I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer said:

So did you train it both ways and did you be nice to the trolley dolly!????
On the cooch with the pooch!
Ho ho ho!!!
And if your missus is on the cooch with you
HELP! I take back the pooch remark!!!

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Nope I drove back, I njoyed the train tbh

Turktowner said:

We has been conserving water.
Do you realise how much goes down the sink while the boiler kicks in? Have been putting a large lan under the tap till it runs hot. This is then used for cooking or watering the plants.

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Do you know how much water you waste when you flush yer bog now if you lot stop flushing
millions of gallons away there wouldnt be a water shortage.

kevstar said:

Do you know how much water you waste when you flush yer bog now if you lot stop flushing
millions of gallons away there wouldnt be a water shortage.

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If it's yellow let it mellow
If it's brown send it down!

Turktowner said:

@marjon
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Thats not golden

Beneagles said:

If it's yellow let it mellow
If it's brown send it down!

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Not heard that for years haha belter.

kevstar said:

Not heard that for years haha belter.

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Me neither. Probably not since the summer of '76

Beneagles said:

Me neither. Probably not since the summer of '76

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Ive heard that a few times in the last week or so, im assuming it was one of the better summers we've
had, so thats two in nearly 50 years

Morning all ...

kevstar said:

Thats not golden

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Ere yar

Eeeeee baahhhhh gum!!!

Mornin folks
Another lovely start down ere.
Some right proper knobs on the road today though

Morning All
Another Scorcher today I think.
Have a great day.

kevstar said:

Do you know how much water you waste when you flush yer bog now if you lot stop flushing
millions of gallons away there wouldnt be a water shortage.

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Remember when they asked you to put a bag in your cistern? Wasn't it called a Hippo bag or summat?
Yup it WAS!
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...f8FCrMQgIoDKAJ6BAgQEBc&biw=1366&bih=625&dpr=1
So if "us lot" stop flushing, I suppose we'll have to go out in the garden and wee on the weeds, (which actually is quite efficient!)
Gazundas/po s anyone?
We have those double flush jobbies on our loos but they don't work very well. Better to have a button you hold down till it's all gone then you can stop it by letting go. That would sure economise!

Turktowner said:

@marjon
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So the bird is called "Weirdus chocolateus biscitus americanus"
Then eh? Eh.
Is this "foreol"?

marjon said:

Probably a wise move to stay away from further dispute's. Sharing services/accesses can cause problems for future sales in my mind

If he has a "toy" he can dig his own with ease.

J

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Yerp well......
The plot bloody thickens.
I went round last night to talk to him, (he had already bought "all" the pipe. (More on the "all" later!).
The problem is worse than I thought because in order for him to get to the main drain he has to dig a trench across his neighbours land, just the bottom of it.
Now I have a legal "servitude" across both his and his neighbours land so that I can go and deal with any problems with my electricity supply and the drain. As the farmer who sold all the land, he had to "viabilise" his plot, which means ensure all services were either there or easily connected, so he did that so the town hall should know about the connection to the main drain for him.
But she (the neighbour) says he hasn't and she won't let him "touch" her land. (She is a fairly recent widow, she and her husband bought the land not long after we bought ours he then died in a motorbike crash. She has a daughter from a previous marriage and other kids, she and the oldest daughter are in a dispute about what to do with the land, one wants to sell tother doesn't.)
So he basically has to either connect in with ours or do a normal septic tank with outfall.
BUT there is a big spring which comes to the surface at the bottom of his land and his plot slopes quite a bit, plus, the twit, wants a "nature pool" (is that what you call it?) and he doesn't want to be floating in treated sewage!
But I stuck to my guns mentioning both the insurance point of view and the fact that to sell you need a "certificat d'assainissement" ( a waste water certificate proving your drains are OK).
So he is now going to try and get all the parties together for a big meeting. But it is hilarious how useless the "notaires", the water companies and the town hall are! (well not funny for him)
He's in a rush (of course) as he knws we'll be leaving just after he and his mrs come back from their other place in the Azores.
He keeps saying he's skint yet said he "wanted to buy the neighbour's plot". 2000 sq metres at at least €22 per sq mtr?
I know this is just 1st world problems but thought the plot would amuse!
Oh and the "all". Well we went to look at the pipes he'd just bought, they had holes cut across most of them, they are in fact pipes for a French drain , which the French simply call a "drain" of course!!!!! (Yet another use of an English word.) Only a few were to connect his, as yet non-existent, septic tank to any drain and he admitted he wanted more but although they were "available" on tinternet, when he got there they didn't have all he wanted in stock!
Have a good day folks!

DanClarke said:

.... as suspected, the garage have rung to say that the timing chain tensioner is in "bits" with some of it in the sump, so the pan has to come off.
More labour = More cost.

Hey Ho.

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Soz about that mate.
Still at least the valves don't seem to have moved in and made love to the pistons!

kevstar said:

Ohhhh it was outstanding Sun = flys I hardly ever put salt on anything but its only to
draw out the moisture then brushed off tis amazing how much it draws out.
Bit of pepper & olive oil then sprinkled with brown sugar lurvly jurbly

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Tias what you do wiv courgeeets and Aubergeeeeens too!
You've mad me hungry now!!!!!

kevstar said:

Nope I drove back, I njoyed the train tbh

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You drove back cos you went to collect yet another set of wheels dincha? Eh? Eh?
Or was it to pick up one you didn't repair yourself?
Hmmm!!!

Beneagles said:

If it's yellow let it mellow
If it's brown send it down!

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And as we said back in '76.
"Save water, take a bath with a friend".
Number of people who ran a hose down through the bathroom window to the ground to water their stuff with the bath water!
Not sure I'd want to start the syphon though!
Also couldn't wash my company car! (Such a problem, I never washed the fecker anyway!)

kevstar said:

Ive heard that a few times in the last week or so, im assuming it was one of the better summers we've
had, so thats two in nearly 50 years

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'75 was good too, but as '76 came straight after, everyone has forgotten about it.
And I was driving around in a suit in both of them.