Nice People 13: Nice Save

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Very excited for chewy, do you have names yet?

Mr and Ms Chew MyLegoff?

michaels

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Tomorrow! We should be first on the surgery roster so probably reasonably early.

We will be expecting an update of your avatar photo within the first week with twice as many grey hairs....

hjd

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Congrats Percy. My advice is to stay away from mothercare and if you find yourself wandering into the baby clothes section of a department store then get out whilst your wallet is still intact.

Make the most of your last night of being a couple - catch up on your sleep!

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Tomorrow! We should be first on the surgery roster so probably reasonably early.

Your saying 'We should be first on the surgery roster' is very worrying. Does the surgeon understand that, even though twins are expected, he only needs to operate on one of you?

GDB2222

hjd wrote: »

Make the most of your last night of being a couple - catch up on your sleep!

Best advice ever.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Congrats to Percy! Glad to hear the nice people baby train is still going strong.

Very excited for chewy, do you have names yet?

We have 3 potential first names that we are happy with - we haven't decided which ones we will use yet, guess will see how we feel after they appear! I have a stupid pretentious family middle name which has been going since the mid C19th at least as well so one of them will get that and the girls in OH's family have the same middle name so the other one gets that!

Percy1983

Great stuff chewy hope everything goes well.

Not spent anything so far, my mother on the otherhand just got us a load of stuff half price at the end of the asda baby event.

We had the 12 week scan yesterday morning and I can't stop thinking about it, was just amusing as mini me just wouldn't get in the right position and wouldn't do what they were told. When the ultrasonographer started doing a few things to get them to move they just did what I do when the wife trys to wake me up (arm in front of my face and ignore it), so certainly is a mini me in the making.

Also in the waiting area at the hospital Jemery Kyle was on the TV with the usual 'whos the dad' story, I was sitting there feeling smug I never had the need to ask that question.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Question for Lydia,

How are you getting on with your Hive heating system. I have had an offer in the post from British Gas to install it for £159, is it worth it?

I haven't got a Hive; I have a tado. (UK website is at https://www.tado.com/gb/)

A friend of mine has a Hive and thinks it's great, but I know I haven't got enough space in my brain to keep remembering to log in on my phone and turn the heating on or off, so it wouldn't work for me.

My tado knows where my phone is, though, so all I have to tell it is what temperature I want it to be while I'm in the house awake, what temperature I want it to be while I'm in the house asleep, and what times I intend sleeping, and it does all the rest. It's very clever - it learns how quickly my house heats up and cools down, and checks the weather forecast to decide when to turn the heating on in the morning so that it will have just got up to temperature when I get up, and that sort of thing. It turns the heating off when I am out, unless the house is getting very cold indeed and I am not far away so might be home soon, as far as it can tell. You can change its settings from "max savings" (so it may sometimes not be properly warm until a few minutes after you walk through the door) or "max comfort" (so it may waste some gas keeping the house slightly warm when you're not actually going to come home immediately) or a balance between the two. I have mine on "max savings" and don't notice a problem.

I can adjust all those settings either online on on a phone app, but most of the time I just let it get on with things and it takes care of it without my having to think about it. This is perfect for somebody like me who has different patterns of being in and out on different days of the week, with some days of the week being entirely unpredictable. I am still very happy that it was a good decision for me and worth the money.

It also controls my hot water, but I decided to put that on "schedule" rather than "auto" because otherwise it was heating the water all the time I'm at home, whereas I don't use much during the daytime and don't need it to keep heating it.

Fitting it may be easy or difficult depending on what system you have in place already. I could have managed it myself except that my previous control box had been mounted too close to a fixed piece of trunking on the wall, so when I tried to fit the tado onto the existing backplate it was a few mm too wide. I don't do drilling holes in walls, so I got the helpful builder from down the road to come and move things about slightly to make space, and then he finished off the wiring for me, although I could have managed that myself because it wasn't at all complicated.

It doesn't need GPS to be on all the time, which is a relief, because my phone's a bit elderly and battery-hungry, although it does politely give me messages explaining that it may be less accurate whenever I turn wi-fi off. Again, I don't notice a problem.

