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Really sorry to hear that Nickachu.

Very sorry to hear that Nickachu.

I hope you get the results soon Mimi and sorry about the hounds Nic.

Sorry I have not been on much.. Just had a mad week with my blood sugars, looks like my Wolverine healing powers have worn off,as my bloods hit 22 last Monday, well Sunday really but had to wait till Monday to check levels.

I know it is minor, but it makes you feel shit having high blood sugars, plus the NHS are useless and have taken the best part of the week to do tests..

My very expensive American Style Samsung Fridge started making a strange noise, about 10 days ago. Like the fan was rubbing against something, then about a week ago it stopped, hurrah, we thought, but no, it turns out it stopped because it wasn't doing anything, the top 2/3rds of the fridge are room temp! Cue lots of gone of meat, milk and stuff

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Malc

You should be able to claim for the cost of the food on your house insurance, you know

My insurance company sucks, they will blame it on "wear and tear" and we'll get nothing, plus we've already thrown stuff away, so have no proof now. At first we just thought we'd been slack on eating stuff in time (we often eat stuff after the best before date with no ill effect) so didn't pay it much heed.

Malc

All insurance companies fucking suck. Fuming this morning, MrsG got her renewal premium through after having her car written off last year (it was parked outside at the time on a really icy morning, obviously a no-fault claim), it's jumped from £220 to £450. She phoned them up and they said it was due to the claim, even though it was an in-house claim as it was one of their drivers that hit her car. I naively thought that the point was you were meant to be compensated to the point where you were before the accident but apparently the extra few hundred quid it will cost you in higher premiums just doesn't count. Bunch of fucking gangsters

You have been compensated to get you to where you were, but people who have 1 claim against them are statistically a higher risk, so have higher premiums. It sucks on a personal level, but insurance is just statistics...

I don't know if I missed something, but hasn't the price gone up because she's lost her no-claims bonus?

No, because she hasn't had a claim on her insurance. It wasn't an uninsured driver or anything like that.

This winter I had a pipe burst in my kitchen and my mother had to call up an emergency plumber, I opened a letter addressed to my mother but sent here and the insurance people were demanding two written estimates for the repair along with the receipt. WTF? Sooo my mum should have left me with no water while she got out three plumbers and compared quotes should she? I'm fairly confident there is a law about landlords leaving tenants with no water for more than X amount of time anyway.

I can't recommend British gas homecare enough though. My boiler has always been dodgy (the burst water pipe soaking it can't have helped) and a few days ago it died totally. They sent out a man within two hours, he looked at it, sucked his teeth and said he would need to come back the next day with loads of parts. He then asked what time I would like, the next day he turned up bang on that time and replaced about 80% of my boiler's insides. Apparently if we were not covered then the cost of the repairs would have been more than a new boiler.

I'm more shocked about not having to wait in all day tbh.

Sorry to hear about your recent woes, Mimi.

I do quite like Pride & Prejudice and Northanger Abbey, the only two of hers I've read. I do find that immersing myself in old, beloved classics with wonderful locations, warm characters and genteel pace do cheer me up quite a lot during the dark, sleepless hours of the night. Sherlock Holmes an obvious mighty contender. May I also relentlessly suggest the Master & Commander novels, at least the first three - Master & Commander, Post Captain and HMS Surprise. They're not quite how you'd expect. A vast bulk takes place on dry land. The characters without exception are wonderful and plausible. The atmosphere is such that you can see yourself there and there is such a world packed between every line that the entire thing becomes almost a living, breathing reality. And it has the best friendship ever in novels. The first book is very good but a little tough at times when it comes to explaining rigging and what not, but it isoon settles down. The second is very much a romance with great comedy but a hard edge of rivalry as well. The third is pretty much a perfect nautical adventure.

These books have gotten me through some tough times. Reading them is like being on holiday. I am transported.

Hope you're feeling better soon!

Aw, man. Sorry to hear that Nikachu.

I was gutted when my cat died from that sort of thing.

It would cost me £2,200 to join Homecare.

So I didn't.

You do have about 6 boilers though

And if you're not interested in ships as such, you can sort-of scan over much of the ship-talk without it really interfering, as long as you know that Jack knows about ships and Stephen doesn't.

I've read a biography of Lord Cochrane, and it's amazing - much of the incredible, crazy sounding stuff that Jack gets up to, Cochrane actually did in real life.

Really really sorry about the dogs Nick, I hope you get to come back and see them

Grey skies, rain and howling wind. What a difference a day makes!

Don't mind it being shit weather during work days.

Indeed not. But yesterday was like high summer, right now, it feels like the dead of winter again.

My fault I was planning a BBQ after work..

Are you one of those northern types? Currently 20 degrees, sunny and calm here.

He's a Geordie Scouser, possibly the worst Northern hybrid imaginable.

Still summer here....
Housework though

Damn you northerners, stop sending your shitty weather down here

We have rain... but I refuse to take my shorts and flip flops off!!

You should do — the rain will feel lovely on your balls. And flipflops with no shorts on? Weirdo. Get 'em off.

Beautiful sunshine here. Cheers!

Hailstones!? WTF!?

Locusts here.

With occasional brimstone.

We have sun!!!!

S'what you get for all that sodomising you've been doing. That a hedgehog rustling.

He stopped rustling after 5 minutes.

I know this can't be the first time you've heard this but....you should be on some kind of register.

FACT: He really was an economics teacher, and everything he said in the lesson was true. Or he studied it, and everything he said in the lesson was true. Or something.

FACT!

I have NEVER been an economics teacher.

It is now raining. I have neither coat, jacket, nor jumper. If it's still going when I leave, at least it's character-building.

Take your clothes off so they don't get wet.

Silly Kern, trusting the English weather. Especially in Spring! In April! *tsk* You've been around for about 400 years, have you learnt nothing...?

I've learnt to keep my powder dry

Caught norovirus, probably from my sister using my computer keyboard (she has poor hygiene awareness), so I've spent half the day with projectile vomiting at one end, and brown laser at the other. Then in the afternoon I've had lethagy, aches pains and disorientation. Too much to watch TV or play games without wanting to vomit further.

Remember kids; hygiene good, norovirus bad.

That sounds like fun. Get well soon!

Thanks, and I hope so soon. It's... Not very pleasant being able to keep liquid inside yourself. And not have access to a drip.

Sounds horrible. Get well soon.

Dear God man! Get well soon!

Eek. Stop leaking soon!

Get out of here with your germs!!

Get well soon, sounds particularly unpleasant

Sickness Day 2 seems to be more pleasant. No vomiting, yet, and unlike yesterday I've been able to actually eat owt. So, partial yay, I guess.

I had norovirus at Christmas, a few years ago. It was either Christmas day or eve. So horrible.

The violence didn't last long, but the weakness and general nauseated feeling did. If ever there was a time for my foes to take me on, that was it.