Preparedness for when

nuatha

Doveling wrote: »

We’ve also had a new alarm system/exercise machine installed this week. Mr.D and I went to look with a definite age, size and model in mind….. then the parallel universe thing happened to us again. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Congrats on the Woofit.
I'm sure that not fitting the intended specs won't make it any less of a right fit for you - probably makes an even better match.

GreyQueen

Congratulations on the new exercise machine, Doveling. And the new door, too.

Umm, can someone put me out of my misery and tell me what that doo-dad with the lithium batteries actually is? I don't get out much, y'see. I assumed it was a metal detector but the subsquent post about cleaning put the kibosh on that. Steam mop, perhaps?

Trusted the weather forecast (damn you, BBC, damn you) and arrived at the allotment just in time for the rain. Decided might as well do summat as was going to be wet anyway by the time I'd biked home. Have hacked my way through the undergrowth at the back of my shed to reach the water butt on the far side, which has been inaccessible for months due to 5 ft tall nettles and brambles (and docks, there's always docks etc) growing over from other people's plots. Have bagged 'em and tipped 'em. And slung cans of water over the patio and given it a good scrub with the yard broom.

Home for hot bath and a cuppa. Gotta go to pals' shop as they were teasing me yesterday afternoon that they'd got something for me but wouldn't tell me what, I'd have to visit today. It may well be another bunch of aspargus, which would be good.

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I think it's a cordless Dyson vacuum cleaner, and frankly I'm jealous!!! We have a big Dyson Animal that is built like a carthorse and weighs about the same when you drag it upstairs to clean!!!

Yesterday I added a 20 litre solar shower to the preps kit, not only for showers though, if the power is out for a long time it will give us hot water to wash us, up and clothes as well as giving us a shower £5 in Wilkos didn't seem a great deal to part with for a useful item. It can live on the summerhouse roof when we need to heat water, the solar panels on my neighbours roof are angled that way so I reckon that will be most effective and the little dangly hose will hang down beside the verandah which I can balance a bowl on to catch the heated water, good stuff!!!

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

Home for hot bath and a cuppa. Gotta go to pals' shop as they were teasing me yesterday afternoon that they'd got something for me but wouldn't tell me what, I'd have to visit today. It may well be another bunch of aspargus, which would be good.

Do you think that they found bobs body?

GreyQueen

Frugalsod wrote: »

Do you think that they found bobs body?

It's possible. I don't know whether to be disappointed or worried, I'd assumed by leg-pulling, BB would pop up on the thread and leg-pull back again. Hope the dude is OK.

I've been popping around on various websites reading more about being the 'gray/ grey man'. As in, working towards an unremarkable appearance. This is my natural style anyway, although I have the handicap of being well above the median height for a woman, which tends to be memorable. Luckily, I am now middle-aged, and am officially invisble anyway, which is a great asset when one is up to something, I find.

I was thinking of a woman who was in my first year at uni. She was the perfect example of grey womanhood; average height, build, colouring, unremarkable features, didn't have much to say for herself. I could barely remember her name even then. She has probably been recruited by the secret services..........:rotfl:

SG is a tubby little grandma type, who pretends to be a little old lady. A little old lady of such streetwisiness that CID officers come down to talk to her when they get stuck on cases - she knows where all the bodies are buried.

:j I know, I'll ask her if she's seen Bob!

ivyleaf

Phew, back from hols and just about caught up now.

I saw a post from Bedsit Bob on another board a few weeks ago.

DawnW

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I think it's a cordless Dyson vacuum cleaner, and frankly I'm jealous!!! We have a big Dyson Animal that is built like a carthorse and weighs about the same when you drag it upstairs to clean!!!

I have one of those carthorses too Mrs L - and 2 flights of stairs :eek:

(And I didn't know what the thing in the picture was either GQ )

GreyQueen

DawnW wrote: »

I have one of those carthorses too Mrs L - and 2 flights of stairs :eek:

(And I didn't know what the thing in the picture was either GQ )

I am so glad it wasn't just me in ignorance, I don't shop very much other than food and everything else in the chazzers, so some things are a complete mystery to me.

Pals have given me a belated 50th birthday pressie, bless their cotton socks. And it wasn't asparagus............:cool:

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GQ would it be possible to transfer the pie stash into the wally trolley? would make moving them easier if they are very heavy and then they'd be invisible to the workmen and you could perch the trolley on top of the other box and maybe have room in your cupboard for Henri d'Vac in there too?

GreyQueen

Good thinking, that woman! Hadn't thought of the wally trolley as camoflague, but it's do-able. I may not even have to move the pies at all, but will have to move and hide a considerable amount of stored water. I shall aim that nothing weird or preptastic (or sharing both those qualities) will be visible for the inspection or the actual work. I shall know more after the supervisor has visited next Friday.

This wiring business is fast becoming the talk of the block, seems like every flat will be involved. SG has just had the survey and, although dreading the upheaval, is looking forward to more sockets.