Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Hush ..... that's supposed to be our little secret.

Did I mention here I mistyped dh's phone number when texting last week, maybe the week before.


Someone might have got a bit of a shock on opening, or a bit of a disappointment when they got home.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Phew.....
Re brothers wives, really oddly dh's bil's girlfriend looks like a cross between his sister and me. More like his sister though. Creeps me out.

I'm confused. Your dh's bil should be either your brother (but I don't think you've got one) or dh's sister's husband. What is he doing with a girlfriend - has he left dh's sister but stayed friends with you? Or did you mean your own bil - ie your dh's brother?

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was gobsmacked by this mad woman's attitude this morning. And then it clicked: Having a house is the working man's access to being a Celeb (in their own mind).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2336624/Would-spend-200-000-doing-house-just-make-neighbours-jealous-DEBBI-MARCO-did-Here-explains-.html

I read with incredulity that the woman was so stupid and shallow that she really thought people thought like that.

What a ghastly attitude. And I don't like her kitchen, however expensive it was - all cold and hard and empty and boring, with nothing welcoming or inviting about it.

I rather hope the neighbours sue the DM for publishing a photo of their perfectly ordinary looking house with the word "grotty" as the caption. Typical lazy journalism to substitute a photo of next door if they hadn't got an exterior shot of the featured house before the renovations.

I am having a problem with doorbells. When we moved in to this house two and a half years ago, there was a wireless doorbell that only worked intermittently. I discovered this during the overlap between buying this one and returning our rented house to the LL, so I brought our old wireless doorbell here. I'd installed it in our rented house, so it was ours to bring. It also only worked intermittently, and although it had two bell units, usually only one of them worked. The house is quite well sound proofed, and DS has an obsession with making sure all the doors are shut all the times, so I kept not hearing the thing. I bought a new wireless doorbell that was supposed to have an extra strong transmitter and extra long range. It only worked intermittently and was inaudible if the TV was on and the door of the living room was shut.

Recently I decided that it really wasn't good enough and I ought to get back onto dealing with it. I think the problem was that the cooker is on the other side of the wall from the front door, so the metal of the cooker must be obstructing the wireless signal. I got my builder to put in a wired doorbell (with batteries). It was far too quiet, and anyway it only worked for a week and then died. He took it back to his supplier, got a replacement and installed it. It was unsurprisingly also too quiet, but also only worked for a week and then died. Last Saturday I had him back to put in a mains-powered wired doorbell. It stopped working on Tuesday evening. I have just called him, and he is going to come back tomorrow to look at it.

All I want is a doorbell that works consistently, and can be heard from anywhere in the house even if the TV is on and the doors are shut. Is that really too much to ask? I know it's not the same health hazard that lir's heating problems cause, but I am getting increasingly fed up of missing out on stuff because people come to the door and go away again because there's no response. Knocking on the front door is pointless because it opens into the conservatory, so unless you happen to be in the conservatory at the time, you hear nothing.

lostinrates

Yes Lydia, I meant my bil, his brother. Was probably going to say sibling then realised it would all get confusing, so in error made it more confusing.

lostinrates

Share doorbell woe. We have a knocker, and the dogs to bark. If we didn't have the dogs (and if they are being uncharacteristically laid back) I haven't got a clue someone is at the door.

I don't know what the answer is. A door bell that sends one a text?

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

A door bell that sends one a text?

If you Google for it, you will find that that has been done. There seem to be a number of Arduino projects for it.

In practice, there is often a delay in texts being transmitted onwards to the end recipient, by which time the visitor either has been savaged by the dogs or has left.

There are wireless doorbells you can carry around with you.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you Google for it, you will find that that has been done. There seem to be a number of Arduino projects for it.

In practice, there is often a delay in texts being transmitted onwards to the end recipient, by which time the visitor either has been savaged by the dogs or has left.

There are wireless doorbells you can carry around with you.

There is so much one carries around now. It's got so that one needs a trig to go from the sitting room into the kitchen.

Itismehonest

A really good old butlers bell does the trick. We can still hear ours at the far end of the house - maybe 70-80' away - through several thick walls.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Did I mention here I mistyped dh's phone number when texting last week, maybe the week before.


Someone might have got a bit of a shock on opening, or a bit of a disappointment when they got home.

And a set of divorce papers for the weekend.

PasturesNew

I've just discovered an email, written during work hours, from one sibling saying they're on leave for the next 10 days, so can't receive/send emails (their home PC's broken and no idea how to fix stuff so just walked away from it) .... and the other one responded with the sudden information that they'll be out of the country for 8 days starting in a few days' time.... so looks like I am in Number One Spot for "issues" down country.

Might disappear at any time at the drop of a hat in the next two weeks.

PasturesNew

I was doing some research earlier and found a fascinating burials record that it'd be neat if one could just follow up/research and get an instant answer to. It was a simple one liner of a burial: date, name, age, location. Odd thing was their location had been "poor house" and then, in brackets it simply said "Poor woman murdered by a maniac". http://west-penwith.org.uk/paulbur1.htm

Wonder how she got there and what the full story was.