Period time changes... and reminders

[LadyArowana]

Suddenly it was an hour later, and I have been corrupted by the nanny state into posting a reminder for people to check the batteries in their smoke alarms if they are using non mains ones.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Hurrah hurrah summertime! And I'll speak to the boss about the smoke alarm batteries. Though, if the one in the kitchen runs flat I'll be delighted as it goes off at the least crisping of a rasher.

 

[Feltwell]

My intolerant grumpy neighbour, who likes to complain when they ring the church bell on a Sunday morning, will no doubt be whipped up into a frenzy of indignation already this morning by the fact that they've not rung the bell in a few weeks but have now chosen to do so this morning, when he has an hour less sleep :lol:

What an idiot - he didn't think there would be a bell rung at 9am on a Sunday when he bought a house in New Church Road. Perhaps he thought he was safe as he couldn't find the new church, only an old one 8)


And funnily enough, yesterday I ordered some 10 year life smoke alarm batteries as the one outside our bedroom started chirruping for a low battery at 3am, waking us up :evil:
Joce - generally they recommend not having a smoke alarm in the kitchen, for exactly the reason you say. We've got radio-linked alarms throughout the place, so if one goes off they all go off, but the kitchen one only is a heat alarm rather than a smoke alarm. It's never gone off, even if it's me doing the cooking

 

[Flyfisher]

Ah yes, the bi-annual tradition of moaning about the clocks changing. It's now such a staple of modern British life that there would be a similar amount of moaning even if they decided to abolish it.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Though, if the one in the kitchen runs flat I'll be delighted as it goes off at the least crisping of a rasher.

Good god woman - you don't crisp bacon; we're not American or French, you know.

You show it gently to a lukewarm pan and lightly heat each side. The you dip it in a lightly fried egg yolk and eat immediately. Mmm mmmmm!

 

[Flyfisher]

Good god woman - you don't crisp bacon; we're not American or French, you know.

The smoke alarm is clearly a British made one then. :lol:

 

[tobydog]

We are firmly members of the crispy bacon brigade which unfortunately doesn't sit well with a mains fed smoke detector 15ft up in our kitchens vaulted ceiling. Normally frantic flapping with a tea towel just above your head works well elsewhere but nothing gets to our new one. To make matters worse it's right above the oven and linked with the new hallway. The one in the hallway is only two feet above ours heads but it's no good flapping at it because the kitchen one just gets it going again :roll: Progress!!

 

[Penners]

Suddenly it was an hour later, and I have been corrupted by the nanny state into posting a reminder for people to check the batteries in their smoke alarms if they are using non mains ones.

I just can't get the phrase non-sequitur out of my head. :?

But as the thread goes on to metamorphose into a bacon recipe book, I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised.

 

[LadyArowana]

I just can't get the phrase non-sequitur out of my head. :?

But as the thread goes on to metamorphose into a bacon recipe book, I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised.

There was a public service type advert running on the radio in London reminding people to do the check when they changed the clocks, and explaining how many people wouldn't need to because they died in house fires over the past year. Not cheery, but I suppose it made the point.

 

[AMc]

As mentioned by Feltwell - you need heat alarms in the kitchen, same can be true for rooms with fires and woodburners (doh!) though I've never triggered the smoke alarm with the wood burner in the front room.
e.g. http://www.screwfix.com/p/securefast-ge-fire-alarm-heat-detector-high-temp-fix/70241

I have a little sympathy with the church bell annoyance. Our vicar does his Sunday service on a rolling schedule between his 3 churches and starts at a very civilised 11am when even lazy bones like me are up. We checked this out before buying the house
BUT our local bell ringers practice on a Tuesday night (a fact only advertised by the bells). They go from 7-9pm, when our kid was moved into the front bedroom during the building work it meant she couldn't sleep until after 9pm. It's not helped by the bell ringers then decamping to the pub over the road for a couple and returning noisily to their cars an hour or so later complete with shouted goodbyes.

The Sunday bell ring is traditional and even if it were 7am I'd be foolish to moan but the evening practice seems...less so.
I'm also puzzled that they practice every week at our church but only ring the bells there every 3rd week and once in a blue moon when we have a wedding. Surely they need to practice on all the churches or is it just that our church is opposite a pub ?
Finally - if you practice, aren't you supposed to get better...eventually?

FWIW this is the first and only time I've ever moaned about them to anyone and in the scheme of things I'd prefer the annoyance to not having bell ringers at the church at all

 

[Feltwell]

That's fair enough AMc.

I love the sound of church bells, even though in our case it's a church bell - pesky Victorians got a bit strapped for cash and only put 1 bell in. It's got a very sombre tone - it was known locally as the "gruel bell" as a result - but at least it's more difficult to ring badly than a multiple bell peal! I struggle to have any sympathy for this neighbour as

a) he's a miserable sod anyway
b) what kind of person buys a house in New Church Road, can see the church tower from their front window, and then expresses surprise when a bell rings for 10-15 minutes once a week on a Sunday morning.

I'd love to sleep in until 9am on a Sunday, but that's the blessing of children! We managed 7:30 last Sunday, with assistance from the clocks going forward :wink:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

The most hilarious bellringers I have come across "practice" in Vicky Whitworth's village. My parents live there, and every time I visit I am struck by how awful they are...

I love the sound of the bells and don't understand how anyone can move into a village unknowing and then complain. However, these particular bells are not rung at all well and it must be tiresome each week!

EDIT: I do hope Vicky is not a bellringer!

 

[Penners]

Mrs P used to be a bellringer in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. The bellringers' "practice night" seemed to consist of a spare hour on the bells, then the rest of the evening in the pub (something to do with the the charms of Old Hooky ale, I suspect).

 

[LadyArowana]

Mrs P used to be a bellringer in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. The bellringers' "practice night" seemed to consist of a spare hour on the bells, then the rest of the evening in the pub (something to do with the the charms of Old Hooky ale, I suspect).

There is not need to bother with pesky practice any more, just get the App and go straight to the pub.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11579254

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Mrs P used to be a bellringer in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. The bellringers' "practice night" seemed to consist of a spare hour on the bells, then the rest of the evening in the pub (something to do with the the charms of Old Hooky ale, I suspect).

Perhaps they had the evening in the wrong order? 8)

 

[Penners]

Given the way that the bellringing often sounded, you might think so!

 

[Flyfisher]

I couldn't resist resurrecting this topic with this astonishing insight from America about the environmental harm of messing with the clocks.

It's a joke letter isn't it? Please tell me it's a joke. :shock:

 

[MdB]

http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/daylight.asp

 

[Flyfisher]

Phew. :lol:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I was wondering if by increasing the usable daylight hours, whether there might be an effect on human activity and energy use, and thus potentially there might be an effect.

Then I decided to get a life and stop avoiding finishing the skirting board. :roll: