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  • craigywv
    craigywv Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    Lol naughty mind pineapple!
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater :p I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)
  • Frugalsod
    Frugalsod Posts: 2,966 Forumite
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    nuatha wrote: »
    It uses the water below 2m as its a fairly steady 8 to 10C. Pulling the heat from this layer will have an effect, if you drop the temps by two degrees then the heat exchangers will not work as well.
    The example given is using part of the Thames to heat 150 homes and a hotel. I expect the impact will be negligible. However when its expanded to heat 10,000 homes or 100,000 homes that's a huge amount of energy to be pulled out of the water..
    Totally agree about the scale issue. A single house not a problem 10,000 homes then there will be impacts.
    nuatha wrote: »
    There are countries that will hardly be affected - there the ones that exist just above dependence on third party charity funding and below major dependence on trade.
    The US is likely to be able to delay its actual fallover due to a combination of size, military might and momentum but I don't see it as in better shape than many other economies. And given that the rest of the world uses the dollar for international trade their could be unforeseen consequences of other economies collapsing..
    There were many communities that barely noticed the crash in 2008. I was not impacted at all directly but by the policy changes.

    The same will happen next time. There will be serious problems in Germany this time. The banks there are trying to exclude german mortgage lending from the upcoming banking stress tests. As if Germans are better home owners. I suspect that the thousands that bought a home under the help to buy scheme will eventually be foreclosed on if things crash again.
    nuatha wrote: »
    House prices may be rising in some areas but the number of properties selling is far below what it was pre 2008. Though I've never seen house prices as a good economic indicator.
    I'm seeing fewer businesses going bust, but those that have survived aren't replacing antiquated equipment or increasing staff hours. There's a huge number of empty shops, offices and industrial units around here with very attractive initial rent deals but they stay empty - there's little confidence to take the risk of new business premises.
    Yes I am seeing the same locally. I live in a village with 4 estate agents. Two are parts of big chains and they have the majority of boards up but they have not sold a home in months. Two small independents have around a dozen homes on their books but they are selling at 20% below what the big players are asking. In fact the sales are at valuations well below what the market is supposedly demanding. What is happening is that the big agencies have loads of targets for getting properties listed so they say that the property is worth 20% more and then in order to sell they have to drop the price dramatically. The downside is that if they are in a sole agency deal that they have to pay to get out of it. So the agents make money for listing a place but failing to sell it. Also the types of businesses being created are questionable. I live in a small touristy village and we now have 17 places you can buy coffee.
    It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.
  • I've just been clearing out my kitchen cupboards, and found a couple of potatoes, which had slipped down behind a stack of tins.

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    :eek:
  • siegemode
    siegemode Posts: 384 Forumite
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    GreyQueen wrote: »

    siegemode, I've been having texts from HASDA about this for a while now, think before even New Year, just hadn't got my arris in gear to deal. You haven't been able to put credit on these SIMS since 31/01, anyway, I'm just using what I have. Here's a linkie : https://mobile.asda.com/existing-customers/faqs.html

    I spoke to them on the jellybone first thing Friday (lovely lady btw) and am getting a new SIM and top-up card sent. They'll be contacting customers nearer the 30th April to ask what they want done with existing phone credit; shop vouchers for HASDA or moved across to the new service. I'll prolly choose the latter.

    If you have a 3G phone, you can get an even better deal as an emergency phone/ very light user on '3' but my old phone is as dumb as a bucket of rocks and I can't be bothered to update it. I keep a phone until it karks it, the previous one lasted about 7 years. Glad my blithering on was a useful headsup for you and FIL.

    Today the sun is shining and the sky is blue and it is most charitably described as fresh out there. I am easing in to the day and will be going up to the lottie to wrestle with The Feral Strawberry Bed. This was a perfectly normal strawberry bed until I foolishly let it get infested with couch grass and docks and last year it was a case of hunt-the-berries.

    I have transplanted two whole new beds and the ferals being dragged out of the grass (kicking and screaming) are being potted on and shared with friends, acquaintances and workmates. I can't abide binning a perfectly good plant just because its supurflous to requirements.

    Hokay, tea and possibly even cake are calling - it is Sunday after all and I can eat cake if I wanna........... have a good day, folks. GQ xx

    Thanks for the info and link. Your blithering was most helpful since OH and I use a different network and would not have been aware of the change had you not mentioned it. FIL likes gadgets, but often buys stuff and then can't understand it. Things are then put away or left to one side. He struggles with technology as we all do at times, but still keeps buying stuff that is beyond his understanding bless him. He has this phone with the red emergency button, but says he keeps forgetting to take it out in the same way he says he forgets to wear his careline wrist thingy. It's a concern and I think he sees it as being something for old people. He's almost 80 but an old 80 iykwim and not fit at all with health probs. It worries us greatly and we try to encourage him to take his phone out with him and explain how it gives us piece of mind, especially being 200 miles down the road. The other obstacle is to get FIL to turn the bliddy phone on !!! If he has the need he can press the red button on the back of the phone and it automatically calls both our phones 3 times and also sends out an emergency text alert. So as you can seen your info was most important and has potentially saved us a lot of distress should he have finally remembered to carry it and had the need to contact us and then not been able to in an emergency situation So a big Thank you:A The info shared is potentially life saving. FIL is going into Hasda tomorrow to sort things out.

