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ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:49 pm

G#Gill;1495079 wrote: Gawd,, it's nearly May !!!!! Temps are going down to freezing again tonight, and it's been bitterly cold all day, even when the sun has made an appearance ! I blame the flippin' government ! :-5

Yep! Definitely their fault.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:37 pm

It's still very cold today, and it will probably go on for a few days yet. Here's me thinking I was being very frugal with my central heating ! I think we've had the central heating on more these last few weeks than we did during the middle of winter !

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 2:38 pm

It's cold here too, today Gill. Wore my winter hat & coat.

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 4:46 pm

Yeah. We went from 80 on Saturday to a high of 40 today, with snow flurries.

I love Spring in Colorado.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:59 am

Enough about the flippin' weather - global warming again ? :wah:

The lawyer said to the wealthy art collector tyc00n; "I have some good news and I have some bad news."

The tyc00n replied; "I've had an awful day, let's hear the good news first."

The lawyer said; "Well, your wife invested £5,000 in two pictures this week that she figures are worth a minimum of £2 to £3 million."

The tyc00n replied enthusiastically; "Well done! My wife is so astute! You've just made my day; now what's the bad news?"

The lawyer answered; "The pictures are of you with your secretary."

:yh_rotfl You know I had to substitute the oo and put numerals 00 instead ! Flippin' PC police strike again ! Daft innit? The iffy letters were part of a word and not a word on their own !!!! :-5 tut ! I couldn't believe that I had ** put in the joke "ty****" :rolleyes:

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 12:36 pm

Wonder if they let woodland animals through Gilly?

Here is a funny video of Rac****s playing about.

Who would have believed it ?

Poor innocent animals.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:24 pm

Oh that is so cute Bruv, thanks for posting the video.

Seems to me that nothing and nobody can escape the PC police! Big brother is alive and well and very much on the alert (even though he is a tad confused !) :wah:

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sat Apr 30, 2016 11:11 am

Do you ever get one of those days when you make silly mistakes, or keep dropping things, or can't get anything right ? Well I'm having one of those days !!!! :-5

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Apr 30, 2016 2:29 pm

G#Gill;1495150 wrote: Do you ever get one of those days when you make silly mistakes, or keep dropping things, or can't get anything right ? Well I'm having one of those days !!!! :-5

Welcome to my world.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sun May 01, 2016 12:24 pm

I am also rather irritated, today, particularly after reading some of the posts on this site. I wonder why there are so many ostriches !

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sun May 01, 2016 2:35 pm

I've just put a couple of tracks of my favourite stuff on FG and, having listened to them I feel a little more calm !

Such a brilliant track !

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Mon May 02, 2016 5:54 pm

I'm still feeling irritable. Can't seem to get out of it at the moment. I've tried posting about different things, but I just seem to get more irritable !!! Maybe if the weather warms up a bit and the sun comes out, I might persuade myself to smile inside a little bit more than at the moment !

:-3 :-5

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Mon May 02, 2016 5:58 pm

G#Gill;1495286 wrote: I'm still feeling irritable. Can't seem to get out of it at the moment. I've tried posting about different things, but I just seem to get more irritable !!! Maybe if the weather warms up a bit and the sun comes out, I might persuade myself to smile inside a little bit more than at the moment !

:-3 :-5

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G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Mon May 02, 2016 6:20 pm

ZAP;1495287 wrote: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=d ... oo_pc_mail

Thank you Zap. :yh_hugs

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon May 02, 2016 6:25 pm

G#Gill;1495286 wrote: I'm still feeling irritable. Can't seem to get out of it at the moment. I've tried posting about different things, but I just seem to get more irritable !!! Maybe if the weather warms up a bit and the sun comes out, I might persuade myself to smile inside a little bit more than at the moment !

:-3 :-5

Well, don't know if it will help much, but I woke to a beautiful cloudless morning, with the mountains shining in the Sun. It did wonders for my state of mind, today.

