marjon · Oct 25, 2024

Stanleysteamer said:
Re LPAs, I just had a look into it. with W who thought that a spouse automatically got it.
Hmm! Not so. Up till now we had only discussed it more along the lines of "Who do we trust to do this" than the nuts and bolts.
So this is speeding up our thinking about it.
Also discovered that we might have been able to do something about the neglect and financial misdoings of W's brother with regards to his mother, when she was alive.
Sadly tis too late now.
Stuff no one tells you until it's too late....

Yes it’s a bit eye opening when you look isn’t it.
We spent over £5k last year on wills, LPAs and getting property registered correctly. That was just for the UK.

J

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

derwendolly said:
Thanks for that. Much appreciated.

My pleasure!

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

Wimblowdriver said:
A practical lesson, bog roll method. For one spiral pitch ----

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Very good!
Gold star!

and I am pleased to see that this time the puppy didn't chew up your homework!!

(Believe it or not I once had to return a kid's homework that one of our puppies had chewed up! The look on his face! fortunately it only got a corner of it!)

But there is NOTHING like a Visual Aid!!!

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

kevstar said:
The one ive heard was somit to do the marines ?? Cant remember now id need to think about it or you can tell us.

There is the saying " Tell that to the marines." Meaning they might believe it but no one else will. The Marines for some reason were thought to be either thicker or more gullible than the normal matelot.

Why do we say Tell it to the marines?

Tell it to the marines: The source of this phrase and how to use it.

www.bookbrowse.com

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

brianp38dse said:
I often get is that all have you remembered the parts when i give the price and get told i am cheap probably why i dont run round in a new motor and have fancy hols abroad.
but i am happy in myself and enjoy what i do.

I am very grateful for your honest answer.
Since I posted the first price another bloke has come back to me quoting £85 plus VAT which seems a lot more reasonable, so he will get the business.
In the interim there has been a woman on our local Nextdoor bemoaning the fact that her water and sewage bills have trebled recently. she phoned her water provider and got told it is most likely a leak, so lots of peeps piled in telling her how to check and about whether she would have to pay for the leak if it is between the meter and her house, etc etc.
Long story short as she didn't seem to be able to find a leak in her house, and she thus assumed it was in the pipe from the meter, I did tell her to have a good look in her loos, to see if one was overflowing.
By then she had called out a plumber and he found the leak.
Well, the over flow, into a loo.
3 months of it.

Cheaper than digging up her drive though!

I'm glad you are happy in what you do. I wouldn't do your job for all the tea in China but I am so glad that there are peeps like you who do!
Mind people used to say the same about my job!
and you may not drive around in a new car or hol all fancy abroad, but you have your lovely Cortina Mk 1 to play with!

kevstar · Oct 25, 2024

Stanleysteamer said:
There is the saying " Tell that to the marines." Meaning they might believe it but no one else will. The Marines for some reason were thought to be either thicker or more gullible than the normal matelot.

Why do we say Tell it to the marines?

Tell it to the marines: The source of this phrase and how to use it.

www.bookbrowse.com

Yer but they're called matealots cause they mate a lot with each other at sea, where did the word seaman come from.

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

marjon said:
Yes it’s a bit eye opening when you look isn’t it.
We spent over £5k last year on wills, LPAs and getting property registered correctly. That was just for the UK.

J

With W's serious op coming up it has crystallised our minds.
We are fed up of having to pay about £500 every time we change our wills and we haven't even started on the LPAs. And obvs we have the French place to think about. The last person we talked to about it at a solicitors told us stuff that we frankly thought she had got wrong, she was very adamant but she wasn't even a proper solicitor, some para-legal or whatever they are called. Still stiffed us for the same sort of money mind.
Tis a veritable minefield.

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

kevstar said:
Yer but they're called matealots cause they mate a lot with each other at sea, where did the word seaman come from.

You'll get into trouble you will.

Did you know that in Frogland it is considered good luck to touch a navy sailor's pompom?
I am not telling you where they wear it!

But of course "matelot" is frog for sailor

.

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

kevstar said:
Oh aye we get it now, I hope you washed your hands

He didn't need to destroy the roll, he could have just traced it out on the Izal!!

The History of Izal – Joan Jones – 7th March 2016 - S10 Probus Stumperlowe

In the overall story of the vast Newton Chambers empire, to mention only the firm’s Izal products would just be scratching the surface – which the company’s toilet paper did, literally. But to get to the bottom of local historian Joan Jones’s fascinating presentation about the history of the...

s10probus.co.uk

kevstar · Oct 25, 2024

Stanleysteamer said:
You'll get into trouble you will.
Did you know that in Frogland it is considered good luck to touch a navy sailor's pompom?
I am not telling you where they wear it!

But of course "matelot" is frog for sailor.

Sailors have pompoms well I dont believe it.

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

kevstar said:
Sailors have pompoms well I dont believe it.

You must have seen them. right in the middle of the top of their flat hats.
Some say they are on there to help it hurt less when they bang their heads on beams or the ceilings in low roofed decks.
Red for an AB, blue and white for orficers apparently, I wouldn't know. I've only ever seen the red ones.
Brit sailors must have tougher pates!!!

kevstar · Oct 25, 2024

Stanleysteamer said:
He didn't need to destroy the roll, he could have just traced it out on the Izal!!

The History of Izal – Joan Jones – 7th March 2016 - S10 Probus Stumperlowe

In the overall story of the vast Newton Chambers empire, to mention only the firm’s Izal products would just be scratching the surface – which the company’s toilet paper did, literally. But to get to the bottom of local historian Joan Jones’s fascinating presentation about the history of the...

s10probus.co.uk

We have Arnold Schwarzenegger bog roll at the yard tis as tough as %^$£ & takes no £$%^^ youd be better using a crip packet
it would be less slidey, just as well ive got short arms or id wipe it up my back.

Stanleysteamer · Oct 25, 2024

kevstar said:
We have Arnold Schwarzenegger bog roll at the yard tis as tough as %^$£ & takes no £$%^^ youd be better using a crip packet
it would be less slidey, just as well ive got short arms or id wipe it up my back.

Short arms eh?
No wonder you are as tight as a crabs BTM!
You keep your money low in your pockets as it is!!!

Hippo · Oct 26, 2024

Stone56 said:
Got the whole box set dvds and the Chistmas specials

Me anorl

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Hippo · Oct 26, 2024

Me argos delivery is coming between 10am and 12. Eye selected all day assit were cheaper knowing we'd be in.

Hippo · Oct 26, 2024

Eye hassa parcel being delivered to wuk. Was expecting it monday. Eye is currently watching parcel force. They is finking about trying to deliver today. Eye would hafter go un sit by the gate un wait ferrit. Would rather that than it going back ferra redelivery.

Hippo · Oct 26, 2024

Stanleysteamer said:
...I could go on about how I explained why a hot wire makes it more difficult to pass current, by using the parallel of a kid trying to run down a corridor with lots of kids milling about in it, which they got straightaway as our place was overcrowded.
...

Go on then. Surely a hot wire would have less resistance.

DanClarke · Oct 26, 2024

Morning All.

Nothing of note to report.

Have a super Saturday.

landowner · Oct 26, 2024

Mornin
Sunny and clear skies
Charity doo with the old truck today
Have a good weekend
Stay happy all

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