Woohoo, Moonie's boiler is fixed. Heating and hot water again.

PB has gone home now. She was asleep when DiL dropped her off and didn't wake until 5pm. She was obviously feeling the effects of her jabs. Once she woke up, she was in fine form and ate her dinner. She was chattering/gabbling ten to the dozen before she went home.

 

Yogi, I'm glad you had a good PB day

Thanks El. She's back on Saturday, so not long to wait.

Fankoo Sweet
The shower was working because it is electrical but had no hot tap water or central heating

 

Yes, I am relieved Yogi

Awwwwww glad PB was okay in the end

Hope your cuddleometer got topped up to bursting point

 Cuddleometer topped up to the max.

Hope your house is nice and cosy tonight, Moonie.

Off for a bath and a read, goodnight and sweet dreams.

Night owl hugs for Summer and Ros.

*looks at bursting cuddleometer*

It is warm now fankoo Yogi

Enjoy your bath and your read then sleep well and have sweet dreams

Aw sleepy PB I'm glad she was alright after her jabs bless her

Sweet dreams yogi I hope you enjoy your read

Sweet dreams everyone see you tomorrow

Moonie, I'm very glad you have heating again now, I bet your house felt horribly cold after several days without it

Hi Sweet

Hope you had a good day today

Its lovely to have heating and hot water on tap again too Sweet

Did they fix it easily or tell you how it broke? I'm nosy when boiler engineers turn up, I usually ask them what's up lol

He got here at 12-10 ish and left about 2 and a half hours later

It was a plastic valve system that had broken Sweet

 

Lol I don't know what that means but it sounds good- I'm glad they explained it to you
It can't have been a quick & easy job. I hope it doesn't break down again for a long time

I don't know what it was either Sweet and I have seen it

It had to be fitted right at the back of the boiler so he had to virtually strip it down

aww yogi glad PB was ok after her jabs - horrible time

 

night lovely yogi  summer moons

and me summer - I chat to them and hover about night again summer

And why not Ros
Goodnight. Sleep well and have sweet dreams

Good morning, everyone. Low cloud but dry weather atm.

 @ the idea of Ros hovering around the workmen. I always ask what was wrong with things too, even though most times I don't have a clue what they are talking about.

I need to go grocery shopping today and to get the neon tetras for the fish tank. 

Have a good day, everyone.

Good morning everyone

 

Very clouidy here, dry at present but a very wet afternoon forecast and thunderstorms are likely.

 

Yogi, I wish you success for your hunt for the neon tetras

Good morning

Cloudy here too, with a wet forecast ahead. We'll have to make our own sunshine!

Happy tetra shopping yogi, I hope they're beautiful

Good morning everyone, cloudy here too but there is a hint of blue skies.  That sounds quite a complex fault moonie I am glad you are warm and toasty now.

 

How many tetras will you buy Yogi, they usually come in a shoal don't they?  PB will love them.

 

Have a great day everyone

Do any of you know why tetras are so called?

The word tetra comes from the ancient Greek for four. For instance the mathematical word for this shpae is tetrahedron to show that it has 4 sides.

I have found that out this week EL.  I have been playing The Bible and The New Testament on QuizUp and they keep asking questions relating to 4 and using the word tetra, which I am thinking meant three.  You learn something new every day.

They may have been referring to the Tetragrammaton (the ancient Greek for four letters).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton

The ancient Greek for the numerical prefix for three is tri as in triangle.

5 penta, 6 hexa, 7 hepta, 8 octa, 9 ennea, 10 deca

 

Good morning Buddies

Dull and and overcast here too. Just shopped and been to the bank. Missed the rain by seconds

This thread is very informative this morning
*is feeling educated*

Well done on missing the rain It's started here, fairly light at present but it's expected to get heavier and stay wet until early evening.

 

Fankoo El

I knew we where going to get rain so decided on an early trip out

I've now found out that tetra (for fish) is a shortening of tetragonopterus which is greek for four-sided wing (=square finned).

 

And the word Tetris is a combination of tetra (as the pieces have 4 segments) and tennis (the inventor's favourite game).

 

You live and learn El

its tanking down here

Furthermore and dating from the time we had an chemical industry in the top right, I can now reveal that I was involved on the manufacture of plasticisers. Thus working backwards from tridecanol, we find dodecanol, and undecanol. 3-2-1!

Loving the tetra knowledge in here today thank you everyone

I'm just grabbing a quick break from work

Moonie I'm glad you're back to normal now and have your freedom back

Back later

This thread is very educational indeed.

 

I have purchased the neon tetras (Squiggle, I bought a small shoal of 6) and they are now swimming happily in the tank.

While I was waiting for the guy to 'catch' the fish, I was watching a pair of big angel fish which were trying to get to some guppies in the next tank. The guy said they would eat the guppies if they were in the same tank! I don't like angel fish - eldest son had a pair, and they killed everything else he put into the tank.

I've done my grocery shopping and some jam tarts fell into my trolley.

 <- tarts for everyone.

Another piece of information I just acquired from the television...Fingernails grow quicker toenails

I hope you aren't overdoing things Sweet *wags finger*

Fankoo. It was nice waking up to a warm house this morning

See you later

 

*grabs jam tart*
A little cannibalistic those angel fish Yogi 
I wonder how they got their names if the are like that?

They ought to be called Devil Fish.

I think the they may have been called Angel Fish due to they way they look, rather than how they behave.

http://uk.images.search.yahoo....q..l/ceQ&fr=ipad

And working upwards from tridecanol there's tetradecanol (C₁₄H₃₀O)

Then going downwards frron undecanol eventually there's ethanol (C₂H₆O or C₂H₅OH) which some of us are known to have consumed though combined with other chemicals

They are thugs Yogi, I thought they were beautiful peaceful fish when we bought them, little did I know.  Siamese Fighting Fish on the other hand are lovely peaceful fish as long as there is only one, if there are two they will fight.  Thanks for the tarts

 

Yogi, thanks for the jam tart

 

Jam tarts almost always seem to be red, purple or yellow. So to be different here's a lime jam tart:

Isn't it strange that their names in no way reflect their behaviour?

You are welcome to the tarts - and no calories involved.