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Watty1

Alchemilla wrote: »

. Also got the quarterly water bill. £7.32.

Wow!! Wow!! Wow!! Ours are £43.30 a month :eek:

Alchemilla

Watty maybe you need to make them replace the meter?
In my last house i did get an operational telegraph pole removed from the garden. After they threatened me with a compulsory purchase order and i held my nerve...just!
Had a lovely drizzly afternoon out with pony and got invited to a wedding.

Alchemilla

Decided will have to regretfully decline the wedding invitation. Havent seen them for twenty years, kids not invited, will cost a fortune.
Planning to set up a water butt today to make watering ponyplops easier, put some donated fencing up to hide the muck heap and de flea the dog.

Alchemilla

Fencing up. Got stuck in the clay and had to be pulled out. Failed to drill through the water butt with a hand drill.

Hurdler

Definately worth getting a water meter... I was paying for the rather large family who make every effort to tell me that being self-employed is stupid, I should claim the benefits (!).
My bill went down by £20 and then when I had over-paid I had three months of just £6 a month for water! (Comes of showering at the gym when I work out in the mornings!)

Alchemilla

So do you rate the more people than bedrooms rule?

Hurdler

Alchemilla wrote: »

So do you rate the more people than bedrooms rule?

Do I rate it? I guess because it doesn't affect me (I live alone in a three bedroomed house that I bought before redundancy, career change, re-training, dealing with nefarious editors who think it's fun to pull the rug out from under you... a lot...) I guess it doesn't affect me because I don't claim benefit???

I honestly don't know - that's what I have gleaned from whatever bouts of media hysteria have made it's way onto the TV before I've headed into the study for the day.

Or should it affect me as all that lives in my spare room is my laundry, a drumkit and a couple of guitars?

Sorry - but my life has been a whirlwind of change (and not all of it great if I am being honest) and if something has passed me by, well if it isn't something I need to bother with, then I just don't!

Alchemilla

Sorry I dont mean the bedroom tax. Must express self more clearly when using phone.

I mean that a water meter is good if you have more bedrooms than people living in a house?

Off water meters and on to boots...i have been really impressed with my ugly, mens rigger boots. I got stuck up to mid calf in wet clay and they held up well. Feet warm and dry. Ironically i think of them as an ugly tan, if they were from Boden doubtless i should view them as a delicious caramel colour. Marketing, hey?

I would post a pic but if XH identifies me he will probably wee in them next time he visits.

Alchemilla

Dog wants out at 2.30. I can then do no sleeping until the clock says 5 something. Why is that?

Lois_E

Alchemilla wrote: »

Dog wants out at 2.30. I can then do no sleeping until the clock says 5 something. Why is that?

How infuriating. Happens to me too - not with dog anymore, but sometimes with children.