I would just like to say

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DanClarke said:
I have an ex-colleague who kept every payslip from when he started work until he retired.
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My dad, an accountant told me to do exactly that and he even kept books in which he recorded his incomings and outgoings.
When he died he had £100 in his wallet, I looked in his book and there it was, £100 taken from an ATM the day before.
I wish I had kept all mine, I only started when I started teaching.
I have only a certificate to prove how long I worked in the school in France, I hope it is enough to claim my pension on. Never kept a single pay slip from there. Don't even remember receiving them.
But for the other 4 years I worked I have nothing.
Started my books when I started teaching and was newly married but stopped when my first marriage went sour. Still, that was 7 years odd of book-keeping. In the past I had nearly gone bankrupt so I wanted to make sure it didn't happen ever. It also helped with the finacial settlement when it came to the divorce, what I had paid in as well as what she had paid in was there in black and white, no one could argue!;)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Of course this is true, but personally I have drunk water out of the bathroom taps in all the places I have ever lived with no ill effects. I mast have been lucky! Still do it!
And if he boils it in a kettle I doubt it would hurt him.
Funnily I did hear of a bloke who died of lead poisoning from water. He had the habit of getting up every morning, opening the kitchen tap and filling a big glass. He'd then drink that down while filling the kettle and boiling it to make tea for him and his mrs.
His mrs outlived him.
It was reckoned that the water he drank was particularly bad cos it had sat in the pipe overnight. Once it ran a bit the lead disappeared.
If only the bloke had run the tap a little bit before filling the glass. :(
Allegedly, someone once worked out that kids from the outer Scottish islands had more lead in their bloodstream than kids from inner London. as the lead in the old water pipes was worse than the lead in the London atmos.
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Thats interesting as we have some old lead pipes to all our propertys up my road, our houses are 400++ years old.
I do wonder how do you test for lead in yer water.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I remember them from my time in the hotels. Never earned enough to pay tax so the pay slip was what was written on the envelope! 🤣
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Aye mine had my name on it first year wages was £27.50 a week & I used to pay my digs at a tenner & run my mini to work 🤣 🤣 mmmm think I'll have 2 star in the tank this week 🤣🤣
 
landowner said:
Once towed a 2.2 ton AA van on a heavy trailer 250 miles back from Scotland with a V8 110, OK at 50 but any more and it was unsafe
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Nose weight is so flipping important. I had a securing point go in my big box trailer on the way to Portsmouth to catch the ferry so, unbeknownst to me, the load had slipped backwards and it was all the solid wood units for a kitchen and a utility room as well as other stuff. and together they are 8 metres long by about 3.5 metres wide so you can imagine the weight. (The two rooms I mean, not the units!)
It was all over the road, took me a while to get it under control with total dickheads hooting at me as if I wasn't aware and not going past me to give me room even though there were three lanes.
About the most frightened I have ever been in a vehicle.
I was able to get to Pompey by not going over 50 and once on the other side I emptied out some of the load and rearranged it so it was back in further foward and secure. Luckily I always use ratchet straps to keep everything in place or it could have been much worse.
Good thing as we still had 550 miles to go!
 
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kevstar said:
Thats interesting as we have some old lead pipes to all our propertys up my road, our houses are 400++ years old.
I do wonder how do you test for lead in yer water.
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Loads of kits!

I think the thing is to run your taps for quite a bit before drinking from them, but it may well be a bit worrying. Or you drink bottled water.

We have a neighbour (in F) who is so off grid they are not on mains water. They have a well but it costs as much to get it certified as to be on the mains so they don't bother. They use the well water but they buy huge bottles of drinking water, the frogs are well into that.
When W and I first took the house on the mains hadn't been connected so we had to get those, but I dipped the rainwater run off tank for other stuff like flushing the loo.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Loads of kits!

I think the thing is to run your taps for quite a bit before drinking from them, but it may well be a bit worrying. Or you drink bottled water.

We have a neighbour (in F) who is so off grid they are not on mains water. They have a well but it costs as much to get it certified as to be on the mains so they don't bother. They use the well water but they buy huge bottles of drinking water, the frogs are well into that.
When W and I first took the house on the mains hadn't been connected so we had to get those, but I dipped the rainwater run off tank for other stuff like flushing the loo.
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Similar kits available to test the lead in yer pencil. 🤣 🤣
 
kevstar said:
Aye mine had my name on it first year wages was £27.50 a week & I used to pay my digs at a tenner & run my mini to work 🤣 🤣 mmmm think I'll have 2 star in the tank this week 🤣🤣
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Mine was £15 rising to £20. Paid my parents rent (£6) and like you ran a Mini to get to work. If it broke and needed fixing I left it at a mate's garage until I had the dosh to pay for him to fix it and bused it or hitched. Getting home 8 miles after midnight (hotel working hours) wasn't easy! No buses then!
One night I was stood by the side of the road, in Bath, no one was going to pick me up, and right next to me was a mark one Capri with the keys in. I had to move 100yds down the road to stop myself pinching it, driving to Keynsham where I lived and parking it in a pub car park about a mile from my house!
Funny old times. 🤣 🤣
 
Morning All.
To add to the calamities I woke in the night to the sound of trickling water.....:eek:
No, not me.... I hadn't sprung a leak. The toilet cistern in the en-suite was overflowing into the bowl.
I reckon the water Co. have sent a right load of muck into my pipework; so there's another job to do today. :(
Anyway, have a wonderful day folks. :D
 
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