I will send some happy vibes your direction, and hopefully some blues skies, to boot.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Mon May 02, 2016 6:41 pm

LarsMac;1495291 wrote: Well, don't know if it will help much, but I woke to a beautiful cloudless morning, with the mountains shining in the Sun. It did wonders for my state of mind, today.

I will send some happy vibes your direction, and hopefully some blues skies, to boot.

Aw thank you Lars ! :yh_hugs That's a very sweet thought.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Mon May 02, 2016 7:03 pm

LarsMac;1495291 wrote: Well, don't know if it will help much, but I woke to a beautiful cloudless morning, with the mountains shining in the Sun. It did wonders for my state of mind, today.

I will send some happy vibes your direction, and hopefully some blues skies, to boot.

Group hug for Gilly.

:yh_hugs:yh_hugs:yh_hugs

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue May 03, 2016 3:20 am

ZAP;1495293 wrote: Group hug for Gilly.

:yh_hugs:yh_hugs:yh_hugs

Thank you Zap, bless your heart. That eases things a bit ! To know that there are lovely friendly people out there is very heartening. I just feel so down at the moment and that makes me a little irritable. I know I should give myself a talking to, things will get better I'm sure. It involves something that I can't talk about but nothing medical I hasten to add.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue May 03, 2016 8:54 am

Well, maybe you need to rethink your perspective. Hope this helps.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue May 03, 2016 12:18 pm

G#Gill;1495299 wrote: Thank you Zap, bless your heart. That eases things a bit ! To know that there are lovely friendly people out there is very heartening. I just feel so down at the moment and that makes me a little irritable. I know I should give myself a talking to, things will get better I'm sure. It involves something that I can't talk about but nothing medical I hasten to add.

If you could see the funny faces I am pulling right now it would cheer you up no end.

We are due some sunshine Gilly...............or so they say.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Tue May 03, 2016 3:03 pm

Ooh I can't help lovin' you guys ! (good job I'm not religious ! :wah: ) Thanks for the smiles :yh_hugs

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed May 04, 2016 9:08 am

It's blowin' a hooligan here, but it is nice and sunny. Got my washing flapping in the breeze and drying very nicely thank you. I do like the smell that you get on clothes that have been dried outside in the sun and breeze.

When there's a breeze like today, it is not necessary to have to iron clothes after they dry, because any creases are flapped away !

Now wasn't that a boring post ? :rolleyes:

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:36 am

G#Gill;1495362 wrote: Now wasn't that a boring post ? :rolleyes:

Is that a rhetorical question ?

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:39 am

Actually, Bruv, I think it must be ! I think it is meant as a statement of fact !!! Perhaps I should have put an exclamation mark instead of a question mark ! :-3

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:47 am

G#Gill;1495368 wrote: Actually, Bruv, I think it is meant as a statement of fact !!! :-3

Then I can agree with you.

I do like air dried washing though, especially a nice fresh sheet.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:50 am

G#Gill;1495362 wrote: It's blowin' a hooligan here, but it is nice and sunny. Got my washing flapping in the breeze and drying very nicely thank you. I do like the smell that you get on clothes that have been dried outside in the sun and breeze.

When there's a breeze like today, it is not necessary to have to iron clothes after they dry, because any creases are flapped away !

Now wasn't that a boring post ? :rolleyes:

I don't think so. You reminded me of those days when we got sent out to collect the dry clothing that had been hanging all day in the sun and the breeze. I loved that aroma.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:55 am

Bruv;1495371 wrote: Then I can agree with you.

I do like air dried washing though, especially a nice fresh sheet.

I love the smell of sheets after they've been on the line. Not so much the rigmarole I had to suffer as a kid with folding them up with me muvver. I always dropped a corner.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Wed May 04, 2016 10:59 am

A predicted 22 degrees on Friday. Should I do my hanging baskets or am I tempting fate ?

