What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

More decorating round my mums place. While I was there the street sweepers came along sweeping up leaves. There were literally drifts of leaves that had blown along the road and ended up on my mums drive. I asked them if they were going to sweep them up. "Not allowed to go on private property" the boss man said so I got the broom out and pushed them all into the street. Take that you f'cking jobsworth!

Made a call to a local estate agent asking how much they charge to sell a house. First one quoted me a flat fee of £6k plus vat - £7.2k to sell a house? They won’t be getting our business. Another one quoted me £3.8k including vat plus another £500 if we want them to do the viewings. That’s more reasonable but still going to look at others.

 

[pete01]

Look into purple bricks, I think they take the fee up front and not on completion, perfect if you are 100% definitely going to sell as they dont refund if you back out.

 

[pete01]

so I got the broom out and pushed them all into the street. Take that you f'cking jobsworth!

 

[aveatry]

More decorating round my mums place. While I was there the street sweepers came along sweeping up leaves. There were literally drifts of leaves that had blown along the road and ended up on my mums drive. I asked them if they were going to sweep them up. "Not allowed to go on private property" the boss man said so I got the broom out and pushed them all into the street. Take that you f'cking jobsworth!

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Made a call to a local estate agent asking how much they charge to sell a house. First one quoted me a flat fee of £6k plus vat - £7.2k to sell a house? They won’t be getting our business. Another one quoted me £3.8k including vat plus another £500 if we want them to do the viewings. That’s more reasonable but still going to look at others.

I have a front drive that because of the prevailing wind direction collects and traps everything that blows down the street -- sadly never found any lost£££ notes yet

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We have new AVRI driver, who thinks it's fine to just dump the deliveries anywhere on the property. Last week we had an expensive item dumped on the doorstep, and left there for 5 whole days, there was no notification from EVRI, that it had been delivered, or that they even had the package in their possession. The one before that, was a large one, susceptible to damage from moisture, and just left in the front garden, in the rain, despite someone being home, and lights on.

Just back from the main street, where there is a Coop. The Coop has been closed a couple of days, due to an electrical fire. Piled up outside, are a great pile of parcels, addressed to the Coop, delivered by Evri. You gotta wonder what these people employed by EVRI, have between their ears. I wonder if any will be left there, by tomorrow?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've just returned a call, to Yorkshire Water, on another matter. YW have an horrendous phone menu system, near impossible to get through to a human. Their recorded message still includes mention of a hosepipe ban, and how crucial it is to save water - Really? After all the weeks of rain, often quite heavy, that we have recently had?

 

[Mottie]

More decorating round my mums place. While I was there the street sweepers came along sweeping up leaves. There were literally drifts of leaves that had blown along the road and ended up on my mums drive. I asked them if they were going to sweep them up. "Not allowed to go on private property" the boss man said so I got the broom out and pushed them all into the street. Take that you f'cking jobsworth!

I was round there the other day and again, the drive was full of leaves. In the shed, I found a corded leaf blower so I plugged that in and was blowing them all back into the road. The only thing was that the leaf blower was running erratically - revving up then slowing down. Eventually it stopped completely and it had a burning smell. When I went back inside, the breaker for the sockets had popped. I reset that and chucked the leaf blower on the pile to be taken to the dump.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I was round there the other day and again, the drive was full of leaves.

We suffer similar, plus discarded sweet wrappers. I mostly fixed it, by adding a fine plastic mesh (gutter guard), along the bottom edge of the drive gates. The mesh, is just the right size, to block the gap, stop the leaves, but easily drags across where it meets the ground, as the gates are opened.

 

[Mottie]

We suffer similar, plus discarded sweet wrappers. I mostly fixed it, by adding a fine plastic mesh (gutter guard), along the bottom edge of the drive gates. The mesh, is just the right size, to block the gap, stop the leaves, but easily drags across where it meets the ground, as the gates are opened.

We can’t do that, it’s all open and it’s got a bloody big tree outside too!

