Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

staffordjas

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Just remember, things happens in 3s! xx
Got to have the internal stop tap , and a leaking pipe , replaced this next week. Just hoping that goes smoothly and no dramas!

Most annoyingly Talk Talk have told us our pipes(wires or whatever they are ) have got to be upgraded in the free roll-out , as won't work in the near future otherwise. That's the only thing that's gone well in the move set up so far. Just hoping that doesn't get buggered up now. Apparently they have to dig holes in the ground. stick boxes on the outside and inside , as well as might need a new upgraded modem. With our track record I can't see it beng such a straightforward job as the video explaining it.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Rented a trailer off a farmer instead of a skip, holds more I reckon and was £100 so a lot cheaper. Downside is no plastics as he burns it, but means I got rid of a hell of a lot of old bits of wood then took down the majority of the overgrown trees too.

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staffordjas

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Arrived back from the doctors to find City Fibre waiting to dig up my porch , to do the pre-work for next weeks new fibre work for Talk Talk. (Apparently everyone eventually will have to have it, says the government) No-one informed us of their due arrival , they just turn up say the blokes .Much drilling going on , but not as bad as first thought . Got to stay like this now until next week , when the next lot turn up to do their digging & drilling :roll:
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staffordjas

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I'm happy to get it in the free upgrade roll-out. But so far the Talk Talk change over to this new address is the only thing that's gone right so far with the move. Don't want them to bugger that up (especially as there was much sucking in of breath this morning , with "this doesn't look like a straightforward job" )
 

BobClay

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@staffordjas ... please don't take offence at this, it's a joke .... (ish.)
If anything was ever going to happen, you know, like a giant incoming asteroid would peel off the Earth's crust, or the Sun going supernova and frying the entire solar system, or the Galactic Core exploding and consuming the entire Milky Way Galaxy, or some alternative Universe collides with our Universe and plunges both into a super-colossal black hole .....

Then it's probably going to happen to you !!! ... and the rest of us are just going to get caught up in the wash ....

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staffordjas

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You're getting FTTP ... (Fibre To The Property.) ?

Not available down this way .... (yet.) :hmm:
Blokes today said it's being rolled out to the whole of the country eventually. Government want us to catch up with all the other countries who have far superior networks than us.

Learnt quite a lot about the workings of underground water pipe systems and phone/internet wire/cabley systems in the 5 weeks we've been here. (Won't be encourging thursdays plumber to chat too much though , got to pay him for the job! :lol: )
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Just had a heart stopping moment, friend at work text me and asked if I was back in tomorrow. No, goes me.
Well you're online as being in, says her.
Had to ring her, ''You don;t half sound rough!'' She said. After 5 minutes of panic, daft cow realised she was looking at last weeks rota. I'm not down to return till at least Friday.
 

Cue

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Government want us to catch up with all the other countries who have far superior networks than us.
We’d be ahead if not for Thatcher the Fibre Snatcher.

I believe Stafford is getting FTTP “from 2023” for anyone wondering. Our office ISP checks for me occasionally as I get them to see if there’s been any updates…
 

BobClay

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Interestingly I worked for BT (fairly newly privatised at that time) in 1987 for a year, and one of my jobs was to transport a surveyor for laying a fibre optic from Rugeley to the Potteries (via Hilderstone) by checking the cable runs and ducting over the whole distance. I'd drive the van, and sometimes push the wheel, and I'd also climb down into those old Post Office hatches to check the duct spaces.
What I found amazing was the amount of ducting that had been put in decades before. Where one duct would easily have carried the cable pairs that would likely be required back in those days, the PO always laid in four ducts. All set up with pull through ropes .... a true bloody gift for BT in the 80's now faced with running fibres between exchanges.
I did four 3 month temporary contracts with BT doing all kinds of jobs from replacing drop wires, hit and run repairs from pole to house and a lot of rural work up around the potteries getting farmers phones working. At the end of my final contract BT offered me a full time permanent job and I was half tempted (I could have stayed in Stafford where I had a house and so on,) but the Cheltenham boys were offering more than double the pay, so I sold out. :|
 

staffordjas

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Just remember, things happens in 3s! xx
The dentist who rang us last week to say we were "now in with us NHS" denied ever calling us last week saying not taking NHS on.:angry:

Kind of glad because found another dentist. Lovely receptionist, and actually got to speak to the dentist as he was at the desk as well. Apart from the receptionist , think I was the only white face in the area. But managed to just about understand the dentist so fingers crossed he's a good un. And the sari clad patients coming out had a smile on the faces and let me come in through the door first , rather than racing out in fear. ...No big fancy building or waiting room. Just an old fashioned house with the front room for the reception area . Hopefully they have the modern equipment , I kind of imagine the back room looking like in the museums 😂

Not looking forwards to the new patient examination , but hey-ho , so glad to have found one I forgot all about being petrified for a few moments handing the forms in. Will be sh1tting myself when I have to go through those doors again soon though ! 😂

Helped to show that I have started getting my bearings around these parts now. Hubby was supposed to have programmed the satnav for me , but I soon realised as I was on my way that he'd done it wrong! :roll: So partly from a bit of the way being familiar from uni days, and my guess work not going so horribly wrong, I got there by discovering new routes through new territory. Then I dared come back exploring another way . Proud of myself :D

If I had my way I'd have gone to sons good private dentist. but hubby would have none of it! :( He's got toothache at the moment though , so if he gets to experience their dentistry first he might change his mind...
 
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