General Chat

Oh dear YG. Poor R. It must be so painful for him. Will V be on hand to give advice re your outfit? It sounds just up her street.
At least your water problems, unlike Maz', isnt quite so urgent. It's a pity you don't have a neighbour you could trust with a key for the gas check.

Our boiler man seems to think a domestic boiler has a life of 10 years. We're coming up to that now. At the moment he can get parts to repair it. It's a bit like cars. You can keep fixing them until you've spent more on spares than a replacement would cost.

At my former address we had a Potterton fire with BBU
A bit like the old Glowworm Majorca and Baxi boilers.
It was 18 years old when we sold that house. It was still working but the man who did the annual service said it was working at 65% efficiency. No idea where he got the figure from.

We've recently had a combination boiler installed here. We were given a 7 year guarantee.

Well I have water and heating also got dry washing too so as i am back at work in the morning it will be good

Sorry, I disappeared as I brought meeting minutes home with me to type up that are required tomorrow :-( All done now and I am back in my right mind (no comments, thank you!!)

Did you ever read Alice in Wonderland or Alice through the Looking Glass?
The author must have been on dope lol

Thin I will look for a used copy on ebay

I was once at the market at Blyth. There were a few stalls selling second hand stuff, possibly house clearances? Any way there was one man had a lot of second hand books, and as I browsed I saw he had a lot of original Enid Blyton famous 5 books.
He was selling them five for one pound. He could of sold them for five pound each or more on ebay, collectors items

I used to love the Famous Five :-D :-D :-D

As a child discovering books I read two more Rachel Crompton's Just William
books, then I recall borrowing from the library some science fiction books. Then B9illy Bunter, then Jeeves. I then started reading newspapers. One book I recall scared the plug out of me. Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out.
Always fiction. I liked John le Carre, read a few of his. Since then almost all of Dan Browns works. All fiction, nothing too heavy.

Thank God I can read, a lot of people cannot.

Here's a cereal packet, David. You can have a read of that ;-)

I think I've read the Alice books although I did/do tend to skip over the verses. Strange how many of us like to scare ourselves silly with something like Dennis Wheatley. He's so tame & dated now.
Have you discovered the magical world of e-books yet? If you don't have a kindle, e-reader or Tablet, you can download them to your laptop or other device.
There are 100's of free downloadable books on Amazon, and probably on other suppliers as well.
When you come across one you really enjoy, think about posting a synopsis on
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/hobbies_crafts/thread/1257371

YG - it sounds as if you've been thrown back into the thick of it with a vengence! At least by doing the work at home you only had distractions of your own making.

Maz - I bet you're pleased everything is back on track before tomorrows shift. We forget how reliant we are on modern technology for even the simplest tasks.

The workload is certainly no better and my director, who called to see if I was feeling relaxed after my holiday, told me to keep 'relaxed' in my mind and asked if I was busy :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

I had been trying all day to get the minutes done with no chance! I managed it in under an hour at home ;-) ;-) ;-)

Evening one and all. Phew that was quite a meeting I am cream crackered. I had 3 hats on tonight.. Archivist, Chairperson and Tealady :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Talking about cereal packets Det, did you know that Kelloge became well know and wealthy selling corn flakes designed to help people lose weight by improving their bowels. Not a lot of people know that lol

Morning all I spoke to soon i awoke to a boiler dripping again ,I am awaiting the fitter again there is a degree of flexibility with my shift today ,So I have spoken to my colleague and base and will slit my shift if needed between two days if needs be I am off supposedly weds and Thurs .so depending on the outcome of today's call I can plan my chores and my next few days off lol

Morning all.

Maz it's obvious the little *** is visiting you ;-) :-D :-D :-D. Keep him up there please.

A little known piece of information indeed David ;-) :-D :-D :-D.

Lovely and sunny here at the moment so first load of washing in and hopefully it will line dry :-D :-D :-D

That's rotten luck MAZ tell him to get it right this time

i dont want the little blighter here neither Zap him with that laser Its just starting to brighten up here so if i end up being off i will pop out to do some errands later .

:-D :-D :-D. Maz, your wish is my command. :-D :-D :-D

You going to be killer queen LG?

Morning all

Goodness, Maz. That's just so wrong. It isn't as if the 'fix' had taken a week to fail. Let's hope this time they can make a permanent repair.

Sooo....on top of everything else, we now have to address LG as Madam Chairperson? ;-) :-D
It's just as well you were also Tea Lady; it would help keep your feet on the ground. :-) :-D

YG, rather than :-D :-D :-D in response to the Directors remarks, it's rather surprising you didn't think :-P :-P :-P

Would cornflakes have enough roughage? Mind you, it's probably better than a fry-up and possibly less fattening than porridge.

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