Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Evening all.

seigemode, really glad your boiler is sorted out and sorry that you and OH have suffered such incompetance. Hope you're toasty tonight.

I'm relishing being back online after 48 hours of enforced offlinity due to the pooter making a very funny noise indeed on Monday morning and my Pooter Wizard not being able to attend until this evening, on grounds of being several hundred miles away. He'll be several more hundreds of miles away by tomorrow morning so I'm glad he was able to pop over.

The upshot is that the Funny Noise was the fan in the power unit (the big end) and there are other things going awry in there so a new one will be fetched and installed by him in the next two weeks. It's now got a quick and dirty fix (his terms) involving WD40 and electrical tape in one of its important little places and no longer sounds like it's about to explode.

I also have my entire hard drive cloned onto a removable hard drive, although my existing hard drive is apparently in luverly nick and prolly not likely to suddenly fail.

All this excitement meant that I missed archery, but it needed to be done and the Wiz is a freelancer so he goes where the work is and he sometimes isn't even in the UK never mind in his flat just up the road, so you catch up with him when you can...........

jk0

I used sewing machine oil on mine about a year ago GQ, and it's still going strong.

I found out how to access the bearing by searching on Youtube.

siegemode

Even the pawn brokers are failing !
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/25/pawnbroker-albemarle-bond-administrators-pricewaterhousecoopers-jobs

Britain's five richest families are worth more than the poorest 20% :eek:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/25/uk-incomes-how-salary-compare

What's next I wonder

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/25/water-cannon-ban-police-theresa-may

And they say us preppers are paranoid at times. He might be the president but for 1 night this is a bit ott.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/barack-obama-visit-brussels-cost-belgium-10m

GQ it's good you have your puter fixed. It's been quiet here for the last 2 day's where has everyone gone ? RL I guess. I've missed the banter and Bobs naughty humour. We are indeed very toasty thank goodness. The problem it seems was faulty pressure gauge and expansion chamber so all replaced and sorted now. No call as promised from the insurance company though:(

ALIBOBSY

SM glad you are back to being toasty warm :j, shame about the stress though.

DD2 is still struggling with illness and DR now reckons she has tonsillitus so she is back on anti biotics again. But at least she is able to go to school, its just when she lies down to sleep her swollen tonsils make it harder to breathe so she keeps coughing and struggling to sleep.

But had some good news today had a little win (I love comping been doing it for years), won Mary Berry's new book which I really fancied yay.
Been transplanting seedlings all week, so pots all over window sills. Moved some to the greenhouse, but the toms et al need to stay inside for a few more weeks.

Ali x

D&DD

*Yawns* Is it morning yet my eyes are still stuck..
Up early as got stacks to do today including the potting on/up and more seeds to sow.Just cooking up some chicken for DS3 for his lunch he won't eat it if its been 'frigid' lol..
Bit of a frost here last night but so far so good gardens starting to come together a bit at least!


Seigemode so glad you're finally starting to thaw out


Righto orf to the galley for me have a great day all XX

Frugalsod

siegemode wrote: »

What's next I wonder

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/25/water-cannon-ban-police-theresa-may

Unfortunately it will be us that it is used against. They are clearly worried about serious civil unrest.

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

I used sewing machine oil on mine about a year ago GQ, and it's still going strong.

I found out how to access the bearing by searching on Youtube.

Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? The spindle of the fan is under a sticker and is packed in gunk when it's made. The Wiz had the power unit apart after he'd identified the source of the noise and sorted that easily but there's a capacitor in there looking on the verge of karking it so he'll fetch a whole new unit from the shop and just switch it . It's a bog standard part (ATX supply) and should be in the range of £25-£35.

Pooter's 12 later this year, but the motherboard is 11 and one of the chips (the sneaky extra one the Wiz installed) is about pre-school age, as is one of the fans and the network card. It's Trigger's Computer, really...........:rotfl:

I regard it as an anti-theft device; too big to move and valueless to a thief but serves my purposes well enough.

Provincial City is undergoing a veritable plague of burglaries, plus thefts from non-domestic dwellings. SuperGran's sources in the Polis have visited and asked if she has any Ideas. SG isn't yer average pensioner btw. We have families around here where the family biz for generations has actually been burgling, but there are lots of others. The courts take them out of circulation, but it doesn't seem to dent the amount of crimes going on.

