Things that have made you happy today' 2023

Had a strange man knocking on the front door wheeling a crow bar!!
Lucky it was the neighbour who own's a house But rent's it out, and i only met a few times in 10 years
" i'm looking for the stop tap to the house have you any idea where it is please"
Well, i do know roughly where it mite be, so we go looking, after 3 minutes we found it but with every thing around here it's not in a place you would first head for luckly with me i make mentle note's ie like blue or red spray paint etc on the roads when there is road works so i roughly knew where the water pipe was so then it was a find the stop tap from there which luckly was only 10 feet from where i thought it was,

If you don't know where your stop tap is please go a find it so if you have a problem you can go straight to it, and make sure it still works if you haven't use it in a while

 

I've got one in the house and one on the meter in the street.

 

I share mine with next door, it's outside their house on the pavement (well, under the pavement to be precise).
My house is in a row of semis and that's how they were built here in times gone by.

I have isolation 'things' on the bath, sink, toilet etc inside the house so that if I need work done on any of them nothing else (including my next-door neighbours) need be disturbed.

If they need work done however, they have to turn the main stop tap off, so my water goes off too

 

It makes me happy giving cuttings etc to people, it's something I enjoy doing ... and my garden-helping lady left here yesterday with a box full of cuttings and small rooted plants. She said she'll be paying me soon
She said that out of all the gardens she goes to, she only enjoys two of them, and one of those is mine. She said most of them are boring and all she does is mow lawns or trim hedges, but she said my garden is interesting. Wouldn't that make one happy

 

I too enjoy givings cuttings and rootings away ... and especially like when I see their ongoing results.

 

My landline is working again, after two weeks and a day
It was not Vodafone's fault after all. They called it a 'service outage' and it affected nearly 300 houses. Openreach have fixed it at last.

Since it wasn't Vodafone's fault, and I've had several very informative and appologetic emails from them, I have decided to remain with them rather than find another provider, as I had intended doing. It will work out cheaper.

My new mobile can now be swtiched OFF, and used to summon help in an emergency when I'm out.

 

I've tried everywhere locally to get some Erythronium bulbs, but had no luck at all.
This morning I found a nice collection of them on line and have ordered them, with Hayloft - 3 yellow 3 mauve and 3 white in the collection ... I am happy
Can't wait to get them now !

 

Vodafone are giving me a refund for the two weeks my landline wasn't working, and they are also giving me £25.00 off my next bill for the inconvenience it has caused
I am also on their 'vulnerable' list because of my age and because I've told them I rely more on the landline than the mobile ... so if something goes wrong with the landline in the future, they will treat it as urgent.

 

Thats good news Michael.

We had my Dad put on the vulnerable list .


We were also on ' some type of list' a few years back for our landline ( we use to have a lot of issues) as we needed to keep in contact with vulnerable family members who might require our assistance...my Dad and brother.
We find phone companies are very obliging when there's a valid reason for requesting a priority listing.

 

I think a lot of the service companies have vulnerable lists.
I'm apparently on the water company one.
When they set up places giving out water due to problems I get mine delivered.

 

But it has made me feel old and helpless and as if I am incapable of looking after myself.

 

I don't usually, and I am not, but thinking of being on a vulnerable list doesn't help. Most of the time I don't think about it though.