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« Reply #2910 on: 11:51:20, 13-09-2007 » |
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Plumbers are a nightmare. You're lucky if you know a good one!
The tiler who's just done my kitchen floor did a good job with the tiling, but made quite a bit more mess than was strictly necessary, I think, managed to chip paint off the doors when he was planing them so they'd fit, and everything is covered with a fine white dust - every time I think I've cleared it up I find more, usually on my clothes. The thing that's really annoying me is that I cannot find the mug I gave him tea in anywhere in the house or garden. It doesn't seem worth ringing him to see if he remembers where he put it, but it's peculiarly irritating.
AND I've just ordered a whole lot of things online, clothes, books, an electric blanket, and I've spent too much. It's just too easy to type in a few numbers - not real money, after all.
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« Reply #2911 on: 11:58:04, 13-09-2007 » |
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Your flat is virtually new as well isn't Ruth?
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #2912 on: 12:34:37, 13-09-2007 » |
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Yes, David, but all my neighbours had all manner of snagging problems when they moved in - I had got away scot-free until now so it was definitely my turn  The block was completed 11 months before the first resident moved in, too, and 15 months before I moved in - so conveniently outside the one-year defects warranty period. Oh well, I don't really care. All I want is a working toilet. |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #2913 on: 12:39:37, 13-09-2007 » |
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It is better not to do too much new things in the house because it is very disruptive to your life. I learnt it hard way this summer. I am still recovering from my renovations. It is hard to wait for trade people to come, but then they come and things are fixed.  |
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« Reply #2914 on: 14:58:24, 13-09-2007 » |
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When I'm with people I want to be on my own, and when I'm alone I want company.  |
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« Reply #2915 on: 15:02:23, 13-09-2007 » |
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No need to get permission to grump around here, Ruth! It comes naturally to most of us. I HATE it when things like that happen. It's the wasted time that gets to me most (he says, chatting away on the messageboard instead of working  ). Totally infuriating. I recently waited in a whole morning for a delivery, which failed to arrive by 12 as promised, then had to go out. What do I find when I get back? A card saying they'll try again between 9 and 12 the next day! Aargh!  m - you & I had the same day! I had a shipment that was supposed to arrive on Tuesday, and, knowing the delivery truck usually comes by b/t 4 & 7, I sat around the house waiting (and, like a dog waiting for its owner, every time I heard a truck go by, I'd run to the window to see if it was UPS). Logged on to the UPS website at 7:30 to see that the package was listed as 'undeliverable' at 6:52 b/c the 'recipient was not home.' Blah. So I quickly called customer service, explained that yes, in fact, I -was- there, and in fact had been there waiting for that particular package for several hours. The customer service rep was very, very kind ... she apologized, said that they'd get the package out first thing in the morning, and that it would be delivered b/t 11. So I postponed my day's activities and sat around the house until 11 .... then 12 .... then 1 ..... The package finally arrived at 7pm. And perhaps most frustrating w/ all of this is that I was waiting for a tiny, postage stamp-sized 2 GB memory card. It all seemed so silly. Anyhow ... it's in the camera now, and the girlfriend and I are off to the Chicago Botanic Gardens for the day, so I am no longer grumpy nor ranting. |
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« Reply #2916 on: 15:33:25, 13-09-2007 » |
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When I'm with people I want to be on my own, and when I'm alone I want company.
Sounds just like me. We should meet up for a beer some time. And sit in opposite corners of the pub. I'm trying to fit in a new job around my very busy old job, which will work once I've wound down my old job a little but in the meantime it's DRIVING ME UP THE PROVERBIAL WALL. Grr. I also missed a package today. And tomorrow I'm working from before the post office opens until after it shuts. The next day too. Then it's Sunday. Monday I'm flying off early to London and getting back Tuesday late afternoon but again won't have time to get to the post office before it shuts. Wednesday I'm off to Warsaw for a few days. Blah. |
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« Reply #2917 on: 16:04:02, 13-09-2007 » |
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Can't you send the person who collected your jeans from the laundry to pick it up for you?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2918 on: 16:14:34, 13-09-2007 » |
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Wednesday I'm off to Warsaw for a few days.
Ah, yes -- good luck on that, Ollie. Really wish I could be there. |
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« Reply #2919 on: 17:24:02, 13-09-2007 » |
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When I'm with people I want to be on my own, and when I'm alone I want company. I ALWAYS have that problem. |
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« Reply #2920 on: 17:26:23, 13-09-2007 » |
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Wednesday I'm off to Warsaw for a few days.
Ah, yes -- good luck on that, Ollie. Really wish I could be there. Seems like an age away!  But, yes, should be fun. Fortunately the package was indeed at the post office this evening: they'd done the sorting just before closing time. Other grump still current though. |
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« Reply #2921 on: 18:35:46, 13-09-2007 » |
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When I'm with people I want to be on my own, and when I'm alone I want company. I ALWAYS have that problem. and another joins the club |
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #2922 on: 19:01:18, 13-09-2007 » |
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So when are we all going to meet down the pub and all sit alone at separate tables staring into our respective beers? Sounds like the gregarious agoraphobe's night out of choice.  |
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« Reply #2923 on: 20:56:00, 13-09-2007 » |
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#2928 The separate tables scenario would provide an ideal theme for Harold Pinter.
Fun in Warsaw. Have you ever been there, Ollie? My one and only visit was in 1986 and I was *treated* to an official tour of the Palace of Kulture, Stalin's gift to the people of Warsaw! Several bureaucrats sidled up to me to tell me that they'd blow-up the bloody monstrosity as soon as the Russians quit. I bet it's still there.
The Opera House had all the grandeur of a run-down 1930s Odeon cinema but I only paid the equivalent of £2 for the best seats to see a lacklustre "La Traviata". And the fog of cigarette smoke in the posh hotel restaurant rewarded me with conjunctivitis.
Unusual for me, as I'm naturally an optimistic person and perhaps I was prejudiced by seeing the unforgettable Andrzej Wajda trilogy: 'A Generation' (1954), 'Kanal' (1956) and 'Ashes & Diamonds' (1958), many years previously,and, visiting the old part of Warsaw, it all became painfully real for me. The TV crews at the local TV studios nodded sympathetically but kept their counsel.
However, I did have an enjoyable stroll through the Frederic Chopin park before I went to the airport with joy in my heart.
Perhaps entry to the E.U. has brought about a transformation. Do let me know. Travel well and safely, Ollie.
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