(17 Nov 2017, 9:31 pm)R852 PRG wrote [ -> ]Raised £5769 for Children In Need today, with more to be counted next week.
Nice one!
After trying for 3 hours for Peter Kay tickets, i finally got some!
After 2 and a bit noisy, dirty and unsurprisingly cold weeks, our new roof is complete. Just waiting for the scaffolding to be taken away so we can clean all the muck up, now. We can now also fix all the damp patches caused by the leaky old one and get the bedrooms fixed up so we can finally move upstairs.
We tried not to stare at the scary big bill for too long!
(23 Jan 2018, 7:21 pm)BusLoverMum wrote [ -> ]After 2 and a bit noisy, dirty and unsurprisingly cold weeks, our new roof is complete. Just waiting for the scaffolding to be taken away so we can clean all the muck up, now. We can now also fix all the damp patches caused by the leaky old one and get the bedrooms fixed up so we can finally move upstairs.
We tried not to stare at the scary big bill for too long!
When I bought my house, I got the roof done too.
The surveyor pulled it up in the report, so agreed to go halfies with the person selling.
Win win for both of us.
(23 Jan 2018, 10:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]When I bought my house, I got the roof done too.
The surveyor pulled it up in the report, so agreed to go halfies with the person selling.
Win win for both of us.
We knocked most of the cost off the asking price. The whole place has been neglected and we've had to fix everything. Even the oven door was bent and there's a corresponding hole in the kitchen floor tiles that looks like someone had stood on it and tipped it over.
Goodness knows how long the previous owners were without heating but a capacitor had blown in the controller. That could have cost us anything from £50 to £120 to replace, but thankfully husband was glad of the excuse to play with his soldering iron and fixed it for £3!
Upstairs loo had to be disconnected because the saniflow was randomly flushing. That was fixed with a £3 custom cut rubber washer.
It'll be lovely when it's finished, but definitely not the sort of house for people who can't even competently change a lightbulb (we asked them to change the bulbs upstairs, before the survey, to demonstrate that they worked. They pulled the units out of the ceiling in the process, leaving something else to fix)
The roof was so obviously shot that we had a roofer check it out before the surveyor even got there.
I got, not one, but two pictures on Flickr explore at the same time. I'm even less sure about how the system works now... not complaining though
Got the new Samsung S9 this morning, very good so far.
Another 3 pics on flickr explore
We made some really good progress on 574 today, and fingers crossed there'll be a lot more work carried out next weekend as well.
As well as this, we're planning a three day trip away on the planes, flying on some regional carriers domestically, before certain aircraft types are retired.
I've had a good day at Fenland BusFest in Whittlesey (near Peterborough). Good selection of preserved stuff that I had not travelled on previously and nice plesent train journeys down to/from Peterborough (probably because I was in the quiet coach and not coach D where there was apparently some issues with passengers).
See, contrary to popular belief, I do actually have some good days, in fact it has been a good week this (well, mostly), no doubt it'll all go wrong tomorrow though.
(20 May 2018, 7:31 pm)Jimmi wrote [ -> ]I've had a good day at Fenland BusFest in Whittlesey (near Peterborough). Good selection of preserved stuff that I had not travelled on previously and nice plesent train journeys down to/from Peterborough (probably because I was in the quiet coach and not coach D where there was apparently some issues with passengers).
See, contrary to popular belief, I do actually have some good days, in fact it has been a good week this (well, mostly), no doubt it'll all go wrong tomorrow though.
There's no rights without some wrongs to balance them out.
It's been a nice day for it like, wouldn't have been good however if we had done a repeat of the X93 -- that's unless you wanted to see Pickering by diversion along the way.
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(20 May 2018, 8:31 pm)Jamie M wrote [ -> ]There's no rights without some wrongs to balance them out.
It's been a nice day for it like, wouldn't have been good however if we had done a repeat of the X93 -- that's unless you wanted to see Pickering by diversion along the way.
Mercifully, things haven't gone as badly as previously envisaged this morning, so hopefully plain sailing from here on in.
Been a bad week on the X93, it was also diverted between Robin Hoods Bay and Scarborough last Monday. Surely the best time for a repeat X93 bash is in the middle of the summer holidays
@stewarttweets
Love it.
The poor fella probably doesn't know what has hit him.
(24 Jun 2018, 3:54 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]@stewarttweets
Love it.
The poor fella probably doesn't know what has hit him.
https://twitter.com/StewartTweets/status...64705?s=17
I look at this feed whenever I'm feeling sad or work pressures start to get to me.
A meeting this afternoon left me feeling this way (hence the peering out of the window looking for odd allocations on the 9), but this made me happy again.
Off to Mexico for 10 days on 1st July 2019
Can't wait!
Have received 4 offers within a 3 week period since submitting my UCAS application to study History at university.
(23 Nov 2018, 8:49 pm)R852 PRG wrote [ -> ]Have received 4 offers within a 3 week period since submitting my UCAS application to study History at university.
Good luck! Hope you get into the uni you want to.
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This came yesterday
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