Offer of shower/washing clothes etc

chika · 27 July 2007 at 10:35PM

Awww how amazing. I'm no where near the flooded areas but I just looked in and saw this! You have managed to restore my faith in human kindness, What an incredibly nice person you are. the world need more people like you!

Shawz · 28 July 2007 at 12:28AM

Superb Dundeedoll, well done

Thats really nice of you :T

Little_John · 28 July 2007 at 1:27PM

The queues at Dundeedoll's house are just as long as those at Tesco and other locations water is being given out.

If I was closer I would have done as much as I could to help out. I'm meeting some friends in Nottingham that come from the areas affected and offered to take them water and anything else they may need. I did the same for friends over in Rotherham the other week.

I'm just so happy I live at the top of a hill.

babyangel10 · 28 July 2007 at 6:14PM

Oh Dundeedoll, you have reduced me to tears! and that really is no mean feat for a hard faced c0w like me!

What a wonderful and thoughtful gesture :A

I am lucky to live high up in Derbyshire so haven't been affected, but my uncle and aunt in Cheltenham did get some flooding - albeit minor.

I hope you meet some wonderful MSE'rs today, even if they are naked in your house

You are a star and should get post of the month/a knighthood/sainthood etc etc! :beer:

There should be more like you in the world then we'd not go far wrong...

Good on ya kid! xxx

dundeedoll_2 · 28 July 2007 at 8:06PM

Thank you so much for all your posts.
I really don't feel I have done enough to deserve the praise tho'! By that I mean that all I'm doing is offering my shower and washing machine to someone. Mind you, I do know what you mean, I would probably be thinking the same!
The image that stays in my mind is of the young man drowning in his red 4 wheel drive in floodwater under a bridge. The water was up to the top of it and he couldn't open the doors. By sheer luck he had an automatic sunroof and when he pressed the button it opened. He had problems getting out, but another young man had seen the car flooding and went and saved his life. The way people have all helped each other is truly amazing.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x185/snowshoepuss/car_450x314.jpg

The emergency services were real heroes, seeing that helicopter feet away from rooftops rescuing people still makes me have goosebumps.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x185/snowshoepuss/1563731.jpg
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x185/snowshoepuss/1563482.jpg

Anyway, I met 4 amazing families today. We arranged it so that they would arrive staggered enough to have their showers in peace (thank god I've got a combi boiler and not an immersion tank!!) but were all here til just now. I cooked a HUGE saucepan of chilli (knew that big pot my mum insisted on giving me from her restaurant kitchen 5 years ago would come in useful one day!) and we all sat around eating our chilli waiting for the washing machine to do it's bit. It was really nice and as well as them all enjoying their showers I think it lifted their spirits too.
Now, they do say what comes around goes around!
Well, I have benefited fom all of this -apart from feeling I've been able to do a tiny bit to help - and this is where this thread becomes moneysaving!
One of the men that came is a landscape gardener and noticed my huge conifer hedges are well overdue for a trim. He has insisted he will come in September and sort them out for free!
Another chap is an electrician and we were chatting about the electrics and when your house floods etc. I mentioned that I still have one of the old wire fuseboxes. He has offered to pick up a new fusebox (which I will pay for) through his trade account and then he insisted that he will fit it for free!

GIVE AND YOU WILL RECEIVE!!!!

Thanks so much Trevor and Dave! :j :beer: :j

Off to cook my next batch of chilli now............

Errata · 28 July 2007 at 8:49PM

Karma - it really does exist.
I've been thinking about you on and off today and wondering how things were going, so thank you very much for giving us an update. I think your one woman emergency service is wonderful, and clearly so do many others. Stay safe and my warmest regards.

StaceyAKelly · 28 July 2007 at 9:10PM

you really are a wonderful person.

HariboJunkie · 28 July 2007 at 9:16PM

What a generous thought. i'm off now to nominate you for post of the month!!!

newleaf · 28 July 2007 at 9:52PM

DD, I think you are wonderful.

tomstickland · 28 July 2007 at 9:58PM

I have shower and washing machine too. Stonehouse.

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