Jaggededge
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It needs a tree fella.
Today.
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Phone call from work today, we had a company out midweek to clear all the warehouse gutters. 3 the full length of the building and 3 shorter sections. Obviously overnight was bucketing down and the central gutter leaked into the warehouse - staff mopping up and moving stock. Turns out they'd pushed too much muck down the downpipes blocking them and causing the gutter to overflow back up under the roofing.
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Pic from last time i was up there while they fitted the solar panels. Central gutter in the valley between the two ridges. If you look closely you can see York Minster in the background.
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Pic from last time i was up there while they fitted the solar panels. Central gutter in the valley between the two ridges. If you look closely you can see York Minster in the background.
MaC
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They're supposed to remove debris and then flush the (we call them rone pipes) the downspouts clear to make sure that they haven't just shifted the problem along.
I have friends who own huge workshops and they had an issue when the company who cleared their roofs didn't do the flush out test too. They sued and won a lot of recompense.
I saw the rone pipe squirting upwards like a fountain when it happened at the workshop. It was quite impressive
You'd expect all that volume of rain to shift the blockage but it didn't. It took pressure washers going full bore to do that eventually. The kind plumbers use to clear blocked sewers.
I have friends who own huge workshops and they had an issue when the company who cleared their roofs didn't do the flush out test too. They sued and won a lot of recompense.
I saw the rone pipe squirting upwards like a fountain when it happened at the workshop. It was quite impressive
You'd expect all that volume of rain to shift the blockage but it didn't. It took pressure washers going full bore to do that eventually. The kind plumbers use to clear blocked sewers.
BorderReiver
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Jaggededge
Explorer
I think you need sectioning.
I think you need to get out on the water!
Bit of blue therapy.Jaggededge
Explorer
Water and me don't play well together.
Turns out that the boss only cleared one downpipe yesterday and theres been torrential rain overnight. Que mass flooding in multiple places including onto a mezzanine floor with floorboxes full of electical outlets and into the ceiling below full of lights and smoke heads etc.They're supposed to remove debric and then flush the (we call them rone pipes) the downspouts clear to make sure that they haven't just shifted the problem along.
I have friends who own huge workshops and they had an issue when the company who cleared their roofs didn't do the flush out test too. They sued and won a lot of recompense.
I saw the rone pipe squirting upwards like a fountain when it happened at the workshop. It was quite impressive
You'd expect all that volume of rain to shift the blockage but it didn't. It took pressure washers going full bore to do that eventually. The kind plumbers use to clear blocked sewers.
Did I mention I am on Holiday this week?....... I miss all the fun!
MaC
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I'm laughing, but really, that's not funny. That's a logistical nightmare.
Dehumidifiers are worth their weight in gold, they really are.
As a very 'new' archaeologist I got the job of re-accessing boxes of human bones that had been lifted from a medieval priory. The museum they'd been stored in had had a leak....because the rones overflowed....and the boxes had gotten saturated and soggy.
In their wisdom the powers that be had brought in industrial heating fans....and all those sodden wet boxes full of bones and oysters shells (tons and tons of oyster shells, they must have been the pistachio nut of the medieval ! ) crumpled and collapsed....around the bones
The boxes felt gritty, I could smell the bone dust, the bones were breaking up as I lifted them. The caps coming off the femurs, the skulls seperating up like a broken bowl along the fontanelles. No disposable gloves in them days, not for folks doing scut work, I was breathing it, all that mouldy dusty....yeah.
Went outside and threw up. Pulled up my big girl's knickers and went back and finished the job and swore I'd never do it again.
I don't dig in graves.
Anyway, after all that; drying is good, but heat and drying is bad.....dehumidifiers are brilliant
M
Dehumidifiers are worth their weight in gold, they really are.
As a very 'new' archaeologist I got the job of re-accessing boxes of human bones that had been lifted from a medieval priory. The museum they'd been stored in had had a leak....because the rones overflowed....and the boxes had gotten saturated and soggy.
In their wisdom the powers that be had brought in industrial heating fans....and all those sodden wet boxes full of bones and oysters shells (tons and tons of oyster shells, they must have been the pistachio nut of the medieval ! ) crumpled and collapsed....around the bones
The boxes felt gritty, I could smell the bone dust, the bones were breaking up as I lifted them. The caps coming off the femurs, the skulls seperating up like a broken bowl along the fontanelles. No disposable gloves in them days, not for folks doing scut work, I was breathing it, all that mouldy dusty....yeah.
Went outside and threw up. Pulled up my big girl's knickers and went back and finished the job and swore I'd never do it again.
I don't dig in graves.
Anyway, after all that; drying is good, but heat and drying is bad.....dehumidifiers are brilliant
M
I cut my left thumb bad and the middle of my left index finger on Friday night, washing a wine glass which broke in my hands. Lots of blood of course, bloody annoying waiting for it to heal though.
