Jenni Brodie

Copywriter, translator (FIN/SWE/ENG), overly keen fiddle player, new Scot, reluctant runner, personal finance nerd.

[Clare Seal @claremseal]

I wrote for @theipaper about the ‘bougie broke’ trend and why I think it trivialises the financial anxieties of the stretched middle… hopefully a more nuanced piece than you might expect from the extract.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@ComicBookMalc @Vitality_UK I hope so too! I completed my 200 minutes a couple of weeks ago so hopefully that won't be affected.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@Vitality_UK Google seems to have blocked Fiit so it's no longer connecting to Google Fit, error message "This app tried to acccess sensitive information in your Google account. To keep your acocunt safe, Google blocked this access", so no Vitality points. What's going on?

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@Vitality_UK This seems to be a bigger issue than just my account, but sure, just DMed you the info.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

And it's not just me, I see others have asked the same question on a Google help forum.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@on_lothianbuses @EdinburghTrams 👍

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@EdinburghTrams This seems contradictory. Can I or can I not use a Network Day Ticket to get the tram to and from the airport? (Screenshot from the @on_lothianbuses website)

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@EdinburghTrams @on_lothianbuses Great, thanks!

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@Idratherbeat1 @Malacoda3 @MarinaPurkiss Being born here doesn't mean you'll automatically get citizenship, this isn't the US.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@UKEnterprise I don't have a rental agreement number, this was a car club car.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

Hey @EnterpriseCarC, it would be pretty useful if your cars displayed speed using a unit that matches the speed limits of the country you're in 🙄 This took way more mental arithmetic than should be necessary.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

This was the Huyndai Ionic on Blenheim Place in Edinburgh. Might want to check it out.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Being told times are going to be tough…

By those who won’t find them tough at all

And who made them tough in the first place.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@SP_EnergyPeople I tried to send a DM to get help, but I got some chatbot replies that weren't even related to my question. I hope a person is going to pick up my message as well!

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

"Not long to wait now", yet still waiting...

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

All the other couriers seem able to deliver parcels in a timely manner, but @YodelOnline claim "delays" and have had my parcel sitting at their depot for *two weeks*. I'm extremely used to terrible service from Yodel, but this is a new low. And 0 staff manning the chat.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@edinhelp I ordered a food waste bin from the council, and was expecting a medium-sized one where I can transfer the food waste from my small kitchen caddy, but the bin that arrived was very small. Do you not provide the slightly larger ones anymore?

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@a_lil_bow @WingsEcosse @centreofitall @clairezagorski @CarymaRules As a Finn living in Scotland, I approve of this idea 😆 Well-insulated houses would be a good one.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@EmmmieG @b0wlingally @clairezagorski Because "free at the point of use" is a really long way of saying it when most people understand that's what's meant.

[Jenni Brodie @JenniBrodie]

@MathewsSonya I think the weirdest one I've seen so far was a prosecco and something (sea salt maybe) last year or the year before. Baffling.