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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    So it will work presumably?
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Couldn't they have moved the router to the place you wanted it while they were doing the upgrade?
    Dont you use an ethernet cable from the router to the PC?
     
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    This is the modern malnourishment- if you live on white flour, sugar and fat you'll get fat and malnourished. And do it cheaply.

    School meals are perhaps the only way to get some veg and proper protein into some kids, and also get them used to seeing real food. If you are exposed to real food once a day during your formative ways it may spark a light once you are older and get your own food.

    I hope.

    Unfortunately I see families where there are no meals, the best is beans on toast plus sweets. I have seen family homes without a dining table.

    Free school meals are the pride of Finnish educational system, they used to help with nourishment issues last century and nowadays they give the role model of a habit to sit down at the table to eat a plateful of proper food using cutlery.

    That's taxpayers' money rather well spent I think. :)
     
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    • pete

      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      The thing is, and I know you can say things were different then, but when I was a kid we didn't have much money, I can remember my parents struggling, but we always had enough food, we never went hungry.
      If you wanted school dinners it was a shilling a day, payable on Monday mornings I think some had free dinners but I never knew why.

      Now it appears schools have to provide breakfast in many cases and now they are pushing for free dinners, I wouldn't mind if they were all orphans, but they aint.

      Will they have to give them a meal before they go home as well, because that is the next step.
      I mean, who is actually bringing these kids up, the parents or the state, bearing in mind all the things the schools are supposed to teach these days.

      They was even suggesting that they should give them lessons on how to brush their teeth the other day.:dunno:

      I definitely think some, and I emphasise "some" parents need to get their priorities right , before they sort out their summer holidays and the TV package.
       
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        Yup.
         
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          Wow, my fiber internet, phone line, television router doesn't hook up to any of my devices. It's on the main floor and my computers and telephones and tvs are all over the house and operating wirelessly for communications.
           
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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            Mine are all on Wi Fi as well, but I was wondering what @Drahcir wanted the ethernet cable for.
             
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              Sounds uncomfortable to me :rolleyespink:
               
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              • pete

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                Not sure an ethernet cable would be what you would need to move the router, it wouldn't work with mine.
                Yours could be different.
                 
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                  No water, pipes frozen :mad:. So no loo :yikes:. If we flush the loo it will eventually drain the header tank and then no heating!!! :doh:
                   
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                    Oh dear Shiney, could you use a hair dryer to defrost the pipes? That's if you have one of course.
                     
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                      I thought open vented systems have two header tanks, one for the central heating and one for hot water at the taps. It's so the central heating additives (to stop rust etc) can be kept separate. Hope you can get sorted soon, just watch out for burst pipes in the loft, they may not be apparent till thawed out.
                       
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                      • pete

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                        I can only say mine has two tanks.
                         
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                          I didn't know about two tanks as I've never bothered to look but I have, since then, spoken to the man who installed the heating and he said we shouldn't have a problem as we don't have a combi boiler.

                          I remember when he was going to change our heating (old fashioned back boiler) that he said he thinks combi boilers have more problems for a place like ours as, being a long bungalow, could have problems with supplying hot water to different places at the same time. It isn't supposed to be as economical as a Combi but more practical with hot water available in four rooms.

                          He also said that he gets more callouts for Combis than Conventional boilers. At one time he was also installing Air Pump systems but they didn't work efficiently without other changes to the systems in the house. So he stopped doing them. He has the best reputation in the area. :)

                          I spoke to him about trying to sort our current problem and he said he doesn't have the time and he has had to call someone in to sort out his frozen pipes :heehee:. So I phoned another plumber and he's coming this morning. :fingers crossed:

                          At least we can now use the loo, whilst the big tank in the loft still has water, without worrying about the heating.

                          I guess that if we wait until Sunday when the temperature is supposed to rise to 11C it will all be solved on its own.

                          A neighbour has just dropped in a ten gallon container of fresh water for us. :hapydancsmil:
                           
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                            Plumber is here and running a gas gun over all the copper pipes he can find but we have lots of pipes running off everywhere and we don't know what they are! :rolleyespink:
                             
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