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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Pastis on January 15, 2008, 08:01:57 PM
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2008 does not seem to be going well noooo:
Last week it was a power cut which, let's face it throws everything into mild chaos. Although with no traffic lights, la circulation switched from aggressive to timid lol:
This week it's water pressure; or rather, lack of it. It all started yesterday when an immediate neighbour knocked on the door to enquire whether I had steam coming out of the cold tap as well eeek: eeek: Fortunately I did not but we sensed something was not as it should be 8)
It turns out that because Thames Water had been told of a leak in the vicinity, they had reduced the pressure locally thus causing our main tanks to drain (usage exceeding supply)... good move, Thames Water ::)
Currently, with the leak allegedly fixed, the tanks are beginning to refill and hopefully normal service will be resumed tomorrow but in the interim I've learned lots of interesting things about bars of pressure (Barman take note ;)) and the ongoing decline of utilities in the Metropolis, lack of investment in infrastructure and the ensuing cost of booster pumps inter alia.
And I've missed my bath... again evil:
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I knew it would all go wrong when they closed down the public bath houses.
BTW Where you bin?
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Public Bath Houses? eeek: I could do with one of them right now, although having watched City of Vice last night I'm not too sure about the attendant services on offer at the Bagnio in Covent Garden eyes:
As to the "where I've been" Q. I was, yet again, Christmassing (sp?) in Central America - the best sidestep available and since then it's been strange mayhem - viz.
• relatives
• work
• neighbours
• and, bizarrely, being out of touch with events at The Off Topic, not knowing where / when to dip my toe back in redface:
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2008 does not seem to be going well noooo:
Last week it was a power cut which, let's face it throws everything into mild chaos. Although with no traffic lights, la circulation switched from aggressive to timid lol:
This week it's water pressure; or rather, lack of it. It all started yesterday when an immediate neighbour knocked on the door to enquire whether I had steam coming out of the cold tap as well eeek: eeek: Fortunately I did not but we sensed something was not as it should be 8)
It turns out that because Thames Water had been told of a leak in the vicinity, they had reduced the pressure locally thus causing our main tanks to drain (usage exceeding supply)... good move, Thames Water ::)
Currently, with the leak allegedly fixed, the tanks are beginning to refill and hopefully normal service will be resumed tomorrow but in the interim I've learned lots of interesting things about bars of pressure (Barman take note ;)) and the ongoing decline of utilities in the Metropolis, lack of investment in infrastructure and the ensuing cost of booster pumps inter alia.
And I've missed my bath... again evil:
The water ‘main’ here consists of a plastic pipe which winds its way around the village.
Builders discover its exact location by digging through it with a JCB backhoe and consequently we lose connection to the ‘main’ on a regular basis.
Luckily, we hold 1,000 litres of cold water, 250 litres of hot water and about 50 litres of drinking water in separate tanks so are rarely aware of the problem. whistle:
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50 litres of drinking water
About 10 years supply then? eyes:
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50 litres of drinking water
About 10 years supply then? eyes:
But for the beer-topping-up, yes... whistle:
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50 litres of drinking water
About 10 years supply then? eyes:
But for the beer-topping-up, yes... whistle:
doh:
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50 litres of drinking water
About 10 years supply then? eyes:
But for the beer-topping-up, yes... whistle:
doh:
Don't believe him DS ~ the beer toppings come straight from his bath.
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Still you are lucky , you are getting rain in UK. But in Cyprus we are suffering very badly .We need rain......rain......
have a look at the below picture ....... ones upon a time from here waters were coming .......
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50 litres of drinking water
About 10 years supply then? eyes:
But for the beer-topping-up, yes... whistle:
You mean you use water? A mutt told me the top up pipe came straight from the urinals.. eeek:
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50 litres of drinking water
About 10 years supply then? eyes:
But for the beer-topping-up, yes... whistle:
You mean you use water? A mutt told me the top up pipe came straight from the urinals.. eeek:
I think you mean the in-house beer recycling plant.
