Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

For Wales it's a metropolis  ! 

[Techno]

For Wales it's a metropolis  ! 

You Muppet !! 

Nobody who hasn't tried to sleep with a vocal ass nearby can begin to guess what a racket they make.

Fortunately they're far enough away......Only tend to hear them if we're outside.
BUT.....knowing how distant they actually are.......You're right.....They'll be making one hell of a din, close to.

Cheers - Phil

[Techno]

Why DO 'things' go wrong in threes ?...and cost loads of money !

Over the past week or so....

1) The brake pads on the car went.....(It wasn't worth repairing, with all the other things apparently wrong with it.)....So we ended up buying one of the local garage's courtesy cars.

2) The on/off switch on the vacuum cleaner gave up the ghost. (I might just be able to get a compatible switch......I do hope so...I'm fairly unimpressed with the cordless 'replacement' we got...The battery life's really not very special....and it only picks up a mug's worth of dirt, before it has to be emptied. Not much cop as one of the 'labs' is moulting for Wales, at the mo'.)

3) Last night the oven decided it didn't want to play anymore.....I think one of the heating elements has gone 'bang'.....So that's a call out to the local electricians to see whether it can be mended, or we need a new one of THOSE.

At least with the oven.....As the MIL is now in the residential home, I could use the oven in the annexe !

Hey Ho !!

At least Nobby cheered me up, this morning, by sending me a pic of some old figures I made 'for the Scottish Tourist industry', which he'd painted up.

Cheers - Phil

[sunjester]

It's the Law of Sod (but perhaps, here on the forum  we should call it "Techno's Law"?)

Bad luck with so many mechanical/electrical devices going on strike at one time.

[fsn]

Brakes on the car, the switch on an electrical appliance, and an oven.

Hmmm. 

Have you upset anyone recently?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Brakes - never use em, my flat is small enough for a cordless to work, and I don't have a Lab to hair it up (don't wear black near a moulting lemon Lab) and finally I've only lost 1 ring on the hob, but I sympathise !

IanS

[Techno]

Brakes on the car, the switch on an electrical appliance, and an oven.
Hmmm.  :-
Have you upset anyone recently?

Not that I'm aware of, Nobby. 

Brakes - never use em, my flat is small enough for a cordless to work, and I don't have a Lab to hair it up (don't wear black near a moulting lemon Lab) and finally I've only lost 1 ring on the hob, but I sympathise !
IanS

Thanks, Ian  .....You're SO right about 'lemon' labs.   

At least I seem to have tracked down a switch for the old upright 'corded' Dyson !!.....Huzzah !!  ......

Cheers - Phil

[Last Hussar]

Not that I'm aware of Nobby.

Didn't need the comma 

[Orcs]

That's bad luck Phil.

Its my job to repair things , so I would have to fix the vacuum, but  not use it.  Mrs Orcs divides jobs into Blue, Ping and mixed. I normally get into trouble if I do a Pink job

Pink
------
Washing
Ironing
Vacuuming
Sewing
Weeding
Cleaning house
Dusting - Not sure she actually knows what this is


Blue
--------
Decorating
Repairs of anything.
Mowing
Heavy gardening - anything requiring Loppers, Chainsaws or axes
Spraying Weeds
Chopping firewood - see above
Spider removal
Cleaning house - only when I have made a mess I do not want Mrs Orcs to see (ie spilling modelling paint on floor etc)
Sorting Cars out
Making awkward phone calls

Mixed
--------

Cooking - depending who is working
Putting the Duvet cover on
Shopping

[fsn]

Didn't need the comma 

Hey! I ... (?) I'm insulted ... aren't I? 

[Techno]

Well...I'm certainly aware of you, Nobby !! 

That's bad luck Phil.
Its my job to repair things , so I would have to fix the vacuum, but  not use it.  Mrs Orcs divides jobs into Blue, Pink and mixed. I normally get into trouble if I do a Pink job

Thanks, Mark !

Don't think Von & I have ever made lists....as such...But we each do tend to stick to certain jobs.
Not too dissimilar to your pink and blue lists.....Though I AM banned from doing any form of decorating, because I get bored very quickly, and rush things. 

Cheers - Phil

[steve_holmes_11]

Don't mention the Duvet cover.
My least favourite job.

