A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

VJsmum

It's mended :j:j:j:j:j:j:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

T'was leaves on the line - well in the pipe that the condensate pipe was connected to. Heavy rain caused blocked pipe to back up and flood into the boiler. I am hoping they put it down to a design fault on the boiler (surely it should have a one-way valve?) and not charge us for all of these call outs. Nothing has been mentioned anyway. I am having the heating on full blast and 6 baths later! :rotfl:

Right - back to the cleaning.

Byatt

Rosanna, Henry Hoover wants to be close to you, so perhaps if you put a blanket on your seat when sitting on it, then try putting the blanket on the sofa? You probably have tried that, but thought I'd mention. My pooch is the same, she has access to most chairs, but without fail if I go out, I come back to find her on my chair!

I'm so sorry about your whiplash injury, it must be so frustrating especially as you were doing the walking for fitness and pleasure. I was going to suggest acupuncture but see you are already having it.

VJ, yayyyyyyy!!! You have heat!

maryb

Good news getting an appointment so quickly Byatt, it'll set your mind at ease. I'm really glad I was able to give you a bit of motivationI'm on a bit of a mission to make sure everyone I know gets eye tests. The most common type of glaucoma is absolutely symptomless to start with so if any of you are of 'mature' years GET AN EYE TEST if you haven't had one for two years. It's rare but if caught early it makes a huge difference

Excuse the shouting

SDG31000

Hello Everyone

shegar I am so sorry that your holiday ended in such a dramatic fashion. Here's hoping that you have a speedy recovery and the money stuff is sorted with the minimum of hassle.

Byatt Good for you. My DS1 has glaucoma due to someone hitting him in the left eye with a rubber and his is controlled with eye drops. So can be easily treated in the event it is found.

VJsmum I'm so glad the heating is working Enjoy your baths.

Rosanna I'm sorry you are still suffering. Finger's crossed the appointment comes through quickly and the best of luck with the gardening.

Hello Dee, Isis and bogwobbit. I'm the slightly mad one with a minor baking obsession and the ability to kill plants at 40 paces. So if you need a cake stall baking I'm your woman, but for the sake of all that is horticultural, never let me near your seedlings.

kidcat I hope you continue to improve

Hugs and hellos to anyone else I may have missed ((((((((hugs)))))))))

Today I've managed to get two bags of books out of the house to the local Hospice charity shop and I only came home with one book. For me that is very good going. I also got a few bargains in the co-op. I spent £10.78 and got a bottle of water, three packs of cheese, three bottles of handwash, three lots of shampoo and the same of conditioner. They were all on buy one, get two free. The nice lady on the checkout said the offers were on for the next three weeks.
The charity shops yielded a pair of brand new fingerless gloves/handwarmers for 50p, 3 balls of pure wool for £1.50 to try out felting, The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook for £1.50 and a beautiful velvet scarf for my DMIL for £1.
I've risked pegging out the heavy weight clothes and I'm on the look out for the rain starting. Even an hour outside will make a difference.
At some point I need to decide what to make for dinner. Today is one of those days when I really don't want to think. I'll ask DS2 if he wants chilli or pizza and go from there I think.

See you all later and take care xxx

silvasava

meme30 wrote: »

Greent:- when we needed a new lock for our dishwasher I found a web site called e-spares. New lock was only £10 and they had a video to watch so we could replace it ourselves! They even told you to be careful of the sharp edge and yes, DH cut his finger anyway!:p Job only took 15 minutes, we were really chuffed.:D

Got new brushes for my 28 year old tumbledryer from them too - some websites were quoting £9 each & I needed 5 :eek: espares were just over a fiver for the whole set! Will def use them again

Byatt

Mary, it's a good thing to shout about. Thought I would have to cancel though as I suddenly remembered that I had a meeting with DD's support on Friday 25 miles away! Took the executive decision and a put myself first in this instance moment and cancelled the meeting!

Just had a couple of emails telling me of some small wins, a Big Head fluffy animal, and eye pads for sleeping!

Rosanna79

Did anyone see Watchdog last week and the item about people having insurance quotes of firms they've used for years being massive compared with new customers? There didn't appear to be any explicable reason for this despite Watchdog's pursuing a variety of firms/ lines of enquiry.

We just received this year's house insurance quite today and decided to check out the comparison website ACAIN- have saved ourselves £127.27 on the quote. OH thinks I'm a whizz on the laptop with this. He, however is much better when it comes to phoning up the company.

Does anyone else have a problem processing numerical information over the phone? I seem to need to see it as well as hear it and get flustered!

Well still haven't needed to water in the onion sets with all this rain! Took myself off for a much needed walk with a planned stop at our leisure centre for a coffee. 3/4 mile into the walk whilst happily swathed in waterproofs and listening to an audiobook on my MP3 OH's car appeared wanting to know if I wanted a lift back as it was bucketing down?! Under my brollie I really hadn't noticed so declined his kind offer and proceeded with my walk ... Wet jeans are drying on the radiator and I'm feeling virtouous having completed 3.29 miles on my Garmin sportswatch!!