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed May 04, 2016 11:00 am

I suppose with the advent of the tumble drier, and the weather in the UK being so unpredictable,, the instances of lovely fresh air smelling sheets and clothes are fairly few and far between !

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed May 04, 2016 11:04 am

Snowfire;1495374 wrote: A predicted 22 degrees on Friday. Should I do my hanging baskets or am I tempting fate ?

Just carry on with what you planned, Snowfire. I'm sure the weather will be kind. You are down in the south anyway so the temp will be a little warmer for you. It is scheduled to be around 20 C. in the Midlands.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed May 04, 2016 11:06 am

Told the wife I wanted to stop using the dryer and start hanging the close outside.

She obviously has much different memories of those days than I.

Of course, she grew up in the High Rockies, while I grew up in The South.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Wed May 04, 2016 5:28 pm

I got up this afternoon, looking forward to being able to slob around for the rest of the day, being one of my 2 days off (Wed & Fri). Then I get a phone call - they urgently need me in the office to cover for someone who's gone off sick. Normally I set my alarm for 2 hours before I'm due to leave. This afternoon, from the moment I took the call, getting shaved, showered, making my sarnies, getting dressed & togged up in my biker gear & eventually arriving at the office (10.5 miles) - total 45 mins.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu May 05, 2016 9:48 am

I hope no speed limits were broken.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu May 05, 2016 3:43 pm

FourPart;1495413 wrote: I got up this afternoon, looking forward to being able to slob around for the rest of the day, being one of my 2 days off (Wed & Fri). Then I get a phone call - they urgently need me in the office to cover for someone who's gone off sick. Normally I set my alarm for 2 hours before I'm due to leave. This afternoon, from the moment I took the call, getting shaved, showered, making my sarnies, getting dressed & togged up in my biker gear & eventually arriving at the office (10.5 miles) - total 45 mins.

At this rate, FourPart you'll have to indent for 'blues and twos' for your motorbike !

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Thu May 05, 2016 3:55 pm

I'm in San Diego for a few days at the beach with my friend from the 9th grade in Kansas, enjoying the beach, the weather, great music, wonderful food--not necessarily in that order--and watching DVDs I have of things she missed out on--my family, my wedding, our teams of horses racing, snowmobiling in the mountains, etc.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu May 05, 2016 4:12 pm

ZAP;1495462 wrote: I'm in San Diego for a few days at the beach with my friend from the 9th grade in Kansas, enjoying the beach, the weather, great music, wonderful food--not necessarily in that order--and watching DVDs I have of things she missed out on--my family, my wedding, our teams of horses racing, snowmobiling in the mountains, etc.

Wow lucky you ! Sounds as if the weather is being very kind for you, so I hope you are having a wonderful time - it sounds as if you are Zap ! Did you drive there or fly ?

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Fri May 06, 2016 11:46 am

G#Gill;1495464 wrote: Wow lucky you ! Sounds as if the weather is being very kind for you, so I hope you are having a wonderful time - it sounds as if you are Zap ! Did you drive there or fly ?

I drove over--it's 2 hours from my house. That includes stopping at Trader Joe's. Yesterday we toured The Embarcadero and the Star of India and other sailing ships, one of which was in a Russel Crow movie. Today my guests are at the Zoo but I've been there so many times I stayed back, hoping to catch up on some writing. Besides it's raining today. Tomorrow we're heading for Palm Springs.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri May 06, 2016 12:48 pm

I like egg mayonaise ( not made with bland mayonaise, but with salad cream), and as we usually have filled baps/buns at lunch time, my hubby put eggs in a saucepan with a view to hard boiling them ready to mash up and mix with salad cream and chopped onion for tomorrows lunch.

