Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version

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  • If it moves when it shouldn't - Duct Tape. If it don't move when it should - WD40.
    :wink:

    Hopefully, tomorrow afternoon will be dry enough for me to re-seat the loose section of chimney, with some added filler/cement/duct tape, and anything else I can think of.

    A new rain cowl has been ordered...
  • If it moves when it shouldn't - Duct Tape. If it don't move when it should - WD40.
    :wink: [,,,]

    Classic! :)

    I hope everything will go well. Chim-chimeny-chim-chimeny and all that.
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    edited October 2020
    If it moves when it shouldn't - Duct Tape. If it don't move when it should - WD40.
    :wink: .

    Frankly, that has long been my main mantra in life....

    I just wish, in the current circumstances, it were permissible to apply the duct tape to the mouths of those in groups on buses who refuse to wear face coverings (not those who genuinely can't, they are generally sat quietly with heads down) and who will persist in spreading themselves across the bus, shouting at each other, or talking loudly on their devices for the duration of the journey.

    Add those who won't wear face coverings in shops, and are rude to retail staff with reasonable requests to follow the law, (I was commiserating deeply with my local corner shop staff - all correctly face covered up and very fed up) and I'd soon run out of my currently copious supplies of Duct Tape.

    I'll even let them choose their colour! (Silvery-grey, black, white, or green are currently available in the Japes' Maintenance Cupboard.) After all, I am constantly being exhorted to "Be kind, be considerate" by posters on buses, voices across supermarket tannoys, my workplace.

    I did suggest to one lot if they want their offspring to be in school/college, then giving me the Plague was a Very Bad Idea and they'd be the first to complain loudly about educational establishments closing again because all the staff have gone down with it. I'd already overheard a conversation on the subject so knew I was on safe ground!

  • Well, the chimney was replaced today, during a fine spell. The rain cowl was recovered (undamaged) from its watery/muddy bed.

    Cement and duct tape were duly employed in large quantities, and the chimney seems to now be firmly-ish in position.

    But it is leaning at a slight angle (I noticed this too late to adjust it) and looks as if it has had too much GIN.
    :grimace:
  • Or else the person looking at it has ...
  • You may think that. I couldn't possibly comment...
  • The engineer’s Mantras:

    If it moves and it shouldn’t: Duct tape
    If it should move and it doesn’t: WD40
    If it still doesn’t move, don’t force it, get a bigger hammer.
    And remember that duct tape doesn’t cure stupid, but CAN muffle the noises.
  • I send to hell the whole day. Mr image with much help was able to get dressed and down our steps and into the car. I was all set to take him out for the first time in about a month. I drove the car out of the garage, and parked it in the middle of the driveway, thus blocking our mini camper still in the garage, to make it easy for Mr. Image to get in so we could go to a one day only drive-through flu shot site. This would have saved him walking to the very back of the drug store to get his shot, which now he seems unable to do. The car that 5 minutes before I drove out of the garage would not start. It sounds like the starter motor is gone. Our mechanic can not get us in until next week, and it now sits in the driveway blocking our other vehicle. Add to that our dishwasher is not working. The repairman arrived this afternoon to inform me it is not worth the cost of repair and I would be better off putting the money toward a new one. ( What money? ) This evening Mr. Image's physical therapist told us he had tried to call us at the start of the week when we had no power and no phone. As we did not answer they took him out of the schedule and I will have to call the powers that be and get him reinstated. I know the good news is Mr. Image was able to walk to the car, and the car was at our house when it died and not in a line of people waiting in their cars for a flu shot. I can hand wash dishes as I save for a new dishwasher. Never the less this has not been my favorite day.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    That is one hell of a day GI, especially on top of everything else that has been going on for you. I do hope life gets easier for you and Mr Image.
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Oh, GI, that’s awful! Praying things improve for you and Mr GI.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That sucks great festering gooseballs, GI - hope things improve for you and Mr. Image.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    TICTH political ads. All of them. Please, God, let them be over tomorrow.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    I always sigh with relief while watching TV in the days after an election. But to be honest I'm not sure that I want to watch TV this week anyway. It seems impossible that the news shows will be anything but stressful. :fearful:
  • Lyda--

    Watch *other* things, maybe? Especially things you usually find funny, relaxing, comforting, or *safely* cathartic.

    --I don't know what's available in your area, but there's always YouTube. Lots of full-length, free TV shows and movies.

    --And Pluto TV. It's free, and has both scheduled/live and on-demand offerings. As it says, "Drop in for 100s of free TV channels and 1000s of movies & TV shows". Available online and on all sorts of devices.

    For me, there are some minor annoyances, like somehow being unable to bookmark a particular item so I can easily go back to it. I can't find any problems with my system that might cause that. But it's workable.

    And it's a good place to re-watch vintage "Dr. Who"! :)

    --You might also search on "Film School Shorts". It runs on PBS stations and sites, and on other sites. Here's KQED's collection of them to watch.

