Happy Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (UK only)
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"Crunchy Soup" for us were Pebbles in Water. If we was lucky!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Except where they don't have Wheelie bins - we only got them in Feb this year...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
Except where they don't have Wheelie bins
Aaaaaghhh!
OriginalGriff wrote:
we only got them in Feb this year
And when do you get indoor plumbing? ;P
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
ict558 wrote:
Happy Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (UK England and Wales only)
I have to work on Monday since my home base is in Scotland. However, since I'm seconded to one of our other offices in England, which does have the holiday, I don't have to travel down on Monday - yay! For business reasons the Scottish banks are shut on Monday in Scotland but businesses are open are usual. The situation is more complicated than just the fact that we get different bank holidays[^] - public holidays are different according to where you work. So I work in Fife and get different days off from my neighbours who work in Edinburgh
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Except where they don't have Wheelie bins
Aaaaaghhh!
OriginalGriff wrote:
we only got them in Feb this year
And when do you get indoor plumbing? ;P
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
When they build an extension, generally - the local houses are made of two-foot thick "riverstone" which is a major pain to cut, drill or anything else. Even putting up a picture needs SDS drills and (preferably) diamond tips. So indoor plumbing mostly waited until they build an extension, and put teh kitchen and bathroom in that. That way you didn't need to make any more holes in these walls... :laugh: Most of the local houses also open direct to the street, with no front gardens. Since many of these only have rear access through the house, there was a lot of resistance to Wheelie bins as they have to be pulled through the house to get to where the binmen can get at them. Hence the late arrival!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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When they build an extension, generally - the local houses are made of two-foot thick "riverstone" which is a major pain to cut, drill or anything else. Even putting up a picture needs SDS drills and (preferably) diamond tips. So indoor plumbing mostly waited until they build an extension, and put teh kitchen and bathroom in that. That way you didn't need to make any more holes in these walls... :laugh: Most of the local houses also open direct to the street, with no front gardens. Since many of these only have rear access through the house, there was a lot of resistance to Wheelie bins as they have to be pulled through the house to get to where the binmen can get at them. Hence the late arrival!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
the local houses are made of two-foot thick "riverstone" which is a major pain to cut, drill or anything else.
Same problem installing a LAN in a Victorian Town Hall. Wall, after wall, after bloody wall. :)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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ict558 wrote:
Happy Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (UK England and Wales only)
I have to work on Monday since my home base is in Scotland. However, since I'm seconded to one of our other offices in England, which does have the holiday, I don't have to travel down on Monday - yay! For business reasons the Scottish banks are shut on Monday in Scotland but businesses are open are usual. The situation is more complicated than just the fact that we get different bank holidays[^] - public holidays are different according to where you work. So I work in Fife and get different days off from my neighbours who work in Edinburgh
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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Why is this not mentioned in the biographies of Erasmus Darwin and Samuel Johnson? I was working just down the road in Wolverhampton some 15 years back. Had I but known, I could have gone to The Lichfield Bower instead of taking the scenic tour of Walsall. (What a Bank Holiday that was!)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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Why not, ours gets collected on Tuesdays, whether or not there is a Bank Holiday. :)
The best things in life are not things.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
the local houses are made of two-foot thick "riverstone" which is a major pain to cut, drill or anything else.
Same problem installing a LAN in a Victorian Town Hall. Wall, after wall, after bloody wall. :)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
Oooh that's fun - was it Listed? (For non-UK persons: "Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest" are protected in the UK by a Statutory Listing scheme[^] The lower the number, the less you can do to it: in the case of Grade 1 Listing, you can't do anything much: even decorating has to use the proper (period) paints and colors, etc. Now imagine trying to flood wire a building under those circumstances!)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Oooh that's fun - was it Listed? (For non-UK persons: "Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest" are protected in the UK by a Statutory Listing scheme[^] The lower the number, the less you can do to it: in the case of Grade 1 Listing, you can't do anything much: even decorating has to use the proper (period) paints and colors, etc. Now imagine trying to flood wire a building under those circumstances!)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
was it Listed?
I never asked, best not to. Do you want this system installed now, or in 5 years time? I've just checked - it's a Grade 2 listed building. :-O :looks skyward: :whistles: Shuffles off stage sideways, then runs for it.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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OriginalGriff wrote:
was it Listed?
I never asked, best not to. Do you want this system installed now, or in 5 years time? I've just checked - it's a Grade 2 listed building. :-O :looks skyward: :whistles: Shuffles off stage sideways, then runs for it.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
:laugh: I had to do much the same in a Grade 2 Listed in London a long time ago: replace the old cable with new flood wired CAT5. The best bits were the boss setting off the fire alarms with his pipe, and later drilling straight through a skirting only to find the mains cable behind it, and his beloved son wrecking two pairs of cable shears to cut a 20 foot length of network co-ax out, only to find it was the armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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That's two Wednesdays and one Tuesday. I'm still short of a full house.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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:laugh: I had to do much the same in a Grade 2 Listed in London a long time ago: replace the old cable with new flood wired CAT5. The best bits were the boss setting off the fire alarms with his pipe, and later drilling straight through a skirting only to find the mains cable behind it, and his beloved son wrecking two pairs of cable shears to cut a 20 foot length of network co-ax out, only to find it was the armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
OriginalGriff wrote:
armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
:doh: Not one of the company's more profitable contracts? :-D (I love these tales - my cock-ups pale into insignificance.)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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OriginalGriff wrote:
armoured fibreoptic cable bringing 400 telephone lines into the building...
:doh: Not one of the company's more profitable contracts? :-D (I love these tales - my cock-ups pale into insignificance.)
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
I'll give them this: Mercury noticed before it was reported, and had a team there to fix it in less than half an hour. On a Saturday... Impressive level of service!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I'll give them this: Mercury noticed before it was reported, and had a team there to fix it in less than half an hour. On a Saturday... Impressive level of service!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Ah. But we had a BT engineer sitting atop a step-ladder with his ear-phones connected to the line, listening to the bits streaming by, telling us that he could not detect any fault. Now that's service.
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
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Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
Everybody is elitist to a certain extent; except me - I'm better than that. Micah
ict558 wrote:
Remember, don't put the wheelie-bin out on Monday!
You mean I'll have to stick her in the boot and push the car into the lake again? Damn. I was getting to like that car.
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