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[johnbarry]

It’s a breeze to donate, it left PP I have a receipt off PP saying sent but did it arrive I never know.

 

 

Cheers
John

[JayCeeDee]

John – if PP tell you it’s paid it’s nigh on a certainty that it has been paid. ?

 

[johnbarry]

True JayCee it’s just me, when I use PP just to send money (not pay for anything from wilko etc) I like to know they had it.

When you buy something recieving the something means they had the payment. Or ie I purchased and they sent email thanks for payment. I pay all my gas elec W/R etc and I have a receipt for my records or I see it on my statement and so on.

Cheers
John

[The Duke]

Your receipt is what pp sent you. Given its a billion dollar company, they will be under great scrutiny.if they was in the habit of lying, we would sure know.

 

[Bob Williams]

John, I get a PP email message every month to tell me that it has been paid.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[RSB]

Yes John, received thank you.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Bob Williams]

Bloody hell, a talking horse! ?

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[johnbarry]

Thanks Bob n Lee

 

Cheers
John

[RSB]

@ bullstuff2 Stranger thing’s have happened round here 🙂

To be honest I am really ducked off now. This heat is really getting on my wick and depressing me something horrendous. I truly do hate this weather. I am sat here with a laptop over heating and burning me with a fan that sounds nothing short of an helicopter sat on my roof, Link and because it’s so damn loud I have to wear headphones to listen to the TV and there the big ear warming type headphones. Sooooooo Ducked Offf.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[PlaneMan]

Lee  I’m with you on the hate of this heat. Can hardly sleep and doing anything in the day leaves me dripping with sweat.

[The Duke]

I sweat whatever the weather. But I love the sun and the blue sky.

However my bose cans are to warm to where atm, so back to ear buds only, and I have large and small fans dotted around the house.

The small usb ones are great BTW. I have a number of these below, I got mind for £3 each form home bargain last summer.

Prem-I-Air Mini USB PC Notebook Laptop Car Office Desk Fan https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LC84B9A/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_viMqBbBVGTAYZ

[johnbarry]

Too right on top of that I just ironed a T Shirt, couldn’t wait to get back in front of the Fan. (my evening & night)

It’s not been off for some time, only when I move it to the side of the bed and back again.

My Day Fan

Duke you reminded me I have one of those in the drawer, cheers

Cheers
John

[RSB]

I do have a floor standing air conditioner about the same size as an undercounted fridge but 1. The pipe for it has to go out of window 2. Drinks electric like it’s going out of fashion 3. It’s a noisy beast. So I do not have it on to often. I will be glad when it’s winter again. I have put serious thought into moving to Iceland.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[johnbarry]

If it was winter you would probably wish it was summer. At this rate we might equal the cold winter days with these hot days.

I read on the internet we’re selling £30 million worth of water to somewhere in the UK that has run dry.

Cheers
John

[The Duke]

Id imagine you’d hate the French south coast and Spain. I’m off their soon, and can’t wait. Spain will be a nice 35ish. Madrid last sumer was 45! We got stuck in an underground carpark in the city centre. The car was reading 55, and my air con was struggling to keep us cool.

We was in their about an hour, if it was an older car, or one with no air con, I think I’d of had to abandon the car for a few hours.

About 8 years ago, I took my eldest lad then 16 away to France fishing with my BiL to the lour valley, around tours (going back for the first time in aug, it was great except then we was camping in a 12 man tent, and high 30s and tents don’t mix.

We was on municipal camps, sort of council run camps. France is full of them, dead cheap, gives you water and usally nice showers. But by 7am,the tents got to warm. We be on the road and fishing by 8ish, back to camp around 1pm as the sun was getting silly. Eat, then find a tree, and sleep under it for a couple of hours. Go and fish again or have a swim. Back to base bbq, beer and asleep for 9 or 10 at the latest.

The point f the story is even for an insomniac, the sun is a killer, it just drains you when you have no shelter. It was a great little 2 weeks away to celebrate him finishing school.never done it for the other, bit me and the eldest was on shaky ground back then so it was a binding exercise more than anything.

My BiL at the time was in the raf, he had his laptop full of films and er adult material (Afghan is lonely), we realised quite quickly my boy found that material and spent a lot of time alone at the tent. Lol. Far differnt from my day of a old magazine.