    I've developed a love of short films--partly due to some good ones I saw in school. I like/love many of the FSS selections. FYI: they can be light and happy, puzzling, sarcastic, sad, shocking, quirky, and hilarious.

    FWIW. YMMV.
  • Loud fireworks. I’d hoped there be less of that this year.
  • Same here.

    Marking the end of the last day before Lockdown Two? Or maybe marking *Bonfire* Night a few days early?
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Thank you so much, Golden Key. I've been so low today. I snapped at my roomie for something that was my problem and she has plenty of problems herself.

    ICTHT all our stress. :tired_face:
  • Same here.

    Marking the end of the last day before Lockdown Two? Or maybe marking *Bonfire* Night a few days early?

    I think that is why someone has literally just (midnight) let off a good half dozen loud rockets.
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    I've got so fed up of night after night of fireworks in these parts mostly because I've needed to use my weekend mornings to do some music recording tasks I wanted to get done before December as editing them into the seasonal powerpoints is going to take time.

    Still, the revenge I took on the entire neighbourhood by playing several hours worth of Christmas Carols early yesterday morning was well worth it.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Japes wrote: »
    ... playing several hours worth of Christmas Carols early yesterday morning ...
    Heretick! :mrgreen:

    I confess I've been looking at candle-bridges on the interweb, and when I get round to putting them up (at the start of Advent) I'll probably entertain my neighbours with The Best CD Of All Time™ - the Praetorius Christmas Mass, sung by the Gabrieli Consort.
  • Not the Charpentier Christmas Eve one? Is Outrage!

    (Actually I don't know the Praetorius, must look it up as it sounds lovely).
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    edited November 2020
    Piglet wrote: »
    Japes wrote: »
    ... playing several hours worth of Christmas Carols early yesterday morning ...
    Heretick! :mrgreen:

    I completely agree, but on this occasion, it was purely for recording purposes! Normally I refuse to play any until Christmas Carol Service. If I can't play them by now, after 30+ years, I don't deserve to be employed as an organist. If I hit the point where I can't play them, then I will resign as an organist!

    Actually, playing them on the piano felt odd - I don't think I've done that for about 8 years.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Not the Charpentier Christmas Eve one? Is Outrage!

    (Actually I don't know the Praetorius, must look it up as it sounds lovely).
    It's utterly magic. We discovered it at a very drunken choir Christmas party in Belfast; a crowd of us were in one room singing Christmas carols with David playing the piano, and one of the tenors in the choir came in from another room and told us all to stop singing and come and listen to this amazing CD. We were instantly hooked (we were very partial to that era of music anyway).

    Here it is.
  • Thank you. And excellent perfomers, by the look of it.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    They are indeed.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    We’ve got it under this cover. Solid joy.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Well I suppose I must just be a philistine. In our house, Christmas decoration-putting-up-music is the Jackson Five.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited November 2020
    BroJames wrote: »
    We’ve got it under this cover. Solid joy.

    That's the cover of my original CD too; I still have it (although I haven't anything to play it on). It was the only CD I kept when I left Canada; the rest went to the same eccentric old gentleman who took all David's organ periodicals, but although the CD now has a "jump" in the last track, I sort of couldn't bear to part with it.

    I'm a sentimental old piglet ... :blush:

  • I haven't listened to all of it ... but I love it, especially the inspiring rendition of "Von Himmel hoch".
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Absolutely! :)
  • HelixHelix Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Not the Charpentier Christmas Eve one? Is Outrage!

    (Actually I don't know the Praetorius, must look it up as it sounds lovely).
    It's utterly magic. We discovered it at a very drunken choir Christmas party in Belfast; a crowd of us were in one room singing Christmas carols with David playing the piano, and one of the tenors in the choir came in from another room and told us all to stop singing and come and listen to this amazing CD. We were instantly hooked (we were very partial to that era of music anyway).

    Here it is.

    Oh my days, my father would have adored this. I wonder if he ever came across it. Never mind, I will listen to it for him and it will be a treat.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    He might be singing it in Heaven with Praetorius himself! :)
  • Whoever is in charge of making flu jabs available hereabouts. I've been waiting to hear from the local surgery, and was working up to phone to see when I could go, but I am now told by a neighbour that they have run out and cannot even give them to people with major health reasons, not just age, for needing them. Our village pharmacy has also run out. I need to call Asda about 5 miles away for their pharmacy. Their phone is constantly busy and mine doesn't allow call back, so I am now calling back myself every few minutes.
  • Tesco were selling bars of Neem and Tumeric soap at half price, and, thinking that Neem and Tumeric sounded interesting, modern and trendy (plus it was half price) I bought a bar.

    The first time I washed my hands the smell gave me a flashback to my primary school toilets. Subsequent flashbacks have involved caravan site toilets, a public toilet that had a brass device into which to place a 2p piece to gain entry, and a public toilet with a blue and white mosaic tiled floor. Also, those posters about V.D. which so puzzled me as a small child, and equally puzzling graffiti about crabs. Things I had no idea that I could remember, and which must have been pointlessly cluttering up some part of my brain for the past 50 years.

