Preparedness for when

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jk0 wrote: »

Well, I don't know about weeks Bob.

Perhaps I'd be better off getting a large, leisure battery.

I've found a 100Ah one, for less than the price of the jumper pack.

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Anyone tried something called Builder's One Mug teabags?

Just bought a box from £World, but haven't tried it yet.

GreyQueen

Oohh that map is hypnotic. I'm glad the big scary eyes are nowhere near me. Hang on to your hats, people.

Pink Thrift, awesome about your outhouse roof. Wind is the most amazing thing, the particularness with which is removes some things and pops them down unbroken........... however did you get it back again?

Been to the lottie and dug and delved for an hour before the rain came over. Pretty mild for mid-December around here and not windy yet.

I'm waiting for darkness to fall because I've seen something by the bins which I may want to womble and don't want to be seen doing it.

I have my pride. Not right a lot left, but a little...........:p

cornishchick

:rotfl:Love the phrase "womble"
As to take from rubbish, reuse and re love...

GreyQueen

cornishchick wrote: »

:rotfl:Love the phrase "womble"
As to take from rubbish, reuse and re love...

I'm not 100% sure what it is, except that its some kind of textile and the bit poking out of the bag looks rather nice. Could be curtains/ bedspread.

Bit concerned that it may have originated from the neighbour who was in the flat overlooking the bins therefore didn't want to be seen snouting (but am itching to get back out there, of course).

Fly-tipping is a bit of a problem at these flats but there is a lively trade in wombling as well. X person is known to have a sack trolley in his shed and will lend it if the wombling is something bulky like a washer or a cooker. Sometimes one neighbour will recruit help if the object being wombled is particularly unwieldy.

One of my neighbours was highly-delighted to womble a washer and a cooker in the space of a few weeks. His own appliances had died and he's on the dole so money too tight to mention.

Years ago, when I still lived at home, Dad said something to Mum about people who fish things out of skips, as in we weren't brought up to behave like that.

Mum, Bro and I exchanged a significant glance then cracked up, as we remembered very well what we three used to get up to in the early seventies when Mum was a SAHM, we were poor as church mice and there were some very large skips left by the council for use by residents, one on each estate.

Dad never did know where that wing armchair originally came from......:rotfl:

ALIBOBSY

maryb wrote: »

I've posted this link before but for those of you who haven't seen it - prepare to howl with laughter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2h3_aH3vo

:rotfl::rotfl:, just like our cats. We gave up on real trees after finding that all our cats loved having a real tree to climb and ahem "use" instead of the litter tray. TBH you have to watch them with the artificial, Fifi will climb it given half a chance and Tom eats tinsel. What with them and the 3 year old we don't dare put much of anything on the bottom third of the tree.

Ali x

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GQ do you think he believed it had flown in on its own, after all it is a wing chair?

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GQ do you think he believed it had flown in on its own, after all it is a wing chair?

Groan, that's appalling, Lyn.

Yonks ago, a furniture-designing acquaintance showed me a cartoon in a book about furniture design. It's two blokes standing beside a wing armchair and the caption was something along the lines of We researched the most comfortable armchair design possible and unfortunately this is it.

My Dad is rather strait-laced and Mum is a Womble through and through. Nary a stray washer on the road escapes her eagle eye.

Three years ago Mum found a breast lump at the beginning of Sept and had mastectomy and radiotherapy, which ended a few days before Xmas. A few days after Xmas, she and I were coming back on foot from the supermarket when we spotted what turned out to be a homebuilt lean-to shed, which someone had fly-tipped on their road.

Ooooh look, we cooed. Guttering, with brackets and endstops. Let's go get the screwdrivers and have that away.

It was only 50 m from home, so we scurried back with screwdrivers and then decided to have the whole shed. It was a piece of work shoe-horning it thru their small house into the back yard and I thought Dad would have forty-fits but he was surprisingly patient and helped.

I guess he figured Mum in full womble-mode was a well and happy woman.

We used the wood for various purposes, inc building my cold-frame on the lottie and I Freecycled the guttering and made someone else happy. Beats watching repeats on the telly, doesn't it?!

jk0

I don't get on with the people next door as they are forever building extensions. However, I don't know if I would have them over anyway, as they would see all their old furniture I salvaged from their skips.

Solid oak, some of it!

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mardatha wrote: »

LOL! Well I meant it's brilliant what they can do, and very addictive and hypnotic to watch. I do get tired of wind but you will get more of that than me PT. I like the silence when it stops !

I keep coming back to look at it Yes, it's amazing what they can do. Yes, we do get quite a bit of wind. It's surreal if we get a windless day (which is very rare). Although it's very wild outside and the ferries have mostly been cancelled, I think though at the moment you are getting a much worse than us!