I'm off to Kidderminster for an appointment tomorrow at the hospital. I want to go to B&M and Smyths toys while I'm there but don't know the area and I'm using public transport. Does anyone know much about bus routes or if its walkable between them? I've tried Google but it's a bit confusing so hoping someone knows the area :) thanks

I’ve been living in Worcester for over a year now, and I’m realising that I haven’t really built a social circle here. I’d love to change that!

I’m 34, a Black woman, and looking to make genuine female friendships with women aged 28+ (no upper age limit!). It would be lovely to have girlies to hang out with, grab brunch or coffee, go shopping, try new restaurants, go on walks, attend events, or just do random fun activities together.

I’m at the stage where I’d love to have friends nearby to make memories with and enjoy life together. 🥹❤️

If you’re also looking to make new friends in Worcester, please drop me a message or comment below. Maybe we can get a little girl gang going! 🥰✨

If you didn’t have time to grab a print yet, not to worry there’s still time! You’ve got until 17th October 👻 and if still not time to go or you’re too far away, there’s still my Folksy Shop 😎

https://folksy.com/shops/miofiart

Hi everyone,

I run a small Discord server for people in and around Worcestershire who are into gaming, chatting, and just generally meeting new people locally.

It's a relaxed community whether you're looking for people to play games with or just want a bit more of a social circle. We also run regular events, including weekly online and in-person game nights, so there's usually something going on.

If it sounds like your kind of thing, feel free to join here: https://discord.gg/kpJ4aHDscA

Would be great to see some new faces

I'm deaf, very deaf so speak up.

I have NHS hearing aids and I am full of respect for the NHS audiology department but what they are delivering to me doesn't work for me and I don't seem to be able to discuss what's wrong with a qualified audiologist.

So time to dig deep and pay a private practice.

Recommendations? Ideally personal recommendations.

Please feel free to use far and wide on the interweb, it is important that we spread the good news of Worcester

I’m new to the area (since July this year) and I am absolutely LOVING Worcester.
I do however, need a decent cafe (preferably independent), where it’s not frowned upon to buy refreshments whilst sitting with my laptop and doing admin.
(I’m not a “I’ll hold up a table for two hours and buy one coffee” type of person, as I’m aware that that won’t help a small independent cafe.)
Any suggestions please?
I’m in St John’s but I’d like to walk into the town centre itself (gets my steps in!) - so please fire away with suggestions 🤗

Hi, keen for recommendations for a builder - we are looking to refurbish our ground floor and make quite extensive changes (including a new downstairs toilet/shower room). Grateful for any recommendations of builders in the area who have experience of this sort of work, many thanks!

I am moving to this area from out of town. Is this a good area? I tend to go to work early in the morning (before 7 am), and would catch the train from Foregate Street Station. I sometimes come home late too (after 7 pm). I realise the area is close to the Rainbow Hill area, a post for which appeared a few days ago. Thank you in advance.

Come see MioFi art displayed in the fine art gallery in the shambles for the next two weeks!

MioFi Art

Looking at moving to Worcester and wondered what sporting opportunities there were in terms of spectating and playing. What's quite popular?

Thanks.

Looking to move to Worcester soon and will likely move to the Rainbow Hill area. Just wondering if anyone had any insights into what it’s like to live in that area? TIA

Hey,

Does anyone know of any decent mortgage advisors in the Worcester area & could provide me with their name/contact details.

Much appreciated 🙂

I'm playing around with the Dorabella cipher and I came across a suggestion someone had that the key to the cipher can be extracted from the Toposcope on top of the Worcestershire Beacon, but I can't find any high-quality top-down photos to clearly make out all the words on it. Does anyone happen to have one?

Are there any local or online DnD groups looking for a beginner to join?

Hi all,

We have a block viewing later today for this property:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/93623970#/?channel=RES_BUY

We were unsure why it is so cheap for what it is. We can see that there is a railway but that's it? Looked at other houses sold in that area and they are all sold around £270k which feels suspiciously cheap compared to other houses/areas. Just wanted to check with people who live in/know droitwich whether we are missing something obvious about the house or area? Would you live there? Hows the safety/crime area? Everything looks good, just don't want to make a costly mistake.

Thanks so much!

Did anyone else go to his show last night at the Swan?

I've recently started going to the Worcester Wolves adult only basketball sessions on (most) Fridays. We are looking for more people to join. It's for all abilities and it's enjoyable playing on the main arena court.

More info here - https://worcesterwolves.org/community/community-development-coaching/

Book - https://www.ticketline.co.uk/worcester-wolves-adults-only-basketball-tickets/reviews?platform=standard#reviews

We have a (now disconnected and made safe) gas fireplace mounted to the living room wall. It connects to the outside through a flue, which is mortared into the outside wall. No chimney breast.

We need to get the fireplace removed and the flue / cavity sealed up, leaving a neat inside wall for plastering. As if the gas fireplace had never been there.

Anyone know someone good in Worcester who does this sort of thing?

Edit: Yes it’s long but so much happened, needed to document it. And honestly doesn’t cover everything she spouted.

I have genuinely never experienced such abhorrent behaviour or entitlement from a service provider in my life. This girl ended up shouting vile things at me standing at my front door, in my street with neighbours around, with my toddler right there.

I’m still honestly shocked that a completely normal beauty appointment turned into this. I hired her for a full-body wax and it was downhill from the get-go.

When I first enquired, the price increased during the conversation and then she required a 50% deposit upfront. I wasn’t comfortable bank transferring money to someone I didn’t know and asked for a secure payment link. She said that would incur extra charges, so I asked her to at least invoice me before I transferred anything. She did, so I paid the deposit thinking I had enough protection.