 

[Mottie]

Helped out over the allotment today. We had a large lorry load of sacks of compost, farmyard manure, fertiliser, grow-bags, boxes of Parrafin etc etc delivered today and half of it had to be taken to the other end of the allotments where the lorry couldn’t get to. I always bring my car over and we load it up until it can take no more and I relay it to the storage container. Half a dozen trips did it. I then loaded up the car with sacks of cuttings, clippings and weeds from the common areas of the site that others had collected and ran them down the tip.

Had another covid jab. Probably my 5th or 6th, I’ve lost count now. Going on a plane in a few weeks time and will be breathing other peoples stale breath, burps and farts in and airports and planes are infection hot spots as far as I’m concerned. My sister and her husband went on a trip recently and they both caught Covid - her husband had to have a planned operation put back because of it. I had my flu jab a while back too.

 

[securespark]

Last minute paper stripping in the lounge before the lad comes tomorrow to skim.

This is the room that should have been ready last Christmas, but I smashed my ankle in late November.

Once the plastering is done this weekend, we are hoping to get it decorated and carpeted before Christmas.

I'm easy about it and don't want to rush, but Mrs S wants to get in before Dec 25th regardless...

Fingers crossed!

 

[Mottie]

Had my brother in law round my mums today sorting out the electrics - two lights not working in the bathroom (transformers on order), swapping two single sockets in the kitchen with one double, repairing the Tv aerial socket, disconnecting the electrics to the summer house and generally tidying up the outside garden electrics. We then had to dismantle my mums summer house so he could put it on his plot over my allotments. His son in law delivers the kitchens for Howdens so he come round in his sprinter van. Only trouble was, it was ram packed with a kitchen for delivery on Monday so we had to offload that into my mums house, put the summer house in the van, take it to the allotment and offload it and then go back to my mums and load the kitchen back on. The son in law was lifting ovens and washing machines out of the van on his own and I could feel my hernia twitching just watching him. In all, a bloody knackering day.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

MOT - The cars MOT is due at the end of November, so it always gets done, on an early Saturday of the month, when the inspector, familiar with my car, is on. As usual, it flew through, but he commented on the racket from the exhaust....

Last year, he commented on the outer skin of my back box, disintegrating, though the inner was absolutely fine. I (unfortunately) decided to do something about replacing it, but none available, so I inquired about patching it, no one willing to attempt that, no replacements available, and so I ended up discussing having an expensive, SS one custom made, and fitted. I asked for a quote for an equally quiet back box, in the same style as the original. Accepted their quote, and had done.

The result was an horribly noisy exhaust, and deafening, at cruising speeds - not at all what you expect, from a gentleman's luxury carriage. I emailed the exhaust company, and reminded them what I'd specified I'd wanted fitting and what they'd quoted, and charged me for. They emailed back, to make an appointment to go back in to get it rectified.

Yesterday afternoon, I took the first of my ezetemibe tablets, prescribed to reduce my cholesterol levels, and had yet another all night 'episode', where I got no sleep at all due to the anxiety/panic attack. This is now the third type of tablet, they have prescribed for my slightly high cholesterol levels, with an outcome of these episodes during the night, plus lots of other side effects.

I wasn't even sure at first it was due to the tablets, no one else seemed to suffer the episodes, that I could find, apart from one individual who mentioned it in a blog. I've since found the problems with these episodes are much more common. I was even discussing it with my mate the MOT inspector, he was saying he'd been prescribed statins, and suffered similar episodes. He refused them, and now has an injection every six months.

 

[securespark]

Not what I've been doing, but what I had done...
Skimming the lounge. The front wall was dot and dabbed by the builders so we got the other three walls skimmed.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I think three main points bump up the price of many phones: the label, the processor and the camera optics.

There are other lesser reasons, like a metal or glass case instead of plastic,

To be fair Motorola are fair dinkum phones.

The G35 is a decent phone for the money.

Thanks, Secure. As an alternative to laptop it is ok, but my fat fingers are not designed for all the diddy keys and functions. Has come in very useful on this trip though.