tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post8415576585440425256..comments2024-01-27T18:00:54.268+00:00Comments on This Is My Blog: The WibbleMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-60222728078752461742008-10-06T16:11:00.000+01:002008-10-06T16:11:00.000+01:00Mary, I totally understand that wibble feeling. Al...Mary, I totally understand that wibble feeling. All I can say is that you have support from all of us and I hope the board make the right decision. Good luck, BG xBenefitScroungingScumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-635770075889917482008-10-05T11:04:00.000+01:002008-10-05T11:04:00.000+01:00Oh is that ALL?!?Oh is that ALL?!?Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-3364418017108644792008-10-04T22:01:00.000+01:002008-10-04T22:01:00.000+01:00Mercifully I don't have to understand it on my own...Mercifully I don't have to understand it on my own behalf, only in so far as I am auditing Housing Benefit Performance Indicators at the moment (fascinating, I promise), so I only need to understand New Claims and Changes of Circumstance enough to check that LAs are applying the correct definitions ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-13577171524867081302008-10-04T13:17:00.000+01:002008-10-04T13:17:00.000+01:00Thanks Jo. Good luck with the housing benefit stuf...Thanks Jo. Good luck with the housing benefit stuff. It's convoluted to say the least, plus of course it is administered by local authority rather than central and therefore different places have different resources and goalposts, so it's hard to find definitive all-round applicable information online.<BR/><BR/>Carie - yes, absolutely, this is why I always wear handknit socks to interviews! :D<BR/><BR/>I know I'm not actually useless - it's just upsetting to have to focus right in on the negatives. Due to this context, I am going to refrain on this occasion from slapping Pandora about the head with a wet haddock for using motivation-speak outside of work hours. ;-)Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-5465467066583941852008-10-04T11:15:00.000+01:002008-10-04T11:15:00.000+01:00Good luck from me too.The wibble is a horrible pla...Good luck from me too.<BR/><BR/>The wibble is a horrible place to be mentally, it feeds off itself! I hope you manage to shake it, or just keep it in check, for as long as you need.<BR/><BR/>And you're not "proving you are useless", you're "proving you need a bit more help to continue being a valuable member of society"<BR/><BR/>Or somesuch motivational phrasing :)Pandora Caitiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02912184784443896172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-64487244404429731932008-10-04T09:23:00.000+01:002008-10-04T09:23:00.000+01:00If you think you're having a wobble then take a de...If you think you're having a wobble then take a deep breath and visualise something you are really proud of doing - finishing your first pair of socks for example - and remind yourself that you could do that. It sounds hocus pocus but it's what I do before job interviews or tense meetings and it gives you confidence without you really knowingCarie @ Space for the Butterflieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060566680311122115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-16976945521616621012008-10-04T08:01:00.000+01:002008-10-04T08:01:00.000+01:00Good luck! I was wading through the DWP website l...Good luck! I was wading through the DWP website last week at work (trying to understand housing benefit) and I thought of you. Getting DLA certainly doesn't prove that you're useless either. Bet Steve doesn't think you are!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-35217304978769309612008-10-03T18:49:00.000+01:002008-10-03T18:49:00.000+01:00Hi Porillion - yes, I used to be a member of B&...Hi Porillion - yes, I used to be a member of B&W, which is a wonderful resource. I don't think I could have faced filling in the form without it. My membership has expired in the months between getting the turned-down-DLA letter and going to appeal, but I'd already downloaded their useful guide for DLA appeals, and the local Welfare Rights service seem pretty on the ball.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-20249945462841575732008-10-03T18:43:00.000+01:002008-10-03T18:43:00.000+01:00Good luck. Are you aware of the website http://www...Good luck. Are you aware of the website http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/ ?<BR/><BR/>Probably too late to be of help now. But they have a lot of info. on IB, DLA and so on. Though there is a small annual fee (about £19 a year) to join.<BR/><BR/>Porillion.<BR/>http://porillion.wordpress.com<BR/><BR/>P.S., For some reason I couldn't sign in when commenting using my open ID.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-83219991679020461332008-10-03T17:51:00.000+01:002008-10-03T17:51:00.000+01:00Thanks, ladies.I do have something fun planned for...Thanks, ladies.<BR/><BR/>I do have something fun planned for near the end of October - we're going to try and do that "hire a car for Pip and have me spend a week with him and the Boy back in Lowestoft" thing. Even if the organisational details don't work out, I've got the full week booked off work and a holiday budget.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-69518637873840458262008-10-03T13:59:00.000+01:002008-10-03T13:59:00.000+01:00A wibble is to be expected really, but the very be...A wibble is to be expected really, but the very best of luck. This is just an administrative process, not a reflection on who you are.<BR/><BR/>May I suggest that you plan something fun for afterwards. Not a celebration, something you plan to do whatever it happens, which you can look forward to and focus on. A trip out or a movie at home with your favourite food, something like that. <BR/><BR/>Won't take the wibble away, but it may offer some distraction between now and then. Will be thinking of you.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-7138531927399441322008-10-03T13:41:00.000+01:002008-10-03T13:41:00.000+01:00Good luck with your appeal next week! I'm not sur...Good luck with your appeal next week! I'm not surprised you're wibbling a bit - it's hard not to when you have to face an appeal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com