I also went on a bag buying spree. I have been looking for waist pack for the summer which can carry a water bottle but isn't huge - something I can put sunglasses, keys, headphones etc in. I saw a woman with a North Face bag that looked ideal, turns out it they did it in 3 versions and they have all been discontinued. I bought one of each version, heavily discounted on one of those end of line websites.
I also went on a bag buying spree. I have been looking for waist pack for the summer which can carry a water bottle but isn't huge - something I can put sunglasses, keys, headphones etc in. I saw a woman with a North Face bag that looked ideal, turns out it they did it in 3 versions and they have all been discontinued. I bought one of each version, heavily discounted on one of those end of line websites.
MaC
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Sympathy on the hand out of order; I absolutely loath being unable to use my hands. Complete embuggerance of life kind of thing.
I hope you heal quickly and well.
Nice on on the discounts especially if they're useful
I hope you heal quickly and well.
Nice on on the discounts
especially if they're useful 
Beachlover
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Took two elderly friends into Newport so they could go shopping in Matalan. As if that wasn’t a grim enough experience, they insisted on “treating” me to lunch in Pizza Hut. It’s several years since I went in a PH and I now know why.
I'm presently sat in front of the telly in a pair of cheaper than cheap Matalan tracky bottoms waiting for the words of a food hygiene tutor about the high risk of food poisoning from salads to be borne out in real life.
I'm presently sat in front of the telly in a pair of cheaper than cheap Matalan tracky bottoms waiting for the words of a food hygiene tutor about the high risk of food poisoning from salads to be borne out in real life.
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MaC
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I cleared out the hall press last week....and I have eight small rucksacks, from 15 to 25L.
What the hang do I need eight of them for ?
Beachlover
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I couldn't even begin to compete with that hoard nowadays.
Fairly typical to want to declutter in the shoulder seasons I find.
I think since I moved to Canada with a back pack and a hold-all and, for the most part, don't miss all the things I left behind in the UK, I am much much less of a hoarder than I was.
I think since I moved to Canada with a back pack and a hold-all and, for the most part, don't miss all the things I left behind in the UK, I am much much less of a hoarder than I was.
Templogin
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The kind lady behind the counter on my last visit to the shop coughed on me several times despite my withering (die you bugger) stare. I have now got problems with my breathing, the cold exacerbating my asthma, a snotty cold and I feel hot. Will take some more aspirin and go to bed and read. I ate 14 comfort dried prunes and a tin of mandarins, a bowl of porage and two satsumas. I was hoping the fruit would be a cure, but the cough continues. The neighbour will think that I have adopted a seal.
Have a good day folks and stay away from those filthy coughing people.
Have a good day folks and stay away from those filthy coughing people.
ElThomsono
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As soon as you're coughed on you need to strip the germs from your throat with whisky.
Today we found out that Sully and his two mates from nursery got accepted to our preferred school; it seems a decent place and it's the nearest to our house which is always handy. We went to view it a while back and it brought back so many memories, tiny chairs, pots of chunky pencils, little stations throughout the room for various activities. The biggest change is that the classrooms now have sort of en-suite toilets.
Today we found out that Sully and his two mates from nursery got accepted to our preferred school; it seems a decent place and it's the nearest to our house which is always handy. We went to view it a while back and it brought back so many memories, tiny chairs, pots of chunky pencils, little stations throughout the room for various activities. The biggest change is that the classrooms now have sort of en-suite toilets.
Beachlover
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Get well soon and all that said I'd be afraid to cough having eaten all that fruit and especially the prunes.
Oldtimer
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I recall the playground conversation overheard between a father and his son on his first day at school.
"Daddy, how long do I have to go to school?"
"Well son, you start ful-time school in the year in which you become five years old. You move on to secondary school when you are seven, then when you are sixteen you might go to sixth-form college for two years. After that you might go to universiity for three years and maybe another year to take a futher quailificatio, by which time you'll be about 22."
Just then, the bell rang for school to start and the children trooped in except for the the liitle boy whom I'd heard. He came running back to Daddy and said anxiously ,
"Daddy, you will come back for me when I'm 22, won't you?
"Daddy, how long do I have to go to school?"
"Well son, you start ful-time school in the year in which you become five years old. You move on to secondary school when you are seven, then when you are sixteen you might go to sixth-form college for two years. After that you might go to universiity for three years and maybe another year to take a futher quailificatio, by which time you'll be about 22."
Just then, the bell rang for school to start and the children trooped in except for the the liitle boy whom I'd heard. He came running back to Daddy and said anxiously ,
"Daddy, you will come back for me when I'm 22, won't you?
Oldtimer
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Two other first day at school tales which I treasure.
Reception class pupil to mother on being picked up by mother after first day at school, " I'm very disappointed, You said when I went to school I'd learn to read, and I didn't!"
Another, on being asked what her first day at school was like, "OK, but I don't think I'll bother to go again!"
Reception class pupil to mother on being picked up by mother after first day at school, " I'm very disappointed, You said when I went to school I'd learn to read, and I didn't!"
Another, on being asked what her first day at school was like, "OK, but I don't think I'll bother to go again!"