I've had angry members of the public on the phone ranting because DWP has suspended their jobseeker's allowance and declaring that they'll 'go nicking' in response. Not a very smart declaration to make to your local authority on a recorded call but, hey ho, it happens.

I guess what we're seeing now will be as nothing to what we will see if there ends up to be harsher cuts in social welfare provision.

Righty, now I'm back in the interwebulator (and I was shamefully climbing the wall, although I did finish a book I was reading ) better go check out a few other places. GQ xx

Si_Clist

GreyQueen wrote: »

We have families around here where the family biz for generations has actually been burgling

Not long after the 1987 hurricane, we were standing up the country lane down which we lived at the time, talking to a local young feller who usually did a bit of gardening for what passed as the gentry thereabouts. Now he was engaged in chainsawing up one of the many trees that was still overhanging the road.

Up comes Her Ladyship in her little blue Metro. She was well past her best before even then, and completely crackers, but for all that still a wonderful old bird. We passed the time of day with her, but suddenly she noticed Graham. She stuck her head as far as she could out the window and said "Hello Graham, you're being busy."

"Mornin' ma'am. I certainly am" said Graham, or something to that effect. What I do remember word for word though was what came next.

"Do you still go burgling, Graham?" says she.

"I'd love to, ma'am but I don't seem to have the time any more"

And I am not making that up!

ArthriticOldThing

Good afternoon.


I've been unable to get online for over two weeks because of a bad case of builders. The room I use to work in has a veranda and French window type thing which the landlords have decided to renew. Would not have been so bad if the workmen were capable of anything resembling organization.


But no....being of the type who would have you waiting in all day for them to do a 10 minute job OR not turn up at all. Then would arrive and leave a note on the day you had told them you would not be in.:mad::mad:


Like you GQ, I have been climbing the walls at times but at least have got quite a bit of crochet done.


As well as no computer/internet access this also meant nowhere to dry washing - resulting a damp flat.


So glad you got your boiler sorted SM. :T

GreyQueen

ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

Good afternoon.


I've been unable to get online for over two weeks because of a bad case of builders. The room I use to work in has a veranda and French window type thing which the landlords have decided to renew. Would not have been so bad if the workmen were capable of anything resembling organization.


But no....being of the type who would have you waiting in all day for them to do a 10 minute job OR not turn up at all. Then would arrive and leave a note on the day you had told them you would not be in.:mad::mad:


Like you GQ, I have been climbing the walls at times but at least have got quite a bit of crochet done.


As well as no computer/internet access this also meant nowhere to dry washing - resulting a damp flat.


So glad you got your boiler sorted SM. :T

I love the turns of phrase we get on here; bad case of builders, I am so stealing that. I once waited in for a tradesman who then carded me with a time prior to my departure by 10 mins, as he'd obviously run late and was too idle to ring me so decided to lie and make out he'd made the appt and I hadn't been there. Wasn't very pleased about that, believe me.

Si Clist, love the story about Her Ladyship and Graham, it's amazing what people admit to in front of witnesses, isn't it?

Someone I know had a 3rd sector job going into prisons aiming to assist the soon-to-be released into accomodation and a productive law-abiding life. He said it was so disheartening dealing with some of the young men; they'd get caught, sentenced, do a stretch, get released, sign on for benefits, lay in bed until afternoon, get up and go nicking, shrug when they got caught and went to prison, rinse and repeat. They really didn't object to the lifebreaks in prison, just dismissed it as part of their lifestyle.

Beggar all you can do with someone like that unless make prison back to 'hard labour' rather than the current version.

Been to work and come home again. Have refilled one of my big water carriers, added the fill date to the masking tape strip on the top and tucked that away. Will diarise to re-fill again.

Heads-up to anyone who's minded to buy one of those cased single burner butane stoves; Goo Oootdoors (shops only) will be having them from 2nd-8th April for £10 for the stove + 4 butane cylinders if you hold their discount card (I do). Gonna ask me muvva if she wants me to get one for their homestead.

Heck, at that price, I'm tempted to get a spare myself...........

Have decided to re-read Last Light by Alex Scarrow and release it into the charity shop system to let it influence someone else towards the preptastic view of the world. Who knows, it could change/ save a life one day...........:p