Sundays are for grandad, pocket money and chocolate buttons

No photo today not sure Grandad whould like me taking one anyway. Title says it all really! Our weekends are a bit off set, Sunday is really the first day of our weekend as dh normally works on a saturdays as he gets about double overtime.  Weekend is very important in our family, we allways do something together, go to the park , and see relative or close friends, but we allways do something. Sundays are allways grandads day. My fil is wonderful warm, caring , and a true old fashioned gent with out being sexist . Hes 74, and lost his wife 6 years ago to breast cancer , he was a firefighter for 25 years and retired at normal firefighter retirement age which is i think just 55, but obviously its a very very stressful strenous job. He paid loads into his private pension fund and as a result hes quite well off. Im glad he is because i whould really worry if he just had a normal state pension weather he could afford to pay his bills etc (we whould help him out of course if needed) as it is i worry about my mum , shes 53, she doesn't think she is entitled to a state pension as she doesnt have enough "qualifying years", she looked after my elderly brother for many years as his full time carer which then you didn't get home resonsablitys protection , as you do now. I got a letter from the inland revenue last year saying i was short a few years and to make sure i got state pension i needed to pay £160 asap. Odd i thought id worked full time from 17-26 , i phoned up the inland revenue direct and ask for a statement of future prediction, i got my answer from them on the telephone which they later backed up in a letter..i have nothing to worry about i only need something like another 13 years work?  (either full or part time as long as i pay tax) to qualify, and to disregard the letter.. Gah, i wonder how many people decided to pay as they where scared? My nan has very bad rumatiod of both hands her hands are bent double on themselves and she has a lot of diffulty doing everyday things that involve her hands , she recently applied for lower dla but got turned down as she can walk, yet ironically i know people on higher rate who fought in viatnam, got scrapnel in his leg and ended up in a wheelchair..now what you don't know is said person doesnt actually need his chair anymore, he has been seen running , oddly whenever he goes to the social thats the only time he needs his chair. It makes me so cross that people such as my brother who at his worse sits in a chair and dribbles , has the mental age of an 18 month old has to fight for any fincial help yet fakers have no qualms about taking money  out of the hands of those who actually need it. I shall be watching the supposed crack down on benefit fraud with great interest.so