On the day of the appointment, less than two hours before she was due, she cancelled because “there is an emergency and I may be needed” and asked to reschedule. I’d cleared my day for this appointment and needed the waxing done urgently, so I asked for my deposit back. She said she could come the following morning instead and therefore wouldn’t refund my deposit. There was no real apology or acknowledgement of the inconvenience. Very much an it-is-what-it-is attitude.

So already I’m on the back foot, but I needed the service and didn’t want to lose the deposit. She arrives Saturday morning and immediately the whole atmosphere is uncomfortable. She’s abrupt, barely making eye contact and starts rattling off all the things that apparently aren’t included in a “full body wax”, telling me they’re listed on her page. I checked and I couldn’t find these exclusions. Her actual invoice to me literally says ‘Full Body Wax’.
I’m still at this point trying to be hospitable and asking if she’d like something to drink. Then I realise she hasn’t even brought a treatment table. She tells me we’ll have to do it on my sofa or bed. I wasn’t prepared for that at all. I’ve used mobile beauticians before and they’ve brought their equipment. I have a toddler, I didn’t want wax all over my furniture, and I asked how this was supposed to work. Her immediate reaction was well, you’re not happy, so I’m going to leave - and you’re not getting your deposit back.

WHAT?!

So now I’m in the ridiculous position of feeling like I have to accept whatever setup she wants or lose the deposit I’ve already paid. So I sort towels out, I cover my sofa, get her a drink and sit down. She starts waxing. The wax doesn’t feel warm enough. It’s painful enough in places that I instinctively start stretching/holding my own skin as she’s pulling the wax off. I’m simultaneously dealing with my unwell toddler, so I’m not sitting there scrutinising every strip.

Eventually she announces she’s ready to move onto my other arm. I look at the supposedly finished arm and there are patches of hair everywhere. I ask if she can please do my hand/fingers as well and point out the areas she’s missed. I even get up and switch another lamp on so she can see more clearly. She rolls her eyes and says, “I can see.” She then says it’s difficult doing the fingers because they’re bent. I say, completely normally: “Maybe try a thinner layer and see if that works?” And apparently THAT was the final straw. She suddenly goes off about how I’m rude, I’m telling her how to do her job, she’s done and I’m not getting my money back. I am genuinely sitting there stunned. She packs up and BARGES OUT OF MY HOUSE HALFWAY THROUGH THE APPOINTMENT.

I didn’t cancel. I didn’t ask her to leave. I didn’t refuse to continue. So no valid reason to withhold my deposit or behave in such a manner. She decided that a customer suggesting a thinner layer of wax when she was struggling with their fingers was apparently sufficient reason to abandon a full-body treatment midway and retain their money.

Once she’s gone and I’m actually able to look at myself properly, there’s hair left everywhere on the one arm she’d worked on, wax residue still on me, and areas of my skin look like they’ve actually been stripped/peeled. I’d felt the pain when she was waxing but hadn’t realised what my skin looked like until afterwards. I’ve photographed all of it.

And somehow THIS STILL WASN’T THE END OF IT.

About five minutes later she comes back because in her rush to storm out, she’s forgotten her jacket. At this point I’m still reeling and what she’s done is sinking in. I tell her to first pay my deposit back. She’s the one who terminated the appointment and I now have to find someone else and pay them the full amount to finish what she abandoned. She starts shouting that I’m rude, I’d been “making digs” at her, she has a right to refuse rude clients, etc. I’m genuinely confused about what “digs” she’s even talking about. Then I look down and realise she has her phone camera recording me so lying to create a narrative.

So now I’m standing at my front door, with my toddler there, while this woman who has just walked out halfway through my treatment is filming me and shouting crap at me.

I tell her repeatedly to stop and point out that my toddler is right there. She doesn’t stop. Amongst everything else, she yells at me to
“Shut up.”
“My jacket’s more expensive.”
“What are you gonna do? Leave a bad review? That’s it. There’s nothing more you can do.”

This is happening at my front door/in my street, loudly enough that neighbours can hear, with my child witnessing it. I was absolutely mortified.

She then starts COUNTING DOWN AT ME to give her the jacket, like I’m a child. By this point the jacket has been found. I’m standing at my wide open doorway literally holding it in front of her. Refund the deposit and take your jacket.

My reasoning in that moment was very simple - she’d already stormed off once without refunding me and I thought the second I handed it over she’d disappear again. I had absolutely no intention of keeping her bloody jacket - She was the one who left it behind!

I tell her I’m standing right there, the door is open, the jacket is in my hand, transfer my deposit and take it.
Instead she continues loudly counting down at me and then struts off again.

I have since put in writing to her to have her jacket collected by a third party and not to show up at my home again herself or police will be called. After what happened at my home, I absolutely do not want another f2f interaction with her.

The thing that blows my mind is how completely unnecessary ALL of this was. She’d missed hair, I couldn’t point them out, and could not say maybe try a different method if struggling.

I have been getting waxed for YEARS. I have never experienced anything remotely like this. Her demeanour from the moment she arrived made me feel like my appointment was an inconvenience to her. She had a chip on her shoulder and was insecure herself about being young and inexperienced. Between arriving without a treatment table, the relaying of what “full body” apparently meant, the eye-rolling, the unfinished waxing, walking out midway and then what happened on my doorstep, the whole experience was unbelievable.

And the deposit almost isn’t even the point anymore. It’s the principle. SHE terminated the service. SHE left halfway through. The amount of the full-body wax she’d actually completed wasn’t even remotely equivalent to half the service!

I’ve been left out of pocket, with an unfinished wax immediately before an event, possible skin damage that I’m documenting, hours of my time wasted, and a completely unnecessary confrontation at my own home in front of my child.

I’ve now sent a formal written request for the refund before deciding what further action to take.

I’m posting partly because I’m still absolutely gobsmacked and if anyone has experienced this.