PhilJ W

That happened to my clothes dryer. I'd bought it with me from my previous address but had to leave the two inch plastic socket it slotted into behind (cemented in). Not a problem I thought as I had some plastic drain pipe I could use to replace it. However the pipe I replaced it with was 50 mm, fractionally smaller but it still fitted in. The problem then arose of removing the dryer from the socket, it wouldn't budge, so it was left as it was. A few years ago I went to unfold it for use it fell over, it had rusted through where it went into the socket.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Overslept for about half an hour this morning but it still feels as if more eyelid inspection is needed. SEERS Zoom meeting tonight with a talk on Ipswich Transport which I'm quite looking forward to. The Ipswich Transport and model fair is something I've always looked forward too every June but of course last years was cancelled and there won't be one this year because with restrictions in place it won't be possible to organize it as at least four different groups/organisations are involved. Time to run a bath, be back later.

Goodnight all.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The new layout has been duly stored away, behind the door in the spare room (suitably protected by some bubble wrap. Only problem is the useful one day items rubbish displaced has to go somewhere. At the moment it is occupying some space in the brick shed preventing any progress there. I was told five or six years ago that I have cataracts but in those five years there has been no change, in fact I am still wearing the same distance glasses that I had four years ago. One thing the optician told me last time was cataracts can be caused by bright sunshine and recommended wearing sun glasses if the sun was bright.

Another incident when I worked for the council. A family lived on the third floor of a twenty story block of flats. They went away for a couple of weeks holiday. When they came back they found the flat two feet deep in sewerage. What had happened was that someone in a higher flat had flushed a baby's nappy down the loo. This had jammed just below the outlet to the family's flat. Everything flushed from the flats above had nowhere else to go other than through the toilet of the affected flat. The family were rehoused into a proper house and given all new furniture by social services. The flats, and several other similar blocks were afterwards fitted with masticators but they never found out where the nappy came from (though we all had our suspicions).

Bring your own broom.

About twenty years ago a waste destructor with a high chimney was proposed for Basildon. The chosen site was on the eastern edge of the district. There were dozens of protests about the emissions and a public meeting was called. Among those attending was our former MP who had decamped to a safe seat to the east when it became obvious that he would loose the seat. He was all for it and stood up and said so. There was also an expert on such things there to explain things. One chap stood up and asked the expert "Given the height of the chimney how far would gases travel under normal conditions?" The expert estimated 7 to 10 miles so the chap asking the question said "That means given the prevailing winds it would fall between L***h and W********e then." The expert agreed that would be the case. The two towns mentioned just happened to be at either end of the MP's new constituency, his face was a picture.

When I first started working for the council I was in the rents department. Most of the tenants evicted for rent arrears had dogs and quite a number allowed their dogs to do their business indoors. One was so bad that before the next tenant moved in not only did the floorboards have to be replaced the plaster had to be stripped from the walls and the walls replastered. I spent almost all of my working life in Dagenham Civic Centre. It backed on to a large municipal park, Central Park. The grass was usually cut using a tractor and gang mower. When it went over the part of the park most popular with dog walkers on a hot summers day it was advisable to close all of the windows.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Went to Tess Coes just before lunch and they had bread pudding on sale yet again. Thats three times in one week! Not that I'm complaining as its not as addictive as LDC, or is it? I have now acquired a model railway layout in exchange for a number of modelling tokens. Now I have to find somewhere to store it this evening as at present it is sitting on the bed. I have found a corner of the spare room where it can stand on end.

One in action. I have serious doubts though about having loose kids in an open car.

Most of them seem to come from 'A provider that doesn't give out numbers' or some such nonsense. My reaction would be to block the provider then there would be no more cold calls.

I live in the end house in my street. Between my house and the corner is some council owned shrubbery. A few years ago during a spell of hot weather the shrubbery stank of shog dit where people had thrown the plastic bags into the bushes. There used to be a bin opposite the shrubbery but someone complained and got it removed. It has since been reinstated, the person who complained has since moved away.

These look like fun, Ferves Ranger 4X4 made 1968-71 based on FIAT 500.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Not much sleep last night as Arthur Itis and Zecs Ma combined to keep me awake. Suitable treatments were swallowed and applied as and where necessary but did not kick in until a couple of hours before it was time to get up. I'm still getting the stiff joints of a morning that I've been getting since the jab. Little if any pain but it takes a good five minutes to straighten up. Thats it for now, be back later.

Goodnight all.

Hopefully I will have a layout by tomorrow. I'm planning a few alterations but that depends on when I see it in the flesh.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I have never been very good at languages but at one time I knew enough German to get by but now I've forgotten most of it. Locally there is a large number of people from the sub continent but most speak very good English as the majority are doctors and other medical staff from Basildon hospital.

Take the matter up with the Ombudsman, https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/making-complaint

Nearly forgot, my printer gets quite regular use and sometimes quite heavy use but despite that as I said I only had to top up one colour. The ink cartridges are huge, the largest one, the black is about the size of a couple of video tape cassettes, that was also replenished because it had been throwing ink everywhere, fortunately no damage done just the cleaning up inside the printer.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Started preparing the space for the layout but I keep finding stuff that I'd forgotten I had so its taken longer as I have to check them out. Also there's a lot more stuff to shift as its in front of the stuff where the layout is going to go.

I thought rocket launchers were illegal in private hands.

I was trying to carefully word it as I wrote on another forum on the same subject. "Its not the dogs but the owners." I would expect a similar response to that statement here.

This should interest Gwiwer. https://www.facebook.com/ourstorylines/videos/2454710371473683

My friends daughters boy friend has a chihuahua called rocky. He's a normal brown/tan colour and after a trip to the vets he's missing a couple of items.

Thats why my spam folder is full of e-mails promising easy money, thirty at the last count (but that includes young 'ladies' offering other services).