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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
Decided to have a new kitchen put in...got my designer and project manager - she's arranged everything bar the Spark as my fella said he'd do that for me...tonight he's looked at the electrics and has discovered my kitchen is all supplied off one cable and I appear to have a couple of magic sockets as neither of us can see where they're supplied from...he reckons I'll need my ceiling in the 2nd bit of the kitchen dropped out to sort the wiring and he can't do it in time so I'm going to have to get the PM to arrange an electrician - before I fuck off to Swingfields on Thursday...reckon that's gonna be another extra several hundred squid on the bill...good job one of my fave sayings is "shit happens" and that I can manage to find the extra money down the back of the sofa...
On the plus side, it means the next couple of nights I can take my fella off to bed and make him sweaty rather than holding the step ladder while he ratches round in my ceiling space (plus the Japanese sniper we discovered living up there has been released and we've explained that the war is over and he can go back to the land of the Rising Sun  ) |
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yeah too many times
as one job always leads to another one that needs doing before the one that you started to do in the first place
as goes for your plugs watch out for the wire going upwards and back down to each plug socket or diagonal to each socket before going to another room |
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"yeah too many times
as one job always leads to another one that needs doing before the one that you started to do in the first place
as goes for your plugs watch out for the wire going upwards and back down to each plug socket or diagonal to each socket before going to another room "
I had my bathroom done a coupla years ago and it went £2k over budget as I had to have the floor raised to make it level and that meant I then had to have the ceiling took out as my posh shower unit then wouldn't fit, plus the electrics up there cost £500 more than expected cos they hadn't been looked at since Mr Faraday put them in in 1898 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yeah, the odd thread or two.
At least that costs nowt (apart from occasionally one's credibility) "
Postcards are dear these days, certainly the postage is. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
I don't know how you are managing to live there with it all going on. It would drive me nuts. Which is why I don't start these things anymore.
When they pull my dead body out of here they'll be talking about the dated fittings and decor.
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"Decided to have a new kitchen put in...got my designer and project manager - she's arranged everything bar the Spark as my fella said he'd do that for me...tonight he's looked at the electrics and has discovered my kitchen is all supplied off one cable and I appear to have a couple of magic sockets as neither of us can see where they're supplied from...he reckons I'll need my ceiling in the 2nd bit of the kitchen dropped out to sort the wiring and he can't do it in time so I'm going to have to get the PM to arrange an electrician - before I fuck off to Swingfields on Thursday...reckon that's gonna be another extra several hundred squid on the bill...good job one of my fave sayings is "shit happens" and that I can manage to find the extra money down the back of the sofa...
On the plus side, it means the next couple of nights I can take my fella off to bed and make him sweaty rather than holding the step ladder while he ratches round in my ceiling space (plus the Japanese sniper we discovered living up there has been released and we've explained that the war is over and he can go back to the land of the Rising Sun )"
You're getting David Cameron to sort a sparky? 
Good luck with that. Thought I'd read somewhere recently that they weren't putting electricity up north! 
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"I don't know how you are managing to live there with it all going on. It would drive me nuts. Which is why I don't start these things anymore.
When they pull my dead body out of here they'll be talking about the dated fittings and decor.
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By using a Project Manager, it was all supposed to be done within a week...I'm thinking it might drag out a bit now though  |
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"Decided to have a new kitchen put in...got my designer and project manager - she's arranged everything bar the Spark as my fella said he'd do that for me...tonight he's looked at the electrics and has discovered my kitchen is all supplied off one cable and I appear to have a couple of magic sockets as neither of us can see where they're supplied from...he reckons I'll need my ceiling in the 2nd bit of the kitchen dropped out to sort the wiring and he can't do it in time so I'm going to have to get the PM to arrange an electrician - before I fuck off to Swingfields on Thursday...reckon that's gonna be another extra several hundred squid on the bill...good job one of my fave sayings is "shit happens" and that I can manage to find the extra money down the back of the sofa...
On the plus side, it means the next couple of nights I can take my fella off to bed and make him sweaty rather than holding the step ladder while he ratches round in my ceiling space (plus the Japanese sniper we discovered living up there has been released and we've explained that the war is over and he can go back to the land of the Rising Sun )
You're getting David Cameron to sort a sparky?
Good luck with that. Thought I'd read somewhere recently that they weren't putting electricity up north!
A"
I bloody well voted for him, he can sort my fecking electrics out |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"I don't know how you are managing to live there with it all going on. It would drive me nuts. Which is why I don't start these things anymore.
When they pull my dead body out of here they'll be talking about the dated fittings and decor.
By using a Project Manager, it was all supposed to be done within a week...I'm thinking it might drag out a bit now though "
There is a reason the curse is 'may you have builders'... I always have a project manager too but if the thingy that goes with the whajamacallit doesn't arrive you're still stuffed.
