Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 395548 times)

ElyDave · « **Reply #2350 on:** 24 October, 2017, 09:10:17 pm »

Quote from: gibbo on 10 October, 2017, 01:34:34 pm

BN - friend is ill enough to be put on the kidney transplant list
BN - said friend is also diabetic, has been from birth (I think)
GN - friend has had double transplant - kidney and pancreas
MGN - friend is no longer diabetic and came home from hospital yesterday

I hope said friend can remain non-diabetic, pancreas transplants are not always successful

andrewc · « **Reply #2351 on:** 08 November, 2017, 08:56:57 am »

Good news - my parcel is being delivered to my office today by TNT

Bad news - I wasn't expecting it until Thursday or Friday & was going to bring my folding trolley in, as it's 15Kg unpacked. Taxi home tonight then.

Ham · « **Reply #2352 on:** 08 November, 2017, 09:15:29 am »

The front brake on my new commuter has been fixed, yay! (it was a faulty caliper, who would have guessed? Me actually, but at least it is sorted. This involved transporting said bike to the LBS in my car, although I rode it back)

Now then, guess whose lights are still sitting in the boot of whose car?

Boo.

Oh well, I have an Evans voucher, I can use, just need to get the same lights and they will slip into the bracket. Yay!

Evans in The Cut are out of Cateye lights. Boo.

andrewc · « **Reply #2353 on:** 08 November, 2017, 06:35:39 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 08 November, 2017, 08:56:57 am

Good news - my parcel is being delivered to my office today by TNT

Bad news - I wasn't expecting it until Thursday or Friday & was going to bring my folding trolley in, as it's 15Kg unpacked. Taxi home tonight then.

Good news - the driver had been given my home address rather than my office address, but said he'd try & get it down there, otherwise they'd deliver it tomorrow.

Bad news - no further contact so I went home. When I checked their website it shows our doorman signed for it at 15:30.

PaulF · « **Reply #2354 on:** 10 November, 2017, 12:46:17 pm »

Bad News: We have no Nespresso capsules. I drank the last one 2 hours ago.

More Bad News: It was decaff

Good News: We have a package from Nespresso

Even More Bad News: It contains descaler

ElyDave · « **Reply #2355 on:** 10 November, 2017, 05:24:52 pm »

And I though I was cutting it fine, down to my last bag of beans before the market tomorrow

hellymedic · « **Reply #2356 on:** 10 November, 2017, 05:27:38 pm »

I thought there was a thread for First-World Problems...

madcow · « **Reply #2357 on:** 10 November, 2017, 05:44:43 pm »

Aren't Nespresso capsules officially the work of Stan , being non recyclable and all that?

ElyDave · « **Reply #2358 on:** 10 November, 2017, 06:22:32 pm »

Quote from: madcow on 10 November, 2017, 05:44:43 pm

Aren't Nespresso capsules officially the work of Stan , being non recyclable and all that?

Aluminium and all that - lost of work being done on recyclability at the moment, along with Costa et al cups

hellymedic · « **Reply #2359 on:** 10 November, 2017, 10:45:22 pm »

Quote from: madcow on 10 November, 2017, 05:44:43 pm

Aren't Nespresso capsules officially the work of Stan , being non recyclable and all that?

Indeed they are.
Being willing to imbibe almost anything labeled 'coffee', I never jumped onto that bandwagon.

Sainsbury's Gold Roast instant does for me.

I have eschewed Pringle cos packaging.

andrewc · « **Reply #2360 on:** 15 November, 2017, 07:02:09 pm »

My old bathroom mat is worn to rags, so I decided to pop into S&M to see if they had anything suitable.

GN: They still had one that matched the bright blue shade of the new towels I bought last year
BN: £19:95

GN: It went though the till at £1:86 , and the guy gave me a big wink & said I'd got the bargain of the day

(He reckoned they'd not changed the label properly after the last sale.)

mcshroom · « **Reply #2361 on:** 15 November, 2017, 08:24:00 pm »

BN - My dishwasher started leaking last week
BN - Replacing the rubber seals hasn't fixed it
GN - I've found the problem - it's the lower spray arm that's splitting.
GN - Duct tape has fixed it for now

Basil · « **Reply #2362 on:** 20 December, 2017, 04:06:15 pm »

BN: Mrs B is having an 'At Home' with her team this evening. She's been ~~prepping~~ unwrapping and laying out little tasty stuffs for an hour but I am not allowed to touch them.

MBN: I'm to be on my best behaviour and dressed suitably ("No. Not those trousers. Not that jumper either") for meeting and greeting.

GN: I must then bugger off to the pub and not come back before 8.

BN: With the dog.

VBN: Under no circumstances may I get even a little drunk.

matthew · « **Reply #2363 on:** 20 December, 2017, 04:53:40 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 20 December, 2017, 04:06:15 pm

BN: Mrs B is having an 'At Home' with her team this evening. She's been ~~prepping~~ unwrapping and laying out little tasty stuffs for an hour but I am not allowed to touch them.

MBN: I'm to be on my best behaviour and dressed suitably ("No. Not those trousers. Not that jumper either") for meeting and greeting.

GN: I must then bugger off to the pub and not come back before 8.

BN: With the dog.

VBN: Under no circumstances may I get even a little drunk.

