Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.

Hugs for Ros and Summer.

and meloved Dumbo and Bambi

night yogi and summer

Good morning everyone.

 

Weather is dry atm with showers due later.

 

Off to the nurse at GPs this morning to get my bloods done.

 

Have a good day everyone.

 

 

Good mornng everyone

 

Fairly cloudy here, there may be showers later but nothing much. 1 September and it's cool enough for my central heating to come on first thing (though off now).

 

For the last few months I have been getting my milk delivered. It's supposed to be delivered by 7 am though there have been a few times when it's been more like 8.30.

Yesterday's milk did not arrive. Rang customer services at 9.30 and was told milman still doing his round and if not delivered by the afternoon to ring back.

Not delivered by 2pm so rang again. Milkman still doing his round, to ring back if not delivered within an hour, report it as a missed delivery, and they would investigate it.

Not delivered by 4 so rang again. Was told milkman had not yet returned to depost. I said I'd rung twice and was advised to report as a missed delivery so it could be investigated. Was told to wait for the milkman to arrive,

Obviously the milkman never arrived.

Cancelling the milk with immediate effect.

 

Yogi, I was typing my post when you posted. I hope all goes well at your blood tests today

Good morning everyone, lots of clouds, bit of blue sky.  I hope all goes well at the GP's today Yogi.

 

I wonder what on earth is going on with your milk delivery EL?  Was it delivered by a milk float?  I haven't seen one of those for ages.

 

Still makes me cry

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Squiggle, as I never saw my milk being delivered I don't know if they use a milk float. May be the milkman has done a runner in the milk float never to be seen again

 

That song is very moving. Your clip can only be watched on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORf1liT9cE

Disney are very watchful over their films over what gets on things like Youtube. I think if someone uploaded a complete Disney film on Youtube it would get taken down within minutes.

 

By the way my smartmeter conversion saga coninues.

Since the gas meter was commissioned last Monday, my online account with British Gas shows that daily data was shown for the first 3 days and none since. Also the electricity meter daily data which was shown right up to the day the gas meter was commissioned has shown nothing since.

I have reported this and should get a reply within 5 days. Unclear as to whether the problem is here or at British Gas - the transponder device here which transmits the data is showing 3 green lights which is what should be happening.

 

Poor service from the milkman, I don't blame you for cancelling, El.

What a palaver with the smart meters. I think I'll hold off having them installed.

Love the clip, Squiggle.

 

All went well at the nurse.

Yogi, I'm glad all went well at the nurse and hope the results are satisfactory

 

I only started getting the milk from the milkman in April to support a local person but it's no use if it's not reliable. Luckily I had some in so it didn't cause me problems.

 

I don't know if my smart meter problems are typical or rare. I do know that my house is a black spot for some mobile phone networks but that should not be the cause as the smart meters can use a variety of networks. I also know that some radio frequencies have difficulty in getting through walls in my house which is why I have to have the boiler thermostat near the boiler. That could be what's happening though the elcetricity data was getting transmitted before the gas meter was commissiomed. I did tell the engineer about this when the meters were installed.

 

When my youngest son moved in with his fiancée, he couldn't get a signal from Vodaphone in the flat and had to change networks. I wonder why this is the case? Too far from a mast, or might the thickness of the walls have something to do with it?

Anyway, I hope the smart meter problems get sorted out soon, El.

Yogi, different mobile phone companies use different towers so it depends as to how close a house or flat is to a tower as to if you can get a decent signal. Here's a map of the UK showing mobile phone availability.

http://opensignal.com/coverage-maps/UK/

Type in a post code. The default view is coverage showing strength and some recommended providers. You can't scroll in though to get a more precise view. However with the towers option you can scroll in to see which towers are close to you. The chances are with your youngest son's flat that there isn't a Vodafone tower near him.

 

With the news today that West Ham have signed a couple of players by the names of Moses and Song, I thought of this gem, one of many from Singin' in the Rain. Whether the players will tap dance during their matches remains to be seen.

 Thanks El.

Working on my own accounts. Some time ago I banked 6 cheques. I generally enter them on the paying in slip in inreasing order of value. I noticed that with the banking with 6 cheques that not only were they listed in inreasing order of value (all different amounts), they were also in alphabetical order by surname (all different people).

There's a 1 in 32 chance of that happening so unusual but not rare.

 

 Everyone
Hope you all well, glad Yogi, all going well, apart from the sleep patterns x
Been busy with activities with the Edinburgh Festival, which finished last night. The Grandparents group, with whom i am involved was allocated free tickets so GD has seen a lot of shows, some boring i have to say and others good. Will now have to get fundraising for other activities. 