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"I don't know how you are managing to live there with it all going on. It would drive me nuts. Which is why I don't start these things anymore.
When they pull my dead body out of here they'll be talking about the dated fittings and decor.
By using a Project Manager, it was all supposed to be done within a week...I'm thinking it might drag out a bit now though
There is a reason the curse is 'may you have builders'... I always have a project manager too but if the thingy that goes with the whajamacallit doesn't arrive you're still stuffed.
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That curse, plus "may you live in interesting times"...currently, my fridge freezer is in the middle of the kitchen and I need to clean where it used to be...me and mopping do not usually get on |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Every time I meet someone who is a possible relationship 
Sausage fest next weekend chick (hopefully) 
Better be!!!"
I don't the camping thingy so can you pick one up for me please. I haven't had a sausage in ages.
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"Every time I meet someone who is a possible relationship
Sausage fest next weekend chick (hopefully)
Better be!!!
I don't the camping thingy so can you pick one up for me please. I haven't had a sausage in ages.
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No probs, but may be a bit manky by the time we've posted them down to the Big Smoke  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Every time I meet someone who is a possible relationship
Sausage fest next weekend chick (hopefully) "
Go on then, i;ll ask the obvious.
Do you love a proverbial cumberland? |
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"Every time I meet someone who is a possible relationship
Sausage fest next weekend chick (hopefully)
Go on then, i;ll ask the obvious.
Do you love a proverbial cumberland? "
Can't beat a Cumberland Ring |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Every time I meet someone who is a possible relationship
Sausage fest next weekend chick (hopefully)
Go on then, i;ll ask the obvious.
Do you love a proverbial cumberland?
Can't beat a Cumberland Ring "
That sounds criminal. Or is it because they're all related to each other?
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"Every time I meet someone who is a possible relationship
Sausage fest next weekend chick (hopefully)
Go on then, i;ll ask the obvious.
Do you love a proverbial cumberland?
Can't beat a Cumberland Ring
That sounds criminal. Or is it because they're all related to each other?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I took redundancy last year, I used some of the money to have my kitchen fitted that I had purchased a few years before. I opted to remove the old one to make costs cheaper for me, all I can say is never let B&Q do the measurements and always check the boxes received against the invoice as I had several panels I didn't need, shelving I didn't need, a whole box of stuff I didn't ask for and wasn't on the invoice and some nice work tops that wouldn't ever fit the area they were needed to cover and had to buy all new  Lets just say that I spent a lot of time going to the tip 
My son decided he would help me level a patch land in the front garden that meant the removal of a the remains of a tree, the removal of a fuschia bush and the use of a cultivator, aside from the gravel company claiming they couldn't supply 2 tons on the day I wanted cos the quarries are struggling, something the girl I spoke to never mentioned, a month later its still a mound of earth and today its chucking it down with rain so can do nothing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My worst is every conversation I've ever had with someone I used to work with. Lovely person, but crikey, everything in their life was someone else's fault. Never theirs.  "
Stop talking to my mum then as that sounds just like her |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Op, is your other half a qualified and certified electrician?
Rules changed many years ago about what you can and can't do in your own home and are quite tight where kitchens and bathrooms are concerned.
Not questioning you OH's abilities at all, although I gather that you're looking to have someone do it for you now.
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"Ever wish you hadn't started something?"
If I had a pound for every time I'd told Mrs ddc "I just have to... it means you'll be without water/gas/electric/a toilet/a roof/ a floor, but it'll only be for a couple of hours" 
Those three days without a toilet were probably the hardest.
Mr ddc |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My worst is every conversation I've ever had with someone I used to work with. Lovely person, but crikey, everything in their life was someone else's fault. Never theirs. "
Sounds like my ex. |
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
Got a Spark sorted for the kitchen...£750 which is less than I was expecting and I've managed to get a local guy as I like to support local businesses...he's also not bad eye candy so that's a bonus  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Got a Spark sorted for the kitchen...£750 which is less than I was expecting and I've managed to get a local guy as I like to support local businesses...he's also not bad eye candy so that's a bonus "
Him, you and your Trees of Green guy together then?
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"Got a Spark sorted for the kitchen...£750 which is less than I was expecting and I've managed to get a local guy as I like to support local businesses...he's also not bad eye candy so that's a bonus
Him, you and your Trees of Green guy together then?
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Noooooooooo!!!!! |
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By *londeCaz OP Woman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"Got a Spark sorted for the kitchen...£750 which is less than I was expecting and I've managed to get a local guy as I like to support local businesses...he's also not bad eye candy so that's a bonus
Him, you and your Trees of Green guy together then?
Noooooooooo!!!!!"
Now that would be something awesome...Admin, any chance of a bluebirds smilie? |
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