Diary 11th And 12th October 2018

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Diary Thursday 11th October 2018 My first welfare meeting with my new advisor since being switched to the new system. The lady who saw me was quite pleasant, and as her computer crashed soon after I arrived, she did little but give me my next appointment for in two weeks time. I won't know how my finances are affected until my next payment date, the first on the new regime, on 31st October. For once Halloween will be genuinely scary for me I helped run the information stand again for our penultimate screening at the film festival, The Greatest Showman, which drew our biggest audience of the whole week. Diary Friday 12th October 2018 My complaints to welfare about efforts to pressure me into getting a Smart Phone gained me a letter of reply from the DWP, not surprisingly trying to sweep the whole incident under the carpet. They spoke to the advisor who told me to get the new phone (at the tax-payers expense) to which he claimed he was only advising me, not ordering me. He claims that I never told him I have a laptop. Apparently having my laptop right there fired up with the screen showing him my job search activity equals not telling him I already have such a devise. They are being what Margaret Thatcher used to call 'being economical with the truth'. The final night of our week long mental health awareness movie festival, screening A Fantastic Woman, which is a very good movie. I ran the stall and helped take down all our festival posters and desk displays etc with most of the spare material now in storage until next year's festival. A big thanks to everyone who helped with the events and all our lovely audience participants. It is always an honour to help run these events. I considered going to the pub for a beer after the screening but it was raining very heavily so I got the bus home instead. Youtube - trailer for A Fantastic Woman