    Hope you had your tea and cake, Sundays just aren't Sundays without cake in our house:D Just as Saturdays in particular require chocolate and a cupper needs a bickie:D
  • siegemode
    siegemode Posts: 384 Forumite
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    :rotfl::rotfl:
    Sorry, just me :D



    Why shred them first if you are going to pulp them? Couldn't you just pulp them as they are?
    I can only agree about the state of the economy. Even in our relatively prosperous town shops are closing and charity shops spreading like wildfire. We wouldn't dream of buying new furniture at the moment, most of ours is handed down from grandparents (they don't make stuff like they used to :rotfl:) or sourced from friends, freecycle or fleabay. The furniture we did buy from new (when we had disposable income, before kids) was from clearance shops and heftily discounted. This is all healthy activity which keeps us ticking along, but in terms of the economy, these material transactions take place with the taxman nowhere in sight (fleabay apart, maybe, and I wouldn't be too sure of that), and no transaction recorded by bank or company accounts, so we add nothing to GDP through this frugal OS living.

    Another one here that hasn't bought new furniture etc 1 leather sofa given and the other from the charity shop which is always a double whammy on the feel good factor. All wooden furniture made by OH for much less and to his design and my requirements:D All soft furnishings obtained at a fraction of their original cost in the sales (has to be a least 70% off) and often paid with points or vouchers. Even our bed and mattress was got by converting points to vouchers and then using them at mfi. Mfi sent the wrong matteress and never collected it when they sent the right one so that's now up north so we have a bed at FIL's. I can't resist a really good bargain and a bit of wheeling and dealing. It's the only way we survive and can afford the little extras like fresh ground coffee and a day at the coast with a bag of chips. It also means I've been able to gather random stuff for various shtf situations and future expected expenditure on replacement of stuff. We have various camping stuff and then there's the spare duvets, pillows and saucepan set and frying pans and linen etc all of which will need replacing one day. I'm worried that when that day comes our financial situation along with replacement cost will be so dire that I'm trying to prep now. This also means we have a bit of a space problem:o


    craigywv wrote: »
    Lol naughty mind pineapple!

    Not just pineapple I found my self grinning too as I read your post:)


    It feels cold hear today as we are still without hot water and heating:( Going to make some soup and sausage rolls so that the oven is on and the heat will spread into the living room. Trouble is with open plan living it eventually moves upstairs so it's difficult to keep warm.

    Enjoying the humour today. I often read the thread to OH, but I keep quoting Bedside Bob instead of Bedsit Bob and OH keeps correcting me:o I blame it on brain fog and the ME.
  • siegemode wrote: »
    but I keep quoting Bedside Bob instead of Bedsit Bob and OH keeps correcting me :o

    You're thinking of me and GQ, playing zombies and Maid Marian, aren't you? :)
  • siegemode
    siegemode Posts: 384 Forumite
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    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Is that what it is
  • jk0
    jk0 Posts: 3,479 Forumite
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    edited 23 March 2014 at 8:51PM
    About a week before Mothers' Day, my mother drops heavy hints so that I won't forget.

    Today she said: 'You know what next Sunday is, don't you J****?'

    'Yes Mum,' I said, 'It's the day we change the clocks.' :)
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    You're thinking of me and GQ, playing zombies and Maid Marian, aren't you? :)
    :eek: Arghhhh!!!!!!!!!

    Pass the Acme Mind Bleach immediately, I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

    There I was going about my abnormal business (gardening and re-arranging the airing cupboard, in case anyone was wondering) and all kinds of innuendos are going on.

    siegemode, grinning at the idea that we're spreading merriment to your OH as well. The famous forumites. I am, of course, a legend in my own lunchtime, well-known to, ohh, at least a few dozen people ;)

    Know what you mean about supplies. I was doing the old domestic archaeology in the airing cupboard, which is allegedly only 20 inches wide by about 18 inches deep but in fact probably contains one of the many doorways into Narnia, or at least the part thereof where they keep the homewares department.

    I have been sewing drawstring bags from fabric remnants to corral various small and fiddly things by type, such a face flannels and the J cloth mountain. The idea is that I will have a small amount of each kind of thingy (tea towels, flannels, pillowcases etc) in use and will use them up before bringing a few more forward. This is to avoid having shedloads of half-worn-out stuff cluttering up the place.

    I'm a firm believer in keeping a good airing cupboard and mine also holds 123 bars of soap (39 out of their wrapper and drying nicely in a basket) which I purchased before the packs shrunk.

    This weekend I have emptied and refilled two of the big water containers, which I do every 3 months. I sling the water into the bath-tub, add hot and immerse myself. Whereupon, the Pequod hoves into view and someone is heard to bellow Thar she blows!

    Enough nonsense, time to see what the world of ZH has to offer this weekend.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • maryb
    maryb Posts: 4,720 Forumite
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    :rotfl:LOL GQ I originally read that as you only having a bath every three months:rotfl:
    It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!
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