Preparedness for when

jk0

I'm glad I'm not in paid employment nowadays. When I left they had been doing yearly 'appraisals' for a couple of years, but they left me cold then. As far as I could see, they were just a way of adding further responsibilities to my job without any extra money.

I haven't heard a peep from my tenants or from the EHO since Monday. Is this typical?

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

What if you were never in a nativity play?

I'm sensing a story here, Bob. A story of loss, of childhood dramatic ambitions thwarted, of deep wounds bravely born into adulthood, a grief too deep to be articulated........

C'mon, you can tell GQ and the gang.

I've probably been in a nativity play but can't recall it. I'd go with the shepherd in the teatowel simply because I have those red-and-white or blue-and-white ones which would be just the ticket. Add a white dressing-gown over your other duds, if you have one, tie a scarf as a sash around your middle and you're good to go.

For extra authenticity, you could take a pair of flat sandals in to change into once you're at work. A stuffed sheep tucked under your arm would be droll, should you be able to steal one in time from a child.

ETA; probably no news is good news, jk0. As you linked us to the news story about the flooding incident in the block where you have your flats (it was the plural) it's something the council would have had an awareness of anyway. If the tenant was demanding the council provide them with emergency accomodation, they'd want to be sure the property was really uninhabitable before stumping up for that.

It may well be, as I said upthread, that they were told that they don't have priority need and will have to get themselves another private rented home themselves if they feel they can't go back.

How are your flats drying out, anyway? Any news on the insurance front?

[Deleted User]

On the contrary GQ, as an Agnostic since early childhood, wild horses wouldn't have dragged me onto the stage, for a nativity play.

GreyQueen wrote: »

A stuffed sheep tucked under your arm would be droll

Or maybe an inflatable one?

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GreyQueen

<<sigh>> RL can be sooo disappointing.

Now, I typically hang around on the interweb with up to 6 tabs open on the browser at the same time. At the moment, I'm on here, the Robin Hood linkie, Zer0 Hedge, the Daily Fail and have briefly had the bra link open earlier tonight.

Sooo, imagine my hilarity when I tabbed back onto ZH and found that the sidebar ad is now for those very same M& S bras! The wonders of interweb spying, the speed of it. I'm killing myself.

For sh*ts and giggles, I've opened up an angling website, something I've never done before in my life, at 7.30, because I want to see how quickly the ad-matchy-thingy can get fishing ads onto the Hedge.

When I first went on there, I was offered cheerleaders, luscious young asian ladies desperate to meet me, and now its investment products and chances to go on adventures in mud. :think:

Can't think what I ever did on the interwebs to cause the above. How d'you clear cookies off, again?

Rosemary_Jane

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

On the contrary GQ, as an Agnostic since early childhood, wild horses wouldn't have dragged me onto the stage, for a nativity play.

Oh Bob!
You could have sabotaged it!
Like the little boy who wanted to be a King, but was told to be the innkeeper. He waited patiently til the actual performance, and when Joseph knocked at the door and inquired if there was any room at the inn,
threw the door wide and said 'yes of course, plenty of room, you don't want that nasty old stable'

R

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

ETA; probably no news is good news, jk0. As you linked us to the news story about the flooding incident in the block where you have your flats (it was the plural) it's something the council would have had an awareness of anyway. If the tenant was demanding the council provide them with emergency accomodation, they'd want to be sure the property was really uninhabitable before stumping up for that.

It may well be, as I said upthread, that they were told that they don't have priority need and will have to get themselves another private rented home themselves if they feel they can't go back.

How are your flats drying out, anyway? Any news on the insurance front?

Thanks GQ.

I only have one in that block that flooded fortunately. AFAIK, my tenants decided to go home rather than pay for any time in the hotel themselves. I haven't been this week due to being poorly. I am still upset at being reported, so buggar them!

I have no news on the insurance unfortunately.

GreyQueen

Advert experiment; 16 mins to get from me opening a fishing website for the first time ever to a never-seen-by-me-before RNLI advert on ZH.

Hmmm, what can I do next? I know!

Pressure cookers and back packs. That's always good for a bit of entertainment.

[Deleted User]

GQ if you were really canny you could fatten hens on your fat hen and take a fat hen to the post SHTF christmas bash and everyone would love you best. You could also be very creative with the feathers and make a lovely soft pillow to lay your head on !!!

I think we'd all try to save something that we liked to take to a christmas feast, I think there wouldn't be individual celebrations as no one could possibly have all the makings on thier own. It would be a coming together of the surviving people in the local area all bringing something to be a part of the shared feast meal, and all sharing the preparation and relishing the shared time as much as the food. At least, I'd like to think so !!! Lyn xxx.

Goldiegirl

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

What if you were never in a nativity play?

I think they'd expect you to pretend that you had. Or pay the fine for not dressing up.

Might be safer just to have the day off!

Goldiegirl

Rosemary_Jane wrote: »

Oh Bob!
You could have sabotaged it!
Like the little boy who wanted to be a King, but was told to be the innkeeper. He waited patiently til the actual performance, and when Joseph knocked at the door and inquired if there was any room at the inn,
threw the door wide and said 'yes of course, plenty of room, you don't want that nasty old stable'

R

Or could have played Joseph, and opened all the Baby Jesus's presents from the three wise men!