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Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
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staffordjas
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Chose the wrong route to walk to my appointment , resulting in having to catch the bus down to town straight after it to get my best jacket zip repaired 
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Path was blocked off by a thick haulage strap across it , about 3ft high. Tied to a tree one side and attached to a lorry clearing trees in the woods the other side which was sliding dangerously towards a stream.
4 workmen stood watching , saying they hoped I was good at limbo dancing...
Had to carry on that way to make my appointment in time.
Lady in front and her dog made an elegant 'duck' under it....
My turn.....a rather embarrassing un-elegant crawl
resulting in a massive ripping sound as my zip separated from my jacket.
Got it mended straight away while I waited in the repair shop later this morning , and only cost me £7.50.
Lesson learnt...too old and not nimble enough to try limbo dancing , or getting my leg over anything ever again!
.Path was blocked off by a thick haulage strap across it , about 3ft high. Tied to a tree one side and attached to a lorry clearing trees in the woods the other side which was sliding dangerously towards a stream.
4 workmen stood watching , saying they hoped I was good at limbo dancing...
Had to carry on that way to make my appointment in time.
Lady in front and her dog made an elegant 'duck' under it....
My turn.....a rather embarrassing un-elegant crawl
resulting in a massive ripping sound as my zip separated from my jacket.Got it mended straight away while I waited in the repair shop later this morning , and only cost me £7.50.
Lesson learnt...too old and not nimble enough to try limbo dancing , or getting my leg over anything ever again!
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
You must be beside yourself with joy at the prospect...
littleme
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Oh yes.
Although it's not as bad as it was years ago, they finish pretty early now and only work a few days a week, mostly fri, sat & Sunday. Also,I don't have small kiddies gawping out the window at it instead of going to sleep!
SketchyMagpie
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Some good news from the fracture clinic today. It was too painful for me to be properly examined last week, but today they were able to and looks I will fully heal on my own in about 6 weeks. Just got to start physio this month.
staffordjas
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Wondering how many units on the water meter is 'normal/average usage ' for 2 of us in a house ???? ( now that we have a new meter and a big underground leak under Severn Trents side has been fixed.)
Would anyone be kind enough to tell me approx how many units their house water meter reads on the 6 / 12 month billing please?
Would be nice to know if the new meter and their work last week has finally done the job. (Got sons readings but it's only him in a small 2 bed and he's out at work most of the time )
Going to try to have a look tomorrow to see if I can read it ok ready for next week (now that the ST blokes who came out to jet wash all the clay mess off the pavement & road yesterday have shown me how to get the new lid up and frost cover out to get to it)
Would anyone be kind enough to tell me approx how many units their house water meter reads on the 6 / 12 month billing please?
Would be nice to know if the new meter and their work last week has finally done the job. (Got sons readings but it's only him in a small 2 bed and he's out at work most of the time )
Going to try to have a look tomorrow to see if I can read it ok ready for next week (now that the ST blokes who came out to jet wash all the clay mess off the pavement & road yesterday have shown me how to get the new lid up and frost cover out to get to it)
Gramaisc
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The going rate seems to be about 150 litres per day per person.
But I consume far less than that. 65 litres/day over January, having read it yesterday.
staffordjas
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Thanks
The meter they've just replaced was still moving at a rate of 576 litres a day with our stop tap turned off , when the ST bloke tested it the other week.
Gramaisc
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That would be about double what you were really using, but on top of your usage, so the reading would be about three times higher than it should be.Thanks
The meter they've just replaced was still moving at a rate of 576 litres a day with our stop tap turned off , when the ST bloke tested it the other week.
staffordjas
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Being super efficient with the water this fortnight to rake the money back in on my account , the leakage rebate for the last 6 months is based on the average for this fortnight
Best of it is , I can see the neighbour suddenly getting a massive bill ..... she told me the other day that she isn't on a meter (I thought all the estate was ) , and never had an actual bill since she moved in 3 years ago. They just keep taking £12.05 DD off her each month since she's lived there. Got her phone out and showed me the bank statement when she checked her amount to show me how low hers was compared to mine. Her and 2 kids in their 20's washing their cars , got a massive hot tub etc , not worried about using loads as not on a meter....
The day after our workmen had been and job done , another ST bloke turned up by the meter grids with a long pipe thing as I was walking out. I told him mine was already fixed now "No, it's not yours. I've come to look at your neighbours meter"
Looks like something may have flagged up with them coming out to mine...
staffordjas
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I'm sure all the houses on this estate are on meters , as sons is as well. Our seller said he didn't realise he was on a meter either. (I find that hard to believe) . I'm sure on the solicitors forms he put not on meter (although he also ticked 'no' for vacant possession by mistake as well which had to be verified as a clerical mistake
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littleme
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Same here, sprinklers on 24/7 just last summer
staffordjas
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We didn't have any water at all for quite a few days the other hot summer in the Stafford house, and had to have bottled water supplied off lorries in the Co-op & Queens retail park which were delivering from Derby. The people handing the water out said that it wasn't an actual shortage of water , just they couldn't get it pumped through quick enough as those nearer to the supply were taking it all up with hosepipes and filling hot tubs etc before it could reach us.
We've never owned a hosepipe, just a good old ancient watering can for the plants and a bucket and sponge for car washing. Car not getting washed much since being here with a meter though ! Maybe once the bills are sorted we might dare fill a couple of bucketful again...
Just read on TV teletext (or whatever it's called now) that the average water bill is going to rise by £31 a year to £448 p.a. from April .
Gosh , if we had have had that sort of bill here we wouldn't have even investigated any leaks! Our last Stafford bill based on rateable value was over £508 for this year in a small 3 bed semi on Wildwood.
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Gramaisc
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On the island to the west, which escaped from the UK a century ago, I do have a water meter, but the annual charge is €0. It is possible that a charge greater than that could apply, but I would have to use a truly stupid amount for that to happen, and I don't know of anybody who has been subject to such a charge.
Lucy
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The estate may have been built with meters, which is a subtle difference.I'm sure all the houses on this estate are on meters , as sons is as well. Our seller said he didn't realise he was on a meter either. (I find that hard to believe) . I'm sure on the solicitors forms he put not on meter (although he also ticked 'no' for vacant possession by mistake as well which had to be verified as a clerical mistake
SketchyMagpie
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Here's a milestone I thought I'd only ever get to celebrate once in life: I tied my own shoelaces today!
Thehooperman
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I meant to message you to say that I still have some rubber lace clips that turn laced shoes into slip ons but the rubber still looks like you're wearing laces.
It's quite surprising how incapacitating some injuries make you isn't it?
Glad you're on the mend.
littleme
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Last night I had some weird dreams regarding work.......the Vatican was stopping me putting Nectar points on for a priests beta blockers as it was in front of the Nectar building and they didn't agree with beta blockers......then there was a smelly customer, but no fear, along came a Audry Hepburn lookalike with a long handled bath brush that was covered on olbas oil bubble bath, that she scrubbed our faces with it, causing foam all over the floor, then she tried to climb slippy olbas oil bubblebath stairs!