What a feckin day… and it’s only 17.25…. There’s time for more things to go Titzup !
Woke to find an AIM share I was in has collapsed, that’s cost me a few £’s.
Then found out that a house we rent out has got a roof leak and has water pissing down the walls .
And then the plumber who was going today to do a Gas Safety inspection on the same property had forgotten to book it in his diary and didn’t turn up, so we were out of a legislated inspection period..
All before 09.00.
Should have just stayed in bed….
So tomorrow I’m up on a tower scaffold stripping a roof to effect a repair.
Good job I’m not going up a ladder or up on a scaffold today….
I sympathise. I had a fun day yesterday: our water supply suddenly stopped. It’s a shared private supply from a hill burn a couple of miles away, so I can’t just phone Scottish Water. The neighbouring farm has land drainage contractors in at the moment, digging trenches with a big digger and laying pipes. My wife wondered if they might have cut our alkathene supply pipe, so I donned my wellies and plowtered across the boggy field to where they were working. Sure enough, they had cut through a pipe on a spur leading to a cattle trough, causing our own pipe to lose all pressure. While one of the guys drove off to the farm to see if they had a repair kit, I went home to get some cable ties. We bent the severed pipe back on itself to stop the water running, and secured it with cable ties as a temporary fix. It worked - by the time I got home, plastered with mud, our taps were working fine again. Ah, the joys of country life…
Before 9am today I was lying back in a dentist’s chair having a root filling replaced. Can’t put that down to bad luck, it was me who booked the appointment.
Luck changed a bit today . The weather relented and allowed me to get up on the roof. Although once I got the tower scaffold up and started to strip the roof it became clear that all the tiles were frozen together from last nights frost.
Sun finally thawed it all out around 10.00am and we could strip the roof and re-felt the areas where we had the leak .
Then repointed the chimney and re-tiled the roof ….
And as my week had been so shite……..when we went out for a pizza for Valentine’s Day late yesterday afternoon the car park ticket machine malfunctioned. …. So I couldn’t get a ticket.
Took a chance and parked as it’s a pay and display…….lets see if my luck continues, will I get a parking fine to end the week…?
Interesting, tell me was your examiner also on a motorcycle. My reason for asking is that I took my test some 20 years earlier and my examiner was a pedestrian observing me from the footpath. I wondered when they commenced following you on a bike.
So since the Friday the 13th problems a few weeks ago, a quick update.
If you remember I took a chance and parked in a pay and display car park without a ticket….( I’m getting quite adventurous in my old age…!)
Well so far, no penalty notices, so I’m hoping I’ve got away with that…
Then Mr Trump stops the world with his Warmongering just as I was preparing to fly to Hong Kong to board a cruise liner to celebrate a big birthday with Mrs Oldskool. Now my mini problems are nothing compared with the poor souls out there, I know that and can only sympathise with those that are suffering.
But for us it was nearly a massive feck up as all our flights were cancelled with the possibility of a pretty big holiday cost being lost, as most holiday insurance does not cover wars.
Thankfully our amazing travel agent managed to find us two seats on another flight at the last minute, so we fly out tomorrow.
(Hope all your weekends improve)
