Butti's Journey: A matter of loaf and death

skint_spice

Butti wrote: »

OMG ......evidence of mice in the cupboards

:eek::eek::eek: hope it's just one!

ZTD

Butti wrote: »

I'm living with an !!!!.
He has a fundamental problem with understanding why we have a TV licence and a TV in the lounge. He 'hardly' watches the TV so he doesn't need to pay for the TV licence???!!!!!!!!!!!

Hardly doesn't cover it. You either do, or do not. It's like trying to claim you're hardly pregnant.

Butti wrote: »

Completely ignores the fact that we have a functioning TV in thme communal lounge so we can have one TV licence covering four TVs. Get rid of that TV and we are each required to have a TV licence to cover our own TVs. Maybe I need to draw him a diagram?

You don't need that communal TV. It (apparently) goes off electricity. Yes. Really. If you take your TV around to a friends' - they need a TV license because it uses their electricity. If it's a non-mains portable then you need the TV license (as presumably it's your electricity).

I hear the sounds of the TV licensing people making shit up as they're going along.

Butti wrote: »

Wonder what makes him think he is going to get this past me?

Does it rhyme with "You pid it E"?

Butti wrote: »

Failed my sign language exam:(
Haven't we been here before?

Almost everyone failed.
Haven't we been here before?

Honestly I feel like we are the class of doom!!!

Sounds more like teacher of doom. There is a spread of ability in every class - even "streamed" ones. For *everyone* to be below standard, you've got it examine the standard they're being taught.

Butti wrote: »

Well this weekend I am spending. I am going up north to the sea for lots of this :beer::beer::beer::beer: with a number of friends.

Don't drink too much. Don't want you looking ghastly. Again... :rotfl:

Butti wrote: »

The one awkward blighter who sometimes turned up, getting progressively more drunk, awkward, loud and generally obnoxious (and displaying the latest stains on his trousers :eek:) has died so he won't be there.

That's what you think... :eek:

Butti wrote: »

I, unfortunately, went on to the announcement of his death and tried to post a sympathetic comment (he wasn't entirely without merit - he was very good on bus timetables and on beer [if you got him sober]).

If my 1 of 2 merits to be eulogised after my death, was that I was good at bus timetables - I'd rather it wasn't...

Butti wrote: »

Unfortunately I managed to hit like!
:eek::eek::eek::eek:

At least there wasn't a "Overjoyed" button...

ZTD

skint_spice wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: hope it's just one!

There's never just one.

Butti

ZTD wrote: »

There's never just one.

That's SOOOOoooooooooooooo true!

Butti

...and so we arrive at the seaside...a long way from two bait boxes and a couple of dead mice!!

ZTD

Butti wrote: »

...and so we arrive at the seaside...a long way from two bait boxes and a couple of dead mice!!

Enjoy it while you can. Only large bodies of water you'll be seeing after this weekend are flooding rivers...

Butti

Well I think TV-licence-gate is getting me down. At the same time I'm thinking I'm not bl**dy letting him get away with this.

Think it may be worth throwing another £1k at my debt just to bring salvation and freedom from mice a bit closer. :T:T:T Atmosphere at home is not great although the mices are quite friendly!:eek:

Tonight is the pub quiz and everyone's most irritating club member has returned to repeat himself over and over and over again.:eek::eek:

On more positive news (before I go home and count dead mice) a friend has sent me a job description of something I can do remarkably easily, for a large part am already doing, which pays £3k more than I am being paid at the moment and is in a nice part of the country (well not quite this country) and would be closer to the sea, very close to the sea (not working for the RNLI!!)

I'm not sounding terribly upbeat am 1? Feel a bit flat!

beanielou

It the January gloom Butti.
Keep plodding & the job sounds promising

ZTD

Butti wrote: »

Well I think TV-licence-gate is getting me down.

:grouphug:

Butti wrote: »

At the same time I'm thinking I'm not bl**dy letting him get away with this.

Good for you.

Butti wrote: »

Think it may be worth throwing another £1k at my debt just to bring salvation and freedom from mice a bit closer. :T:T:T Atmosphere at home is not great although the mices are quite friendly!:eek:

They tend to be, especially if they're being fed.

Butti wrote: »

Tonight is the pub quiz and everyone's most irritating club member has returned to repeat himself over and over and over again.:eek::eek:

Repeating on you like a cucumber sandwich?

Butti wrote: »

On more positive news (before I go home and count dead mice) a friend has sent me a job description of something I can do remarkably easily, for a large part am already doing, which pays £3k more than I am being paid at the moment and is in a nice part of the country (well not quite this country) and would be closer to the sea, very close to the sea (not working for the RNLI!!)

Putting people up on a cruise ship?

Butti wrote: »

I'm not sounding terribly upbeat am 1? Feel a bit flat!

:grouphug:

Butti

Well got through today...more through sheer bl**dymindedness than anything else.

Checking on five properties we did last year and all apart from one had damp

Someone started our visit by having a go at my professionalism which I didn't think was part of the remit of looking at a property. Really p*ssed me off I can tell you, especially when I have to say "I'm sorry you feel that way". I know they are angry, I know they are p*ssed off but I'm just the person trying to massively improve their circumstances with about 50p to work with.

Nice when you do work and it works but not very satisfying when you sense your efforts are doomed and six months later there is confirmation of that!:mad: