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Bin having an upand a downer with Teachers' Pensions.
The beggars want to make me pay back overpaid pension.
Over the past nine years odd I have been overpaid for 4 days I din't work. :(
And of course it was their fault or the fault of the wimmins at Poole council who originally worked it out.
This has been going on for two months as TP couldn't organise a p*** up in a brewery and the Poole person refuses to answer emails, except with one that might well be encrypted as I can't open the attached files.
So there is a lot of victim blaming going on.

All great fun!
So today I dug out all my payslips going back to 1981. Solved 2 of the problems and the other 2 have been sorted out. Basically when some one (me) went part time the wimmins couldn't do sums. She now is HR, unsurprisingly!
But it was interesting to see what I earned back then. first pay slip showed £451 net pay or a month's work. Life was so much cheaper then!:):):)

But it has made me determined to claim my French pension from the year I did over there! ;):)
That'll be interesting as it may in fact give me some rights that I don't have at the mo, according to our Froggy friend who was so high up in the equivalent of Whitehall over there.
 
Drinking water comes from the mains not the tank due to safety reason
Of course this is true, but personally I have drunk water out of the bathroom taps in all the places I have ever lived with no ill effects. I mast have been lucky! Still do it!
And if he boils it in a kettle I doubt it would hurt him.
Funnily I did hear of a bloke who died of lead poisoning from water. He had the habit of getting up every morning, opening the kitchen tap and filling a big glass. He'd then drink that down while filling the kettle and boiling it to make tea for him and his mrs.
His mrs outlived him.
It was reckoned that the water he drank was particularly bad cos it had sat in the pipe overnight. Once it ran a bit the lead disappeared.
If only the bloke had run the tap a little bit before filling the glass. :(
Allegedly, someone once worked out that kids from the outer Scottish islands had more lead in their bloodstream than kids from inner London. as the lead in the old water pipes was worse than the lead in the London atmos.
 
The best drink is what you like and how you drink it.
And the best thing is trying them all to find what you like!
My dad used to go on holiday to France with his mates not long after the war and try and drink all the way along the shelves behind the bar! The stuff he must have tasted!!:):):)

And the headaches he must have had!!🤣🤣🤣
 
..that it has been a really bad day. :(
I was “Encouraged” to attend the weekly “Thursday Shopping” because it is the BH W/E and it would be rammed full and she also wanted some gardening stuff from another shop.

We got home in the rain and the Waterboard were still there and the hole was deeper. They knocked on the door to advise that “my” outlet from the main was leaking and they would need to cut off the street supply to renew it.

They renewed it but when they reconnected there was no rising-main pressure at all. After some discussion they declared that they would replace the street stop-cock on my property and if that didn’t fix it they would replace the internal stop-cock in my house.

Basically their works had broken my supply. They have just knocked after replacing the garden stop-cock and I have re-tested and it all seemed fine. Phew! 😊


However, after the water board folks had finally filled in the hole in our front garden and departed at about 3:15 Reta was out in the hallway and could hear a tapping noise.

She went upstairs to find water dripping through the landing ceiling light and out of the loft-hatch onto the floor.

Lots of loud shrieks of “Dan, Dan…come quick!” I turned off the cold rising main at the indoor stop-cock and told Reta to run the hot & cold taps in the bath room.

We put towels down to soak up the dripping water.

I think that the lack of any mains water and the demands on the water in the system had dropped it to a level it does not normally drop to and it managed to jam the ball-valve.

So, the ball valve in the cistern had failed and the lack of overflow piping (removed by the builder when doing the upstairs extension in 1997) meant that the overflow just dumped onto the attic floor.
Weirdly, I had a premonition about this earlier this week, spooky or what?
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the failed ball valve, sadly, the fibre washer on the pipe-joint to the new ball valve just disintegrated and so It was after 5 by then and I had to do a dash to Screwfix to get a pack of them.
Finally got it all leak-free and shutting off properly at 6:45 PM.
I will doubtless be up there over Easter fitting overflow pipework. 😊
 
Am suprised at the jimney’s as there great little off roaders , seen them go through off road obstacles where the bigger heavier motors couldn’t

See that many of the landies having a towing capacity of around 7,000 ilbs or 3.5T

Oh yer the Jimnys are superb off road I looked for one for ages for the misses but the decent ones were miles away.
The ones up here were rusty same as the Rav 4 shocking tbh. Have you tried towing 3.5t with a landy its not fun 🤣 🤣
 
Have you tried towing 3.5t with a landy its not fun 🤣 🤣
Once towed a 2.2 ton AA van on a heavy trailer 250 miles back from Scotland with a V8 110, OK at 50 but any more and it was unsafe
 

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..that it has been a really bad day. :(
I was “Encouraged” to attend the weekly “Thursday Shopping” because it is the BH W/E and it would be rammed full and she also wanted some gardening stuff from another shop.

We got home in the rain and the Waterboard were still there and the hole was deeper. They knocked on the door to advise that “my” outlet from the main was leaking and they would need to cut off the street supply to renew it.

They renewed it but when they reconnected there was no rising-main pressure at all. After some discussion they declared that they would replace the street stop-cock on my property and if that didn’t fix it they would replace the internal stop-cock in my house.

