Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

I was amazed to find in when I arrived in that there London that most buildings' walls are just made of stiffened wallpaper apparently, judging by the fact that you can hear the people in the next flat changing their minds, never mind doing anything.

michaels

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Ewwwww.

I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone else having sex. Fortunately.

Do you wear earplugs are all your partners very quiet?! Edit: Or perhaps you are so noisy you can't here what noise anyone else is making?

Spent an hour this evening at the btl - not sure I am cut out to be a landlord.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Do you wear earplugs are all your partners very quiet?!

Spent an hour this evening at the btl - not sure I am cut out to be a landlord.

Oh dear I'm sorry its so hard going.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh dear I'm sorry its so hard going.

Not sure if it is just the tenant feeling lonely...just had a tiring week and needed to relax, had to leave work early, missed train so back later than planned so rushed dinner as DD2 had a church thing for her communion at 7 then at 8 back home and straight out to turn on radiators and sort out broadband and tv then home later to do prayers with DKs then washing up...and now economically illiterate people on newsnight saying wouldn't it be nice to decree that energy prices should be lower.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

They don't stay up so much as down: they are holes in the ground with a metal 'lid'. .

Some are getting a bit better nowadays too.










Although still some controversy around whether or not they can become an expensive tomb rather than a lifesaving investment....

A Humevale man died in a
purpose-built bunker – with the first responding
police officers observing that the inside of the refuge
appeared similar to an oven, containing burning hot
embers.

The roof had collapsed and the sprinkler
system on the roof had melted.

Also, a man and woman lost their fight for life in
Arthurs Creek from carbon monoxide toxicity while
sheltering in a cellar.

http://www.firesheltersaustralia.com.au/media/Bushfire%20Shelters.pdf

fc123

michaels wrote: »

Spent an hour this evening at the btl - not sure I am cut out to be a landlord.

Can't she turn on the radiators herself?
Why do you have to set up her BB and TV?

I am sure once she has settled in and everything is working OK, she'll be fine.

chewmylegoff

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Some are getting a bit better nowadays too.










Although still some controversy around whether or not they can become an expensive tomb rather than a lifesaving investment....

http://www.firesheltersaustralia.com.au/media/Bushfire%20Shelters.pdf

Is that where you keep your silver?

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

Not sure if it is just the tenant feeling lonely...just had a tiring week and needed to relax, had to leave work early, missed train so back later than planned so rushed dinner as DD2 had a church thing for her communion at 7 then at 8 back home and straight out to turn on radiators and sort out broadband and tv then home later to do prayers with DKs then washing up...and now economically illiterate people on newsnight saying wouldn't it be nice to decree that energy prices should be lower.

Not sure what's going on but as a long term tenant I have never expected my LL to do anything other than give me the keys to the house and fix any of the things that are included in the inventory when they break (and of course leave me alone to quietly enjoy my rented home). If I phoned up my LL and asked them to come around to turn the radiators on I would expect to receive a frosty reception (no pun intended...well actually a little bit). Sorting out the utilities including broadband is definitely a "tenant job" unless you have agreed to arrange that yourself in the tenancy agreement for some reason.

LLs provide a house not a support service for idiots who can't wipe their own rear end. I think you need to be careful about how much you agree to do otherwise you'll be receiving calls saying the plants need watering and the hoovering hasn't been done.

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Some are getting a bit better nowadays too.










Although still some controversy around whether or not they can become an expensive tomb rather than a lifesaving investment....

http://www.firesheltersaustralia.com.au/media/Bushfire%20Shelters.pdf

There was a movie on telly a while back about a family who enter their atom bomb shelter because a nearby plane crash makes them think the bomb's been dropped. The young son grows up and decades later he's sent out to investigate what shape the worlds' in. He sees punks and thinks "it's all mutants!" and when he sees traffic and buildings he thinks "well they soon got the world back into shape quickly". It was a great comedy of manners (and I must say a lot funnier than Threads or the Raymond Briggs effort.;)

Loads of countries have compulsory shelters, but it never took off at all here.

chewmylegoff

Can you remember the name of the film? That sounds right up my street.