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From what you were saying about the homebrew in the cellar surely you mean flavouring plant Snoops whistle:
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And now with the pressure back on ( cloud9:) I discover that the connections to the toilet cistern have sprung a leak Banghead
Not deterred, and definitely reluctant to pay emergency outcall rates to the exorbitant Plumbing-R-Us ::), I have designed and made a temporary stopgap involving a mutilated plastic jug and reworked coathanger 8). The only flaw in the plan seems to be that I still have to flush the loo every 3 hours to slow down the drip... surrender:
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I have designed and made a temporary stopgap involving a mutilated plastic jug
eeek:
Gardez l'eau!
sick2:
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I have designed and made a temporary stopgap involving a mutilated plastic jug
eeek:
Gardez l'eau!
sick2:
Que?
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Que?
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I have designed and made a temporary stopgap involving a mutilated plastic jug
eeek:
Gardez l'eau!
sick2:
I am temporarily fixated with the phrase 'Que?'. Please try to understand and excuse me…
http://www.infotrail.co.uk/cws/extra_history.html (http://www.infotrail.co.uk/cws/extra_history.html)
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Que?
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Aha. I see. I am slow to catch on. If we type the Q word it is replaced with the sentence above. How fiendishly clever. eyes:
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Aha. I see. I am slow to catch on. If we type the Q word it is replaced with the sentence above. How fiendishly clever. eyes:
Que?
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Aha. I see. I am slow to catch on. If we type the Q word it is replaced with the sentence above. How fiendishly clever. eyes:
Que?
Que?
Sorted.
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It doesn't work for me! Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
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It doesn't work for me! Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
Que?
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It doesn't work for me! Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
point:
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Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead censored: censored: censored: angry041: angry041: angry041:
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happy001 happy001 happy001 happy001
Notwithstanding the water problem...
Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
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9 days short of a year to the day and it's happened again cussing:
Leaking pipes all over the area apparently resulting in loss of pressure noooo: . I've had to buy 10L of Morrisons finest for fluppence a litre cry:
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I have lots of water pressure here. noooo: I had a fountain inside the house on Sunday cussing:
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Yep there are Thames Water vans a go go down the road here as well ...lots of surface water in the roads but so far no loss of pressure ...yet rubschin:
I realise this is a foolhardy statement that I may live to regret noooo:
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Yep there are Thames Water vans a go go down the road here as well ...lots of surface water in the roads but so far no loss of pressure yet/ I realise this is a foolhardy statement that I may live to regret noooo:
point:
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We are getting the usual "We're giving you the pressure we're legally obliged to" from Thames Water ::)
Ironically, this month we are having an independent pumping system installed but that's still a couple of weeks away ::)
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We are getting the usual "We're giving you the pressure we're legally obliged to" from Thames Water ::)
Ironically, this month we are having an independent pumping system installed but that's still a couple of weeks away ::)
That'll be your problem right there then... noooo:
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We are getting the usual "We're giving you the pressure we're legally obliged to" from Thames Water ::)
Ironically, this month we are having an independent pumping system installed but that's still a couple of weeks away ::)
That'll be your problem right there then... noooo:
It won't be once the installation's done; we shall be independent and no longer at the mercy of TW's legal obligations evil:
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We are getting the usual "We're giving you the pressure we're legally obliged to" from Thames Water ::)
Ironically, this month we are having an independent pumping system installed but that's still a couple of weeks away ::)
That'll be your problem right there then... noooo:
It won't be once the installation's done; we shall be independent and no longer at the mercy of TW's legal obligations evil:
Until the lektrick fails like... whistle:
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That's it - the modern day 3 horsemen of the Apocalypse ( credit crunch prevents them from extending to 4 )
Water company, Gas companies and Electric company in white vans as opposed to horses of course whistle:
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Exactly so ... bastardos the lot of them! And yes, next it will be installing our own generator.