Going back now, we have a loverly modern city house rented for 5 nights. A beautiful part of the world. One of my favs.its like Wales or Yorkshire (incert nice green place), but with tones of history (that’s saying something given North Wales is packed with it) and most of all great weather. (bet it rains now). The only real issue is no one speaks English that far into France. So I’ll be testing out Google translate to breaking point. But then again I’d need it yourkshire also. ?

I have been trying go learn Spanish on duolingo but failed to keep up with my daily classes.

[The Duke]

johnbarry wrote:

If it was winter you would probably wish it was summer. At this rate we might equal the cold winter days with these hot days. I read on the internet we’re selling £30 million worth of water to somewhere in the UK that has run dry.

As a Briton  it is our right and duty to never be happy with the weather. The day that happens, I think that will be the end of GB.

[RSB]

johnbarry wrote:

If it was winter you would probably wish it was summer. At this rate we might equal the cold winter days with these hot days. I read on the internet we’re selling £30 million worth of water to somewhere in the UK that has run dry.

I never wish for sun or summer in winter. I am never more happy than when it is blowing gales, chucking it down and dark and miserable. I don’t mind the snow either but that usually means it’s bright out side although I appreciate the cold.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Bob Williams]

Don’t really mind hot weather or cold. Aden and Borneo were different types of heat that I had to get used to: Aden was complicated by the worst case of the squits that I ever had, after being there one day. But my first introduction to different climates and temperatures, came as a 16 yo merchant seaman. First trip, 3 months around the Med in summer, I was baked to a mahogany brown. Second trip, around the Americas, across to Northern Canada, down the US East coast, around Cape Horn South America and visiting Concepcion, Valparaiso, Guayaquil, up to the Panama Canal. 3, 4, 5th trips were Norway & Sweden. In January through to March, up to Kristiansund and Tromso, which is inside the Arctic Circle. Those Scandinavian runs were mostly trips of 10 to 14 days across the North Sea. It was bloody cold, but what an adventure for the kid I was then! If I had not been forced to take a boat I did not like the look of after all that, I might have stayed in. As a result of all that, I found that I could acclimatise to different climates. My last trip was another Med one: I did not stay at home for more than a couple of days, before taking off again.

This evening, up in our skies here, some strange grey shapes have appeared. It looks as if there may possibly be some actual precipitation before morning. This has become unusual here, as we have had unbroken blue skies for maybe a fortnight. SWMBO is complaining of night time heat, but I am too busy sleeping to notice, until my enlarged prostate wakes me for a leak.

Every 2 fekin hours!??

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Tippon]

Bob: At least you’re waking up for them! 😀

I’ve never been a fan of the heat. Give me a cold dry day anytime. I don’t mind rain either, but prefer it dry so I can get out on the bike now and again.

I used to find Spain much easier to cope with than British heat. Apparently it’s to do with the humidity, but their buildings and towns are designed for that heat too. Our local bar had big windows with shutters to stop direct sunlight, but would otherwise be open all day. There was always a breeze, and always a break from the heat.

[The Duke]

Yes I find even places with no aircon are built in a way that creates a breeze.

Talking of different types of heat, Egypt is the strangest place I’ve been, very dry heat. Back to Spain, my lad suffers with asthma and hayfeaver, it all clears up once our of Dover and driving south. Even his asthma subsides.

2, 3 or 4 weeks will go by with no hayfeaver and minimum inhaler use. When we got off the boat in Dover, with 30 mins driving north, you can literally hear his breathing or heavy breathing coming back, and allergies surfacing.

If I could I’d of moved to Spain when his asthma started around 8 years old. It’s quite bad his asthma, he has an attack probably every 6 weeks! We have learned to deal with them now with little fuss. The secret is making as little fuss, keeping the person as relaxed as possible.

He deal with them him self now, something I’ll hear the back door open in the early hours, I’ll go down and find him Sat on a patio chair in a trance like state as he is getting his breath back. I’ll just usally sit with him and get mum a glass of water.

But there is many times, I don’t hear him going out. We always tell him, to give us a kick on his way past, when it next happens, (mainly cos if he didn’t get control of it, he wouldn’t make it back up the stairs to alert us) but he always say, “I didn’t want to wake you” . He know I don’t sleep, so I thinks me staying asleep is more important. Sort of sweet of him, but I’d rather be woken. Just in case!

I can always sleep again in a day or two.

 

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