Everybody Look! Intriguing Tiny Elves!

Picasso7

elainemn wrote: »

So do I. It weigh a tonne.

I keep it on the kitchen surface in a 'dead' corner. It sits on a T plastic value chopping board and slide it towards me when I need it. Then I just lift it off the board as otherwise not enough air circulates to cool the engine. Can't live without it - it used to be Mum's.

Annieme, catching up on iPad so not so easy to double quote. Glad you have one too. All very mse!

Picasso7

Serendipitious wrote: »

My car boot is currently acting as a spare cupboard. Cartons of longlife milk and all that.

:T:T:T

I have pasta under the cloth-covered table which holds my crib.

mhoc, I put drinks out the back too and have the same problem as you this year! Love the different places we stash stuff.

gymbo

Just won a pack of Carling on the I pint thingy! got a skysports pass yesterday so well chuffed. Thanks to OP x

mhoc

part of the problem, apart from the glass of wine, was our pitifully slow broadband which has been even worse over Christmas but we put it down to there being so many devices all logged on while we had visitors.

Yesterday though when it was just us 3 again and the signal keep dropping out OH decided it was time to ring sky.

except he couldn't as we also have no phone line now - calls can come in but cant be made out - we make so few calls now on the landline it might have been this way since Christmas eve or even earlier.

so he rang sky on the mobile and they tested the line and it showed as a fault outside of the property, somewhere between here and the junction box. so the fault has been logged and it can take 5 working days to fix - so January at the earliest.

I don't have any hope of it being fixed in 5 days. Our junction box is 3 miles away - the furthest distance possible.
I had a look on the BT forums and some people have been without their phone line for up to 5 weeks, never mind 5 days.
also we are with sky and pay them for line rental so I know we don't get priority of there is a line problem.

we don't have a sky call package either now, just pay for any calls we make on the land line - it was going up to £8 a month and I only make a few calls a month anyway

Enterprise_1701C

mhoc wrote: »

part of the problem, apart from the glass of wine, was our pitifully slow broadband which has been even worse over Christmas but we put it down to there being so many devices all logged on while we had visitors.

Yesterday though when it was just us 3 again and the signal keep dropping out OH decided it was time to ring sky.

except he couldn't as we also have no phone line now - calls can come in but cant be made out - we make so few calls now on the landline it might have been this way since Christmas eve or even earlier.

so he rang sky on the mobile and they tested the line and it showed as a fault outside of the property, somewhere between here and the junction box. so the fault has been logged and it can take 5 working days to fix - so January at the earliest.

I don't have any hope of it being fixed in 5 days. Our junction box is 3 miles away - the furthest distance possible.
I had a look on the BT forums and some people have been without their phone line for up to 5 weeks, never mind 5 days.
also we are with sky and pay them for line rental so I know we don't get priority of there is a line problem.

we don't have a sky call package either now, just pay for any calls we make on the land line - it was going up to £8 a month and I only make a few calls a month anyway

That's not unusual, to have broadband but no line. You may find your broadband grinds to a halt though.

Sky will be very reluctant to call out BT too, because they then have to pay them.

You are lucky though, most of the time they test it and say it is so OK, we get called out and find there is no line :mad:

emerald21

bubbs wrote: »

Oh not for me then:eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Why don't you was your hands bubbs :rotfl: joking

Good Afternoon all

mhoc

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

That's not unusual, to have broadband but no line. You may find your broadband grinds to a halt though.

Sky will be very reluctant to call out BT too, because they then have to pay them.

You are lucky though, most of the time they test it and say it is so OK, we get called out and find there is no line :mad:

yes, its taking trail and patience to get pages to load this morning - I could not get onto my banks credit card page - not sure if the problem is them or me but I didn't really want to know what I've spent anyway :rotfl:

tweets

altojack wrote: »

How naughty of your mum tweets :mad: she could have told you when she gave you the voucher. I would tell her the meat went off :rotfl::rotfl: or tell her you had already eaten it as you thought it was for you :cool:

I will take it on Wednesday and hope she doesn't enjoy it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I can have the mushrooms with something else can make a nice mushy pea curry and add them.

mhoc

groupon have a code for 15% off local deals check your emails

cant see an expiry date so it may just be for today

s4mmy

gymbo wrote: »

Just won a pack of Carling on the I pint thingy! got a skysports pass yesterday so well chuffed. Thanks to OP x

Save some for me:beer: