philw696
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Do you have more of an understanding of 240 volts than 12 asking for a friend ?
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zagatoes30
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Ours are up have been for a week of so
CatmanV2
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Do you have more of an understanding of 240 volts than 12 asking for a friend ?
You can tell your 'friend' that I have a perfectly good understanding of any type of voltage! However, since the bloody things started going on and off at random I decided that
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I'm up for that, when is it?
Vampyrebat
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I love old properties and yours certainly doesn't fail to tick the boxes Sc!! Beautiful cottage in a beautiful part of the world. We have an old 18th century farmer's work hand cottage in a village in Chester....... They're hard work but work it!!
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I agree...just full of history. When we had the old windows overhauled and refurbished, on the edge of one of the sashes was the name, date and signature of the carpenter who made and fitted the original windows (18th May 1876). Found a similar signature on one of the floor beams when putting the central heating system in. We have a retired history teacher in the Village (98 years old now) and recalls having piano lessons in our old Vicarage back in early 1930's. Nuts...
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That's brilliant!! We had the same thing. A really old map shows our cottage next to a huge barn type structure that isn't here anymore. When my neighbour and I were digging out the foundations for our new extension we came across a massive 'stepped' brick foundation (about 1200mm deep) and also a large sandstone transom or mullion with the stone Mason's signature design carved in it. It is now the step up to the Arbour in the garden!!.......Just love history!
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I had a house in Scotland that was dead old, Grade B listed I think. Anyway we couldn't change the windows that wet not in best of condition, draughty, freeze in winter on the inside. Found a couple of old pic featuring my old Alfa 164 3 ltr. Lusso. These pics about 2003, car let me down on A75, then I've no memory, must have given it away. No tax since Dec. 2004. No idea who's the red hatch was.
The older part of the house (1837) was to the right extended with the black and white bit and then later with the far left gable. Kids wouldn't sleep down there and there was an eeriness to it looking down the corridor. Despite it's apparent huge size was only four bedrooms.
In the Scots nation al records I once found some pics of the inside (it was previous a sort of famous Victorian artists house) of Victorian kids sat on the window seat in what became my son's bedroom - hard to think those kids be dead now.
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This point of my life marks my spiral into despair as I got divorced, Dad died, got clinically depressed, gave up work cos I just didn't care, sold the house, lost half to ex., became a nomad, got custody of kids, five off, offered a shiithole council house in Lochside, Dumfries, ie Drugtown, Scotland got my ***** together and started the long climb back up the ladder I'd just fallen off.
Probs why I cant remember what happened to the Alfa, eventually got a Toyota Previa (A13 KEB) to ferry the kids about, WFH with Sun Microsystems, moved back to Bolton (mistake), got youngest into school and starting work again proper; moved to Leeds, (not a mistake), found a new squeeze, but I'll be working till I drop! Still, I'm alive and not suffering/starving/persecuted so you have to be positive.
Reminded of the line by John Mills in 'The Family Way' at the end to his son asking what's wrong upset at his dad crying; 'Life, Lad. Might make you laugh at your age but one day it'll make you bloody-well cry...'
Great line that.
Probs why I cant remember what happened to the Alfa, eventually got a Toyota Previa (A13 KEB) to ferry the kids about, WFH with Sun Microsystems, moved back to Bolton (mistake), got youngest into school and starting work again proper; moved to Leeds, (not a mistake), found a new squeeze, but I'll be working till I drop! Still, I'm alive and not suffering/starving/persecuted so you have to be positive.
Reminded of the line by John Mills in 'The Family Way' at the end to his son asking what's wrong upset at his dad crying; 'Life, Lad. Might make you laugh at your age but one day it'll make you bloody-well cry...'
Great line that.
Been there Wanderer, it’s hard and you look back and say how the f@@k did I manage that, but it’s great when your back on top.
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Yeah while part of me wishes I'd had a easy, privileged life I'm kind of proud (not quite the right word) as I've have had to struggle and battle I'm sure it does build you up and makes you fear possible future woes less.
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Trouble is turned me into a right tight-@rse, we have a place in UK Wakefield (I'm never there - in Europe mostly), new build, still no tiled bathroom floors after 4 years, only just sorted the garden, every room need decorating really, but I won't do it until I have a massive buffer of cash so it feels like it's buttons to sort.
Shiiit, I've become a Scots-Yorkshireman, the tightest of all tight-@rses.
I know what you mean. I’m a Yorkshireman so always happy if I’ve got a buffer of cash.
I think proud is the right word. Lesser people would of accepted as it is and gone on the dole and told a lifetime of woes. I’m married again now house paid for kids educated and in work with their own houses and retired at 55. Was it a struggle? Yes it was but all worth it. As a side note I spent a couple of years single in my 40’s and the amount of bored house wives wanting some attention was a welcome bonus