Not exactly cheerful but content to watch the best show in our pretty boring town. They're resurfacing our road using those huge whatdyamacallits. Slightly worrying that the radiators are rattling though. The steam roller looks a bit disappointing. I can't see that you'd get an awful lot of coal in it. Probably one of those new-fangled diesel jobs😕
I know KT53, but that's part of the reason to keep going, the fact that I've paid good money upfront! It is working though, so far so good. Very galling to find out this afternoon that my friend felt so ill on holiday, she didn't eat much at all and has lost more weight than me without trying than I've done in a month!
This nearly went on the curmugeons thread, I dug out my pressure washer recently connected all up -nothing not even the usual Thrrupp noise as it primes. Check the fuse in the plug all ok still nothing put it away again. So yesterday I was checking my options for service potentially going to cost £114 then got email reply from customer service with an "airlock removal procedure" you take off the high pressure hose plug in the inlet hose and let it run. They say run for up to 10 min but it did not need that much it was obvious fairly quickly when the water was running though ok. Connected all back up plugged in - hey presto it works- RESULT. Worth remembering that if it happens again.
They’ve been in the garden about 5 years and have survived a major garden makeover. The back story, though, is what makes them important.
My wife has had a very bad run of health scares - six cancers and a brain aneurysm in the past 15 years - and throughout it all Aviva, our health insurers, have been brilliant. After cancer #4 we wrote them a letter thanking them for their support and they asked if my wife would be willing to take part in a promotional video. ‘Of course,’ she said. In the course of the video she mused that while waiting for the very first operation and sitting in the hospital grounds looking at spring bedding, would she be around next year to see tulips again?
As a thank you for doing the video and with a nod to that sentiment, they sent a big bag of tulip bulbs. It is those bulbs that are in the photo.
I do not know if that video can still be seen on the Aviva site but, should it materialise, it operates under false pretences. They were due to film at our house but a flood in the airing cupboard brought down the sitting room ceiling and our house was in turmoil for a couple of months. So instead Aviva rented a cottage in the grounds of a swanky local country hotel and the film gave the impression that this was our property. Yeah right ... camera pans across immaculate herbaceous borders to us sitting at a table on a manicured lawn eating afternoon tea from tiered cake stands. As if ...!
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They’ve been in the garden about 5 years and have survived a major garden makeover. The back story, though, is what makes them important.
My wife has had a very bad run of health scares - six cancers and a brain aneurysm in the past 15 years - and throughout it all Aviva, our health insurers, have been brilliant. After cancer #4 we wrote them a letter thanking them for their support and they asked if my wife would be willing to take part in a promotional video. ‘Of course,’ she said. In the course of the video she mused that while waiting for the very first operation and sitting in the hospital grounds looking at spring bedding, would she be around next year to see tulips again?
As a thank you for doing the video and with a nod to that sentiment, they sent a big bag of tulip bulbs. It is those bulbs that are in the photo.
I do not know if that video can still be seen on the Aviva site but, should it materialise, it operates under false pretences. They were due to film at our house but a flood in the airing cupboard brought down the sitting room ceiling and our house was in turmoil for a couple of months. So instead Aviva rented a cottage in the grounds of a swanky local country hotel and the film gave the impression that this was our property. Yeah right ... camera pans across immaculate herbaceous borders to us sitting at a table on a manicured lawn eating afternoon tea from tiered cake stands. As if ...!
Lovely story @Picidae your wife is so lucky, a walking miracle.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6908317/Government-s-online-bee-advice-links-web-users-escort-service.html