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I really was meaning "it won't be cheap" anyway, if he comes to us he could get mail forwarding.
I would just like to say
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Morning All. 
Oh dear, I must stop feeding that cat. We have had multiple
this morning.
Kitchen and Utility room have a somewhat fetid smell, I always get the cleanup duty (being 1st up in our house).
Still, it is a lovely warm Spring day, the birds are singing and all's right with the world.
Day 3 and the neighbours package is still here.
Have a lovely Day!
Oh dear, I must stop feeding that cat. We have had multiple
this morning. Kitchen and Utility room have a somewhat fetid smell, I always get the cleanup duty (being 1st up in our house).
Still, it is a lovely warm Spring day, the birds are singing and all's right with the world.
Day 3 and the neighbours package is still here.
Have a lovely Day!
Hippo
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Problem is me roof water runs into a bucket fing that receives me baff water anorl. So eye need to by pass this wiv a new bit of down pipe so the filter is lower down and easier to get to. Garage is 8 foot away from this. Butts are at the other end of the garage. Eye can plumb a bit of pipe over to the garage guttering but eye want a pipe on the last water butt to run the excess water back, in case eye miss judge the rain so they overflow into what is already quite a wet garden. Pipe would need to run across the slabs which ain't good unless eye use a temp hose pipe. Its what eye do occasionally to empty them.
Blimey if that’s bar ur talking about that’s some 160 Psi , Christ , fingers crossed they pull there finger out and sort it out for u
Wonder if u could get a plumber to fit it for u seeinf it’s such a straight forward job and then send them the bill
Blandford itself has a bypass so traffic isn't bad, and although the steam fair does take a lot of people, in September, it doesn;'t impinge too much, we used to go every year but it got too samey and one year there was a massive ruckus.
Read this to find out why the Fair is not running and sadly may never run again. It is all down to costs.
Home - The Great Dorset Steam Fair
www.gdsf.co.uk
Blimey I’m not surprised as indeed there eye watering costs
They useto do some steam fares down in Kent and found year after year it got less and less so stopped going
Must confess one of the main reasons I went was for the tool stalls, lol
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We are thinking that it would not be a good idea to clear your house out at all until you find a new place to stay, but it would help you to be able to come down, every now and then, when you have a group of properties to look at.
Then once you have found one, settled all the paperwork and can move in, there would be no need for storage at all, just get a moving company to shift your stuff from where you are into the new place.
But be aware that unfurnished places in your price range may still be very hard to find. We do wish you all the luck, but it may have to be North Dorset as most other places will be beyond many people's pockets. And sadly what @Hippo says about renting is totally true.
So just to be clear, we'd be willing to have you stay for short periods of time, so you can visit groups of properties, but not much longer than a few days at a time. We aren't looking for a lodger. Sorry if you got the wrong end of the stick.
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Do they refuse to use a litter tray?Morning All.
Oh dear, I must stop feeding that cat. We have had multiple
Kitchen and Utility room have a somewhat fetid smell, I always get the cleanup duty (being 1st up in our house).
Still, it is a lovely warm Spring day, the birds are singing and all's right with the world.
Day 3 and the neighbours package is still here.
Have a lovely Day!
Many thks and the feedback is apprenticed with some good points
Indeed understand that employment may be an issue with some landlords , have spoken to some letting agents where they advised me some will accept it others won’t , same with some allowing or not allowing a dog
Have thought about that if the rent gets more and more each year , if that happens will have to re consider about my D3 and it’s running costs , at the moment I’ve been very fortunate of other helping me with big jobs , alas will have to cross that bridge if it comes to it
Thks again
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Get that but I'm sure you'll be able to work summat out!
Our water butts were connected up to the down pipe so that when it got full it went back into the down pipe or rather never came out of th down pipe, it was avery simple arrangement,l no filter nor nuffin. Our underground tank has an overflow pipe that takes it and joins witht he overflow from the septic tank. Which would be another way of doing it. Piping it back to the main surface water drain.
