We got Netflix for The Crown, stayed for Schitt Creek (soooo funny - do watch it if you haven't already. Don't let the first 1 or 2 episodes put you off, you'll get hooked I promise. It is a while since we finished watching it and we still miss it!), then the one about the chess player. Pay £5 odd a month. Yes - those beeping smoke alarms! Ours was ripped off the ceiling and banished to the bottom of the garden. And now the one in the kitchen has a little shower cap on it because it won't let us grill bacon or fry stuff. The Tories and Brexit - you can't blame the consequences of Brexit on Brexit.
I heard on the radio that Bojo and the clowns are rushing through legislation to imprison climate protesters. Funny they can't find time to legislate against tax evasion. Shows where their loyalties lie eh?
Amazing what they can do when they put their minds to it eh @Hostafan1. Perhaps they could redirect their energy to actually tackling the climate crisis. Nah.
Hi, @LG_, @didyw, and others. If you are getting Netflix for £5.99 that is a great deal, however the new current rates for a standard package are stated as being £9.99. I know there was a massive price hike for 2021. It might be worth a quick check of your account as they may be taking £9.99 without letting you know. I only say this because they put me on a tariff that I did not ask for without letting me know!
5:30am and the other smoke alarm starts bleeping beeping I hoped it might decide to have a lie in instead but no, it must have been missing its friend and wanted to go and join it. I was so warm and comfy in bed, counting the 22 seconds between beeps and wondering who decided that 22 seconds was an appropriate gap. I know people can have short attention spans but that seems excessive even when it isn't 5:30 in the bleeping morning. Then it stopped. I counted 30 seconds and nothing so rolled over and got comfy again. BEEP. Just as I nodded back off Luckily I'd had recent practice in deactivating these and knew I could be back in bed within a minute. Oddly though this one was booby trapped to set the alarm off when the mains cable is removed and being fitted on the ceiling outside one of the kid's bedrooms this was sub-ideal. Flicking the battery out shut it up temporarily but then I realised I hadn't worked out where to hide it while it beeped out its dying swansong. I shut myself in the bathroom, briefly contemplated pitching it out of the window but in the end I buried it under the dirty clothes in the washing basket.
Interestingly the smoke detector is rated as only having a ten year lifespan (before the sensor stops working effectively, not due to being thrown out of a window) but the 9v batteries only seem to have a given shelf life of 5 years. Most other batteries are rated for 10 years of storage so why pick a battery that's not going to last long enough and which no one keeps in the house as spares?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
When we had our extension built we had to have the smoke alarm wired into the mains, It’s right above our table, one Christmas we bought those indoor fireworks for the grand kids, you know the ones all smoke, that thing didn’t even bleep, fry bacon and it’s off. It has a button you can press to turn it off, if you don’t mind standing on a chair. We’ve now found a Christmas paper tube that just reaches it. My mum was constantly setting fire to her tea towels, that thing never beeped.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I heard on the radio that Bojo and the clowns are rushing through legislation to imprison climate protesters. Funny they can't find time to legislate against tax evasion. Shows where their loyalties lie eh?
Did you hear they want to spend 22 million on upgrading tennis courts across the country? Amazing what they can find money for, but the poor on UC have to lose £20 a week.
A day since my last visit here, less than a day in fact and we're 6 pages on! What on earth is happening? Have you all run out of petrol and are now stuck at home with nothing else to do? Seriously there seems to be a lot more traffic on here this past week. I wonder why? What's changed?
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Yes - those beeping smoke alarms! Ours was ripped off the ceiling and banished to the bottom of the garden. And now the one in the kitchen has a little shower cap on it because it won't let us grill bacon or fry stuff.
The Tories and Brexit - you can't blame the consequences of Brexit on Brexit.
Funny they can't find time to legislate against tax evasion. Shows where their loyalties lie eh?
It’s right above our table, one Christmas we bought those indoor fireworks for the grand kids, you know the ones all smoke, that thing didn’t even bleep, fry bacon and it’s off.
It has a button you can press to turn it off, if you don’t mind standing on a chair. We’ve now found a Christmas paper tube that just reaches it.
My mum was constantly setting fire to her tea towels, that thing never beeped.