During the afternoon, I was busy doing clerical work (that sounds rather posh dunnit ?), and Mr. Gill was engrossed in writing letters. It has been quite a warm day so we had our windows open and there was a fairly obnoxious smell permeating our sitting room some time after lunch. This was going on for about 25 minutes give or take, and we each remarked about it and blamed the sewage treatment farm that was about 2 miles south of us, as the crow flies. Mr.G# decided to go down to the kitchen (our house is split level) and make a cup of tea. There was such a loud exclamation burst up the stairs and into the sitting room - "Crikey, the kitchen is full of stinking smoke !"

He'd only put eggs on to boil on simmer and promptly forgot he'd done it when he got so involved with writing his letters! He never mentioned to me that he had put eggs on to boil ! I'm afraid I roared with laughter, because I had done something fairly similar many years ago ! Gawd it was such a terrible stench and it had invaded the whole house. We opened all the windows that were openable, and we wedged open the front door and the back door creating a through draft. There were several bursts of laughter for the next hour or so till the stinky smoke had been got rid of. I've just asked Mr. G# if he's going to put more eggs on to hard boil for our lunch tomorrow, and all I got back as an answer was a loud guffaw ! Oh well, perhaps later when there is somebody in the kitchen to keep an eye on things. :wah:

One good thing to come out of the incident was I noticed no smoke alarms had been set off ! We checked the smoke alarms. We couldn't find the one that should have been on the stairs at the kitchen ! The one that had an escape light , at the front door had been damaged somehow and didn't work any more, and the one in the top landing near our bedroom door had no battery in it !!!! So Mr. G# went dashing out before Wilkos closed and bought a new smoke alarm 2 x 9 volt batteries and a card of 4 x Duracell AA batteries. We will have another look tomorrow for the missing smoke alarm. Somebody must have put it somewhere to stop it sounding off, but where that is I have no idea ! If we can't find it tomorrow, I shall have to buy another one. At least we have a couple of working smoke alarms now to ease our minds !

When I realised that we had no working smoke alarms, I thought about 'sods law' and that if I did nothing else today I would be replacing smoke alarms and fitting new batteries before we have to go to bed !

I shall no doubt laugh often when anything reminds me about Mr. G# and the hard boiled egg saga ! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Fri May 06, 2016 12:57 pm

Bruv;1495438 wrote: I hope no speed limits were broken.

I'm more worried about the speed shaving

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 06, 2016 2:18 pm

@Gilly

When I was a 15 year old my first job was in a kitchen, I was in the hors d'oeuvres department, I was given the job one day to boil the eggs.

The steamer was three compartments high, each containing two trays the trays could hold two egg trays, so each steamer held 120 eggs and there were three steamers so held 360 eggs each time.

The job involved loading the steamer then empty after something like 15 minutes putting the eggs into cold water and shelling them into bowls before putting them in the fridge.

I forgot them the first time and they were all evil sulphurous smelling with blackened yolk with burst broken shells..............all went in the bin.

I got a telling off.

The second time I forgot again with the same outcome, the telling off was very much worse this time.

The third time I forgot yet again, and when the Chef asked whether the eggs had been done yet, I nearly messed myself, then all the others started to laugh.

They had emptied the steamer and saved the eggs..................I never lived that down.......they always timed the boiled eggs,reminding me every time.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri May 06, 2016 2:18 pm

Snowfire;1495513 wrote: I'm more worried about the speed shaving

Ouch !!

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed May 11, 2016 11:47 am

Well you had a mega Oops with your egg episodes didn't you Bruv ? Wow that was an awful lot of eggs to have to throw away. The stink must have been dreadful !!!! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 11, 2016 1:45 pm

G#Gill;1495710 wrote: Well you had a mega Oops with your egg episodes didn't you Bruv ? Wow that was an awful lot of eggs to have to throw away. The stink must have been dreadful !!!! :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

I am still a bit scatty unfortunately but my cooking has improved.

Where have you been Gilly ?

I have had to deal with Spot on my own.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Wed May 11, 2016 8:23 pm

Bruv;1495438 wrote: I hope no speed limits were broken.

