus passes eh?

Originally Posted by windsong

What a busy, busy day you have had! No wonder you are tired!!! Still, with buses you can sit back and relax, although it's still very tiring.

That's TWO job opportunities you have under your belt in under three weeks. Good going!!!!

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

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I know. they're the best invention... They even have monthly, and yearly ones too! Sometimes when someone gets on the bus and say's 'Can I get a Day Saver' which is £4 I want to yell ' Get a weekly ticket you fool. It's only £13, so save yourself some money.. If they're buying a day saver every day for 7 days for example, that's £28. Can't they do the math??

Originally Posted by cheers

But...I only need the bus for one day.
But...I only have £4

Cheers

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

Ok, so those are reasonable comments then...

Originally Posted by cheers

Did you get a cell phone?

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

Today I finished updating my address at the Dr's office, after first going back to the bank to get a letter from them to show the new address. Amazing how you always need to provide PROOF of something. Oh sure I just moved in on Saturday and you expect me to have a bank statement, phone bill, utility bill already? Really???

I also popped into O2 and asked about their monthly plans. At the moment I'm with 'talk mobile' athough it comes up Vodafone UK when I turn the phone on, so I hope that's not because I used a pre-paid SIM when I was in London last year because that was with Vodafone. Anyway, the plan I'm on at the moment has good talk rates, but I pay 25p per text message and no data package, but with O2 they gave me a good deal for £20 per month, with unlimited UK calls to both mobile and landlines, unlimited texts and 1GB of data, plus free WiFi when in an O2 area. That's roughly what I am paying with the current SIM, so it seemed to make more sense to go with an unlimited plan. I just have to go back into tomorrow when my account has been fully integrated into the system and they're going to 'port' my number over from the Vodafone (Talk Mobile) service, so that way I don't have to change my phone number with absolutely EVERYONE ! Plus I was amazed that I passed the credit check...

Naturally I popped into Gregg's on the way to the bus station and picked up a couple of sausage, egg and bacon sausage rolls I like how dogs are allowed on the buses (at the driver's discretion of course.) and I can sit there on the way home and eat my sausage roll !

So all I need to do now is get tomorrow over and done with, pop into Rochdale Council while I'm there and ask about the electoral roll and then wait the required number of days to change my drivers license over, go back into Oldham and get the mobile phone number ported over and I'm almost done! lol Oh and next on the list is contacting BA and cancelling the return portion of my ticket..lol. Hopefully I can get a partial refund of the taxes and charges portion of the ticket ! Every little bit helps, especially as the taxes were more expensive than the actual cost of the fare.

It's bye bye sunshine and hello rain clouds and rain! I could swear i even saw a snowflake this morning..lol, but possibly wishful thinking. Two days of sunshine...not bad - must be a record

Originally Posted by Cardienscarf

Busy packing and not much time to write but I have been reading your posts. to everything!

My brother uses pay as you go with Virgin - 15 quid a month for unlimited texts and data, not sure how much talk time. You might want to look into that. He did quite a bit of research before he picked that plan.

Good luck with your interview tomorrow and congratulations on being amazing

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

No I already had my unlocked IPhone with me, so it was just a case of choosing the plan I wanted and getting the SIM card !

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

Thanks love.. xx I did the search around too, and O2 had better coverage, and I'd heard some bad things about Virgin...so decided to go with O2! Oh well, I'm not tied into anything, so I can always change it later if the service isn't up to scratch...lol Oh and good luck with the packing...not long to go now huh?

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

No I already had my unlocked IPhone with me, so it was just a case of choosing the plan I wanted and getting the SIM card !

Originally Posted by cheers

Is it an iphone?

Originally Posted by Mummy in the foothills

My son is using O2 with his iPhone in UK as well. Works great for him.

Originally Posted by rebs

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Originally Posted by WhoFan63

Thanks love..it's amazing what you can accomplish when you put your mind to it.. I can sort of relax on a bus, because I'm not doing the driving and navigating the traffic, but I'm too scared to close my eyes in case I fall asleep and miss my stop.. Although that probably wouldn't be bad because the bus just goes into Rochdale, turns around and comes back again, so I'd probably wake up and be close to home and not even wonder why I'm on the opposite side of the road..