Daydream thread continues.....

lostinrates

Rhiwfield,

In Italy they believe in warm but not hot, black tea...no milk. It did wonders for me. Ginger ale or beer (helps with the nausea , lucozade....sugar and hydration, and...it's worth keeping in the house some of those horrid rehydration sachets for when you have a bug, They are often all I can face. Well, I say I cannot face them, then dh makes one so I have a sip so as not to appear ungrateful, then the next sip goes down easier,...and so on.

Clean your keyboard and light switches and door handles later, huh?

rozeepozee

Oh, Rhiwie, I feel your pain! I go for half and half orange juice and water, which my GP said was just as good as any electrolyte replacement drinks you can buy from the chemist.

lostinrates

Brrrrr.


Every week recently I know I have said ' this is the week we might get heating' but...this is the week we should get heating, on Wednesday.

Tomorrow I have to drop in on the ironmongery peoe and find out where all my window and door fittings are....they have been weeks and weeks.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

That's laudable, but kinda difficult to achieve, unless you mean something like parking a water heat bank somewhere near the middle of the house:

http://www.heatweb.com/xcel/

Take GSHP, for example, many people who bought ten years ago might have thought themselves very sensible putting in drainage, laying new floors, planting tree shelter belts, erecting additional buildings etc, only to discover now that they've virtually blocked off that option. We could hardly chastise them, though, for lack of foresight.

I think it's probably a fair assumption that being able to grow more of your own, and harvest wood, will continue to be a good option, even when we are all comparing notes and grumbling about the cost of Home Hadron colliders.

I'm not so sure, Dave.

There are more & more pests & diseases attacking our current trees & crops. Wildlife is changing with the climate & climate change will also mean different lifestyles for us, too.
Things have already changed noticeably in my lifetime. The distinct seasons are disappearing - particularly here in the west where the extremes of summer & winter are less noticeable than in the east so blend in more with spring & autumn.

I believe there are always ways to leave options open. For instance......
Don't totally rely on any one source of energy, fuel etc.
Don't think it's bright to make places so totally hermetically sealed that draughts are completely excluded. There's been a big noise in recent years about insulation & draught exclusion but how many people have bought/built places & done this without any consideration for, for example, Radon let alone general good health.

The whole point of having land is the options it gives you, & whatever you do, you take future options into account.
CTC, for instance, hasn't gone out & built Lord Emsworth style piggeries. Someone else might do just that only to find pigs weren't right for them & have to pull everything down.
I've seen many people end up pulling down things (both in house & on land) which they spent good money on to make way for the next idea.
It's not much different from buying clothes with room for kids to grow into. Maybe it's something women are better at than men? :rotfl:

Oh rhiw
If you really can't face drinking anything that's miserable & not good. Don't get dehydrated. Prochlorperazine buccal helps with the dreadful sensation of nausea. (I think that's partly because by the time one has worked out how to ask the doc for it the nausea has passed )

COOLTRIKERCHICK

RHIWIE..... flipping bugs....hope you are better soon..

COULD YOU HEAR ME AT 6.30AM THIS MORNING, SHOUTING AND BALLING:cool::D:rotfl:

Asda opene today, at at 6.30am the road sweeper was cleaning the road infront of our house:mad::mad: what a bloody racket, so i went out to tell him to stop, he didnt, so I stood behind his road sweeper, so he couldny o anything:D he asked if i worked, and told he to go to bloody work:eek::mad::mad::mad: the red mist well and truely came down then, Asda staff we told to park their cars over by us, so our entrance road, was manic, and they way they had parked on the corners, and doubled parked, we could not have got the van out, so by this time hubby had got out of bed, jumped into the van, and blocked the road:T:T hour and a half later, they were panicking to try and find the staff to move their cars, as other staff coming, had to go park elsewhere...

the store manager came over and asked us to move our van, and we said no, as they had a large carpark, for staff to park in.. when I also mentioned they had breached some planning rules, he shut up and walked away...

You would swear this is the first supermarket to be built in the area.... !!!!!! strings to mind....:rotfl:

Rhiwie... box picked up, an is on the van as we speak..

sorry about the typos on eldest laptop, and the buttons are sticking

rozeepozee

Yay! CTC, van power!

Itismehonest

Hehehe CTC. Nice one.

All the flooding made me wonder about uninsured homes & rebuilding.
Obviously, listed places have to be rebuilt but what happens with non-listed?
I realise that luckily not many places are destroyed by flood (unless they're in places with raging floods like Lynmouth & Boscastle) but I've looked online & can't find an answer.
I imagine rebuilding is more likely from fire damage but I can't find out what happens with that either.

Does anyone actually know? Or do we all just plod along paying insurance & not really knowing how things work? :rotfl:

ukmaggie45

Oh Rhiwie, sorry to hear you not well - Norovirus is early this year.

For all of you here, it might be worth subscribing to ProMED-mail. While you will get reports of rabies in US and elsewhere, weird tropical diseases etc etc, you will also get reports of stuff like Bluetongue in Europe, latest flu numbers worldwide, and lots of other stuff that we should all be aware of. I've been subbed for years now, while I delete at least 99% of stuff without reading there's lots that is interesting. Scary stuff - Ebola and things like that... But we should be aware.

Hugs to all of you from Liverpool!

ukmaggie45

Itismehonest wrote: »

All the flooding made me wonder about uninsured homes & rebuilding.

Uninsured homes won't get rebuilt unless their owners have the money to do it themselves. Whether they're listed buildings is academic - owners have no money to rebuild, they won't get rebuilt. That's why it's important to have insurance.

rozeepozee

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Oh Rhiwie, sorry to hear you not well - Norovirus is early this year.

For all of you here, it might be worth subscribing to ProMED-mail. While you will get reports of rabies in US and elsewhere, weird tropical diseases etc etc, you will also get reports of stuff like Bluetongue in Europe, latest flu numbers worldwide, and lots of other stuff that we should all be aware of. I've been subbed for years now, while I delete at least 99% of stuff without reading there's lots that is interesting. Scary stuff - Ebola and things like that... But we should be aware.

Hugs to all of you from Liverpool!

Cripes, Maggie. I'm apocolyptic enough, without reading daily emails like these :rotfl: