Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

@Hebe - good on you for keeping trying. I'm O+ blood type and they kept calling me back far too often, so I stopped.

A national amber warning for O+ and O- blood shortages was announced on BBC Radio 4 this morning. I can understand you feeling harassed but not @Hebe 's case, where she doesn't seem to be able to give her O- away.

 

[oldwheels]

Not yet raining which is a change.
Still stuck indoors with this b----dy car racing.
Businesses are closing early on Friday to allow staff to get home before the street is closed and some ferries to Ardnamurchan are canceled for the same reason.
Sunday the car ferry to Kilchoan is off as it is going to Fishnish to do shuttle runs to get rid of the pests faster.
I was coming home that day a couple of years ago and could not get more than a few hundred yards as they had blocked the road. Never seemed to dawn on them that if nobody could get off the ferry then they were not going to be getting on.
eventually forced my way past a line about a mile long with many "parked " across both lanes and complaining at my incompetence in not having wings to fly over them.
They cannot understand that not everyone loves them. In fact about 80% of the population just grit their teeth and wish they would just eff off ASAP. As many as can manage just leave the island for the week but not everyone can do this.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The recladding of our flats appears to progress like a 3D jigsaw - get all the corner pieces first.

 

[Hebe]

A national amber warning for O+ and O- blood shortages was announced on BBC Radio 4 this morning. I can understand you feeling harassed but not @Hebe 's case, where she doesn't seem to be able to give her O- away.

I think they must just want city blood not country blood. That said I looked up Swindon today as that's accessible from here but no appointments there either. The closest with appointments in the next few weeks is Bristol, which is an 80 mile round trip. So they want the blood urgently but they don't seem to be putting on the extra clinics outside of the already established big cities. So December it is. If I fail the iron test again I'll take myself off their lists. I promised myself in Lockdown that I'd start giving blood, but it's a lot more hassle than I thought it would be! Thanks everyone for all the support and ideas.

 

[PeteXXX]

I could donate my (65th) pint of A+ on 29th this month but cannot get an appointment before the end of November.

Sadly, it is a bit of an effort to donate!

 

[Speicher]

Watching grand designs!!
Where do people get the money from and for such a small build!!

Was that the one in south London where she built on the side of the house she owned?

She was a single woman, not in good health, recently divorced. So why did she use her life savings? And she had to sell the house, the rent from which she was relying on for retirement income. She had to give up her job as the illness, and the building and working was too much for her.

Of-course she had to have a top of the range kitchen from a shop in Mayfair. "More money than sense" springs to mind. I am sure her "Cheffy" friends, her word, not mine, would be happy with a meal prepared on any oven.

I would have built a large garden room or a single storey extension with a balcony on top.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I have finished making the fire extinguisher for the Higman cab. It's a small thing - about 20mm x 5mm, so I'll pop it into a plastic ziploc bag thing and put it into my box of parts so it doesn't get mislaid.

You wouldn't believe how many small parts I've made twice for this reason. Of course the original turns up just after I finish the replacement.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Makes one wonder about what the child has heard at home.

Indeed, that reads like a verbatim response from an adult.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Better, more comfortable sewers and dumpsters.

And they'd charge rent.

 

[Hebe]

Our solar panels should be arriving with the installers tomorrow. The scaffolding should be going up next week and the panels should be installed a week on Saturday. After four months of shoulds, I can categorically say that the battery and inverter/car charger are now being installed on the side of the house along with a whole bunch of new cabling.

 

[Ripple]

Voilà. I finally managed to catch covid.

 

[cookiemonster]

I think we woud all like to aspire to Princess Margaret's morning routine.

 

[Hebe]

The half a dozen types of cheese for lunch is oddly appealing . Also the two hours reading the papers. Especially if someone else went out to buy the cheese and papers.

 

[Hebe]

Voilà. I finally managed to catch covid.

Hope you feel better soon. I think you’re in good company - @oldwheels and @Gravity Aided have it too if I remember correctly?

 

[fossyant]

Central Heating fettling today. Draining off all the old 'water' and replacing with fresh, then I'll ad inhibitor and boiler silencer once I'm happy the black stuff is all out. Fortunately I've a header tank, so it's a case of a hose on the drain in the kitchen and draining it away. Stop let header refill. Pop on heating, circulate. Turn off, then drain again.