Mundane facts about your day...

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Glam

Mad Cat Woman
31yrs ago today I started on my journey at St.Georges. It hasn't always been plain sailing, and there's been a lot of times I've questioned my sanity as to why I'm still there. I'm still trying to work that 1 out.
I suppose I do love the place, after a fashion.
I'll let you know how I really feel in another 31yrs.
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
31yrs ago today I started on my journey at St.Georges. It hasn't always been plain sailing, and there's been a lot of times I've questioned my sanity as to why I'm still there. I'm still trying to work that 1 out.
I suppose I do love the place, after a fashion.
I'll let you know how I really feel in another 31yrs.
You'll be an inmate if you have to do another 31years....
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Has a nice cycle ride round the loch this morning followed by a picnic lunch. Went to the local supermarket and butcher this afternoon as the fridge and freezer are nearly empty after seriously misjudging how often we'd be eating in, which was a bit of an adventure... Fortunately there is no wine shortage as we did not misjudge that.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
31yrs ago today I started on my journey at St.Georges. It hasn't always been plain sailing, and there's been a lot of times I've questioned my sanity as to why I'm still there. I'm still trying to work that 1 out.
I suppose I do love the place, after a fashion.
I'll let you know how I really feel in another 31yrs.
You'll be an inmate if you have to do another 31years....
I've tried me hardest! They just don't want give me a bed!
 

Cue

Well-Known Forumite
Regarding results... it’s basically irrelevant long-term anyway

GCSEs are meaningless once you go to college, and once you go to uni your college results are meaningless.

If you don’t go to college, your apprenticeship is worth far more than your GCSEs (especially when they’d be during a pandemic... everyone is going to remember 2020), and if you don’t go to uni once you’ve finished college then your first job will contribute far more than your college results during a pandemic.

Source: I’ve been through the education system in the last decade. Haven’t seen a single GCSE or college result on CVs that I’ve been taking in for a job posting we’ve got up right now.


Regarding the heat... AC was the best investment I made into our home. I can actually sleep at night. Next house is getting it top to bottom hands down.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
About 35 years ago, I rescued an old fan, like this, from the skip.
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A little bit of work to get it going again and cleaning the matt black finish off the blades was well rewarded.

I presume the matt black finish was thirty years of fag smoke.

It's remarkable efficient and fairly quiet on the lower speed, which is quite adequate.

It does need to be placed 'out of the way', as you could fit a child's head through the gaps in the 'guard'. I wonder if this is part of the quietness, far fewer eddies being generated..?
 

BobClay

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Possibly why ceiling fans are better. No guards required. (However, I have learned from experience that testing a drone inside with a ceiling fan going can have fairly startling results ... :eek: )

:P
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
About 35 years ago, I rescued an old fan, like this, from the skip.
GEC_Magnet_12_Electric_Desk_Fa_as1011a016b.jpg

A little bit of work to get it going again and cleaning the matt black finish off the blades was well rewarded.

I presume the matt black finish was thirty years of fag smoke.

It's remarkable efficient and fairly quiet on the lower speed, which is quite adequate.

It does need to be placed 'out of the way', as you could fit a child's head through the gaps in the 'guard'. I wonder if this is part of the quietness, far fewer eddies being generated..?
I think ours just makes noise & moves the hit air around the room. I can fall asleep to it, but have to turn it off if I wake up as I can't put up with the noise.
 

Cue

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Im a mere mortal, can't afford a noiseless fan, or even a second noisy one, never mind ac....

Yeah it’s not the cheapest thing in the world. £1300ish I think for a high-wall split that’s a wee bit overspecced, we managed it for about £850 by doing the pipe run ourselves though.

Have always wondered if we could have done the whole house for the bedroom AC cost plus what we paid for a new (and moved) boiler though...
 

littleme

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The winds got up a bit, the carer has been outside (dirty smoker) and says they're lightning to the south too... Bit of a rumble going on as well.
 

Trumpet

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We've had about half an hour of constant thunder in Woodseaves and I mean constant rumbling and grumbling with the odd real crack. No silence for even a second. Rain is currently torrential.
Never known thunder like it.
 
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