Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

One of our 'neighbours,' who has a field next door, is our local police coordinator, but I don't hear much from her about crime. She has a wolfhound and a thoroughbred, aged 30, that play in a similar way to your animals.

Round here, many people forget to lock their doors and most crime is probably of the opportunist variety.

On the subject of cat flaps, one of our aquaintances has a chicken that's worked those out....:rotfl:

don't worry, I get yours.....there is an email every few months with a south of england and some random northern places round up of activity.

something that strikes me about this area is it sort of invites crime. We have lots of these small towns well joined up with decent roads, lots of lights (where I was you could follow a random cars headlights for miles and tell the police which road to wait at the other end of and close)......must make it easy to make a trail run cold round here.


If I fail in smallholding I might consider a life of crime.

lostinrates

oh, and I'm glad I didn't drive to Town now. My back has ''gone'' today, not terribly painfull, but very numb. Probably would have been worse if spent hours in a car. I'm having some tea and a ''loll'' on the sofa (I want red squirrels that they keep showing on the news), then I'll roll around on the floor for a while and sort it out.

vivatifosi

Morning all. Was due to go to meeting today, but overnight the heating system has leaked, this time into the living room so have had to switch everything off and can't leave the house in case I come home and find it underwater. GRRRRR

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morning all. Was due to go to meeting today, but overnight the heating system has leaked, this time into the living room so have had to switch everything off and can't leave the house in case I come home and find it underwater. GRRRRR

Have you called a plumber?

michaels

Well we did exceed the Tesco DTD £100 per month max - but that was actually £100 each for me, DW and each DD - and the DDs paid cash at the check out and didn't use a clubcard so I don't think they will be traced

PasturesNew wrote: »

And we're back to Tesco DTD .... did any of the nice people present their vouchers more than once?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042102/Tesco-Sainsburys-shoppers-face-convictions-abusing-money-vouchers.html

I'm sure I saw some MSEers on some threads saying they had.... I'm sure the nice people wouldn't have though.

I hope you get this sorted - sounds like an insurance claim might be in order. Your tales of woe do not fill me with confidence in the fact that we are going to have this system We also seem to have a water pressure problem - dug up the garden to run a new water supply pipe to fix this and found that the water supply pipe was already upgraded and we still only get a pathetic 18l/minute. Does anyone know anything about accumulators?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morning all. Was due to go to meeting today, but overnight the heating system has leaked, this time into the living room so have had to switch everything off and can't leave the house in case I come home and find it underwater. GRRRRR

lostinrates

Planning for the stables has been APPROVED. Still waiting to hear about the house. We can't actually afford to do the stables atm.....quotes of 15k for the floor alone...but at least we can think about it.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Have you called a plumber?

I spoke to plumber yesterday who told us what to do and then asked us later what had happened. What we didn't realise is that we hadn't told him that its on Economy 10, so wasn't "on" a the time we went through the procedures, so we were both thinking on different pages. The problem occurred when the system came back on, but by that time we'd gone to bed so we didn't realise until we got up about 7 hours later. It would have been blindingly obvious if we were talking to him at the house, but he was the other end of a phone, so couldn't see the configuration.

He's coming round this afternoon (which was the agreed time before this all happened) and meantime we've switched off the water input to the Megaflow and turned off the electricity to it also so its not pressurised. The water is still dribbling out but is under control. I think we'll just have to keep it like that now until it is fixed, which meant washing my hair and having a wash at the sink with a kettle, not great but something we can live with providing the house isn't at danger. He's already told us that he will need to get parts, but because it is a real Megaflow rather than something called a megaflow (sort of a Hoovers and hoovers thing according to him), they are easy to get. Therefore I'm not expecting it to be fixed today either.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I hope you get this sorted - sounds like an insurance calim might be in order. Your tales of woe do not fill me with confidence in the fact that we are going to have this system We also seem to have a water pressure problem - dug up the garden to run a new water supply pipe to fix this and found that the water supply pipe was already upgraded and we still only get a pathetic 18l/minute. Does anyone know anything about accumulators?

At the moment it looks as though living room carpet will dry. We're in touch with our insurers who are very helpful but I think the cost of claim will be less than excess as at the moment its just the underlay and hall carpet that need replacing.

In terms of the Megaflow it could have been much worse. If we were still living at our old house which had the heating tanks in the loft and had been out of he house then we could have returned to no ceiling, a wrecked bedroom and water even going down to the next floor where the TV and hifi were directly underneath. The main reason that we had a problem is that nobody was in the house for a few days. We're here now and the damage is confined to a relatively small area. One thing I should also mention is that the floorboards were quite dry. It would appear that having the rubber underlay under the carpets acted as a trap - wrecked the carpet but saved the floorboards. I don't regret having a Megaflow one bit, though I don't understand why it is leaking inside the house given the soakaway has been cleared, that I think may be a pipework issue rather than a tank one.

lostinrates

whohooo, fixed my back.

Today is shaping up very nicely indeed so far.

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

whohooo, fixed my back.

Today is shaping up very nicely indeed so far.

In that case, now get on with laying that concrete stable floor and save yourself £12k :A:D