I keep getting pay day loan flyers through the door now with the promise of a low low interest rate of 535% APR. Vultures.
A mild grump but I'm sharing my office with my wife for the foreseeable future and she keeps burning scented candles in here. I'm freezing my backside off with the window open trying to get rid of the smell of today's one but it doesn't want to shift.
I feel your pain over the stench of scented candles. I can't stand them either. My missus also got a couple of the plug in jobbies which fire a 'scent' into the room at random intervals. They very quickly found a new home in the bin. This has only started since she began working from home. Sooner she gets back to the office the better I reckon.
Just caught up again, & want to pick up on a couple of things. Blood service, me & my wife both worked for the service me in the labs her in admin. I can tell you it used to work very well but, over many successive years it's been restructured, reorganised, & generally bu**ered about with so much that many of the old guard have given up & retired. I expect the texts are automated you need to tell them & get them to make them less frequent. They have always had to prioritise certain blood groups because that is what the hospitals need most of. If you can manage financially early retirement is to be recommended. My moan is about how much food prices have gone up - so if people are struggling now it's going to get worse. BTW my other moans our Kettle has packed up the light comes on but it doesn't heat up- not repairable. The bathroom tap has started dripping, can't find the correct ceramic discs- so again not repairable, all wrong whatever happened to good old washers !
An increasingly used phrase in our house, "change is not good" @Allotment Boy
I preferred just turning up to a session and taking my chances with how long I had to wait. Originally, the appointment system drove me mad because you had to keep going through the process to be told your chosen slot wasn't available. It may be better now but you still have to book too far in advance for my liking. When I'm working (on short-term contracts), I could be anywhere in the country so it doesn't really work for me. Hence, I stopped donating between 2016 and last year. Considering the nature of the transaction, it feels like I'm doing too much work and getting too irritated Â
Although being jobless and stuck at home for 2020 means I was able to book my slots way in advance for the entire year Â
The bathroom tap has started dripping, can't find the correct ceramic discs- so again not repairable, all wrong whatever happened to good old washers !
You can post the old valve to some companies and they can either send you the right replacement or they do have repair kits that fit some of them. This place has a massive range of valves https://tapmagician.co.uk/NSHelpAdvice.aspx
You can also try taking the valve out and soaking it in a vinegar/water mix and cleaning it up, then clean the valve seat inside the tap and refit with silicone grease on the seal. I got a good bit of life out of some valves by doing that.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I’ve got one of those useful blood groups but every time I donated I passed out cold next morning ... I was fine after donating but as soon as I got out of bed next morning I was clonk on the bedroom floor ... eventually GP told me to stop donating ... I was costing the NHS more than I was worth 😢Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You're sharing an office and your wife is burning scented candles ... hmmm 🤔
It's for atmosphere while she's doing online therapy sessions  What kind of atmosphere you get from a smell like someone found a dead cat on fire and tried putting it out by weeing on it I don't know.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I feel your pain over the stench of scented candles. I can't stand them either. My missus also got a couple of the plug in jobbies which fire a 'scent' into the room at random intervals. They very quickly found a new home in the bin. This has only started since she began working from home. Sooner she gets back to the office the better I reckon.
Blood service, me & my wife both worked for the service me in the labs her in admin. I can tell you it used to work very well but, over many successive years it's been restructured, reorganised, & generally bu**ered about with so much that many of the old guard have given up & retired. I expect the texts are automated you need to tell them & get them to make them less frequent. They have always had to prioritise certain blood groups because that is what the hospitals need most of.
If you can manage financially early retirement is to be recommended.
My moan is about how much food prices have gone up - so if people are struggling now it's going to get worse.
BTW my other moans our Kettle has packed up the light comes on but it doesn't heat up- not repairable. The bathroom tap has started dripping, can't find the correct ceramic discs- so again not repairable, all wrong whatever happened to good old washers !
I preferred just turning up to a session and taking my chances with how long I had to wait. Originally, the appointment system drove me mad because you had to keep going through the process to be told your chosen slot wasn't available. It may be better now but you still have to book too far in advance for my liking. When I'm working (on short-term contracts), I could be anywhere in the country so it doesn't really work for me. Hence, I stopped donating between 2016 and last year. Considering the nature of the transaction, it feels like I'm doing too much work and getting too irritated
Although being jobless and stuck at home for 2020 means I was able to book my slots way in advance for the entire year
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.