Basically their works had broken my supply. They have just knocked after replacing the garden stop-cock and I have re-tested and it all seemed fine. Phew! 😊


However, after the water board folks had finally filled in the hole in our front garden and departed at about 3:15 Reta was out in the hallway and could hear a tapping noise.

She went upstairs to find water dripping through the landing ceiling light and out of the loft-hatch onto the floor.

Lots of loud shrieks of “Dan, Dan…come quick!” I turned off the cold rising main at the indoor stop-cock and told Reta to run the hot & cold taps in the bath room.

We put towels down to soak up the dripping water.

I think that the lack of any mains water and the demands on the water in the system had dropped it to a level it does not normally drop to and it managed to jam the ball-valve.

So, the ball valve in the cistern had failed and the lack of overflow piping (removed by the builder when doing the upstairs extension in 1997) meant that the overflow just dumped onto the attic floor.
Weirdly, I had a premonition about this earlier this week, spooky or what?
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the failed ball valve, sadly, the fibre washer on the pipe-joint to the new ball valve just disintegrated and so It was after 5 by then and I had to do a dash to Screwfix to get a pack of them.
Finally got it all leak-free and shutting off properly at 6:45 PM.
I will doubtless be up there over Easter fitting overflow pipework. 😊

Hi

Alas the water board have a good record of when they re connect the pipes mud / grit gets in and instead of flushing it out there they just allow the debris etc to enter the homes

Then grit, mud etc is flushed into water tanks , cisterns etc , small bits of grit get behind the ball valves and by doing so makes them overflow as the valve seat can’t sit flush against the rubber washer anymore because of dirt etc, so either overflows or blocks them up

Seen it so many times after the water board have been to a house of me spending time clearing all the ball valves out along with flushing and sterilising the tanks

Good to hear u got it sorted out
 
Bin having an upand a downer with Teachers' Pensions.
The beggars want to make me pay back overpaid pension.
Over the past nine years odd I have been overpaid for 4 days I din't work. :(
And of course it was their fault or the fault of the wimmins at Poole council who originally worked it out.
This has been going on for two months as TP couldn't organise a p*** up in a brewery and the Poole person refuses to answer emails, except with one that might well be encrypted as I can't open the attached files.
So there is a lot of victim blaming going on.

All great fun!
So today I dug out all my payslips going back to 1981. Solved 2 of the problems and the other 2 have been sorted out. Basically when some one (me) went part time the wimmins couldn't do sums. She now is HR, unsurprisingly!
But it was interesting to see what I earned back then. first pay slip showed £451 net pay or a month's work. Life was so much cheaper then!:):):)

But it has made me determined to claim my French pension from the year I did over there! ;):)
That'll be interesting as it may in fact give me some rights that I don't have at the mo, according to our Froggy friend who was so high up in the equivalent of Whitehall over there.

You kept pay slips from 1981 🤣🤣
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..that it has been a really bad day. :(
I was “Encouraged” to attend the weekly “Thursday Shopping” because it is the BH W/E and it would be rammed full and she also wanted some gardening stuff from another shop.

We got home in the rain and the Waterboard were still there and the hole was deeper. They knocked on the door to advise that “my” outlet from the main was leaking and they would need to cut off the street supply to renew it.

They renewed it but when they reconnected there was no rising-main pressure at all. After some discussion they declared that they would replace the street stop-cock on my property and if that didn’t fix it they would replace the internal stop-cock in my house.

Basically their works had broken my supply. They have just knocked after replacing the garden stop-cock and I have re-tested and it all seemed fine. Phew! 😊


However, after the water board folks had finally filled in the hole in our front garden and departed at about 3:15 Reta was out in the hallway and could hear a tapping noise.

She went upstairs to find water dripping through the landing ceiling light and out of the loft-hatch onto the floor.

Lots of loud shrieks of “Dan, Dan…come quick!” I turned off the cold rising main at the indoor stop-cock and told Reta to run the hot & cold taps in the bath room.

We put towels down to soak up the dripping water.

I think that the lack of any mains water and the demands on the water in the system had dropped it to a level it does not normally drop to and it managed to jam the ball-valve.

So, the ball valve in the cistern had failed and the lack of overflow piping (removed by the builder when doing the upstairs extension in 1997) meant that the overflow just dumped onto the attic floor.
Weirdly, I had a premonition about this earlier this week, spooky or what?
Then I spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the failed ball valve, sadly, the fibre washer on the pipe-joint to the new ball valve just disintegrated and so It was after 5 by then and I had to do a dash to Screwfix to get a pack of them.
Finally got it all leak-free and shutting off properly at 6:45 PM.
I will doubtless be up there over Easter fitting overflow pipework. 😊
You poor sod!
Glad you got it fixed in the end. Well most of it.
 
You kept pay slips from 1981 🤣🤣
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LOL!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
You must have had fun finding that pic.
But yes and one of the problems dated back to 1984 so I wasn't wrong to have kept them. They were never going to tell me what the problem was so I was just going to have to find it.
But I'm gonna rock the boat real hard, the objective being to try and ensure that it doesn't happen to other peeps.
It began to feel as if I was a subpostmaster in the recent scandal, all my fault and no one telling me nuthin.:(
 
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