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[marthe]

http://hungrynative.com/?p=713 here you are, ams...and other pork lovers! I'll go for the pickles and chutney too.

[Serial_Apologist]

Steady marthe, there's a small gaggle of folk on here (me, salymap, Caliban et al) who are very keen on the pork products and I just adore pork pies. Heaven on a plate with a few pickles and a decent dollop of chutney

Sure they're pork, ams?

I'm sat here in the fffffreezing cold - something happened inside my boiler when time came for it two switch back on at 5.30 this evening that sounded like the entire internal mechanism collapsing. Luckily that gave me just half an hour to ring the boiler care company - phew - and they're coming anytime after 8 am, so I'd better be getting to bed. Thank heavens the tank has an immersion heater, and I never got rid of my parents' old two-bar fire!

Looks likely to stay on the cold side until around March 5th...

[Nick Armstrong]

http://hungrynative.com/?p=713 here you are, ams...and other pork lovers! I'll go for the pickles and chutney too.

Gimme gimme gimme!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm sat here in the fffffreezing cold - something happened inside my boiler when time came for it two switch back on at 5.30 this evening that sounded like the entire internal mechanism collapsing. Luckily that gave me just half an hour to ring the boiler care company - phew - and they're coming anytime after 8 am, so I'd better be getting to bed. Thank heavens the tank has an immersion heater, and I never got rid of my parents' old two-bar fire!

Looks likely to stay on the cold side until around March 5th...

B*gger!!!

[salymap]

Goodluck S-A. You seem to be going through a bad patch, what with the computer, etc. I sympathise, nothing but expensive problems here ATM.

Flanders& Swann should have written a song about how workmen mend one thing and cause another problem. Oh they did- the wonderful 'The Gasman Cometh'.

Still very cold, well it's still only February

[BBMmk2]

Hope everything gets fixed as planned SA! What bad luck!!

[amateur51]

http://hungrynative.com/?p=713 here you are, ams...and other pork lovers! I'll go for the pickles and chutney too.

Wow marthe, many thanks - variations on a porky theme, yes please

[amateur51]

Oh dear, S_A that sounds truly miserable

I hope it all gets fixed pronto - for warmth you understand

[Serial_Apologist]

Hope everything gets fixed as planned SA! What bad luck!!

I seem to have been having a run of it lately, BBM! First the computer - which went wrong when the wireless connector packed up - and when the new provider spotted the borrowed connector I was switched off again! - hence my last few days' absence! Then my tumble dryer came to the end of its long life. Then yesterday the pick up on my record player wouldn't "pick up" - fortunately I've managed to repair that myself. And then, last night, the central heating!

I'm left wondering what else can go wrong

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh dear, S_A that sounds truly miserable

I hope it all gets fixed pronto - for warmth you understand

Luckly the repair man came at 8 this morning, and has only just departed. He was complaining about the work schedule they're expected to adhere to - nine jobs a day, i.e. half an hour per job. Apparently it is reported when they exceed this alloted time - but on the other hand it is reported if an unsuccessful repair results in a return visit. Talk about having to operate between the devil and the deep blue sea - I wouldn't want such a job!

[amateur51]

Luckly the repair man came at 8 this morning, and has only just departed. He was complaining about the work schedule they're expected to adhere to - nine jobs a day, i.e. half an hour per job. Apparently it is reported when they exceed this alloted time - but on the other hand it is reported if an unsuccessful repair results in a return visit. Talk about having to operate between the devil and the deep blue sea - I wouldn't want such a job!

Glad to hear that you've had a result, S_A

I recall offering a boiler inspection man a mug of tea on one visit and he said that he hadn't got time because he was being monitored at HQ - some device in his van - so no slackening of pace went unnoticed

And a check-out person in my local Sainsbury's told me, when I remarked on her swift through-put of my shopping items, that management expected them to meet a target of seventeen items swiped/minute. Anything less was deemed unacceptable

All this doubtless is being done in my name (and your name) as part of 'customer service'

Agreed S_A, not a job I would want.

[salymap]

Wow marthe, many thanks - variations on a porky theme, yes please

I had some very nice pork and apple bangers that local coz fetched in from S'sbury's. Just a slight taste of apple but good for a Winter breakfast. We shouldbeon the 'Food' thread but who cares?

[Anna]

I'm left wondering what else can go wrong

Misfortunes come in threes, you have had computer, tumble drier and boiler. Sorry, that's your lot for the time being. I will personally underwrite and guarantee no further disasters are about to befall you

Speaking to my sister in County Durham just now, she has snow and as we talked further big flakes were falling. She was in Edinburgh on Thursday and the highlight of her visit was the purchase of six dried limes from a Middle Eastern shop for 65p. Each to their own I guess but she's excited about that and the possibilities it opens up. <rolls eyes emoticon> She also thought a visit to The Castle was vastly overpriced, which, compared to dried limes, it would be.

Evidently 2.7° here, feels like about 3 degrees below that

[marthe]

Truly miserable day here. We are thick in the midst of that promised "wintery mix" with temps just above freezing. Yes, pork pies should have gone on the "Food" thread but but I didn't think of that until after the fact. Comfort food will be keeping body and soul together today. Cottage Pie is on the menu. Any forthcoming discussion of CP is to be diverted to the Food thread! S_A, I'm sorry to hear about all your misfortunes: dryer,computer, and boiler. I'm not sure which is the worst, but today I would not want to be without the boiler...or the computer. saly, those apple and pork bangers sound delicious! Good thing it's almost time for lunch.

[BBMmk2]

Hope your day works out today!

Rather cold here today!!