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Sorry to say, but the old films mostly turn me off. I’ve seen them a lot, varying from early repeats to the Film channels on Sky which my missus is obsessed with!!🤷♀️
One of the things that the wife has asked me to do is to create a book/list of PINs and Passwords for all the things that tend to fall to me to do, so that if i’m ill, ( or not about!!💀 ) she’ll be able to manage.
I’ve got most of my passwords written down in a book, that’s kept safe, but that doesn’t list the processes she’ll need to go through to get in to the accounts – there’s a reason that mostly falls to me!!!
Others with a similarly techno-restricted other half may think about doing the same or similar.
I was in Aldi last night and My comment to the wife was ” When they got there, the cupboard was bare!!!”
Luckily I was only after some bread, eggs, veg and fruit, but I was unlucky with my dozen eggs!! All the free range had gone completely!! There’s normally a very overstocked shelf of the packs, boxes of 12 dozens, two high at the back and eight wide. I joked with a lady there and said “Half the County would be egg-bound by the middle of next week!!” and then a thought hit me, “It’s a good job they’ve got so many loo rolls they can deal with it!!”
Over the past two weeks we have:
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Ordered more stock of essential items from our suppliers.Does anybody else think Sainsbury’s are doing what they’re telling everyone else not to do ??
Happy hunting, folks.😝
If a Forumite should not return for, say, two weeks, we will be concerned. So if anyone is going away for a while, please say so, giving approximate return time.
Very true, Bob, however the rate of events today there seems little likelihood of that occurring. With Europe now named as the epicentre of the outbreak and the escalating numbers of confirmed cases and deaths, I’ve just been chatting with the wife about our planned trip to Murcia, in Spain, for the last weekend in April and the first weekend in May.
It is currently all booked, flights, hotels, car hire etc. It’s been interesting to see the ( unusually ) accommodating stance of the various industries.
EasyJet have emailed me to let me know that flights/dates etc can all be changed without charge.
I’ve checked the Hotel website and we can cancel up to 72 hours prior to check-in date without penalty – after that 10% is forfeit.
Had a conversation with Aviva and our single trip insurance can have the dates re-scheduled for a later trip – probably October – with minimal charges provided we travel before Feb 2021.
Car hire is through EasyJet so that one could go either way, but that’s just 70 quid.
Events over the next week will either make the decision for us, or persuade us one way or the other.
We have a cafe upstairs and beer Down..
All you need is a good B&B next door😜 and maybe a divorce lawyer or two!!
To answer the IPA question – yes the 99% is the ideal Yes you can just dilute to 70% if you want to use as a spray on its own, and 70% is the ideal virus killing concentration
Cheers, Ed, that’s the info I was after.
They don’t make it simple when the same thing seemingly goes by various names, rubbing, cooking, degreasing, etc!!
Aloe Vera is not poisonous, and is quite a benign skin hydrator.
The wife has very sensitive/reactive skin so has sworn by aloe vera gel since we discovered it in Florida in the early 90’s.
Aloe gel can be got, at an increased, but not stupid price – will THIS type of IPA do the job; it’s 99.9% ( proof? )- can you adjust the proportions to the seemingly more usual ( and gentler ) 70% ( proof? )??
March 6, 2020 at 8:41 am in reply to: PLEASE READ: SUBSCRIPTION MOVE EARLY HOURS FRIDAY MORNING #41447Yes – I just followed the prompts through to my PP account and authorised it. Simples!!😀😀
It took me longer to read the ‘contract’ authorising future payments!😋
However the Dr also made it clear you would be better of washing your hands more frequent through the day than using any anti-bacterial gell.
It’s more for when we are out and about away from home – food, medicines, etc. For keeping in the car and handbag for use after leaving shops and the like.
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HMG are saying that around 20% of the UK workforce could be sick at one time when this peaks. OK lets work rationally with that figure.
Not a critical riposte, just a cautionary one – it is vital to read the wording of some of the statements quoting numbers that are coming out and “translating” them. I’ve seen some statements today about the predicted percentages of people off work; that number was not split into those too ill to work, those who are well enough to be out in the public domain, but cannot get to work due to lack of public transport, or those that have self-isolated. I bless sub-titles, because when you see the wording, rather than hearing it, you add a level of adjustment to the figures – sometimes we hear what we expect to hear, rather than what has been said.
Was it a Tony something???
Happy Birthday Bob. Hope all is going smoothly with you at the moment move-wise and health wise.👍👍
@jayceedee This is why I will avoid pub crawls. It’s somewhat heartbreaking but there is a niggling doubt in my head that more happened than is mentioned.
Or………………more gets mentioned that you’re in no position to deny – a state I used to be in regularly on some of the BT p*ss ups we went on. I remember one time, we lived opposite Hornsey Fire Station and after a session, I came around to the bus driver shaking me, saying that they had done the whole route twice, there and back, and which one stop was mine!!! I mumbled “Fire Station” and when we got back there, he called me, and saw me off the bus and I headed home!!
Head..(ache)..y days!! And I’m still enough of a hypocrite to moan at my son when he says he’s under the weather after a session!! although he prefers either cocktails or Japanese whisky so he’d skint himself first before doing any permanent damage.
JayCeeDee, if you used the Trent and Mersey, you will have come past the house I was born in. Barlaston, N.Staffs. I was always playing by “The Cut” as a kid
Les, considering your timescale and the fact that this would have been around 1976, we probably did pass by you. If it was late in the afternoon, we would have been terrorising the innocent grazing sheep, by shouting “Mint Sauce” as we passed them by heading for the next pub!!!
One thing that I do remember from that trip was that the whole countryside around that area – except where the canals passed through some of the more industrialised towns – was beautiful, peaceful, ( once we had left, ) and England at it’s very best.
56′ If I remember correctly. It was up at 23’000 so I suspect it whent for 19 maybe less. I dont want anything over 60′ as I want to do the entire network appart from a few obscure off branches. A 60 footer I would have to put in locks on a skew on a few canals including the ones near me so I dont sink the thing by catching it on the ledge.
Absolutely – we were young and naiive, so went big!! It was a 60’er and we had problems in some locks, but also some of the docks and ‘turnaround’ points made that a problem too.😕 Reversing was a dark art for the inexperienced!!
Luckily we went round the Staffordshire Ring, on the Staffs and Worcester, Trent and Mersey and Grand Union, iirc., so turning was not so vital!!
That’s exactly what I had in mind when posting. Is that a 50′ or thereabouts?? What did it go for in the end??
Welcome too, Simon, – it’s always nice to see “new blood” arriving and contributing, especially from a familiar ( MM ) back story.
Good luck with your intended future, Lee, if you’re in the ‘self-contained’ mind set, then it offers you wonderful freedom, independence and opportunities. Just be careful life doesn’t become one prolonged pub crawl though – I know our holiday on the canals in the 70’s turned into just that!!
You’re pretty handy around a tool box, have you thought about buying something watertight outside but a bit of a wreck inside and doing the conversion yourself?? I’ve seen some remarkable conversions done on George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces ( three or four of them in the last two Series , 7 and 8).
As regards your legal matter, my only words would be to put it to the Legal Ombudsman, that would add clout to your side of the argument, plus it would give you an independent opinion from someone who knows, that isn’t invested in the case.
They also have some templates for letters you can write to your solicitors, ( without actually involving the Ombudsman ) which might influence their decision on taking things further. Their ‘example complaint letter’ is a good example of this.
Best of luck either way, with both situations.
John
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