Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

LIR.... i meant the color BLAZER for your dresser F&B

alfie_1

PHOEBE... pleased your mums op has gone well

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR.... i meant the color BLAZER for your dresser F&B

Yes, I realised.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, I realised.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Sorry LiR, I'd never even think of putting paint up that was called Dead Salmon! :eek: No matter how nice a shade it was. So can't help here.

.....And I'm a bloke! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Not looking good this morning. After a lull, wind & rain back with a vengeance and river is on the loose....

http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/south/Taw/Chulmleigh

Doesn't seem to be down to Umberleigh..... yet!

http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/south/Taw/Umberleigh

Doubt if Cornwall will have a train service for quite some time now.:(

Much worse than 2004, when I was observing the storms in Dawlish station. BBC reporter wasn't even allowed in the car park today.

lostinrates

A rose by any other name... .....I eat dead salmon too...;)

Anyway, bit of a minor disaster. The wind has blown something into my resident parent's car. RP is away, and I have a feeling that they will assume that the damage was caused by me and a post adolescent flit in the car!!

Nothing I can do, bar take pics for insurers. No point ruining a holiday with such news.

Better_Days

Great news about your Mum Phoebe, she must be relieved to get out of hospital.

LIR - how about a warm grey - shouldn't show up the mud from the dogs too much. We are having a similar problem in our utility room - muddy dog comes in and shakes - droplets of muddy water everywhere BTW - love the dead salmon paint name and they do a haddock too!

Those river photos are scary Davesnave the pressure of the water on bridges must be immense. Talking about the railway line being washed away at Dawlish on the radio - and the long term impact on the local economy. Can't believe it wasn't that long ago there was a drought.

Mr BD's birthday next week and he has asked for a Roughneck Demolition and Lifting Bar to pull apart pallets to burn in the stove. Before we moved here he didn't even know they existed (and neither did I) http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddiy&field-keywords=Roughneck%2064640%20Demolition%20And%20Lifting%20BarPart of his delivery is an industrial park which is handy. He is already popular with all the dogs there, he keeps a supply of mini bone bisicuits in his pocket when out on delivery and the dogs are mightily disappointed when he runs out :D

Davesnave

The only damage I can see here is that one of the 5" posts supporting the 6' chicken fence has snapped. So much for the local timber yard's products! That's not yet been in for 4 years. :mad:

Pete did warn me about their stuff failing in 5 years, so this must be a record. Fortunately, after he did, we switched suppliers to another company in the Blackdown Hills. Some folks thought we were mad going all that way for our posts.......

Theirs are guaranteed for 15 years.

If the chicken run starts to fall apart in another couple of years, it will be annoying, but a good opportunity to re-configure onto drier land.

moneyistooshorttomention

alfie_1 wrote: »

i do have to get someone independant here too ... so what he says is remembered

i took my old lady for her pacemaker check up at hospital today.. i was trying to get her from van [at the door] into a hosp wheelchair and i asked a porter if he could help and he said NO..:eek: apparently more than his lifes worth if he was seen... they are NOT ALLOWED TO LIFT/MOVE anyone... beurocracy gone mad or what... who helped me ? two hoody lads :T [which tickled old lady to bits :rotfl: ]... porter was so embarrased but rules are rules . he said it put them front line for abuse but "the suits dont have to do our job, do they !"

right barf, cuppa and egg an chips beckons

'Scuse me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was precisely what hospital porters are there for.....:cool:

Mind you, I can believe owt these days, after recent incident I retailed on another thread of a male deliverer delivering a large heavy (for a woman) article at my last house and literally refusing to carry it a few feet on the level off pavement into my house. He said he wasn't "allowed to". I didn't believe him frankly (having never encountered someone refusing to do that aspect of their job before) and told him that he was capable of it, but I (as a little woman and feeling ill at the time) couldn't. He was informed I would refuse to take delivery unless I GOT delivery and he then carried it in without further grumbles. What was the blimmin' difference to him lifting it a few feet out of his van or a few feet on the level into my house after all? I still don't believe he was telling me the truth...

Good on the lads though for helping out, but just how would the old lady have got from car into hospital without their help? I guess you were ready to get onto your mobile and make a phonecall about hospital refusing to take in someone too ill to manage to get themselves in?

lostinrates

I'm on my stick today,

Difference in attitude of different people here is really interesting. Some (from sse) have watched me opening gates in the wind etc. the guy here doing my pumps was coming with me to see the second pump and the gate there is dropped, I went to lift it, and he said 'do you mind, its a matter of pride to open a gate for a lady'. . There need be nothing offensive about it, I could have opened the gate, but it would have taken me longer, I might well have asked him to lift it had he not stepped in. .

When I came back in I had to open a door for the electric, they watched as I threw my lame selve against the swollen dor repeatedly then one smirked ' you ought to get that fixed' and I pointed out that's why we'd been waiting for them for a while now.....:)