LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

@silu We have just got back home after two weeks away and had quiet a lot of wind and rain here last week and going out into the conservatory when we got back home all appeared to be well with no wind damage and no rain coming in so all looks ok

@Loofah I don’t know what the boss man was thinking about when he ordered the sand but as he is having an extension built on his own house he perhaps was thinking of his own measurements We now have 1 1/2 tonne bags sitting on our drive and the fitter/gopher who has got knee problems is going to be coming next week at some point to spade the spare sand into the back of the firms van to get rid of it so I expect it will go back to the yard to hopefully used elsewhere

@wiseowl as you are slightly older than me you know a bit more about plastering but the modern methods are called dab and stick whatever that means.I assume the plaster board is attached to the breeze blocks somehow then the plasterer will skim the boards so they look like plain walls ready for painting.When I had my first bungalow in 1976 you had to wait so many months for the plaster to dry out before wallpapering or painting but now they seem to do it a lot quicker.Even the glass this conservatory is made of has self cleaning glass so they reckon which is supposed to work when it rains and also the glass is tinted so that it reflects the heat back in the summer but holds on to any heat in the winter months or so the salesman says.We went outside and opened the doors from outside this morning and everywhere was dripping wet from the water coming out of the screed.We have the two big windows open plus the doors and now the sun is moving round the glass is now dry

The photo is of one of the sacks being moved off of back of the delivery lorry.Its all very technical these days

 

I have to take him back tomorrow, this is the view from the hotel car park , I don't know if I want him here, or want to be there with him
That's my moan!

 

Derwent water, from lodore area. I love it
It's between Keswick and seatoller, it's a beautiful part of the world

 

Well not exactly a beating up. Recently, returning home from a lunch out, my tummy sound the alarm bells. Evacuate, evacuate. Oh no! I am one of thousands who suffer from colitus and IBS. Parking up at the local Sainsbury's, I made a dash for the loo. Suddenly some aged woman driving a disability scooter drove out of the self check out area. Crash, I ended up sprawled across her and her scooter. My exclamation............unrepeatable. Why can't folk take more care............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Yes. Thankfully. I made it.....JUST.

This leads me onto the subject of public loos. OK councils are cutting back on spending. I often wonder, just where does all this saved money end up. Back to the loos. I remember the days when, the town center loo was kept in order by an attendandt. Often when paying a visit, the attendant would be busy either mopping the floor area cleaning the wc and most often, polishing the copper pipes. Now these loos are just memories. So you are in the high street and nature calls. Strange expression! Nowadays you are expected to enter some shop and head for the loo. An assistant calls out, attracting alround attention. Scuce me, the toilets are for customers. You are busting, do you stop and argue or what. I am totally aginst this practice. Bring back public loos.

I have heard that anyone sufferring fom IBS and the like, can get a card, explaining your medical condition. Just imagine. Hey Senor, tolets, no go. You show your card. Puzzelment takes over. Sorry Senor, no readie english. OOOOppps, too late. Never mind.

 

@Mike Allen I also suffer with IBS so can sympathise with you but luckily the only thing I have ever needed to do whilst out shopping is a wee and I do now what my sister does is when I need to go if I haven’t got a 20p coin to use in the public loos I walk into McDonalds and use theirs as they are so busy serving customers they can’t keep an eye on what everyone in the shop is doing

Mr Kandys niece has the same condition and pays £5 to some company a year to get a key so that if she gets the need to go which enables her to use disabled toilets when she is out and about as a lot of them are locked at some places

There is a new scheme starting so they were saying on the news a few months ago where shops are going to let non customers use their toilets as they know that as people get older they can’t hang on and I remember years ago that the big shops like Beatties and M&S always had toilets for customers to use but sadly in two of our towns both shops have now closed and I don’t think the pound shops or charity shops have loos for customers.

Anyway if I use a shops loo I could be a potential customer it’s just that sometimes I need to use the loo before I do any shopping.There won’t be a problem soon though as all the shops will end up closing as everyone is going to be forced to do their shopping on line so won’t need to leave the comfort of their home and loo

 

If I need to stop, I usually go to a Tim Hortons or other fast food places. If I'm not going there to order food, I always buy a bottle of water or something before leaving as my way of saying thanks for the flush.

 

Don't drive to fast to a horse event, past slow and wide, funny some of the people that ride horses don't practise what you preach when in they're cars SUV's with trailors
Slow down in crountry lanes there may be horses, people walking and cycling

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