LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2019

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  1. shiney

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    I forgot to mention that the weekly roving green dustcart is on Sundays so that people that work can also get to use it - apart from the village vicar who always seems to be busy on a Sunday :scratch: :heehee:
     
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      In Devon apparently, you have to be able to prove residency to pay for stuff you want to dispose of at the local tips.

      Here in Trafford, there's no charge at the tip. On my way back from golf yesterday afternoon, I passed the tip which is on the main road into Manchester, the A56. Given the number of cars I noticed queuing which were backed up onto this busy main road, the tip was the most popular holiday destination.
       
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        Continuing from my moan about supermarket trolleys... Mums who think that just because they have car seats they can still park in the parent and toddler parking even when their kids aren't in the car!!
         
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          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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          Anyone know where I can but a cheap second hand kids seat for my car?:)
           
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            It's your lucky day! :thumbsup:

            I have exactly what you want - only £5 but with our extra special deal of buy a second one and you only need pay £10.

            No need to pay postage. Just send a banker's draft. :)
             
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              And the same goes for those people that display a badge for a disabled passenger but take advantage of it when they're alone. :mad:
               
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                Can I add to this supermarket grumble, with those who will push the trolleys through parked cars to their own vehicle rather than going around the row.
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                  WHY OH WHY does it take people so long to cut their lawns..you'd think they had naffing acres to do..really gets on my ning nangs..Grrrrrr...annnnd breathe..:phew:
                   
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                    I totally agree that the illegal misuse of these privileges is dirty and uncouth. Years ago my DIL had special parking permission because my granddaughter was a tiny baby and trying to carry her and maneuver my toddler grandson through a large parking lot was difficult because he is autistic (non verbal). She was granted the use of disabled parking so she didn't have to struggle through those distances. Some people would approach her and give her heck because the disability was not "visible".
                    Be careful with your judgement :noidea: even breathing issues will put someone in that unenviable category.
                    Me, I don't worry about parking close to the shops because I have my good health but then why does the worst junker then park next to me out there!?!
                     
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                        They've probably left it to grow too long Loli and their lawnmowers can't cope with it. :doh:Having said that I was strimming and mowing for four hours yesterday. With recent frosts and then rain for over a week the grass had galloped.
                         
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                          It takes a neighbour all day to cut they're lawns ( but he does have to get out of the house ;);)) same size-ish as our lawns and i take one hour with push me mower and 15 minutes with ride on
                           
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                            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                            As a few might know I recently had my back op, now the NHS is pretty good in somethings but bloody abysmal in the way it is run.
                            Long story cut short, but I left hospital with a dressing on my back totally black with blood, it was too long and covered the base of my back, when I got home sitting made the bottom half of it roll up, leaving me with this big mound right on the wound.

                            It was the last bank holiday weekend and on the saturday I rang 111 to see if I could get something done, bear in mind I couldn't actually see the thing it was all done by feel.
                            They said they would call back, next day I got a call telling me to go 4.5 miles to a clinic, bearing in mind they told me not to drive.
                            First she said you will have to get a taxi, at which point I said, dont bother I'll cut it off myself.
                            She then said hang on I'll get a nurse to call in, have you got any replacement dressings?
                            I said yes, two, both were the size of postage stamps.:biggrin: given to me by the hospital.

                            The nurse arrived, took one look at the dressings and said they are not any use, and took the old one off and reluctantly used one she had with her.

                            I then booked myself into my local docs for a dressing change a week later, have you got any dressings? they asked.
                            Oh yes I've got two:lunapic 130165696578242 5:

                            Anyway she said no need to come back, by this time I was feeling I was costing everyone too much money.

                            Then today I needed a follow on sick note for work, my doc rang me, why did they only give you one for two weeks? he asked, I dunno:scratch: they said they could only 2 weeks max.

                            The docs actual words were, "that's a load of bo***cks", and he reluctantly gave me one for two more weeks.:frown:

                            What is it with this lot, why dont they work together.
                             
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                              I was ready for a battle with Kitchenaid when I came home from golf this afternoon.
                              We bought a four slot toaster in 2014.

                              One of these.
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                              It went "bang" in late 2017 and they replaced it under the 5 year guarantee. That one went "bang!" on Saturday. When I checked we're three months over the guarantee period. I phoned them up, (free-phone) to Belgium. The call centre operator took the details and found it on the system.

                              "Ah I see you've already had a replacement, because of that you get an extra month's guarantee for ever year you've had it. So it's still under guarantee, so I'll send you a returns label."

                              So I didn't have to have a battle with them. Shame! I was ready for it.

                              I've never heard of that arrangement before. Says a lot about their opinion of the reliability of what they sell.

                              Mind you, we've not had a lot of luck with Kitchenaid. Ten years ago we bought a coffee machine. This one.

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                              That was OK for about five years, but then it started to leak. That was replaced as it had a design fault. But that one went wrong a couple of times later and cost about sixty pounds to repair each time. Then it went wrong two months after the last time last year. When I complained, they'd changed service agents and they were now being repaired by Whirlpool and they didn't want to know. It would have cost £90 to have it repaired, so I did the sensible thing, I binned it and bought one of these.






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                              It actually makes a better cup of coffee.

                              The quality of domestic appliances these days is very poor, both our "all singin' and dancin'" Bosch washing machine and dishwasher had to be replaced under guarantee, as did our Miele fridge/freezer. We had to buy the Meile because the Bosch we had before packed up within about six years of purchase. But I can remember we had a Hotpoint Ice Diamond fridge/freezer for nearly twenty years which was no trouble.




                              I've sold my last two items from my koi pool filtration system on eBay today, so that's another situation out of the way.
                               
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                                Which reminds me, my kitchenaid mixer is knackered too. Where do you send these things?!
                                 
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