40 and Foolish!

NewLeaf_2

Missrlr conferences are yuck!

DOROTHY I am off this week so excited x

missrlr

Enjoy your week off! I am packing for conference, need to leave in 10 mins! Oops.

NewLeaf_2

ok so my first day off discovery is that the main drain is blocked. This is not starting off the way I had hoped

*Robin*

NewLeaf wrote: »

So in the deffo not NSD but MSE all the same. Previously when OH had a city job we got her a zone 1-4 annual travel card which is very expensive. It is coming due for renewal. Now OH takes the bus in the same zone. So I went to to tube station office and enquired and she can have an annual bus pass for £720 instead and now she has that. Over £1,000 a year savings

..Well that's great news! Personally I'd much rather ride a bus than take the tube [since the fire at Kings X, anyway]; better views, safer, and if the traffic is bad at least there's a mobile signal on a bus so one can keep in touch with office or home..

NewLeaf wrote: »

dishwasher remains silent

Hang on - surely that activity is covered under the expense of house-keeper with the unpronounceable name?

*Interesting fact about dish-washers: If you've got one [that works], use it regularly - otherwise a membrane between the motor and pump will dry out and fail, causing machine's expiry (I killed two before a repair engineer explained this to me. So never, ever buy/accept a 2nd hand one that someone says "was very little used before sitting in the shed for six months"!).

NewLeaf wrote: »

Golf-Gate (aka the car stand off) still rages on

Blimey a Golf is an unusual choice for central London.. GTI?

Have you checked hire rates for a Golf?

NewLeaf wrote: »

ok so my first day off discovery is that the main drain is blocked. This is not starting off the way I had hoped

Oh luverly [not!]. :eek: Still, doubtless Waitrose stock that wonderful grunge-shifter in an orange 'n black bottle - or is there a cheaper OS alternative [soda crystals or the universal star-drops may be worth a try? Don't know].

Good luck with it anyway - hope you find out what went wrong and can get it sorted out easily (..not been putting meat fat or sosmix liquid down the sink, have you?).

dorothy52

Just a quickie as am in work - is it the toilet or kitchen sink which is blocked? If sink, caustic soda (I buy it at a quid a bottle) is fantastic - must be used carefully as can cause burns. Follow the instructions and voila.

dorothy52

How's yer blockage NL? Am just home from work and am shattered, bog eyed and my brain hurts. I am therefore very jealous of you having the week off. I have fasted today (you have given me my mojo back) and so far have consumed only 70 calories. I have made a weighted dance belt which apparently renders any abdominal exercise much more effective. I shall don it now and undulate for as long as I can bear it and shall have abs of steel in no time. I shall burn so many calories that I shall be in a negative calorific state by tea time. Go Demon Dot.

Have you had a good day cleaning and walking? Do come back soon as I love reading from you and I shall require some light relief later on when I am worked out, have fed and am sated.:T

*Robin*

Did you fix it, NL?

grannyx2

Well done on the weight loss and hope you got that horrid drain sorted out. Have a good week off my dear friend.

Granny x

brizzledfw

Hope u are enjoying yourself NL! And are not knee deep in domestic drudgery!!

Golf gate...no question it has to go in my mind...in central London you really don't need it. Am here now...and it's much faster to walk or use public transport

Have a great week x

NewLeaf_2

Sorry I haven't checked in OH had an unexpected bereavement in her family Monday night so trying to cope with that.