Dee2012

Byatt Well done on putting yourself first, your health is very important also well done on your wins.

I have an appointment on Wed afternoon with an Occupational Therapist
to have a look at what I can do at home to make things easier for me.
I sort the clothes for washing and put them on OH hangs them up.
I sit to iron, I sit at the dining table to prepare our meals and then the OH cooks and serves them. He also washes up. I dust he hoovers.He also changes the bed and I help him to make it.We make a pretty good team.
So I am not sure what else I can do. Maybe they will have some ideas
We have had a very wet morning here followed by a sunny afternoon:)

Hope everyone is well

kidcat

Rosanna we had that with our car insurance, was weird we had two policies with same company when we moved here last year, and the large car policy went down with the move (charged £25 for the changeover) but the small car policy went up in price (and another £25 for changeover). Large car came up for renewal this month and the renewal price was double last years, I spent ten minutes online and got price down by £300. Contacted old insurers to ask them not to auto renew and they were stunned we were not staying with them, ironically online a new quote came up £150 cheaper than the renewal quote.
Having done insurance underwriting increasing renewals actually makes no sense from many angles, firstly you know your customer which is majorly important, secondly if you dont increase the price customers are less likely to shop around, and finally the longer you keep a customer the less likely to leave.

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

It's mended :j:j:j:j:j:j:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

T'was leaves on the line - well in the pipe that the condensate pipe was connected to. Heavy rain caused blocked pipe to back up and flood into the boiler. I am hoping they put it down to a design fault on the boiler (surely it should have a one-way valve?) and not charge us for all of these call outs. Nothing has been mentioned anyway. I am having the heating on full blast and 6 baths later! :rotfl:

Right - back to the cleaning.

Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! Bring on the cakes and wine.

D'you remember how bitterly cold it was in December 2010? We had the phones ringing off the hook because combi boilers were conking-out in council houses all across the city. A gas engineer told me what was happening; the condensate pipes were freezing and the boilers' sensors were shutting them down because they were blocked. He said that they were in such a hurry to get the systems back up again that they resorted to hacksawing the consensate pipes off outside the property. Soooo, if your combi shuts down, be a bit suspicious of the pipe.

Byatt, glad to hear that you're moving albeit sore and stiff. Bruises are the pits but I always find that once they "come out" (show) after a couple of days, the pain lessens.

:hello: Isis Black, welcome to the madhouse!

Well, the weather forecast was wrong again and it was sunny most of the day. I retrieved my bike after w*rk and pumped the tyre which punctured and then rode pell-mell back home and just made it into the block before it flattened again. My bike is now safely stabled, rubbed down and enjoying a haynet and some concentrate.........errr, I really ought to have grown out of these pony-club fantasies at my age.

Any horse-riders here want a laff? Imagine me and a 6 year old ex-polo pony, skewbald and very very fast, hurtling across a dipped and rockstrewn mountain pasture on the volcanic area of North Island of New Zealand. Along with several other maniacs, including some of the extras from the riding scenes of Lord of the Rings. We take off like bats-out-of-hell and at that point I make an interesting discovery about the ex-polo pony. Not only is he faster than greased lightning and can turn on a sixpence, but he is apparently trained to neck-rein and I am not. For the non-horsey among you, that means I CAN'T STEER because he is operating on a different set of instructions.

Fortunately, I'm a pretty cool customer. We charged across the pasture, up and down hidden dips and dodging around hidden rocks. Jinking and jiving and me thinking "If I come off now I shall probably break something. Like my neck. Better not fall!"

Stuck to that critter like a limpet. The owner of the company was with us on his big black horse. If anyone has The Two Towers and remembers the scene where the hobbits are in the orc camp and the horsemen charge thru at night and they escape death by inches under a horse's hooves? This horse was that very horse and I have petted it with my very own handies. The owner was riding it and said those scenes took 2 weeks to film and no end of stuntpeople got hurt. They had big marquees pitched so that the extras in costume and the horses in their fancy rigs could be out of the rain but the director was wading around outside in the mud in shorts and a teeshirt. A totally unpretentious guy.

That's the highest accolade in NZ btw.

When we got to base, I dismounted and my ankles buckled when I hit the ground because I'd been clinging on so tightly to my trusty mount. The kicker was that the skewbald had been retired from polo as he wasn't fast enough!:rotfl:

Back in the 1970s when I was a child I "met" Red Rum the famous racehorse at a county show. My Mum asked the handler if they'd be putting him out to stud now that he was retired from racing and the handler drawled; "Hardly, madam, he is a gelding."

:pOooohhh, she was that embarrassed!

OK, need tea, gotta go now. Laters GQ x