Me? Speed? As if I would...

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu May 12, 2016 9:18 am

Bruv;1495717 wrote: I am still a bit scatty unfortunately but my cooking has improved.

Where have you been Gilly ?

I have had to deal with Spot on my own.

Oh Mr spot's a pussy cat, Bruv. I know you can sort him whenever it's necessary. Just so long as you allow him to think he's right all the time, you shouldn't have any problems !

:wah: :sneaky:

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu May 12, 2016 11:47 am

G#Gill;1495748 wrote: Oh Mr spot's a pussy cat, Bruv. I know you can sort him whenever it's necessary. Just so long as you allow him to think he's right all the time, you shouldn't have any problems !

:wah: :sneaky:

And that's how your marriage has lasted so long........allowing Mr Gilly think he is in charge.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu May 12, 2016 2:28 pm

Bruv;1495752 wrote: And that's how your marriage has lasted so long........allowing Mr Gilly think he is in charge.

Well we're into our 53rd year this year, so I suppose we're both doing something right !!! I wouldn't say that I let him think he is in charge all the time..................................just sometimes, well most times. If something is important to me, then I'll "fight", but most of the time nothing is really that important, so I just let it ride. Any way I know that eventually, in the end, things will be how I want it (mostly :wah:

). We're not the sort of couple who never argue, a good argument clears the air and lets the pressure out, a bit like a pressure cooker ! It's a formula that seems to work with us !

Besides, he is my rock, my soul mate and we love each other !

.......... Okay put the tissues away !

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu May 12, 2016 2:33 pm

Aaaw.....makes my 18 years seem like kids stuff.

Does the previous 20 years one count as a plus or failure ?

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Thu May 12, 2016 3:49 pm

Bruv;1495769 wrote: Aaaw.....makes my 18 years seem like kids stuff.

Does the previous 20 years one count as a plus or failure ?

Well that's for you to decide really. There must have been plus parts, whatever happened at 20 years. Whatever else, you have an ongoing 38 years of married life and counting, and that ain't bad ! :guitarist

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat May 14, 2016 8:14 pm

Well, a fairly uneventful night at the office tonight - the usual dead spots, followed by a few minutes of madness.

Soon after starting my shift some alarms started going off in the Comms (Server) for about 3 mins before cutting out. This happened a few times. Being a weekend I couldn't contact IT to notify them, so I just sent a FYI report to Management.

Then finally, just as I set about doing the routine security round, checking all doors, windows, lights etc., before shutting up for the night, I get to the top floor, which has a broken fire door handle that needs wedging open with a fire extinguisher, of all things, otherwise you can't get back out. Anyway, I opened & wedged the door & noticed a wet patch on the carpet. At first I thought it was just where someone had had another go at getting a few coffee stains out that the professional cleaners were unable to get out. Then as I progressed I felt the carpet squelching beneath my socks. That's when I heard a rapid dripping. I looked up & saw water pouring from a heavily bowed ceiling tile.

I promptly followed my H&S training from my previous job left the lights on (rule being not to use any electrical devices when there's water about) & went downstairs to call emergency management contact numbers. Needless to say, this was the point at which all the phones went into their mad phases, meaning that I couldn't dial out until I had dealt with them. By the time management arrived the dripping had turned to a gentle flow.

We've placed a big 46 litre bin underneath - although I can't see that lasting overnight. In the meantime the office has been closed, and until things get sorted I'll be working from home, with all calls being diverted to my mobile, with me logging in from my PC.

There's talk about it being a fault with the air conditioner, but I reckon it's far too much for that & more likely to be a problem with the ballcock of the hot water tank. After all, it's only in the past couple of weeks that the tap in the downstairs toilet's been fixed, stopping it from constantly flowing (thus never getting put any real strain on the ballcock valve).

Finally, an email sent to IT, just in case the alarms were associated with the flooding.

What fun. Oh, well - at least I get an extra hour at double time.