If there's anything else you'd like to know, do please ask.

Percy1983 wrote: »

Not popped in here for a while (its hard to keep up).

Anyway, great news I am going to be a dad!

:beer::beer::beer:
Congrats to you both!

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Tomorrow! We should be first on the surgery roster so probably reasonably early.

Woohoo! Looking forward to hearing all about them.

In other news, it was DD's parents' evening today. Her teacher says the academic stuff is still going well (as it was last term) and the social stuff and getting on with other children is getting a lot better than it was (which was what I was really hoping to hear.)

When I picked her up from school to drop her home before going out for it, she told me, "Just think, Mum, it's your last primary school parents' meeting EVER!" It does seem very odd that 10 years of being a primary school parent will be coming to an end this summer.

Spirit_2

Percy1983 wrote: »

Not popped in here for a while (its hard to keep up).

Anyway, great news I am going to be a dad!

Congratulations.Truly momentous news.

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

I haven't got a Hive; I have a tado. (UK website is at https://www.tado.com/gb/)

A friend of mine has a Hive and thinks it's great, but I know I haven't got enough space in my brain to keep remembering to log in on my phone and turn the heating on or off, so it wouldn't work for me.

My tado knows where my phone is, though, so all I have to tell it is what temperature I want it to be while I'm in the house awake, what temperature I want it to be while I'm in the house asleep, and what times I intend sleeping, and it does all the rest. It's very clever - it learns how quickly my house heats up and cools down, and checks the weather forecast to decide when to turn the heating on in the morning so that it will have just got up to temperature when I get up, and that sort of thing. It turns the heating off when I am out, unless the house is getting very cold indeed and I am not far away so might be home soon, as far as it can tell. You can change its settings from "max savings" (so it may sometimes not be properly warm until a few minutes after you walk through the door) or "max comfort" (so it may waste some gas keeping the house slightly warm when you're not actually going to come home immediately) or a balance between the two. I have mine on "max savings" and don't notice a problem.

I can adjust all those settings either online on on a phone app, but most of the time I just let it get on with things and it takes care of it without my having to think about it. This is perfect for somebody like me who has different patterns of being in and out on different days of the week, with some days of the week being entirely unpredictable. I am still very happy that it was a good decision for me and worth the money.

It also controls my hot water, but I decided to put that on "schedule" rather than "auto" because otherwise it was heating the water all the time I'm at home, whereas I don't use much during the daytime and don't need it to keep heating it.

Fitting it may be easy or difficult depending on what system you have in place already. I could have managed it myself except that my previous control box had been mounted too close to a fixed piece of trunking on the wall, so when I tried to fit the tado onto the existing backplate it was a few mm too wide. I don't do drilling holes in walls, so I got the helpful builder from down the road to come and move things about slightly to make space, and then he finished off the wiring for me, although I could have managed that myself because it wasn't at all complicated.

It doesn't need GPS to be on all the time, which is a relief, because my phone's a bit elderly and battery-hungry, although it does politely give me messages explaining that it may be less accurate whenever I turn wi-fi off. Again, I don't notice a problem.

If there's anything else you'd like to know, do please ask.



:beer::beer::beer:
Congrats to you both!



Woohoo! Looking forward to hearing all about them.

In other news, it was DD's parents' evening today. Her teacher says the academic stuff is still going well (as it was last term) and the social stuff and getting on with other children is getting a lot better than it was (which was what I was really hoping to hear.)

When I picked her up from school to drop her home before going out for it, she told me, "Just think, Mum, it's your last primary school parents' meeting EVER!" It does seem very odd that 10 years of being a primary school parent will be coming to an end this summer.

Wait until it is your last parents evening full stop! Secondary parents evenings are not the same IMHO because very few teachers actually get to know your child well.

Thanks for the info re tado. I didn't think about whether I would need to change my timer. It is an old wired one, so would it need to be changed?

Have you any idea if you have saved on your heating bill by having it?