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  • Itismehonest
    Itismehonest Posts: 4,352 Forumite
    edited 5 June 2013 at 8:55AM
    :D Have you moved to Bahrain, CTC? How hot is it over your way?
    It's sunny & finally getting warm but I'm still wearing a cardi. The cool/cold breeze means a few more degrees is needed before the t-shirts can come out. Not just me as everyone else I've seen walking about round here is still in spring (as opposed to summer) mode.

    :wave: choille. Long time no hear. Keep treading - sometimes there's not much else one can do. Hope you can soon make some good progress to tell us all about.

    LIR - True, didn't think about water-metering. 'Tis a different world out here ;) We haven't even celebrated 50 years of mains electricity in this part of the world :rotfl:
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    What weedkiller are you using, CTC?

    There is an [STRIKE]special[/STRIKE] expensive one for horsetail!;)


    We are using a super strength round up one... bought it off the internet, its the one you can use near water ways etc.. where we done a trial spray last year on the knotweed, its killed that, just the odd one poking its head out..

    so hoping it will do something with the horsetrail..

    I am sure you told me about one last year.??

    I want to grow there in a few weeks, so does the one you know about allows us to grow after spraying?

    as I might get some of your stuff too, just to give it a double whammy:D
    Work to live= not live to work
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    ITSME... blooming boiling here, unless its me being unfit, and my age kicking in:rotfl::rotfl:
    Work to live= not live to work
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    LIR - True, didn't think about water-metering. 'Tis a different world out here ;) We haven't even celebrated 50 years of mains electricity in this part of the world :rotfl:

    Crikey. Though, my parter all family farm was in this county and is now under a well known place of industry, and I know they didn't have electricity till late, because my dad lived there in summers as a young kid. It was probably to the village though.

    Lots of council farms /council farm houses are metred, whereever they are. It's a legacy of (among other things) multi occupancy of old subdivided properties and flexible renting of larger farms. We have three separate water metres.
  • Itismehonest
    Itismehonest Posts: 4,352 Forumite
    Crikey. Though, my parter all family farm was in this county and is now under a well known place of industry, and I know they didn't have electricity till late, because my dad lived there in summers as a young kid. It was probably to the village though.

    Lots of council farms /council farm houses are metred, whereever they are. It's a legacy of (among other things) multi occupancy of old subdivided properties and flexible renting of larger farms. We have three separate water metres.

    No mains water/sewerage for about 4 miles from here. Until about 10 years ago it was even further. We have the stuff that people go out & spend a fortune on to buy in bottles - literally. Some of the local farms bottled/bottle water for sale. There's no mains gas, either.

    A friend who bought a cottage down in the valley about 1990 had electricity installed because the previous owner didn't trust it :D
    One farm about 2-3 miles away had a fight to get it connected (quoted horrendous figures to run the power from the road at the top of their farm's valley to the house) even more recently.
    Until not long ago I know of one complete village which was still without mains electricity. I believe they have it now, though.

    There are still many places around the country like it.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    No mains water/sewerage for about 4 miles from here. Until about 10 years ago it was even further. We have the stuff that people go out & spend a fortune on to buy in bottles - literally. Some of the local farms bottled/bottle water for sale. There's no mains gas, either.

    A friend who bought a cottage down in the valley about 1990 had electricity installed because the previous owner didn't trust it :D
    One farm about 2-3 miles away had a fight to get it connected (quoted horrendous figures to run the power from the road at the top of their farm's valley to the house) even more recently.
    Until not long ago I know of one complete village which was still without mains electricity. I believe they have it now, though.

    There are still many places around the country like it.


    We have close family friends who come from two rather old exmoor families. I will have to ask them about their bits.. I know they installed electricity in their first very rural exmoor cottage because we were talking about it just last week when i saw one of them. I seem to remember they have a big wedding anniversary soon....I think maybe 45 years ago they would have had that cottage.