    Meanwhile, when I asked the North East Man what the smell reminded him of, his face lit up. Apparently the smell takes him back to bathtime as a small boy, being cosily wrapped in a towel in front of the fire, warm pyjamas, cocoa, and bedtime stories.

    I CTH Neem and Tumeric, the smell of the early 70s, and drawing the short straw when it comes to scent-related flashbacks.

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Did it turn your hands yellow as well? :flushed:
  • Based on that, I call to hell being last into the bath in the early 1960s, after all the other kids were clean. You did get one pot of hot water at the end over your head, which was the only good thing about it. My younger brother would always tease that he'd pooped in the bath water. I'm going to message him that he's being called to hell for that. Things improved in 1968 when we moved and natural gas heated the water, and city water was available. We were then allowed to flush yellow as well as brown.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I was horrified when visiting someone's cottage out in the country in Newfoundland and seeing a sign in the lavatory that read, "if it's yellow let it mellow; if it's brown flush it down"!

    Ugh!!!!!
  • HelixHelix Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    I was horrified when visiting someone's cottage out in the country in Newfoundland and seeing a sign in the lavatory that read, "if it's yellow let it mellow; if it's brown flush it down"!

    Ugh!!!!!

    That's what my mother says to me ... but she is the woman who walks around the house whilst you are eating with dog poo on a shovel and she thinks nothing of it.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Neem soap in water makes a good spray to blast the aphids off the roses and I like a turmeric latte - I can't even imagine them together.

    I suggest giving it to the North East Man.
  • Memo to self; Don’t invite @Piglet to anywhere with water restrictions due to drought.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    I was horrified when visiting someone's cottage out in the country in Newfoundland and seeing a sign in the lavatory that read, "if it's yellow let it mellow; if it's brown flush it down"!

    Ugh!!!!!

    During the quakes the Mayor of Christchurch appeared on national TV imploring people to both conserve water and add the least possible amount to the sewerage system with the yellow/brown slogan.

    It was better than having raw sewerage on the streets.

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I reckon I've been lucky never to have lived anywhere that didn't have plenteous rain!
  • Based on that, I call to hell being last into the bath in the early 1960s, after all the other kids were clean. You did get one pot of hot water at the end over your head, which was the only good thing about it. My younger brother would always tease that he'd pooped in the bath water. I'm going to message him that he's being called to hell for that. Things improved in 1968 when we moved and natural gas heated the water, and city water was available. We were then allowed to flush yellow as well as brown.
    As the youngest of 8 children and a 70s child, I went to my grandmother’s house with my two brothers for my bath on Sunday and had last dibs on the water.

    I also remember conserving the flushing the loo in the uk drought of 1976.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    On the island of Kos, you mustn't flush any toilet paper (it clogs up their pipes) - you have to wipe your bum and put the paper in a bin next to the loo. That took a bit of getting used to!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    They expect that in rural Newfoundland too. <shudder>
  • kingsfoldkingsfold Shipmate
    edited November 2020
    Eigon wrote: »
    On the island of Kos, you mustn't flush any toilet paper (it clogs up their pipes) - you have to wipe your bum and put the paper in a bin next to the loo. That took a bit of getting used to!

    Then what? Do they take it away and incinerate? Or bury it? Or...?
  • kingsfold wrote: »
    Eigon wrote: »
    On the island of Kos, you mustn't flush any toilet paper (it clogs up their pipes) - you have to wipe your bum and put the paper in a bin next to the loo. That took a bit of getting used to!

    Then what? Do they take it away and incinerate? Or bury it? Or...?
    It’s the same in Crete.
    Very yucky.
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    edited November 2020
    Drivers who, when approaching road works where a lane is closed, come up behind the people who have moved over as soon as they saw the advance sign and undertake in the emptied lane and then force their way into the stream at the place where the lane is closed, thus making everyone else have to travel much more slowly than necessary, even stop to let them in. I have seen lorries preventing this on motorways by travelling together in adjacent lanes, and the traffic moves much more quickly in those cases. Today, I very determinedly did not let the car that was trying to get in ahead of me after undertaking about ten who had been ahead of him, but then had to rethink my behaviour. When we got to the traffic lights and the roadworks were passed, he steamed by me almost before I had got back in the inner lane, exceeded the speed limit in the outer lane, tailgated another car in that lane, then dodged back into the inner lane making another car brake, undertook again and then went out into the outer lane again. Would I have caused any accident he had by making him lose his temper?
  • Sometimes, backpackers are supposed to put their used toilet paper in a plastic bag, and haul it back out to civilization with them. (Keeps from having used TP scattered on or just under the soil.) Same with other sorts of personal hygiene items.
  • All the Greek islands are the same, as with yachts* - you get used to emptying the bog bag, but it just seems to get tied up and put with the other rubbish.

    *We used to award ourselves extra points for getting the yacht to heel sufficiently for the bin containing said bag to fall off its little shelf!
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