Mundane facts about your day...

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Gramaisc

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The grass is dry - there are stripes.

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Cue

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age'd parent said:
I really should have learnt by now to turn off the electrics before working on them, but was only a light extension into the cupboard on the landing, so I hit the floor from the top of the step ladder, with 240 volts across my chest, Utter panic from the dog and the wife, tho I think the dog was more concerned, or she may have been tasting me to see if I was done, and I must admit I was a bit worried about my pace maker as I lay on the floor taking my own pulse, still all was well after a little rest and a mopping off of the sweat pouring out of me, and the light in the cupboard is now fixed and working.
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Do I need to start pushing my neighbour’s services again?

If you’re going to be silly with your electrics get your fuse box replaced with something sensible - a good setup wouldn’t have even let you get to the point of electrocuting yourself as the moment the circuit broke it would trip. Might one day save your life to get it done.

Worst I’ve even gotten is a sudden jolt down my arm from the live and neutral on a plug arcing as I plugged in. Not enough to trip anything though. I put my drill through a like in the wall a few months back and while there was a little puff of dust but I’m still standing, as is the drill
 
Tilly

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Express and Star says planning sought for 10 terraced houses + 12 flats ( and a token classroom ) at the old King Ed/Chet centre in Friars Road ( it's the Express and Star )


Is there a clever person here who can find the planning app and then the new 'owner' ?
 
Laurie61

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A trip up the road to the garage this afternoon, for a can of petrol, means I no longer have an excuse not to cut the lawn. I have also been in the shed and threatened the mower. Hopefully the garden will be looking tidier tomorrow evening. :up:
 
Carole

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It was a lovely day in the village today.

It’s the time of year where preparations for Best Kept Village are all systems go, and many people have volunteered for various jobs.

Today as it was a weekend and the sun was shining, it seemed that everyone was out and about.

So after I’d made 3 cakes for another village event, I then went to tend and weed the church Jubilee Garden.

In the course of my day I saw someone repairing and re varnishing the church benches (my husband), someone else varnishing another bench and pots in the village.

Someone erecting a board to display the children’s posters, someone with a paintbrush and gold paint very carefully doing some lettering on the church notice board, someone painting the floor of the phone box with green paint, someone sweeping round the phone box and weeding the little garden there.

Someone else cleaning the glass on the village notice board, people weeding, someone varnishing another board, others tidying up gardens.

Other people nipping out and giving the workers cups of tea.

In between jobs, lots of chatting.

It was a lovely, perfect village afternoon.
 
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Lucy said:
After an afternoon at Wembley I'm now sitting in the best Turkish restaurant on Green Lanes, waiting for a lamb shish.
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We also ended up in a Turkish restaurant near Wembley. I think it was on Wembley Park road.

Really good food and service made all the more enjoyable by the presence of loads of moaning Spurs fans. Boy, are they not a happy lot :)

We also made the mistake of going into one of the Spurs allocated pubs some time after the match but we made a quick exit after one drink. The moaning was ear shattering :)
 
Lucy

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Thehooperman said:
We also ended up in a Turkish restaurant near Wembley. I think it was on Wembley Park road.

Really good food and service made all the more enjoyable by the presence of loads of moaning Spurs fans. Boy, are they not a happy lot :)

We also made the mistake of going into one of the Spurs allocated pubs some time after the match but we made a quick exit after one drink. The moaning was ear shattering :)
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I'm now I'm a pub on the marathon route, drinking Estrella (not by the casque!)
 
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