No not at all as indeed it would only be for a few days and not weeks as wouldn’t wish to overstay my welcome and fully understand , it’s a fantastic help and am very grateful my friend
Great that I’ve spoken about it here as it’s nice to get great feedback and agree in what @Hippo also mentions
Think that’s also a good point of waiting until I find a few places to have a look at whilst keeping my place which won’t costs anything in storage costs
I’m so very grateful as it’s given me better decisions of moving but sensibility and not being too quick off the mark so to speak in giving my current place up until I find another one
Thks again for the massive help
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Eye took ma hippo for a drive yesdi to empty his dpf. It were on 22.8. Will regenerate at 22.3 and above automatically if conditions allow. He had 65 miles of fool left so eye bort him 80 sovs of diesel. Went to bnq to check the wood pile. Lots ovvit. Then dunelm to get a nooker cloth. This be a cheap build to see if the wood bends when used assa nooker table. So eye bort a flat cotton sheet as the cloth. Will see how that goes and if the mdf needs strengthened.
Get that but I'm sure you'll be able to work summat out!
Our water butts were connected up to the down pipe so that when it got full it went back into the down pipe or rather never came out of th down pipe, it was avery simple arrangement,l no filter nor nuffin. Our underground tank has an overflow pipe that takes it and joins witht he overflow from the septic tank. Which would be another way of doing it. Piping it back to the main surface water drain.
Sounds a great system u have , science , lol
Out of curiosity may I pick ur brains plse , if I went over to a FL2 I wonder if a petrol would be better due to the low mileage that I do each year plse, think I saw it was a Volvo engine ?
Will also be interesting to see what insurance group it is in comparison to mine, many thks
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Petrol FL2 is a 3.2L i6. They stopped making them in 2009 for uk market. Not many about. It is a volvo engine. Diesels are more economical. TD4 and SD4. SD4 having more power than the TD4. SD4 has the same 0 to 60mph time as the i6, but much betterer fool efficency during normal driving. The diesel is a Peugeot DW12 engine. 2.2L. Not to be confused with the TDV6 crank snapper.
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Me small windswept rock has run out of petrol till Monday 
. The great institution that is calmac doesn’t has any space on a bo@t till Monday. 
. All the boats are fooked again and there was a cattle sale today, so 7 cattle trucks were needed. Calmac told the auction company to cancel till another day. The auctions are arranged 6 months in advance so they complained a bit. A local haulier agreed to not take any loads in or out today so the sale can go ahead. The joys of a crap company running the ferries without having to attempt to run them well 
. The great institution that is calmac doesn’t has any space on a bo@t till Monday. . All the boats are fooked again and there was a cattle sale today, so 7 cattle trucks were needed. Calmac told the auction company to cancel till another day. The auctions are arranged 6 months in advance so they complained a bit. A local haulier agreed to not take any loads in or out today so the sale can go ahead. The joys of a crap company running the ferries without having to attempt to run them well 
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All before the back of 1 I've had cider, some wine and beer by the seaside 
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Never mix the grapevine or some wise sayingAll before the back of 1 I've had cider, some wine and beer by the seaside
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Absolutely.
If you are living in a council place or some form of housing association, and are looking to move into the private rented sector that is a massive step which will cost you a load more financially, will be far more precarious and, I would imagine, be pretty much irreversible. It would be easier if you were in a couple or had a family but not much.
On the local "Nextdoor" website there are always people moaning on about how awful their landlords are and I personally would be very wary of moving into that sector. Inland things may be a bit different but near the coast and /or universities there is always the competition of holiday and student lets which pushes prices up like mad.
When we sold our place in Poole that we had rented out for a number of years, the last tenant told us that this twas the third time it had happened to him, so three places in three years. (We had to sell to finance the build here.)
I think what I am really saying is, think long and hard before burning your bridges.
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It was two wee tastersNever mix the grapevine or some wise saying
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