Season's greetings

[Penners]

Have a great Christmas, everyone. Enjoy your presents, your turkey, your mulled wine...

...then on Boxing Day, get back to work! There's concrete to be dug up, gypsum plaster to be hacked off, doors to be hung.

Talking of hanging, anyone know a uPVC window installer?

 

[Nemesis]

Try Yellow Pages, and I'll supply the sash cord.

I've just been along to the village shop. I can now count on one hand the houses en route which remain with their sashes. The uPVC replacements range from the downright horrible to the unfortunate - those which pretend to be sashes with stick-on horns.

What particularly strikes is the uniformly flat glass, which looks so lifeless.

 

[Lime]

Have a good Christmas.

As for the uPVC window installer I prefer to be in at the "drawing" stage then you get the salesman/woman as well.

 

[Lime]

What particularly strikes is the uniformly flat glass, which looks so lifeless.

That is what I notice about the windows themselves, they are so flat.
No character about them at all unless you are a keen fan of lego.

 

[Penners]

What particularly strikes is the uniformly flat glass, which looks so lifeless.

I'm often puzzled by the very distorted reflections that one gets from the DG sealed units in so many modern windows. It's not the charming ripples of cylinder or crown glass - just a strange randomly "bent" look.

 

[middi]

Happy Christmas to all.



( exept all the vandals that have removed their period chimneys )

 

[Gervase]

Ah, it must be Christmas - the service of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's on the radio, a glass of sloe gin at hand...
...and the mixer rumbling away and the laser level set up to get the dots nicely plumb and square ready for screeding the kitchen walls (the oven having been moved pro tem into the pantry). A good job Im doing the cooking; lesser wives would have lynched me for doing this on Christmas Eve, I fear.

Not too much gin before ruling those screeds, too...hic!

 

[Penners]

the service of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's on the radio

Actually, you should be watching the TV version a bit later on. You might see Mrs P in the congregation. We have a friend who teaches at Kings School, who invited her along.

Mrs P said it's an absolutely wonderful experience, except that you're not allowed to creep out to the loo, no matter how many retakes the TV luvvies decide to do!

 

[skier-hughes]

Merry Xmas everyone.

What is Mrs P wearing?

Graham

 

[Nemesis]

In times of yore (and longer skirts and lack of all enveloping underwear...) ladies used to take small chamber pots into church to use if there was a particularly long sermon... similar to those used on coach journeys.

 

[Penners]

Merry Xmas everyone.

What is Mrs P wearing?

Graham

Red. You can't miss her. :wink:

 

[Mark]

Bah Humbug!


Gervase,
From the pic I take it there was a full recovery from the Chocolate poisoning?

Merry Christmas All. Not that I think many visitors to this forum need much encouragement with the Merry bit.
:roll:

 

[Gervase]

Completely recovered and back to being a fully paid-up pain in the posterior. But you wouldn't want a Jack Russell for any other reason, I suppose. Little bugger's already got his eyes on tomorrow's bird... :roll:

 

[Tom]

Have a great Christmas, everyone. Enjoy your presents, your turkey, your mulled wine...

...then on Boxing Day, get back to work! There's concrete to be dug up, gypsum plaster to be hacked off, doors to be hung.

Talking of hanging, anyone know a uPVC window installer?

We've got a 3 ton digger on hire over Christmas and New Year (great rates cos no one else wanted it ) and will be digging up all the gross concrete from around our house. Since we took the inside down to the original level it's now 2 feet below the outside!! Not for long though!!

Happy digging, hacking, sawing, plastering, bricking, pointing, painting etc peeps!! Just don't drink too much before you all start

Jaqy

 

[biffvernon]

Happy Christmas.

 

[Penners]

Chocolate poisoning

What a ludicrous concept. Don't be ridiculous.

 

[Gervase]

Ridiculous for the female of the species homo sapiens, true. But for dogs, chocolate is very much a bad thing. Most dogs instinctively love the stuff, but it can be lethal to them - there's an alkaloid in it called theobromine that dogs can't metabolise.
Our Jack Russell spent a day on a drip at the vet's after scoffing a home-made chocolate and collapsing.
Bloody expensive mishap!

 

[Penners]

for dogs, chocolate is very much a bad thing

Yes, I remember reading that years ago.

If our terrier scoffed my chocolate, she would also be in mortal danger - if not from the theobromine, then from the toe of my boot.

 

[Jocelyn]

Penners,

Yes we did watch Carols from Kings with some neighbours whose nephews were in the choir, (blonde chorister with the blue eyes who sang some of the solos). I thought I did catch a glimpse of someone in the congregation who looked familiar...

 

[Penners]

blonde chorister with the blue eyes who sang some of the solos

I noticed that lad particularly - he sang with such enthusiasm and gusto. Really entered into the spirit of the thing.