Never really gets any easier, no obvious technique to improve, and no matter how well you think you've done, it always ends up a crumpled shapeless mess.

(Even with my 6'7" "Orang Utan" armspan).


Anybody who could build a device to partly automate the process (I imagine pulleys, wires and a lot of steampunk style brass), could become as wealthy as Croesus.

[FierceKitty]

Turning the mattress on our bed is a job for six people at least.

[Ithoriel]

Don't mention the Duvet cover.
My least favourite job.

Never really gets any easier, no obvious technique to improve, and no matter how well you think you've done, it always ends up a crumpled shapeless mess.

(Even with my 6'7" "Orang Utan" armspan).


Anybody who could build a device to partly automate the process (I imagine pulleys, wires and a lot of steampunk style brass), could become as wealthy as Croesus.

Friends have a duvet with little loops on the corners. Their duvet covers have buttons in the corner. Stuff duvet in cover. Make sure duvet is flat not twisted. Pop loops over buttons (or buttons through loops!). Shake duvet. Drop duvet over bed. Hey presto!


.... why don't all duvets have this??? 

[d_Guy]

Turning the mattress on our bed is a job for six people at least.

Not if you reduce the hanky panky

[FierceKitty]

I wish....

[steve_holmes_11]

Friends have a duvet with little loops on the corners. Their duvet covers have buttons in the corner. Stuff duvet in cover. Make sure duvet is flat not twisted. Pop loops over buttons (or buttons through loops!). Shake duvet. Drop duvet over bed. Hey presto!


.... why don't all duvets have this??? 

Jolly Clever, These Americans...

[Orcs]

Well...I'm certainly aware of you, Nobby !! 

Thanks, Mark !

Don't think Von & I have ever made lists....as such...But we each do tend to stick to certain jobs.
Not too dissimilar to your pink and blue lists.....Though I AM banned from doing any form of decorating, because I get bored very quickly, and rush things. 

Cheers - Phil

We don't actually have a formal list, but if I suggest I do something that is regarded as a "Pink" job I get a funny look so I know not to go there.


I quite enjoy decorating, especially painting It has the same therapeutic effect that painting little men has.  I also refuse to get anyone in to do it,due to the cost and the fact that I will notice bits they have bodged.

We had all the internal doors and the banisters replaced a year or so ago. Despite my complete lack of carpentry skills I still found bits that needed finishing off after paying the bloke a significant amount of money. None were enough to call him back but they niggled me like buggery till I had fixed the,   If it was a job I was competent at and had paid some one I would be fuming.

[mmcv]

Don't mention the Duvet cover.
My least favourite job.

Never really gets any easier, no obvious technique to improve, and no matter how well you think you've done, it always ends up a crumpled shapeless mess.

(Even with my 6'7" "Orang Utan" armspan).


Anybody who could build a device to partly automate the process (I imagine pulleys, wires and a lot of steampunk style brass), could become as wealthy as Croesus.

This tends to be my job too but find it fairly simple if you turn the cover inside out, put your hands in the far corners inside, grab the duvet corners while looking like a Scooby Doo ghost (and making the appropriate oooooh noises) then just wave it up and down over the bed as if you were fanning an Egyptian Queen until the cover inverts neatly over the duvet. The tedious bit is fastening all the buttons or poppers on the end. Or option two, forgo the cover and just use the duvet on its own, sure it's all the same in the dark ...

[steve_holmes_11]

This tends to be my job too but find it fairly simple if you turn the cover inside out, put your hands in the far corners inside, grab the duvet corners while looking like a Scooby Doo ghost (and making the appropriate oooooh noises) then just wave it up and down over the bed as if you were fanning an Egyptian Queen until the cover inverts neatly over the duvet. The tedious bit is fastening all the buttons or poppers on the end. Or option two, forgo the cover and just use the duvet on its own, sure it's all the same in the dark ...

The "Waving it about" bit never seems to work quite right.
Now admittedly, my Duvet is a king-size, but I expected my arm-span would scale in proportion.

Perhaps the problem is that there isn't much bedroom that isn't bed (A little space at the foot as wide as the door, and a walkspace at the side).
Hence the shaking occurs over the bed, and the low end of teh duvey just drags around the bed.