Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I had the red light and no hot water. Managed to top it up myself but the pressure dropped straight away.

Turned out that a pipe to a radiator had come loose and as quick as I was adding water to the system it was leaking out of the pipe.

Bummer!

The thing with me is I know what to do .... I'm just too scared to do it as there's a film running in my head that's depicting the scene where it all goes wrong, water spurts out everywhere, the knobs drop off in my hand and I can't turn the water off ...

I run disaster scenarios in my head 24/7; even if I just walk into the kitchen and turn the light on my disaster movie's having the light blow, while spotting a silent leak/flood and smelling gas

It's like living a parallel life 24/7. It's omnipresent with potential disasters that are about to occur. Slightest noise, too, is a disaster I'm about to discover .... slightest different smell is a disaster I'm about to discover ... 24/7, non-stop, scenes running in my head, as well as a "second dialogue" of conversations I'd be having in that parallel life.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bummer!

The thing with me is I know what to do .... I'm just too scared to do it as there's a film running in my head that's depicting the scene where it all goes wrong, water spurts out everywhere, the knobs drop off in my hand and I can't turn the water off ...

I run disaster scenarios in my head 24/7; even if I just walk into the kitchen and turn the light on my disaster movie's having the light blow, while spotting a silent leak/flood and smelling gas

It's like living a parallel life 24/7. It's omnipresent with potential disasters that are about to occur. Slightest noise, too, is a disaster I'm about to discover .... slightest different smell is a disaster I'm about to discover ... 24/7, non-stop, scenes running in my head, as well as a "second dialogue" of conversations I'd be having in that parallel life.

Pastures, there are lots of safety features built into boilers. Probably the worst that would happen would be the whole thing cuts out and you'd get an error message flashing up.

How old is the boiler? The newer the boiler, the more safety features.

oldandhappy

trouble with the brain the way I se it... the input and output controls are not in 'our' control much...


Gen & co will be having a lovely day at last.....good news takes too long sometimes...


Daughter now got to have a bone scan for part of her check up she says.....


The noisy family in the loft has departed now for week...hoping they are not just on vacation though....


Wood shed extension coming along nicely but slowly..roof up now filling the back wall in so that will start looking like a building not a gazebo...the next door peeps like it as a gazebo but hey ho....


so many cherries to pick and have noticed how quickly they go off..the yellow ones we have failed in noticing when they where ripe now specks...yellow...strange to me...
2 cherries pies this week already.;)
BW Dianne

vivatifosi

Re things that live in lofts... being in West Herts we have glis glis around here. I don't have them, but have friends who have. They get in your loft and then take over the house. Because they are a protected species, only a specialist contractor can trap them.

I know people like to blame the Rothschilds for a lot of things around these parts, but this one is a reasonable cause for blame... the second Lord Rothschild started an animal collection at his home in Tring. Many escaped. About 20 years ago I was driving down the road at dusk and a kangaroo bounced across the road in front of me. No shapeshifting lizards though.

I've also checked before posting this. Glis Glis are a problem round here, not near the south coast.

chris_m

oldandhappy wrote: »

so many cherries to pick and have noticed how quickly they go off..the yellow ones we have failed in noticing when they where ripe now specks...yellow...strange to me...

I know what you mean. I'm just about managing to keep up with my strawberries but the raspberries have gone wild. I've got three icecream tubs of them in the freezer already and they look like thy'll be producing at least that again, if not more - must look up how to make jam, when I have some empty jars, that is.

I doubt I'll have as many raspberries next year though. At present they are in a thicket, 2m x 2m - very hard to see all the ripe fruit, and to reach it. when they are finished the thicket will be getting a damned good thinning. I'll cut a three-foot wide pathway down the middle and put up supports and wires to keep the remaining canes supported and easier to get to both side of each row. Then, if each row wants to go rampant it can, but within the supports. I'll make the supports to include a means of easily removing and refitting the netting - the birds get quite enough sunflower hearts from me, they are not having my fruit as well

Got to thin the strawberries too - those are in a sunken bed surrounded by paving, so I'll cut out the plants that are right by the edge - or transplant them to some empty patches in the middle. I've also got some runners sat in pots so hopefully they'll take and I can use them for filling gaps or for pots or hanging baskets elsewhere. Then I'll make a proper netting cage with sections that fold back - much better than a net held down with bricks

Both beds need weeding, when I've done that I'll put down some weed barrier sheets and mulch over the lot. That, plus the improved netting, should make harvest easier next year

I'm very impressed with the yield, considering that when I moved in I knew nowt about growing them, all I did was weed the beds, on the basis that "it's a different leaf so out it comes" and that was it. Hopefully after I've done all the thinning, etc. I won't find next year that I only got a good crop this because I didn't interfere with them

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

... glis glis .... a protected species..

Never heard of them, had to google them... wouldn't want those!

Protected ... in my book if I want them gone and have somebody prepared to remove them ... bugg4h protected.

oldandhappy

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never heard of them, had to google them... wouldn't want those! me neither.....the internet is wonderful aint it.....

Protected ... in my book if I want them gone and have somebody prepared to remove them ... bugg4h protected.

well ours took out two of the wiring to the ceiling spotlights in the bathroom so they had started the wrecking in there short uninvited stopover.....they are protected if thats what there where...having not seen them...pine martens was the likely critters.....

we have no real stairs to upstairs to Hubby went up the ladder and done an army crawl along the makeshift wood beams avoiding the gaps until he reached the bathroom ceiling area.....all fixed but cobwebbed completely.

PasturesNew

I did have fears when I had a huge oak tree adjacent/over my roof ... that "things" could perch and be close enough to start running around on the roof and find ways to get inside.... glad that tree's gone.

oldandhappy

jam is quite easy to make...small quantities can even be done in the microwave on a variable heat setting if your MW is high watts...not nice if if overflows though....pectin often needs to be added to set it or an apple will do...the preserving sugar will have pectin in it already but with standard sugar just add a bit if you want non runny preserves.....apricot jam plum jam and cheery jam I made last year...Cant beat homemade... large saucepan that does not stick the food to the bottom is ok on the hob if you have no preserving pans...

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've also checked before posting this. Glis Glis are a problem round here, not near the south coast.

The Romans used to eat them.

Dormice, you know. "Edible dormice".
Strange that they're protected, as they are not a native species. Apparently they've only been here since 1902!

Muscardinus avellanarius or "Common Dormouse" is the native species.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought an "almost new" house because it's "safer" ...

I'm a loon, that has to live with 100 irrational fears and phobias every day that prevent me doing perfectly normal things .... and a lot of what I can do still makes me anxious. I'm even anxious having a bath Petrifies me ..... as for showering *shudders* ... petrified!

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I do know a little of what you mean. :A