The Good News / Bad News Thread

[mcshroom]

Mine too. In fact having to get to work with a damaged ankle and car in the garage for two weeks is what convinced me I could cycle commute 6 years ago and got me back into cycling

[woollypigs]

Good news I got the bug Peli had. Bad news the items in my LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar I have no clue what it is meant to be.

[Mr Larrington]

Bad news the items in my LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar I have no clue what it is meant to be.

Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed?

[hellymedic]

I ordered a book and two maps for partner from Amazon.
GN: The book arrived the next day. (Amazon Logistics)
BN: The maps have not arrived a week after the book. (Royal Mail)
BN: Royal Mail don't track ordinary post.
GN: Amazon say they are going to send replacement maps by One Day Delivery.

[Canardly]

The maps will turn up eventually. Just seems to happen from time to time. Have to say RM seems pretty good these days overall.

[hellymedic]

In today's post were:
My fortnightly Graze box
A Christmas card for David
Orange cardboard for our New Year visit to David's Dad
Renewal notice from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

but no maps despatched 7 days ago.

Amazon's 'Customer satisfaction survey' has not arrived in my email inbox...

[L CC]

GN: After 17 months the Council Housing Association are fitting a shower in my bathroom.
BN: It's a piece of crap electric shower.

We're in a ground floor flat with a combi boiler. We have mains pressure hot water that you can cook lobsters in straight from the tap. Why the everlasting fuck don't they just fit a mixer shower? I like a shower so forceful it takes the top layer of skin off.

Don't tell Mr Smith, but he'll shortly be having a wee tap-exchanging plumbing job to undertake.

[Kim]

We're in a ground floor flat with a combi boiler. We have mains pressure hot water that you can cook lobsters in straight from the tap. Why the everlasting fuck don't they just fit a mixer shower? I like a shower so forceful it takes the top layer of skin off.

I feel your pain.

I worked around it with one of these and lashings and lashings of self-amalgamating tape.

[L CC]

I feel your pain.

I worked around it with one of these and lashings and lashings of self-amalgamating tape.

We've been using one of these for the last 18 months. Now that the whole room is being tiled, Mr Smith someone will be fitting this.
Bollocks to the luke warm drizzle.

[Kim]

I feel your pain.

I worked around it with one of these and lashings and lashings of self-amalgamating tape.

We've been using one of these for the last 18 months. Now that the whole room is being tiled, Mr Smith someone will be fitting this.

I tried one of those when the boiler was first replaced^[1].  It couldn't hack our awesome water pressure, and one of the tap condom thingies started to bulge like a defective sidewall that's about to ruin your day.  Gaffer tape constrained the expansion, but it just kept blowing off the tap instead.

I've been tempted to fit a proper mixer tap, but I'm put off by it being at the wrong end of the bath.

Bollocks to the luke warm drizzle.

Amen!


_{[1] Original boiler was a piece of 80s nostalgia and had a scaled up secondary heat exchanger that made it unsuitable for showers.  I persuaded a friendly CORGI inspector to condemn it.}

[hellymedic]

The maps will turn up eventually. Just seems to happen from time to time. Have to say RM seems pretty good these days overall.

GN:Looks like they're in today's post, but that is 10 days in the system.
BN: I offered said maps to sister-in-law, when she said original would turn up.
She also lives in NW London and has three teenage sons and an eight-year-old daughter. She didn't think they'd have a use for these maps.

I'll find a good home for these maps elsewhere...

[Torslanda]

Ironically I saw an advert for the post Office last night which claims you can post up to 23rd of December for Christmas.

Hmmm . . .

[Andrij]

Ironically I saw an advert for the post Office last night which claims you can post up to 23rd of December for Christmas.

Hmmm . . .

Even if it was for Christmas on the Julian Calendar (7^th January) I wouldn't believe them.

[Tim Hall]

Ironically I saw an advert for the post Office last night which claims you can post up to 23rd of December for Christmas.

Hmmm . . .

Even if it was for Christmas on the Julian Calendar (7^th January) I wouldn't believe them.

Not specifying which year the Christmas falls in could help here.

[Tim Hall]

GN: Went to the library to get a card, following 5 years non use and a change of address.

GN: The nice librarian told me my old lost one was still valid and she could transfer it my new address.
 
BN: The nice librarian told me I owed £5.35 dating back 5 years.

[Wowbagger]

Hurrah for Birmingham in the rear view mirror.

With apologies to those who still live there

But if he's driving a van he won't have one, will he?

It's some time since i looked at this thread.

[CAMRAMan]

BN: I am working until 6pm tomorrow
GN: The students, or most of them, will be gone
GN: It'll be dark, so I can try out my new B&M IQ Premium dynamo light. 80 lumens of shine in the right direction. I shall retain the Hope Vision 1 on the 'bars until I know it's all working as it should be.

Update: A partial success. All works as it should, but I need to adjust the beam. I think it'll be trial and error, only when I stop to adjust it the beam disappears! The running lights are useful though.

[Canardly]

GN Ordered Optical cable for the TV.
BN Just discovered TV has ARC.

[andrewc]

GN - Boss signed off my leave request for the Clapham hostel weekend and a week in Italy in February.

BN - I've no more leave left until March & may have to be in the flat to let some builder types in to look & something & possibly do some fixing..

[runsoncake]

GN - Partner had a cataract op. this morning and all went swimmingly 

BN - It had to be done privately because Hywell Dda Health Board waiting lists are ridiculous for a 20 min local anaesthtic procedure.

Hopefully she will now be able to get home from work without being clapped out from eyestrain, be able to drive in the dark & return to her normal working hrs.

[CAMRAMan]

GN: National Shite Day is the nation's favourite Half Man Half Biscuit song.
BN: That will mean nothing to 99.999% of the population.

...I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM

Overhead a rainbow appears


In black and white...

[Salvatore]

BN: The nephew who was a good source of free Wimbledon tickets (as mattc will testify) is leaving his job with the LTA
GN: Next month he starts his new job at the MCC 

[mattc]

BN: The nephew who was a good source of free Wimbledon tickets (as mattc will testify) is leaving his job with the LTA
GN: Next month he starts his new job at the MCC 

Dibs!!! Me Me Me please!

<leaps out of chair with hand headed for the ceiling>

[Mr Larrington]

Hurrah! Changed the oil in the deep fat fryer
Bah! Stabbed myself with a steely knife while doing it

[Canardly]

What does sharp knife have to do with oil change? (or should I not ask?)