You learn something new every day - I always thought the 'est' described the extremes no matter the quantity - so coldest, hottest (so you could say Monday is the hottest day of the week, even when the week only consisted of Monday) and the comparison of one to the other (if that's the right way of saying it) was the 'er'. IE a is younger than b.
I'm laughing now. They're discussing these dual flush toilets, which apparently use more water than they save [who knew?] . Thames Water is complaining about it apparently. Talk about pot and kettle eh? My personal thought was that they use more because they're bl**dy useless. You end up using the full thing, 'cos the 'half on' doesn't do the job. If you get my meaning...Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@steveTu the week has seven days so Monday could be the hottest. But Monday was hotter than Sunday, only two days mentioned. Did you do hot, hotter, hottest and good, better, best, even young, younger, younger at school?
@D0rdogne_Damsel, are you using that room upstairs for anything? The one where you said you would host meetings? Could it be made a third dining room and given lots of publicity about extra space?
I have been cleaning bathroom skylights, 2 bathrooms, I have to stand on the edge of the bath which feels quite precarious and the windows keep swinging round and trying to hit me on the head so I rarely do them. Took ages.
Off to sign two Compromis this afternoon, a bit like exchange of contracts, for this house and the new house.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thank you for all your kind and supportive comments. All this virtual fingers crossing is obviously working, we've been full all morning - despite the rain. We have already launched takeaways, we started over summer because we were asked so much for it. It does work well, obviously better with some items on the menu than others - Poached and scrambled egg are not the 'bestest' Fish and chips stays the 'hottest' bestest though - sorry @Hostafan1 just kidding.Â
@Busy-Lizzie that upstairs room has been in use for a long time now, I had it all decorated about two years ago and fitted out with tables and chairs the same as downstairs, it has absolutely been essential and no more so than now. I have given up on the B&B, way too complicated for not much revenue and a lot of inconvenience. I am toying with the idea of turning that into another Tearoom, but for the moment it has become my 'office/dumping ground for vacuum cleaner, and cruets/sugar bowls when not in use on he deck.Â
The gods were looking down on me too today, I was explaining to the hairdresser this morning I had ordered 20 steaks for the group tomorrow evening and they had cancelled. I hadn't been back 10 minutes when she rang and asked could she buy 15 of them from me as her husband had invited 10 men over for dinner at her house this evening. That just leaves 5 with some on the menu as a special and a nice dinner for me and Charlie this evening.Â
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Depends when you start the week. I was trying to say - in a week starting on Monday and ending on Sunday - I could say on Monday, Monday is the hottest day of the week even though there had only been one day in the week (so far). So comparing one item to itself. Clear as mud eh?
And yes, I thought I did comparatives and superlatives - but as I said to Hosta - I must have been day dreaming as I always thought 'er' was used between items - a is hotter than b, c is smaller than C - and 'est' was used for the extremes. I don't recall doing anything about the length of the list and 'er' being used when you only had 2 items. I just assumed in a 2 item list each item was both the 'er' and the 'est'. So I have two children - one, the youngest (but she is also the younger if you compare the two), is a girl and one, the eldest (and also the elder if you compare the two), is a boy. This stems from Hosta saying:
'....The trailer for that is doing my head in " John Lennon's youngest son"
they say. He only had 2, so one is his elder son , and the other is his
younger son.  Not YOUNGEST . ....'
...and on those cisterns with the two buttons, which is the big flush and which the small? I go for pressing both just to be safe... Do they make the big one big, because that's the one you should normally press - or is the big button big, because it uses more water?
I find it ironic that Thames Water are getting their knickers in a twist about the " waste " from domestic toilets but they omit to mention how much is wasted due to THEIR leaks before it even gets to their customers. I seem to remember "privitisation" was supposed to sort out problems like inefficiency in utility provision. Can anyone tell me of one single benefit to the domestic customer from the privitisation o of the water industry? We have no choice who supplies our water so cant' "take our custom elsewhere" .
Hello all. Rain has stopped so gardening can start soon, hooray!
Re dual flush toilets: I listened to an item about them on R4; the problem with them is apparently the way the flush works, with valves, not a syphon. Valves inevitably leak after a while (in as little as a few weeks after installation, according to the bathroom specialist on the programme), and this is the reason for the waste of water. Between 5% and 8% of such toilets leak, wasting 215-400 litres of water per day EACH. If you can see ripples in the pan, you have a leaking valve. The other problem is that there is no industry standard for the design of the flushing button, so most people press both halves at once to make sure they get a "good flush"...Â
We still have an old fashioned loo here with a handle, which therefore has a syphon, and doesn't leak  Â
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My personal thought was that they use more because they're bl**dy useless. You end up using the full thing, 'cos the 'half on' doesn't do the job. If you get my meaning...Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@D0rdogne_Damsel, are you using that room upstairs for anything? The one where you said you would host meetings? Could it be made a third dining room and given lots of publicity about extra space?
I have been cleaning bathroom skylights, 2 bathrooms, I have to stand on the edge of the bath which feels quite precarious and the windows keep swinging round and trying to hit me on the head so I rarely do them. Took ages.
Off to sign two Compromis this afternoon, a bit like exchange of contracts, for this house and the new house.
Thank you for all your kind and supportive comments. All this virtual fingers crossing is obviously working, we've been full all morning - despite the rain.Â
@Busy-Lizzie that upstairs room has been in use for a long time now, I had it all decorated about two years ago and fitted out with tables and chairs the same as downstairs, it has absolutely been essential and no more so than now. I have given up on the B&B, way too complicated for not much revenue and a lot of inconvenience. I am toying with the idea of turning that into another Tearoom, but for the moment it has become my 'office/dumping ground for vacuum cleaner, and cruets/sugar bowls when not in use on he deck.Â
The gods were looking down on me too today, I was explaining to the hairdresser this morning I had ordered 20 steaks for the group tomorrow evening and they had cancelled. I hadn't been back 10 minutes when she rang and asked could she buy 15 of them from me as her husband had invited 10 men over for dinner at her house this evening.Â
 Not YOUNGEST . ....'
I seem to remember "privitisation" was supposed to sort out problems like inefficiency in utility provision.Â
Can anyone tell me of one single benefit to the domestic customer from the privitisation o of the water industry?
We have no choice who supplies our water so cant' "take our custom elsewhere" .
Re dual flush toilets: I listened to an item about them on R4; the problem with them is apparently the way the flush works, with valves, not a syphon. Valves inevitably leak after a while (in as little as a few weeks after installation, according to the bathroom specialist on the programme), and this is the reason for the waste of water. Between 5% and 8% of such toilets leak, wasting 215-400 litres of water per day EACH. If you can see ripples in the pan, you have a leaking valve. The other problem is that there is no industry standard for the design of the flushing button, so most people press both halves at once to make sure they get a "good flush"...Â
We still have an old fashioned loo here with a handle, which therefore has a syphon, and doesn't leakÂ