    Mains gas? Who has that, even we don't and we really are in 'civilisation' or at least near the masses.
  • Itismehonest
    Itismehonest Posts: 4,352 Forumite
    We have close family friends who come from two rather old exmoor families. I will have to ask them about their bits.. I know they installed electricity in their first very rural exmoor cottage because we were talking about it just last week when i saw one of them. I seem to remember they have a big wedding anniversary soon....I think maybe 45 years ago they would have had that cottage.

    45 -50 years could well be right. It arrived in this area with a blaze of publicity (including famous TV people to switch it on - like anyone here could know who they were :rotfl: - no electrickery = no TV on the whole?) just in time to celebrate 1970.
    The villages along the main roads got it first. It took much longer to get to the ones more off the beaten track.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    45 -50 years could well be right. It arrived in this area with a blaze of publicity (including famous TV people to switch it on - like anyone here could know who they were :rotfl: - no electrickery = no TV on the whole?) just in time to celebrate 1970.
    The villages along the main roads got it first. It took much longer to get to the ones more off the beaten track.

    Did no one at all get generators? There are still places in ' civilisation ' on gennies, like Alfie, and a clue of other people we know still on them. Some of the places I lived as a child were gennie only out side the 'capital' towns. I suppose that should make me feel old, that some places electricity free now aren't. Specially the ones that are just whole island luxuryresorts with massive electricity usage:rotfl: a few places we lived there were either no house phones or six month waits for house phones (by which time we usually had been reported). There were two long periods of time when my dad was away and my mother and I were in England and had to wait by the phone for him to call at a set time on Sunday because the only place one could call from was one building with public phones, ( this sounds very odd, it was enitirely civilian, just not well equipped). If the weather was bad he couldn't cal or the line wouldn't be usable.
  • Itismehonest
    Itismehonest Posts: 4,352 Forumite
    edited 5 June 2013 at 10:06AM
    Did no one at all get generators? There are still places in ' civilisation ' on gennies, like Alfie, and a clue of other people we know still on them. Some of the places I lived as a child were gennie only out side the 'capital' towns. I suppose that should make me feel old, that some places electricity free now aren't. Specially the ones that are just whole island luxuryresorts with massive electricity usage:rotfl: a few places we lived there were either no house phones or six month waits for house phones (by which time we usually had been reported). There were two long periods of time when my dad was away and my mother and I were in England and had to wait by the phone for him to call at a set time on Sunday because the only place one could call from was one building with public phones, ( this sounds very odd, it was enitirely civilian, just not well equipped). If the weather was bad he couldn't cal or the line wouldn't be usable.

    Yes, many still have generators. The mains power is much more reliable now than it was even when we moved here but it pays to be prepared - in much the same way as we kept the old gravity-fed Rayburn because all the new-fangled 'ranges' need power to fire the jets.

    :D The phone situation is about the same because both electricity & phone use the same poles. If something brings the poles down it can all go. Mobile signals being very hit or miss (non-existent just here) make life interesting. You can watch all the tourists walking around desperately searching for a signal :rotfl: Mind you, there's also a large proportion of people who come down here because there's no signal so they can get away from work or just relax.

    We had one very big advantage over a large part of the area. Because we are high up we can get TV signals from a Cornish transmitter. Most of the others could/can only get Welsh TV (Sorry those in Wales. Not badmouthing your TV but it is good to have something you can understand ;) )
    I believe Lynton & Lynmouth still struggle with the problem. Going over to Freeview didn't sort it out, apparently. Most people opted for Sky with all its' drawbacks & expense but then the NP got anti about the dishes. Ours is tucked well away from sight but meant/means an expensive private guy to do any necessary work on it as Sky only like installing at the easiest possible (& so most visible) place.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I don't understand welsh tv but used to watch it sometimes when lived near the border just for the giggle......its the random interjections of english that are funny, same as any language which has adopted Americanisms too but welsh/ english sounds particularly comical to me.
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