End of an era

I had an E mail this week from a chap I used to work with telling me that the firm we used to work for is closing down next September. It has been operating on the same site since the 1930's. What  a shame for all our old colleagues. When we were

NO,NO,NO...

    Why won't people take NO for an answer? On Friday last week I answered the door to a young chap who was trying to sell me Sky TV, and despite me repeatedly telling him that I wasn't interested and was quite happy with Cable and Freeview

Duffing...

  Gideon Coe on BBC Radio 6 has a section of his show related to  'Duffing' Quote from his website.. "If you've ever bemoaned modern life and longed for the days when things were simpler.  If you behave in an old-fashioned manner...

Almost Famous...

  Today I'm almost famous. They read out my Email on BBC Breakfast this morning. They were talking about sweets from days gone bye, prompted by a piece in one of the newspapers about bringing back Spangles. Obviously the newspaper person who wrote

At Last!

  The plumber came today to fit the new valves and controls to the Heating system.I called him last week to see if he'd forgotten us, and guess what, he was 'just going to call me'. He said it would be towards the end of this week, and called last

Litter

 Having lived in London for many years it is noticeable to me that Norwich is in general a very clean and tidy city, so it really annoys me when I see certain people who deliberately deposit litter.  We were today sitting inside the Drive Through

Its that time of year again..

  MOT time MondayI was checking the car over for the MOT and I discovered the rear box of the exhaust was very rusty. So down to the exhaust shop for them to have a look and when it was up on the ramp it was obvious it needed a new one, and the

Nasty Virus

  I have just spent all day finding and removing a particularly nasty program from my computer. It managed to get past McAfee and installed itself in the All Users Applications folder in Documents and Settings. Although I could see it it wouldn't

Its my Lucky Day!!

I picked up the post this morning and along with the junk mail there was a letter franked with the Logo of the Council where I used to live in London.I opened it and it was a form to apply for a Council Tax refund. As its getting on for two years

Its so Quiet

Its been a pretty quiet time in the BT household recently, with not a lot going on. The 'Boss' got called into the Docs last week to have her medication 'reviewed'. What happened was that the Practise was seeing all patients on the particular medication

The Electric Man Cometh - Finally!

Every three months, for over a year now, I have received a letter from Siemens working on behalf of British Gas saying that they will be coming round within that three months to replace my Electricity meter, because it has come to the end of its designed

Rhubarb, Rhubarb ...

We've just had the first of our garden produce of the year. We picked the first sticks of Rhubarb from the two plants that we bought last year, a whole FOUR sticks. There are plenty of more coming on so we should be OK for plenty of Rhubarb crumble, stewed

The Gas Man Cometh!

A few days ago the doorbell rang and there was a chap wearing a British Gas coat, and showing a British Gas ID card.He said he was doing a survey in the area about gas suppliers, and could I tell him who was my Gas supplier.Now as I have been a British

Hotter and Hotter!

We had to have the man in today to sort out the central heating. It wasn't that it wasn't working; it was working just too well. The boiler was pumping out heat like gas was going out of fashion, and no matter what you did with the thermostat it just

Food Waste Bins

  We have been issued with Food Waste Bins by Broadland DC.There is a 7 ltr bin to keep in the kitchen with 'plastic' liners made from cornstarch and a 21 ltr bin for outside. They will be collected weekly. Now the 7 ltr bin has about the same capacity