Take care everyone, 

Hi Skylark I'm glad you and GD had some good shows to watch at the Festival. I can imagine that there would be some good things and some dreadful things there.

 

 Definitely unusual.

Hi Skylark.

The town will seem quieter now that the festival is over.

Was it choir night tonight, Ros? Missed you in the CBB thread.

Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.

night yogi back to work to day so had schoolwork to do -choir starts again next week -night summer

*night owls* goodnight yogi & Ros I hope you've both had a good day

We've had a horrendously busy day, last minute back to school madness; naughty kids, impatient & angry parents, sarcastic snooty mothers... I'm glad it's the last day of it and I'm off tomorrow.
I predicted a rush of people next who have avoided the school rush, and then it should calm down.

Ros, good luck heading back to work I hope you've enjoyed your summer break

El, I don't blame you for cancelling your milkman, it was kind of you to start using him in the first place

Good morning everyone.

 

Flying visit before PB arrives.

 

Summer, I hope you enjoy your day off and get a chance to relax. Yesterday sounded horrible!

 

Ros, I hope your first day back wasn't too bad.

 

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny here at present, forecast to be showery this afternoon.

 

 

A Gloucester man drove his 4x4 into the sea after faithfully following the directions on his sat nav.

The motorist drove his Land Rover onto the beach at Brean and parked half-a-mile out on the mudflats at low tide.

But the Land Rover had to be towed to safety after the rising tide surrounded the vehicle.

Beach warden Kevin Williams launched a rescue operation and local farmer Richard Bigwood towed the 4x4 to safety with his tractor.

Surely he was looking out of the windscreen too..? What a silly man- Proof that sat nav's are a helpful guide but you cannot completely rely on them! Thank goodness he wasn't injured

Good morning all I'm having a little lay in
I hope you all slept well

Summer, many years ago before sat navs drivers might use mapping software. I had an old version of Autoroute which at that time showed that at junction 10 of the M5 (near Cheltenham) there was access both north and south. You can get on to the M5 to go north and get off the M5 if you are going south but not the way. I think it probable that it was corrected in a later version (Microsoft has discontinued it).

 

Good morning everyone, lots of blue sky and fluffy white clouds but no real sunshine.

 

I am not sure I buy the 'my sat nav made me do it' somehow, where was it guiding him to then?  

 

That sounds like an awful day yesterday Summer I hope today works out lovely and relaxing for you to recover.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

The driver may have intended to go to Pontin's Brean Sands Holiday Park and just entered Brean Sands

I somehow don't think 'you have reached your destination' is going to be sounding in the middle of mud flats, call me an old cynic

A recent survey as to people's favourite Agatha Christie novel:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34114844

You may be able to guess which one is top when I say that it doesn't have either Poirot or Miss Marple in (and certainly not the Beresfords).

I think the 3 part BBC series is due to start on 27 December.

Somehow I don't think they will be using its original title though, do you?

How odd, I have just read in my paper of another driver stranded on the beach at Marazion (in a Bentley ) Maybe he thought he could drive to St. Michael's Mount

Squiggle, that's odd. I found my article on my local news website.

 

It could be that the driver of the Bentley thought he was in a Lotus Esprit (as in The Spy who loved me).

 

Good afternoon I've been a busy, productive bee so far; ive done housework, picked up my books from my accountant, shopped for groceries, prepared cake ingredients to soak overnight and prepared lamb chops for a late lunch/early tea

Guess what I saw in asda and have decided to try... a colouring book for adults!

Well done Summer on being a busy bee

 

Apparently those colouring books for adults have become popular. The Puzzler magazine people now have a new monthly magazine called Creative Colour.

Really? Wow, I've heard people say they're popular but they must be rising all the time
I think the 1 book will last me ages because the pictures are very detailed indeed

How is your afternoon going El?

Well done Summer, a very productive day, and a happier one than yesterday I hope.  The colouring books sound a very restful way to spend time and I am sure the end result will be beautiful.

It's fairly quiet at present but I'm expecting a memory stick from a client with their workings which will keep me busy. That might have arrived today but I've had my post so it will probably be tomorrow.

Then there's the really huge job I do each year. I could get a call any day to say they arer ready for me to start.

 

Painting by numbers kits used to be quite popular and it sounds as if these colouring books are tapping that market. I haven't looked at any but I would hope that the paper quality is high quality otherwise there's the risk that the colour pencils will affect the other side of the page (though less of an issue if there are pictures on only one side of each page).

It could also be quite healthy as a stress reliever.