Sounds like you will have to practice your darts then.

Basil · « **Reply #2364 on:** 20 December, 2017, 05:06:12 pm »

Quote from: matthew on 20 December, 2017, 04:53:40 pm

Quote from: Basil on 20 December, 2017, 04:06:15 pm
BN: Mrs B is having an 'At Home' with her team this evening. She's been ~~prepping~~ unwrapping and laying out little tasty stuffs for an hour but I am not allowed to touch them.

MBN: I'm to be on my best behaviour and dressed suitably ("No. Not those trousers. Not that jumper either") for meeting and greeting.

GN: I must then bugger off to the pub and not come back before 8.

BN: With the dog.

VBN: Under no circumstances may I get even a little drunk.

Sounds like you will have to practice your darts then.

Hurrumph. I've just seen the amount of prosecco she's laid in

(I'm still here on bottle opening duties and being genial duties)
As far as I am aware, only one of them is staying the night. This could be amusing.

ScumOfTheRoad · « **Reply #2365 on:** 20 December, 2017, 05:13:22 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 10 November, 2017, 10:45:22 pm

I have eschewed Pringle cos packaging.

Nooo... Pringles are worth laying the Earth to waste.
My only concern, should I have the last Pringle from the last tube, sitting on the bare earth of a sun blasted wasteland, is where the next tube may be found.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2366 on:** 29 December, 2017, 05:02:44 pm »

I phoned to arrange assistance for our forthcoming trip to Christchurch.

BN: Automated answering, Pressed 1
BN: Repeated muzak/automated announcement cycle
BN: Human answering phone did not have English as first language ad I had to give train departure details twice. Spoke from pre-written script so sounded like machine, with heavy foreign accent.
BN: He then transferred my call to South Western Railway. More waiting, more muzak
GN: Phone answered by efficient person to whom I didn't need to repeat myself.
MGN: Received confirmation email PDQ.

SoreTween · « **Reply #2367 on:** 02 January, 2018, 06:05:14 pm »

GN: At check in this morning my bike bag weighed in at 31.8Kg, the limit is 32. Pure blind luck.
MGN: Bike arrived in Italy on the same flight as me.
MMGN: Barely a scuff on the bag.
BN: Rear brake rotor bent. I'm going to say packing fail on my part, some squishing of the bag is inevitable. I thought a bent rotor was a possibility but I didn't see anything I could do about it bar remove them which I elected not to do.
GN: It appears no other damage.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #2368 on:** 06 January, 2018, 07:18:57 pm »

BN: I am too skint to afford a new sofa
BN: I have missed out on two really nice ones on Guntree
GN: My mate's wealthy brother is giving me two of his (very expensive) sofas that will be surplus to requirements in a few weeks.

gibbo · « **Reply #2369 on:** 08 January, 2018, 09:16:10 am »

Quote from: ElyDave on 24 October, 2017, 09:10:17 pm

Quote from: gibbo on 10 October, 2017, 01:34:34 pm
BN - friend is ill enough to be put on the kidney transplant list
BN - said friend is also diabetic, has been from birth (I think)
GN - friend has had double transplant - kidney and pancreas
MGN - friend is no longer diabetic and came home from hospital yesterday

I hope said friend can remain non-diabetic, pancreas transplants are not always successful

Indeed, but so far so good. She's finding it quite strange not having to inject at certain times and is enjoying that side of things immensely.

David Martin · « **Reply #2370 on:** 09 January, 2018, 11:37:47 pm »

GN: I found my cross country ski waxes. Every thing from green to red ultra special.
BN: I also found the klister. It had leaked. Everything was rather sticky.
GN: I has ski waxes so might actually dig out the skis this winter if we have snow.

Ham · « **Reply #2371 on:** 22 January, 2018, 09:57:23 am »

GN: My Atlas des Cols des Alpes (vol 3) has turned up this morning, yay!!!!
Slightly BN: The condition was slightly worse than described by the Amazon.fr market seller
GN: So they added in Vol 2 for free!
BN: But I have to work today..... boooo
GN: Nobody has turned up to a weekly "clinic" call I hold (unusually), yayy! ...hang "do not disturb" sign over my status...

They are fascinating volumes.

ETA: BN: Bastard Germans. Turning up late and spoiling my morning.

Polar Bear · « **Reply #2372 on:** 09 February, 2018, 08:24:22 pm »

Vicariously:

GN: Our friend moved to his new home last Wednesday.
BN: The ancient boiler, unused for six months is toast!
GN: A new Worcester Bosch was fitted today.
BN: It's busted right out of the box.
MBN: They cannot get the bits before Monday at the earliest.!

Should've got a Vaillant....

Kim · « **Reply #2373 on:** 09 February, 2018, 08:30:43 pm »

Quote from: Polar Bear on 09 February, 2018, 08:24:22 pm

Should've got a Vaillant....

I'm not sure it's wise to have a boiler with that much mojo.

Beardy · « **Reply #2374 on:** 24 February, 2018, 01:15:02 pm »

GN: I got out of a day’s frock shopping for mother of the bride outfits with Dr Beardy (Mrs)
BN: it cost me a new tyre
MBN: I’m still going to have to accompany Dr Beardy (Mrs) on said frock shopping expedition
GN: it won’t be for at least a couple of weeks because she’s working next Saturday.